Lesson Plans- Thursday, April 28, 2011

6th Grade
Current Events
Oral Reading Pg 108-115

7th Grade
Note: Student gone for trackmeet
Current Events
Review for test

Lesson Plans- Wednesday, April 27, 2011

6th Grade
Test over map items for state assessment
BQ; What was the most important invention ever created?
Discussion
Oral reading pg 116

7th
Test Review over Chap 6 Kansas Immigration
Test Thursday

Lesson Plans- Tuesday, April 26, 2011

6th Grade
Went to Leadership Academy graduation in morning
Afternoon classes review for Map Test

7th Grade
Reviewed for Test over Chap. 6 Immigration to Kansas
Review Game tomorrow
Test Thursday
Essay Questions:

1. Why was the Civil War fought? Explain the struggles that were faced from the end of Civil War until 1960’s. Are we still fight the war today?

2. Write an essay persuading someone to leave where they are living and move to 1880’s Kansas. Be sure to list as many details as possible.

3. What was Kansas like in the 1800’s? What were the challenges faced by people who came and settled here and how did they adapt to those challenges?

4. Describe why the African Americans left the south and saw Kansas as a good place to settle. Be sure to include Benjamin Pap Singleton and his colonies, Nicodemus, Exodustors, Jim Crow Laws, and all key details that brought African Americans to Kansas.

Lesson Plans- Monday, April 25, 2011

6th Grade
Current Events
Check and Review Map

6th Grade
Current Events
Check Posters and Share with the Class

Lesson Plans- Wednesday, April 20, 2011

6th
BQ
World Map Activity

7th
BQ: What was Plessy vs Ferguson and the Jim Crow laws
Finish Powerpoint lecture
Oral Reading
Primary source: Pap Singleton

Lesson Plans- Tuesday, April 19, 2011

6th Grade
Retest Ancient Greece
HW Mesopotamia Worksheet over pg 104-107

7th
Lecture over Jim Crow Laws(Treatment of African Americans in the south)
Discuss Pap Singletons Role in bringing African Americans to Kansas
Complete Primary source over Pap Singletons testimony to Congress on African American movement to Kansas

Lesson Plans- Monday, April 18, 2011

6th
Current Events
BQ
Finish powerpoint lecture over Mesopotamia
Vocab over Mesopotamia

7th
Current Events
Check Pro and Cons of Coming to Kansas
BQ: What brought African Americans to Kansas
Lecture Jim Crow

Lesson Plans- Friday, April 15, 2011

6th
BQ
Mesopotamia Lecture


7th
Bq
Assignment
Lecture

Lesson Plans- Thursday, April 14, 2011

6th Grade
TEST

7th hour
BQ
Check Assignment pg 124-125
HW Survey

Lesson Plans- Wednesday, April 13, 2011

6th Grade
Test
Homework 7 terms

7th Grade
Check Assignments from Yesterday
Board Question
Pg 124
Assignment Survey

Lesson Plans- Tuesday, April 12, 2011

6th Grade
Finish Study Guide
Review for Test

7th Grade
Board Question
Check Assignment from Yesterday
Homestead Act
Assignment Growing Population and the Homestead Act

Lesson Plans- Monday, April 11, 2011

6th Grade
Current Event
Board Question
Create Study Guide

7th Grade
Current Event
Board Question
Hand back test
Vocabulary Chapter 6

Lesson Plans- Friday, April 8, 2011

6th Grade
Board Question
Video Clip
Power Point
Writing Assignment half a page

7th Grade
Test today over Chapter 5
Last day for corrections on last test

Lesson Plans- Thursday, April 7, 2011

6th
BQuestion
Current Events
Reading pg. 198-201
Check notebooks

7th
Current Events
Test Review

Lesson Plans- Wednesday, April 6, 2011

6th Grade
Board Questions
Check Map Assignment
Check notebooks

7th
The Kansas state motto is To the Star through Difficulties... Wht does this mean?
Discussion
Start study guide

Lesson Plans- Tuesday, April 5, 2011

6th Grade
Board Question
Scavenger Hunt Athenian Democracy and U.S. Democracy
Mythology

7th Grade
Board Question
Discuss Letters
pg 113-118
What do you remember 1-15

Lesson Plans- Monday, April 4, 2011

6th Grade
Board Question
Current Events
Discussion Democracy

7th Grade
Board Question
Current Events
Check Binders
Page 108 in books
Write a letter