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Lesson Plans 2010 - 2011

Date

Eighth Grade History

Senior Government

First Quarterly Project due Thursday, September 16 at the beginning of class

Monday

September 6

Labor Day

No School

Tuesday

September 7

Reasons for English Settlement and how English promoted settlement

Group settlements

Agreements/compromises Ratification of Constitution

Federalist/Anti-Federalist

3^rd period: Speaker

Wednesday

September 8

Jamestown

Assign essay: due on Thursday - compare and contrast Jamestown and group settlement

Review of Chapter 2

Thursday

September 9

Essay due: your settlement and Jamestown

Plymouth

Chapter 2 test

Friday

September 10

Finish Plymouth , Northern colonies

How the Constitution is organized

Principles of American Government

Assign current event – due Tuesday, September 14

Monday

September 13

Picture Day

1:00PM – Assembly

Open note quiz

Middle Colonies

Notes on principles of the Constitution

Tuesday

September 14

Southern colonies

crossword

Principles of Constitution

Current event due

Wednesday

September 15

Class meetings

Review of Chapter 3

Go over vocab and objectives

Thursday

September 16

Chapter 3 Test

Assign: Chapter 4 vocab definitions #1 – 6

Quarterly Projects due at the beginning of class

Write response to current event

Friday

September 17

Constitution Day

Constitution Day Activities

Enrichment Links for eighth grade, senior government and sociology

EIGHTH GRADE:

Corps of Discovery

http://lewisandclark.fateback.com

Chapter 4 Explorers online matching game - http://www.quia.com/mc/48.html

Links related to Chapter 11: Explore the home of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello - http://www.monticello.org

Discovering Lewis and Clark - _{http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/}

_{Go west with Lewis and Clark -}_{http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/index.htm}_l

_{The War of 1812 thinkquest: h}_{ttp://library.thinkquest.org/22916}

Links related to Chapters 6 -8

Interactive crossword puzzle on Early America (it's fun but not easy):http://www.earlyamerica.com/crossword/current/puzzle4.html

Revolutionary War sites

1. Internet Scavenger Hunt:http://mrspskids.tripod.com/rwhunt.html

2. Liberty game:http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/game/gameindex.html

3. The British Are Coming:http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/data/quiz.shtml

4. War simulation-Your are the commander of the Continental Army:

hthttp://library.thinkquest.org/11683/BattleEntrance.html

You Be The Historian and find out about a colonial family:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/springer

An interactive site to find out about the Salem Witchcraft Trials

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem

Links for chapter 5

Jamestown game: http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/

What happened to Virginia Dare?

http://usparks.about.com/library/weekly/aa081699.htm?terms=Roanoke+Island

The voyage on the Mayflower to Plymouth:

http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html

visit Plymouth (Plimouth Plantation)h

http://www.plimoth.org/plimexp/default.htm

SENIOR GOVERNMENT:

Have questions about the Electoral College? (aka. the RG syndrome! - inside comment) At this National Archives site, "Frequently Asked Questions" are answered: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/faq.html

Link for Chapter 8 work on political parties: http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm

Link for Unit 4 work on Congress in Action: http:thomas.loc.gov

The States game http://funschool.com

So...you have conquered the States game, how about World Geography? Try this:

hh ttp://games.funschool.com/game.php?g=1186.

Ohio civics program produced by the League of Women Voters of Ohio: includes information about Ohio government organization, practical instruction on voting and ways to get involved in the political process, plus much more.

http://www.ohioimpact.org

Information about the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/about.html

Link for Cabinet Budget Request Presentation

http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy09/browse.html

Chapter 10 links - finding out about PAC's and soft money

http://www.opensecrets.org

http://www.fec.gov

http://www.twyman-whitney.com/americancitizen/links/lobbies.htm

Helpful links in preparing your information on a third political party:

http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm