Today in class we started your first project: design a way for a person to memorize the locations and names of the 13 Colonies. The rubric for the assignment is linked up here and it is available in Google Classroom. You will have some time tomorrow to work on the project, but not a lot, and it is due at the end of the class period.
In class tomorrow, you will have a writing assignment to complete. Your prompt will be: Based on your identity, could you have lived in the colonies? Provide proof from each of the 7 areas to support why or why not. The seven areas we've discussed are: Housing/clothing, Government system, Native American relations, Money/Economics, Food, Religion, and Wars. You should pre-plan your writing tonight, but you will actually be writing it in class tomorrow without the aid of notes!
Showing posts with label identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label identity. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
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Today in class we make our identity masks. If you did not finish the mask in class, please do so for homework tonight.
Additionally, please go back to your Classroom folder in Google Drive and check for an assignment called "Journal Entry #1." At the top of the page, there is a button with the words "Turn In" on it. Be sure to click that button once you have written the assignment! Some of you wrote the entry by hand, and if that is the case, please type it up on the google doc--these journal entries need to be kept in one digital folder so you can easily refer back to them as we go through the class. So check to be sure that you have submitted it--there is no late penalty for it if you haven't! If for some reason you have trouble accessing the Classroom folder, be sure you entered the code correctly to join the class! The code is: 465xtt.
Tomorrow we'll be looking at the houses people lived in and the clothing that they wore in Colonial America...
Today in class we make our identity masks. If you did not finish the mask in class, please do so for homework tonight.
Additionally, please go back to your Classroom folder in Google Drive and check for an assignment called "Journal Entry #1." At the top of the page, there is a button with the words "Turn In" on it. Be sure to click that button once you have written the assignment! Some of you wrote the entry by hand, and if that is the case, please type it up on the google doc--these journal entries need to be kept in one digital folder so you can easily refer back to them as we go through the class. So check to be sure that you have submitted it--there is no late penalty for it if you haven't! If for some reason you have trouble accessing the Classroom folder, be sure you entered the code correctly to join the class! The code is: 465xtt.
Tomorrow we'll be looking at the houses people lived in and the clothing that they wore in Colonial America...
Monday, September 8, 2014
Homework for September 8--Journal Prompt #1
For tonight, you are to type a response to the following prompt:
Experiences help us define who we are and who we are not. Identify an experience that shaped your identity. Describe this event or experience and then explain the impact it had on how you answer the question: "Who am I"?
A google doc has been shared with you through your US History I Classroom folder. You may write the answer to the prompt on the doc there, or you may compose your own. If you compose your own, please copy and paste the prompt from above and type your answer below. Then share the document with Ms. D and Mr. Whitten. Printed copies will not be accepted, nor will hand-written ones.
This will count as a homework grade.
If you did not finish your bio-poem in class, you must do so for homework. That may be handwritten and illustrated and fancy, or it may just be typed and simple.
Experiences help us define who we are and who we are not. Identify an experience that shaped your identity. Describe this event or experience and then explain the impact it had on how you answer the question: "Who am I"?
A google doc has been shared with you through your US History I Classroom folder. You may write the answer to the prompt on the doc there, or you may compose your own. If you compose your own, please copy and paste the prompt from above and type your answer below. Then share the document with Ms. D and Mr. Whitten. Printed copies will not be accepted, nor will hand-written ones.
This will count as a homework grade.
If you did not finish your bio-poem in class, you must do so for homework. That may be handwritten and illustrated and fancy, or it may just be typed and simple.
Friday, September 5, 2014
Homework over the weekend
Happy Friday! In class today we started a conversation about the American identity. We began with looking at a short selection from The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, called My Name. In this selection Esperanza talks about her name and what it means to her.
Over the weekend, you are to construct your own identity chart or picture that illustrates who you are and the things that make you, you. Below is a picture of mine to give you a sense of how you can construct your own. It is just a guideline, you don't have to make yours like mine! (Because that wouldn't be your identity, now, would it?)
Please have a paper copy of your identity chart to hand in at the start of class on Monday.
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