TL Quiz-1861-Present + Debate Planning + Debate: Indians + Discuss Canyons

Today our students:

• Took the Timeline Quiz over U. S. History 1861-Present
• Got with their teammate and planned strategy for the Debate: Were the white men and buffalo soldiers right in invading West Texas and defeating the Indians, slaughtering the buffalo, and placing the Indians on reservations? 
• Debated - Both sides made excellent arguments and backed them with sound reasoning and evidence.
• Briefly discussed the third reading in Gary Paulsen's Canyons, particularly the question as to whether the picture on one of the book covers accurately depicts how Brennan discovered the skull.

Assignment for Friday: Read the rest of Canyons by Friday. It is probably a good idea to keep up with the schedule given you several days ago, just to make sure you don't have too heavy a reading load on Thursday night.

• Students will be taking the Stanford Achievement Tests the next three days, and will be using classroom time after finishing each section of the test to read the rest of the book by this coming Friday, 4/17/15.. 
• We will have the Grand Discussion of it this coming Friday.

Quiz over Ch. 17 Summary + Gala Prep + GA Indians Chart + Timeline Quiz Prep

Today our students:

• Took the Quiz over the Ch. 17 Summary: Clash of Cultures
• Helped with Gala Prep
• Continued working on the Gilded Age - Chart - Gilded Age - Final Defeat of the Indians
• Briefly discussed the Timeline Quiz coming up on Monday

Assignments for Monday

1. Quiz - Timeline of U.S. History 1861-Present - Click here to use the Animated TL Quiz Prep ppt. I made for you (if you want to).

• Learn names of Time Periods.
• All else (dates, symbols, descriptions) counts as EXTRA CREDIT.

2. Read pp. 57-84 in Canyons and come prepared to discuss.
3. Finish your part of the Chart - Gilded Age - Final Defeat of the Indians.

• Fill in the rest of the Details of What Happened for your 3 topics.
• Fill in the two columns on the right for your 3 topics.

TL of African American History + Brief Summary of Gilded Age + Examples of "Gilded" + Paulsen's Canyons

Today students:

• Examined and analyzed a Timeline of African-American History
• Read and discussed A Brief Summary of the Gilded Age
• Began working on a GooDoc giving examples of how the Gilded Age was "gilded"

Assignments

For Thursday

1. Fill out the GooDoc on "Gilded" - I've shared it with you, so please check your Gmail.
2. Read pp. 3-27 in Gary Paulsen's historical novel, Canyons.

• Be prepared to discuss it tomorrow. 
• Be thinking especially how to relate the story to what we are studying in Chapter 17: Cultures in Conflict (the final defeat of the Indians of Texas)

For Friday: Quiz over Chapter 17 Summary

For Monday: Quiz over Timeline of U. S. History 1861-Present

• You only need to be able to write the names of the time periods in their correct locations.
• You may do the dates, symbols, and other information for EXTRA CREDIT.