4th Quarter: 3/16-5/21
*My honors class will be learning the same content only through more rigorous and self directed activities. Honors students should follow this page to keep up with classwork and homework assignments. Links to the actual homework/classwork pages to print out or look at will be posted under the "documents" tab. I will also put the due dates in red. Thanks!*
Week 10: 5/18-5/21: The Last Week of School!!
Mon 5/18: Wet & Wild Incentive Trip
Classwork: Go to Wet & Wild-Leave at 8:30 and return around 4:30
Homework: None
Tues 5/19: Promotion Practice & Assemblies
Classwork: Promotion Practice at Yavapai College from 9-12/Yearbook Signing/Awards & Pep Assemblies
Homework: none
Wed 5/20: Team Day
Classwork: Team building capture the flag games/Watch Forever Strong
Homework: none
Thurs 5/21: 1/2 Day-Last Day!!!
Classwork: GMMS Balloon Release on Field
Homework: none
Week 9: 5/11-5/15: The War on Terrorism
Mon 5/11: OEF & OIF Guest Speakers
Classwork: War on Terrorism Guest Speakers
Homework: None
Tues 5/12: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Classwork: Notes/Middle East Maps
Homework: none
Wed 5/13: Final Test Study Day
Classwork: Study Guides
Homework: Study Guides
Thurs 5/14: Final Test
Classwork: 4th Quarter Final Test
Homework: none
Fri 5/15: War on Terrorism Video
Classwork: Watch War on Terrorism Video
Homework: none
Week 8: 5/04-5/08: The War on Terrorism
Mon 5/04: Cesar Chavez & The Farm Workers Movement
Classwork: Cesar Chavez reading w/ questions / Cesar Chavez Documentary
Homework: Cesar Chavez reading questions-due tomorrow!
Tues 5/05: The 1980's
Classwork: Watch Century, America's Time: A New World
Homework: none
Wed 5/06: The Persian Gulf War
Classwork: Iraq War Text Analysis
Homework: none
Thurs 5/07: The War on Terrorism
Classwork: Middle Eastern Geography Maps & War on Terrorism Notes
Homework: none
Fri 5/08: The War on Terrorism
Classwork: Finish War on Terrorism notes & Create questions for OEF & OIF guest speakers Monday
Homework: none
Week 7: 4/27-5/-01: Vietnam War
Mon 4/27: Vietnam War
Classwork: Watch Century: Approaching Apocalypse
Homework: none
Tues 4/28: Vietnam War
Classwork: Vietnam War Videos
Homework: none
Wed 4/29: Career Day
Classwork: Career Day Guest Speakers
Homework: Study for Vietnam War Quiz Tomorrow!
Thurs 4/30: JFK Assassination
Classwork: Vietnam War Quiz & JFK Assassination Analysis & Watch Century Starting Over
Homework: none
Fri 5/01: American Indian Movement (AIM)
Classwork: AIM Reading & Wounded Knee Siege Video
Homework: none
Week 6: 4/20-4/24: Vietnam War
Mon 4/20: Vietnam War & 8th Grade Photos
Classwork: Vietnam War Text Analysis
Homework: none
Tues 4/21: Road Court Prep & JFK Assassination
Classwork: Juvenile Probation Officer Guest Speaker & JFK Assassination Examination
Homework: none
Wed 4/22: Vietnam War Protest Movements
Classwork: Protest Movement Songs & Videos
Homework: Extra Credit If You Dress Up For Court Tomorrow!
Thurs 4/23: Road Court
Classwork: Watch real juvenile court in library during social studies
Homework: none
Fri 4/24: Teen Maze Field Trip
Classwork: Teen Maze Field Trip
Homework: none
Week 5: 4/13-4/17: Vietnam War/AZ Merit Testing
Mon 4/13: AZ Merit Testing/Decades Projects
Classwork: AZ Merit Testing in 1st period/Normal 4th Period/Decades Projects
Homework: none
Tues 4/14: AZ Merit Testing/Decades Projects
Classwork: AZ Merit Testing in 1st period/Normal 4th Period/Decades Projects
Homework: none
Wed 4/15: Vietnam War
Classwork: Vietnam War Notes
Homework: None
Thurs 4/16: AZ Merit Testing/Decades Projects
Classwork: AZ Merit Testing in 1st period/Normal 4th Period/Decades Projects
Homework: none
Fri 4/17: Vietnam Guest Speakers
Classwork: Vietnam War Veteran Guest Speakers
Homework: none
Week 4: 4/6-4/10: The Civil Rights Movement/Vietnam War
Mon 4/06: The Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Civil Rights Quiz/Begin watching Prom Night in Mississippi
Homework: none
Tues 4/07: Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Finish watching Prom Night in Mississippi
Homework: none
Wed 4/08: Field Trip to PHS
Classwork: Field trip to PHS to watch performance of the musical Grease
Homework: None
Thurs 4/09: Introduction to the Vietnam War
Classwork: Watch Century Americas Time: Unpinned
Homework: none
Fri 4/10: Science AIMS & Begin Decades Projects
Classwork: Science AIMS & Begin research for decades projects
Homework: none
Week 3: 3/30-4/3: The Civil Rights Movement
Mon 3/30: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Classwork: Watch Cuban Missile Crisis Video/Cuban Missile Crisis Reading
Homework: Cuban Missile Crisis Reading Packet-due tomorrow!
Tues 3/31: Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Civil Rights Movement Organizations & People Notes/Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Analysis
Homework: Speech Analysis-due tomorrow!
Wed 4/01: Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Videos: Brown vs Board, Freedom Riders & Emmett Till
Homework: Civil Rights Vocabulary-due Monday!
Thurs 4/02: Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Watch Century Americas Time: Poisoned Dreams/Crossword
Homework: Civil Rights Vocabulary & Civil Rights Crossword-due Monday 4/6
Fri 4/03: No School!
Week 2: 3/23-3/27: The Cold War
Mon 3/23: McCarthyism
Classwork: Finish Butter Battle Assignment/McCarthyism Reading/Cold War Quiz
Homework: none
Tues 3/24: McCarthyism
Classwork: McCarthyism Trial Videos/Political Cartoons/Begin Korean War Notes
Homework: none
Wed 3/25: The Korean War
Classwork: Korean War Notes/Compare Korean textbooks
Homework: Reading for Socratic Seminar tomorrow
Thurs 3/26: The Korean War
Classwork: Inside North Korea Video
Homework: Reading for Socratic Seminar tomorrow
Fri 3/27: The Korean War
Classwork: Socratic Seminary: Should the U.S. have been involved in the Korean War?
Homework: none
Week 1: 3/16-3/20: The Cold War
Mon 3/16: The Cold War Intro
Classwork: Communism Review, Notes, Berlin Wall Art
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
Tues 3/17: The Berlin Wall
Classwork: Berlin Wall Video w/ writing assignment
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
Wed 3/18: Communism & McCarthyism
Classwork: Propaganda Films
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
Thurs 3/19: Guest Speaker
Classwork: Guest Speaker-lawyer for "down winders" from atomic bomb tests in Arizona
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
Fri 3/20: McCarthyism
Classwork: Read Dr Seuss Butter Battle Book w/ writing assignment-due today, Analyze political cartoons
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
3rd Quarter: 1/05/15-3/09/15
*My honors class will be learning the same content only through more rigorous and self directed activities. Honors students should follow this page to keep up with classwork and homework assignments. Links to the actual homework/classwork pages to print out or look at will be posted under the "documents" tab. I will also put the due dates in red. Thanks!*
Week 8: WWII
Monday 2/23: WWII Show & Tell Day/Pacific Battles
Classwork: Show & Tell WWII Artifacts/Pacific Battles Charts & Videos
Homework: None
Tuesday 2/24: Pacific Battles
Classwork: Pacific Battles Charts & Videos
Homework: None
Wednesday 2/25: No Class 1st Period-WWG!
Thursday 2/26: Atomic Bomb: VJ Day
Classwork: Atomic Bomb Reading & Socratic Seminar Prep
Homework: WWII Study Guide-due Monday!
Friday 2/27: Atomic Bomb
Classwork: Socratic Seminar
Homework: WWII Study Guide-due Monday!
Week 7: WWII
Monday 2/16: No School!
Tuesday 2/17: Weapons of WWII
Classwork: Videos, Group Activity, Weapons Charts
Homework: WWII Letter Writing Assignment-due tomorrow!
Wednesday 2/18: Code Talkers
Classwork: Videos, Reading w/ questions
Homework: Code Talker Reading Questions-due tomorrow!
Thursday 2/19: WWII Letter Writing
Classwork: Respond to soldier/nurse letters; Epals
Homework: Finish responses-due tomorrow!
Friday 2/20: Pacific Battles: Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death Marches, Midway, Guadalcanal
Classwork: Power Point w/ charts, videos
Homework: Bring WWII Show and Tell items for Monday!
Week 6: 2/9-2/13: WWII: European Battles
*Same as other classes this week!*
Week 5: 2/02-2/06: U.S. Involvement in WWII
Monday 2/2: Speech Analysis
Classwork: Holocaust quiz; Leaders of WWII speech analysis
Homework: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas video guide-due tomorrow!
Tuesday 2/3: Intro to Pearl Harbor
Classwork: Pearl Harbor video; epals
Homework: None
Wednesday 2/4: Pearl Harbor
Classwork: Station Rotation
Homework: None
Thursday 2/5: Pearl Harbor
Classwork: FDR Speech Analysis; Mind Maps
Homework: Mind Maps-due Monday!
Friday 2/6: Japanese Internment Camps
Classwork: Document analysis; reading w/ questions
Homework: Mind Maps- due Monday!
Week 4: 1/26-1/30: The Holocaust
Monday 1/26: Rise of Dictator in the 1930s
Classwork: Finish dictator posters
Homework: Dictator posters-due tomorrow!
Tuesday 1/27: Introduction to The Holocaust
Classwork: Pyramid of Hate activity
Homework: Holocaust poem-due Monday 2/2
Wednesday 1/28: The Holocaust
Classwork: Station Rotation
Homework: Holocaust poem-due Monday 2/2
Thursday 1/22: The Holocaust
Classwork: Watch: The Boy in Striped Pajamas
Homework: Holocaust poem-due Monday 2/2
Friday 1/23: Leaders of WWII
Classwork: Watch: The Boy in Striped Pajamas
Homework: Holocaust poem-due Monday 2/2
Week 3: 1/19-1/23: WWII: Geography, Causes & Leaders
Monday 1/19: No School-Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
Tuesday 1/20: Pre-WWII
Classwork: Watch Century: Stormy Weather
Homework: None
Wednesday 1/21: Geography & Epals (Pen Pals)
Classwork: European map, Asian map & reading, set up epals
Homework: None
Thursday 1/22: Causes of WWII & Leaders
Classwork: Notes, Create Dictator Posters-due Monday!
Homework: Causes of WWII reading-can use on quiz tomorrow!
Friday 1/23: Causes of WWII & Leaders
Classwork: Dictator Posters-due Monday!
Homework: Dictator Posters-due Monday!
Week 2: 1/12-1/16: Macroeconomics
Monday 1/12: Macroeconomics Project: Google Treks
Classwork: Google Trek-Tracking Clothing
Homework: Google Trek-due Wed!
Tuesday 1/13: Macroeconomics Project: Google Treks
Classwork: Google Trek-Tracking Clothing
Homework: Google Trek-due Tomorrow!
Wednesday 1/14: Microeconomics Project: Personal Budget
Classwork: Personal Budget Projects
Homework: Personal Budget Projects-due Monday!
Thursday 1/15: Microeconomics Project: Personal Budget
Classwork: Personal Budget Projects
Homework: Personal Budget Projects-due Monday!
Friday 1/16: Microeconomics Project: Personal Budget
Classwork: Personal Budget Projects
Homework: Personal Budget Projects-due Monday!
Week 1: 1/05-1/09: Macroeconomics
Monday 1/05: 2nd Semester Pre-Benchmark Test
Classwork: Pre-Benchmark Test
Homework: Bring proper binder & supplies to class tomorrow! (You will get points for this!)
Tuesday 1/06: Intro to Economics
Classwork: Types of economies notes & group activity; vocabulary
Homework: Economics vocabulary (with sentences)-due Friday!
Wednesday 1/07: Supply & Demand
Classwork: Wants vs needs partner activity; supply & demand video and scenarios
Homework: Economics vocabulary (with sentences)-due Friday!
Thursday 1/08: Economics: Track Your Clothing
Classwork: Economic problems notes; video with discussion questions
Homework: Economics vocabulary (with sentences)-due tomorrow!
Friday 1/09: Economics Projects: Track Your Clothing
Classwork: Begin Google Trek project (we will work on it Monday in class as well and it is due Tuesday!)
Homework: None
2nd Quarter: 10/13/14-12/19/14
Week 10: 12/15-12/19: CSI Projects
*Honors kiddos will be doing the same activities as the rest of the classes this week for our CSI STEAM projects!*
Week 9: 12/08-12/12: CSI Prep
*Honors kiddos will be doing the same activities as the rest of the classes this week in preparation for our CSI STEAM projects!*
Week 8: 12/01-12/05: The Judicial Branch
Mon 12/01: Judicial Branch
Classwork: Notes/Juvenile Court
Homework: Study Guides-due Wed!
Tues 12/02: Supreme Court Cases
Classwork: Mind Maps
Homework: Mind maps-due Friday!
Wed 12/03: Judicial Branch Test
Classwork: Test
Homework: Mind maps-due Friday!
Thurs 12/04: CSI STEAM Project Prep
Classwork: Misdemeanors vs Felonies
Homework: None
Fri 12/05: CSI STEAM Project Prep
Classwork: Steps in a case illustrations or stories
Homework: Finish illustrations or stories-due Monday!
Week 7: 11/24-11/28: The Judicial Branch
Mon 11/24: Intro to the Judicial Branch
Classwork: Notes/Vocabulary Jigsaw
Homework: Vocabulary sentences-due next Monday!
Tues 11/25: Judicial Branch
Classwork: Notes/Reading/Crossword
Homework: Vocabulary sentences-due next Monday!
Wed 11/26-Fri 11/28: No School!
Week 6: 11/17-11/21: Amendments
Mon 11/17: Reconstruction Amendments
Classwork: Bill of Rights Quiz/Notes/Doll Test
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed!
Tues 11/18: 16th-24th Amendments
Classwork: Notes/Literacy Tests
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed!
Wed 11/19: Socratic Seminar
Classwork: Socratic Seminar: Which amendment is the most important?
Homework: Amendments test study guide-due Friday
Thurs 11/20: 25th-27th Amendments
Classwork: Notes/JFK Assassination/Amendments review games
Homework: Amendments test study guide-due tomorrow!
Fri 11/21: Amendments Test
Classwork: Amendments Test
Homework: No Homework
Week 5: 11/10-11/14: The Bill of Rights
Mon 11/10: 2nd-6th Amendments
Classwork: Notes/Gideon Case/Miranda Case
Homework: None
Tues 11/11: No School for Veteran's Day!
Classwork: None
Homework: None
Wed 11/12: 7th-10th Amendments
Classwork: Notes/The Death Penalty
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed. 11/19
Thurs 11/13: Death Penalty Essays
Classwork: Bill of Rights Hand Trick/Work on Essays
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed. 11/19
Fri 11/14: Death Penalty Essays
Classwork: Work on Essays
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed 11/19
Week 4: 11/03-11/07: The Bill of Rights
Mon 11/03: Origins of the Bill of Rights
Classwork: Reading & Text Analysis
Homework: None
Tues 11/04: Freedom of Religion
Classwork: Notes; The Lemon Test Case Scenarios & Video
Homework: None
Wed 11/05: 4th Amendment
Classwork: Guest Speaker Officer Hoffman
Homework: None
Thurs 11/06: Freedom of Speech
Classwork: Supreme Court Case Analysis: The Tinker Case
Homework: None
Fri 11/07: The Bill of Rights
Classwork: Notes; Vocabulary; Freedom of Speech Videos
Homework: Vocabulary-due Monday!
Week 3: 10/27-10/31: Political Parties & Elections
Mon 10/27: Elections
Classwork: Join all classes to listen to regular social studies candidate debates
Homework: Study Guide-due Friday!
Tues 10/28: Political Campaigns
Classwork: Finish campaign materials (speeches, commercials & posters)
Homework: Study guide-due Friday!
Wed 10/29: Candidates & Voting
Classwork: Listen to candidate speeches & watch campaign commercials & vote
Homework: Study guide-due Friday!
Thurs 10/30: Electoral College Simulation & Test Review
Classwork: Electoral College Simulation (each student is a state) to compare results to popular vote from yesterday.....Jeopardy Executive Branch Test Review Game
Homework: Study guide-due Tomorrow!
Fri 10/31: Executive Branch Test
Classwork: Test/Intro to The Bill of Rights
Homework: None
Week 2: 10/20-10/24: Political Parties & Elections
Mon 10/20: Political Parties
Classwork: Group Research & Teach the Class Activity-Compare five major political parties
Homework: No Homework
Tues 10/21: How Elections Work
Classwork: Electoral College Simulation
Homework: No Homework
Wed 10/22: Case Studies-Popular Vote vs Electoral College
Classwork: Case Studies
Homework: Finish Case Studies-due Thursday!
Thurs 10/23: Create Political Parties For Mock Elections
Classwork: Create platforms, pick candidates & start campaigns
Homework: Work on campaign materials-posters, commercials & speeches-due Monday!
Fri 10/24: Political Campaigns
Classwork: Finish working on campaigns
Homework: Executive Branch Study Guide-due Thursday!
Week 1: 10/13-10/17: Executive Branch
Mon 10/13: Presidents
Classwork: Research for Presidents Presentations
Homework: Finish presentations-due Tuesday!
Tues 10/14: Presidents
Classwork: Presidents Presentations
Homework: No Homework
Wed 10/15: Presidents
Classwork: Presidents Presentations
Homework: No Homework
Thurs 10/16: Executive Branch
Classwork: Hats of the President
Homework: No Homework
Fri 10/17: Intro to Political Parties
Classwork: Which party are you?- Quiz, Video & Group Activity
Homework: No Homework
1st Quarter (08/04-10/03)
***Last day for late work for quarter 1 is Tuesday 9/30!!!
Week 9: 9/29-10/03
Mon 9/29: The Executive Branch
Homework: none
Tues 9/30: Special Presentation by Mr. Helwig: Bullying & Sexual Harrassment
Wed 10/01: President Research Projects
Homework: Research Projects-due Friday!
Thurs 10/02: President Research Project
Homework: Research projects-due tomorrow!
Fri 10/03: Executive Branch Document Analysis
Homework: none
Week 8: 9/22-9/26
Mon 9/22: No School
Tues 9/23: How Bills Become Laws
Classwork: Write bills to try and pass into laws in our mock Congress Thursday!
Homework: Finish writing bill if not done in class-due Thursday!
Wed 9/24: Legislative Branch Test Review
Classwork: Bingo Review Game
Homework: Study Guide-due Friday!
Thurs 9/25: How Congress Passes Laws
Classwork: Mock Congress
Homework: Study Guide-due Friday!
Fri 9/26: Legislative Branch Test
Classwork: Legislative Branch Test
Homework: No Homework
Week 7: 9/15-9/19
Mon 9/15: Legislative Branch
Classwork: same
Homework: no homework
Tues 9/16: House vs Senate
Classwork: same
Homework: no homework
Wed 9/17: Powers of Congress
Classwork: same
Homework: no homework
Thurs 9/18: How a Bill Becomes a Law
Classwork: Notes & Begin Research
Homework: Work on Presentations
Fri 9/19: How a Bill Becomes a Law
Classwork: Follow that Bill & Crosswords
Homework: Crosswords-due Monday!
Week 6: 9/08-9/12
Mon 9/08: 3 branches of government
Classwork: Tree projects-due Wed.
Homework: Gather info for tree projects
Tues 9/09: 3 branches of government
Classwork: Tree projects-due Wed.
Homework: Finish tree projects if not finished in class-due tomorrow!
Wed 9/10: 9/11 Presentation
Classwork: 9/11 Presentation
Homework: Checks and Balances News Articles-due next Monday!
Thurs 9/11: 9/11 Video
Classwork: 9/11 video
Homework: Checks and Balances News Articles-due next Monday!
Fri 9/12: No social studies....just go to 4th, 6th & 7th hours!
Classwork: None
Homework: Finish News Articles-due Monday!
Week 5: 9/01-9/05
Mon. 9/01: No School-Labor Day!
Tues. 9/02:
Classwork: Test-Government & Citizenship/Wilderness Activity
Homework: None
Wed. 9/03:
Classwork: Same as other classes
Homework: None
Thurs. 9/04:
Classwork: Notes/Checks and balances charts
Homework: None
Fri. 9/05:
Classwork: Begin Three Branches of Government Tree Project-will be due Tuesday
Homework: None
Week 4: 8/25-8/29
Mon. 8/25:
Classwork: Notes/Finish ABC's books
Homework: Analyzing primary documents-due Tuesday
Tues. 8/26:
Classwork: same as other classes
Homework: same as other classes
Wed. 8/27:
Classwork: advanced primary documents analysis
Homework: same as other classes
Thurs. 8/28:
Classwork: same as other classes
Homework: same as other classes
Fri. 8/29:
Classwork: same as other classes
Homework: same as other classes
Week 3: 8/18-8/22
Mon. 8/18:
Classwork: Finish Presentations/Articles of Confederation Notes & Solutions Activity
Homework: Preamble Rewrite-due Tuesday
Tues. 8/19:
Classwork: Influential historical documents timeline project-Due Thurs.
Homework: Research for timeline project
Wed. 8/20:
Classwork: Finish timelines
Homework: Finish timelines-due tomorrow
Thurs. 8/21:
Classwork: ABC's books w/ honors criteria
Homework: Research for ABC's book info-books due at end of class tomorrow
Fri. 8/22:
Classwork: Finish ABC's books w/ honors criteria
Homework: none
Week 2: 08/11-08/15
Mon. 08/11:
Classwork: Same as other classes
Homework: Begin research for types of government research assignment. Research will be done all day in class Tuesday and presentations will be done Wednesday.
Tues. 08/12:
Classwork: Computer lab to research for types of government research assignment
Homework: Research projects
Wed. 08/13:
Classwork: Computer lab to research for types of government research assignment
Homework: Finish presentations-due Thursday
Thurs. 08/14:
Classwork: Presentations & Declaration of Independence Rewrite
Homework: Begin break up letter-due Monday
Fri. 08/15:
Classwork: Same as other classes
Homework: Break up letter-due Monday
Week 1: 08/04-08/08
4th Quarter: 3/16-5/21
*My honors class will be learning the same content only through more rigorous and self directed activities. Honors students should follow this page to keep up with classwork and homework assignments. Links to the actual homework/classwork pages to print out or look at will be posted under the "documents" tab. I will also put the due dates in red. Thanks!*
Week 10: 5/18-5/21: The Last Week of School!!
Mon 5/18: Wet & Wild Incentive Trip
Classwork: Go to Wet & Wild-Leave at 8:30 and return around 4:30
Homework: None
Tues 5/19: Promotion Practice & Assemblies
Classwork: Promotion Practice at Yavapai College from 9-12/Yearbook Signing/Awards & Pep Assemblies
Homework: none
Wed 5/20: Team Day
Classwork: Team building capture the flag games/Watch Forever Strong
Homework: none
Thurs 5/21: 1/2 Day-Last Day!!!
Classwork: GMMS Balloon Release on Field
Homework: none
Week 9: 5/11-5/15: The War on Terrorism
Mon 5/11: OEF & OIF Guest Speakers
Classwork: War on Terrorism Guest Speakers
Homework: None
Tues 5/12: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Classwork: Notes/Middle East Maps
Homework: none
Wed 5/13: Final Test Study Day
Classwork: Study Guides
Homework: Study Guides
Thurs 5/14: Final Test
Classwork: 4th Quarter Final Test
Homework: none
Fri 5/15: War on Terrorism Video
Classwork: Watch War on Terrorism Video
Homework: none
Week 8: 5/04-5/08: The War on Terrorism
Mon 5/04: Cesar Chavez & The Farm Workers Movement
Classwork: Cesar Chavez reading w/ questions / Cesar Chavez Documentary
Homework: Cesar Chavez reading questions-due tomorrow!
Tues 5/05: The 1980's
Classwork: Watch Century, America's Time: A New World
Homework: none
Wed 5/06: The Persian Gulf War
Classwork: Iraq War Text Analysis
Homework: none
Thurs 5/07: The War on Terrorism
Classwork: Middle Eastern Geography Maps & War on Terrorism Notes
Homework: none
Fri 5/08: The War on Terrorism
Classwork: Finish War on Terrorism notes & Create questions for OEF & OIF guest speakers Monday
Homework: none
Week 7: 4/27-5/-01: Vietnam War
Mon 4/27: Vietnam War
Classwork: Watch Century: Approaching Apocalypse
Homework: none
Tues 4/28: Vietnam War
Classwork: Vietnam War Videos
Homework: none
Wed 4/29: Career Day
Classwork: Career Day Guest Speakers
Homework: Study for Vietnam War Quiz Tomorrow!
Thurs 4/30: JFK Assassination
Classwork: Vietnam War Quiz & JFK Assassination Analysis & Watch Century Starting Over
Homework: none
Fri 5/01: American Indian Movement (AIM)
Classwork: AIM Reading & Wounded Knee Siege Video
Homework: none
Week 6: 4/20-4/24: Vietnam War
Mon 4/20: Vietnam War & 8th Grade Photos
Classwork: Vietnam War Text Analysis
Homework: none
Tues 4/21: Road Court Prep & JFK Assassination
Classwork: Juvenile Probation Officer Guest Speaker & JFK Assassination Examination
Homework: none
Wed 4/22: Vietnam War Protest Movements
Classwork: Protest Movement Songs & Videos
Homework: Extra Credit If You Dress Up For Court Tomorrow!
Thurs 4/23: Road Court
Classwork: Watch real juvenile court in library during social studies
Homework: none
Fri 4/24: Teen Maze Field Trip
Classwork: Teen Maze Field Trip
Homework: none
Week 5: 4/13-4/17: Vietnam War/AZ Merit Testing
Mon 4/13: AZ Merit Testing/Decades Projects
Classwork: AZ Merit Testing in 1st period/Normal 4th Period/Decades Projects
Homework: none
Tues 4/14: AZ Merit Testing/Decades Projects
Classwork: AZ Merit Testing in 1st period/Normal 4th Period/Decades Projects
Homework: none
Wed 4/15: Vietnam War
Classwork: Vietnam War Notes
Homework: None
Thurs 4/16: AZ Merit Testing/Decades Projects
Classwork: AZ Merit Testing in 1st period/Normal 4th Period/Decades Projects
Homework: none
Fri 4/17: Vietnam Guest Speakers
Classwork: Vietnam War Veteran Guest Speakers
Homework: none
Week 4: 4/6-4/10: The Civil Rights Movement/Vietnam War
Mon 4/06: The Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Civil Rights Quiz/Begin watching Prom Night in Mississippi
Homework: none
Tues 4/07: Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Finish watching Prom Night in Mississippi
Homework: none
Wed 4/08: Field Trip to PHS
Classwork: Field trip to PHS to watch performance of the musical Grease
Homework: None
Thurs 4/09: Introduction to the Vietnam War
Classwork: Watch Century Americas Time: Unpinned
Homework: none
Fri 4/10: Science AIMS & Begin Decades Projects
Classwork: Science AIMS & Begin research for decades projects
Homework: none
Week 3: 3/30-4/3: The Civil Rights Movement
Mon 3/30: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Classwork: Watch Cuban Missile Crisis Video/Cuban Missile Crisis Reading
Homework: Cuban Missile Crisis Reading Packet-due tomorrow!
Tues 3/31: Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Civil Rights Movement Organizations & People Notes/Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Analysis
Homework: Speech Analysis-due tomorrow!
Wed 4/01: Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Videos: Brown vs Board, Freedom Riders & Emmett Till
Homework: Civil Rights Vocabulary-due Monday!
Thurs 4/02: Civil Rights Movement
Classwork: Watch Century Americas Time: Poisoned Dreams/Crossword
Homework: Civil Rights Vocabulary & Civil Rights Crossword-due Monday 4/6
Fri 4/03: No School!
Week 2: 3/23-3/27: The Cold War
Mon 3/23: McCarthyism
Classwork: Finish Butter Battle Assignment/McCarthyism Reading/Cold War Quiz
Homework: none
Tues 3/24: McCarthyism
Classwork: McCarthyism Trial Videos/Political Cartoons/Begin Korean War Notes
Homework: none
Wed 3/25: The Korean War
Classwork: Korean War Notes/Compare Korean textbooks
Homework: Reading for Socratic Seminar tomorrow
Thurs 3/26: The Korean War
Classwork: Inside North Korea Video
Homework: Reading for Socratic Seminar tomorrow
Fri 3/27: The Korean War
Classwork: Socratic Seminary: Should the U.S. have been involved in the Korean War?
Homework: none
Week 1: 3/16-3/20: The Cold War
Mon 3/16: The Cold War Intro
Classwork: Communism Review, Notes, Berlin Wall Art
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
Tues 3/17: The Berlin Wall
Classwork: Berlin Wall Video w/ writing assignment
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
Wed 3/18: Communism & McCarthyism
Classwork: Propaganda Films
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
Thurs 3/19: Guest Speaker
Classwork: Guest Speaker-lawyer for "down winders" from atomic bomb tests in Arizona
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
Fri 3/20: McCarthyism
Classwork: Read Dr Seuss Butter Battle Book w/ writing assignment-due today, Analyze political cartoons
Homework: Cold War Vocabulary-due Monday!
3rd Quarter: 1/05/15-3/09/15
*My honors class will be learning the same content only through more rigorous and self directed activities. Honors students should follow this page to keep up with classwork and homework assignments. Links to the actual homework/classwork pages to print out or look at will be posted under the "documents" tab. I will also put the due dates in red. Thanks!*
Week 8: WWII
Monday 2/23: WWII Show & Tell Day/Pacific Battles
Classwork: Show & Tell WWII Artifacts/Pacific Battles Charts & Videos
Homework: None
Tuesday 2/24: Pacific Battles
Classwork: Pacific Battles Charts & Videos
Homework: None
Wednesday 2/25: No Class 1st Period-WWG!
Thursday 2/26: Atomic Bomb: VJ Day
Classwork: Atomic Bomb Reading & Socratic Seminar Prep
Homework: WWII Study Guide-due Monday!
Friday 2/27: Atomic Bomb
Classwork: Socratic Seminar
Homework: WWII Study Guide-due Monday!
Week 7: WWII
Monday 2/16: No School!
Tuesday 2/17: Weapons of WWII
Classwork: Videos, Group Activity, Weapons Charts
Homework: WWII Letter Writing Assignment-due tomorrow!
Wednesday 2/18: Code Talkers
Classwork: Videos, Reading w/ questions
Homework: Code Talker Reading Questions-due tomorrow!
Thursday 2/19: WWII Letter Writing
Classwork: Respond to soldier/nurse letters; Epals
Homework: Finish responses-due tomorrow!
Friday 2/20: Pacific Battles: Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death Marches, Midway, Guadalcanal
Classwork: Power Point w/ charts, videos
Homework: Bring WWII Show and Tell items for Monday!
Week 6: 2/9-2/13: WWII: European Battles
*Same as other classes this week!*
Week 5: 2/02-2/06: U.S. Involvement in WWII
Monday 2/2: Speech Analysis
Classwork: Holocaust quiz; Leaders of WWII speech analysis
Homework: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas video guide-due tomorrow!
Tuesday 2/3: Intro to Pearl Harbor
Classwork: Pearl Harbor video; epals
Homework: None
Wednesday 2/4: Pearl Harbor
Classwork: Station Rotation
Homework: None
Thursday 2/5: Pearl Harbor
Classwork: FDR Speech Analysis; Mind Maps
Homework: Mind Maps-due Monday!
Friday 2/6: Japanese Internment Camps
Classwork: Document analysis; reading w/ questions
Homework: Mind Maps- due Monday!
Week 4: 1/26-1/30: The Holocaust
Monday 1/26: Rise of Dictator in the 1930s
Classwork: Finish dictator posters
Homework: Dictator posters-due tomorrow!
Tuesday 1/27: Introduction to The Holocaust
Classwork: Pyramid of Hate activity
Homework: Holocaust poem-due Monday 2/2
Wednesday 1/28: The Holocaust
Classwork: Station Rotation
Homework: Holocaust poem-due Monday 2/2
Thursday 1/22: The Holocaust
Classwork: Watch: The Boy in Striped Pajamas
Homework: Holocaust poem-due Monday 2/2
Friday 1/23: Leaders of WWII
Classwork: Watch: The Boy in Striped Pajamas
Homework: Holocaust poem-due Monday 2/2
Week 3: 1/19-1/23: WWII: Geography, Causes & Leaders
Monday 1/19: No School-Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
Tuesday 1/20: Pre-WWII
Classwork: Watch Century: Stormy Weather
Homework: None
Wednesday 1/21: Geography & Epals (Pen Pals)
Classwork: European map, Asian map & reading, set up epals
Homework: None
Thursday 1/22: Causes of WWII & Leaders
Classwork: Notes, Create Dictator Posters-due Monday!
Homework: Causes of WWII reading-can use on quiz tomorrow!
Friday 1/23: Causes of WWII & Leaders
Classwork: Dictator Posters-due Monday!
Homework: Dictator Posters-due Monday!
Week 2: 1/12-1/16: Macroeconomics
Monday 1/12: Macroeconomics Project: Google Treks
Classwork: Google Trek-Tracking Clothing
Homework: Google Trek-due Wed!
Tuesday 1/13: Macroeconomics Project: Google Treks
Classwork: Google Trek-Tracking Clothing
Homework: Google Trek-due Tomorrow!
Wednesday 1/14: Microeconomics Project: Personal Budget
Classwork: Personal Budget Projects
Homework: Personal Budget Projects-due Monday!
Thursday 1/15: Microeconomics Project: Personal Budget
Classwork: Personal Budget Projects
Homework: Personal Budget Projects-due Monday!
Friday 1/16: Microeconomics Project: Personal Budget
Classwork: Personal Budget Projects
Homework: Personal Budget Projects-due Monday!
Week 1: 1/05-1/09: Macroeconomics
Monday 1/05: 2nd Semester Pre-Benchmark Test
Classwork: Pre-Benchmark Test
Homework: Bring proper binder & supplies to class tomorrow! (You will get points for this!)
Tuesday 1/06: Intro to Economics
Classwork: Types of economies notes & group activity; vocabulary
Homework: Economics vocabulary (with sentences)-due Friday!
Wednesday 1/07: Supply & Demand
Classwork: Wants vs needs partner activity; supply & demand video and scenarios
Homework: Economics vocabulary (with sentences)-due Friday!
Thursday 1/08: Economics: Track Your Clothing
Classwork: Economic problems notes; video with discussion questions
Homework: Economics vocabulary (with sentences)-due tomorrow!
Friday 1/09: Economics Projects: Track Your Clothing
Classwork: Begin Google Trek project (we will work on it Monday in class as well and it is due Tuesday!)
Homework: None
2nd Quarter: 10/13/14-12/19/14
Week 10: 12/15-12/19: CSI Projects
*Honors kiddos will be doing the same activities as the rest of the classes this week for our CSI STEAM projects!*
Week 9: 12/08-12/12: CSI Prep
*Honors kiddos will be doing the same activities as the rest of the classes this week in preparation for our CSI STEAM projects!*
Week 8: 12/01-12/05: The Judicial Branch
Mon 12/01: Judicial Branch
Classwork: Notes/Juvenile Court
Homework: Study Guides-due Wed!
Tues 12/02: Supreme Court Cases
Classwork: Mind Maps
Homework: Mind maps-due Friday!
Wed 12/03: Judicial Branch Test
Classwork: Test
Homework: Mind maps-due Friday!
Thurs 12/04: CSI STEAM Project Prep
Classwork: Misdemeanors vs Felonies
Homework: None
Fri 12/05: CSI STEAM Project Prep
Classwork: Steps in a case illustrations or stories
Homework: Finish illustrations or stories-due Monday!
Week 7: 11/24-11/28: The Judicial Branch
Mon 11/24: Intro to the Judicial Branch
Classwork: Notes/Vocabulary Jigsaw
Homework: Vocabulary sentences-due next Monday!
Tues 11/25: Judicial Branch
Classwork: Notes/Reading/Crossword
Homework: Vocabulary sentences-due next Monday!
Wed 11/26-Fri 11/28: No School!
Week 6: 11/17-11/21: Amendments
Mon 11/17: Reconstruction Amendments
Classwork: Bill of Rights Quiz/Notes/Doll Test
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed!
Tues 11/18: 16th-24th Amendments
Classwork: Notes/Literacy Tests
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed!
Wed 11/19: Socratic Seminar
Classwork: Socratic Seminar: Which amendment is the most important?
Homework: Amendments test study guide-due Friday
Thurs 11/20: 25th-27th Amendments
Classwork: Notes/JFK Assassination/Amendments review games
Homework: Amendments test study guide-due tomorrow!
Fri 11/21: Amendments Test
Classwork: Amendments Test
Homework: No Homework
Week 5: 11/10-11/14: The Bill of Rights
Mon 11/10: 2nd-6th Amendments
Classwork: Notes/Gideon Case/Miranda Case
Homework: None
Tues 11/11: No School for Veteran's Day!
Classwork: None
Homework: None
Wed 11/12: 7th-10th Amendments
Classwork: Notes/The Death Penalty
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed. 11/19
Thurs 11/13: Death Penalty Essays
Classwork: Bill of Rights Hand Trick/Work on Essays
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed. 11/19
Fri 11/14: Death Penalty Essays
Classwork: Work on Essays
Homework: Death Penalty Essay-due Wed 11/19
Week 4: 11/03-11/07: The Bill of Rights
Mon 11/03: Origins of the Bill of Rights
Classwork: Reading & Text Analysis
Homework: None
Tues 11/04: Freedom of Religion
Classwork: Notes; The Lemon Test Case Scenarios & Video
Homework: None
Wed 11/05: 4th Amendment
Classwork: Guest Speaker Officer Hoffman
Homework: None
Thurs 11/06: Freedom of Speech
Classwork: Supreme Court Case Analysis: The Tinker Case
Homework: None
Fri 11/07: The Bill of Rights
Classwork: Notes; Vocabulary; Freedom of Speech Videos
Homework: Vocabulary-due Monday!
Week 3: 10/27-10/31: Political Parties & Elections
Mon 10/27: Elections
Classwork: Join all classes to listen to regular social studies candidate debates
Homework: Study Guide-due Friday!
Tues 10/28: Political Campaigns
Classwork: Finish campaign materials (speeches, commercials & posters)
Homework: Study guide-due Friday!
Wed 10/29: Candidates & Voting
Classwork: Listen to candidate speeches & watch campaign commercials & vote
Homework: Study guide-due Friday!
Thurs 10/30: Electoral College Simulation & Test Review
Classwork: Electoral College Simulation (each student is a state) to compare results to popular vote from yesterday.....Jeopardy Executive Branch Test Review Game
Homework: Study guide-due Tomorrow!
Fri 10/31: Executive Branch Test
Classwork: Test/Intro to The Bill of Rights
Homework: None
Week 2: 10/20-10/24: Political Parties & Elections
Mon 10/20: Political Parties
Classwork: Group Research & Teach the Class Activity-Compare five major political parties
Homework: No Homework
Tues 10/21: How Elections Work
Classwork: Electoral College Simulation
Homework: No Homework
Wed 10/22: Case Studies-Popular Vote vs Electoral College
Classwork: Case Studies
Homework: Finish Case Studies-due Thursday!
Thurs 10/23: Create Political Parties For Mock Elections
Classwork: Create platforms, pick candidates & start campaigns
Homework: Work on campaign materials-posters, commercials & speeches-due Monday!
Fri 10/24: Political Campaigns
Classwork: Finish working on campaigns
Homework: Executive Branch Study Guide-due Thursday!
Week 1: 10/13-10/17: Executive Branch
Mon 10/13: Presidents
Classwork: Research for Presidents Presentations
Homework: Finish presentations-due Tuesday!
Tues 10/14: Presidents
Classwork: Presidents Presentations
Homework: No Homework
Wed 10/15: Presidents
Classwork: Presidents Presentations
Homework: No Homework
Thurs 10/16: Executive Branch
Classwork: Hats of the President
Homework: No Homework
Fri 10/17: Intro to Political Parties
Classwork: Which party are you?- Quiz, Video & Group Activity
Homework: No Homework
1st Quarter (08/04-10/03)
***Last day for late work for quarter 1 is Tuesday 9/30!!!
Week 9: 9/29-10/03
Mon 9/29: The Executive Branch
- Notes
- Create rubric for President research projects
- Hats of the President Jigsaw activity
Homework: none
Tues 9/30: Special Presentation by Mr. Helwig: Bullying & Sexual Harrassment
Wed 10/01: President Research Projects
Homework: Research Projects-due Friday!
Thurs 10/02: President Research Project
Homework: Research projects-due tomorrow!
Fri 10/03: Executive Branch Document Analysis
- Analyze political cartoons
- Analyze presidential speeches
Homework: none
Week 8: 9/22-9/26
Mon 9/22: No School
Tues 9/23: How Bills Become Laws
Classwork: Write bills to try and pass into laws in our mock Congress Thursday!
Homework: Finish writing bill if not done in class-due Thursday!
Wed 9/24: Legislative Branch Test Review
Classwork: Bingo Review Game
Homework: Study Guide-due Friday!
Thurs 9/25: How Congress Passes Laws
Classwork: Mock Congress
Homework: Study Guide-due Friday!
Fri 9/26: Legislative Branch Test
Classwork: Legislative Branch Test
Homework: No Homework
Week 7: 9/15-9/19
Mon 9/15: Legislative Branch
Classwork: same
Homework: no homework
Tues 9/16: House vs Senate
Classwork: same
Homework: no homework
Wed 9/17: Powers of Congress
Classwork: same
Homework: no homework
Thurs 9/18: How a Bill Becomes a Law
Classwork: Notes & Begin Research
Homework: Work on Presentations
Fri 9/19: How a Bill Becomes a Law
Classwork: Follow that Bill & Crosswords
Homework: Crosswords-due Monday!
Week 6: 9/08-9/12
Mon 9/08: 3 branches of government
Classwork: Tree projects-due Wed.
Homework: Gather info for tree projects
Tues 9/09: 3 branches of government
Classwork: Tree projects-due Wed.
Homework: Finish tree projects if not finished in class-due tomorrow!
Wed 9/10: 9/11 Presentation
Classwork: 9/11 Presentation
Homework: Checks and Balances News Articles-due next Monday!
Thurs 9/11: 9/11 Video
Classwork: 9/11 video
Homework: Checks and Balances News Articles-due next Monday!
Fri 9/12: No social studies....just go to 4th, 6th & 7th hours!
Classwork: None
Homework: Finish News Articles-due Monday!
Week 5: 9/01-9/05
Mon. 9/01: No School-Labor Day!
Tues. 9/02:
Classwork: Test-Government & Citizenship/Wilderness Activity
Homework: None
Wed. 9/03:
Classwork: Same as other classes
Homework: None
Thurs. 9/04:
Classwork: Notes/Checks and balances charts
Homework: None
Fri. 9/05:
Classwork: Begin Three Branches of Government Tree Project-will be due Tuesday
Homework: None
Week 4: 8/25-8/29
Mon. 8/25:
Classwork: Notes/Finish ABC's books
Homework: Analyzing primary documents-due Tuesday
Tues. 8/26:
Classwork: same as other classes
Homework: same as other classes
Wed. 8/27:
Classwork: advanced primary documents analysis
Homework: same as other classes
Thurs. 8/28:
Classwork: same as other classes
Homework: same as other classes
Fri. 8/29:
Classwork: same as other classes
Homework: same as other classes
Week 3: 8/18-8/22
Mon. 8/18:
Classwork: Finish Presentations/Articles of Confederation Notes & Solutions Activity
Homework: Preamble Rewrite-due Tuesday
Tues. 8/19:
Classwork: Influential historical documents timeline project-Due Thurs.
Homework: Research for timeline project
Wed. 8/20:
Classwork: Finish timelines
Homework: Finish timelines-due tomorrow
Thurs. 8/21:
Classwork: ABC's books w/ honors criteria
Homework: Research for ABC's book info-books due at end of class tomorrow
Fri. 8/22:
Classwork: Finish ABC's books w/ honors criteria
Homework: none
Week 2: 08/11-08/15
Mon. 08/11:
Classwork: Same as other classes
Homework: Begin research for types of government research assignment. Research will be done all day in class Tuesday and presentations will be done Wednesday.
Tues. 08/12:
Classwork: Computer lab to research for types of government research assignment
Homework: Research projects
Wed. 08/13:
Classwork: Computer lab to research for types of government research assignment
Homework: Finish presentations-due Thursday
Thurs. 08/14:
Classwork: Presentations & Declaration of Independence Rewrite
Homework: Begin break up letter-due Monday
Fri. 08/15:
Classwork: Same as other classes
Homework: Break up letter-due Monday
Week 1: 08/04-08/08
- No differences this week, but be prepared for next week!!!