Tuesday, November 25: Students have time to write their tall tale on p. 59 of the workbook. Students are then introduced to the Mountain Man Facebook project. The instructions are on p. 60 of the workbook. Students were randomly assigned a mountain man to research (if absent, see Ms. Nay for your assignment). Students then had the rest of the class to begin researching their mountain man using the grid on p. 62-63 of the workbook. Over the next few classes, students will complete their research (recording sources on p. 60), write a paper on their mountain man, and create a Facebook poster for their mountain man. These will be presented at the rendezvous.
In Class: P. 59 & 62-63
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Monday, November 17: Students were introduced to the Mountain Men era of Utah's history. Students completed an application to be a mountain man on p. 48 of the workbook. Then, as a class, we read p. 49 of the workbook and completed the page. Next, we read p. 50 as a class. Students then started to create an advertisement to recruit mountain men to join the company and go trap out west. The poster is on a simple piece of printer paper and must include the following: a catch phrase, information on a typical day, and a picture. Also, students are to write a paragraph on a separate piece of paper explaining why they put the things they put on their poster.
In class: p. 48-49 in workbook, started working on advertisement (due Friday) Wednesday, November 19: Today students took notes on Famous Mountain Men on p. 51 of the workbook as we went through a PowerPoint on them (if absent, see a friend or Ms. Nay for the notes). Students then completed the Mountain Man review on p. 52-53 of the workbook. In the remaining time, students worked on their advertisement, which is due next class. In Class: p. 51-53 in workbook Homework: Advertisement, Study for Vocab Quiz next class Friday, November 21: Class began with a vocab quiz. Then we did some Mountain Man Math on p. 54 of the workbook. We then discussed the Rendezvous, completing p. 55 as we discussed. Next, the introduction to Tall Tales began with a discussion of fact vs. opinion, using p. 56. We read some tall tales together on p. 57-58. Then students were given a chance to write their own tall tales on p. 59. Due: Advertisement In class: p. 54-59 (p. 59 will have time to work on next class) Homework: Current Event #3 Tuesday, November 11: We began the student presentations of their Unit Projects. The majority of class, however, was at the Veteran's Assembly.
Due: Unit Project (project+written portion), Current Event #2, Workbook for Unit 3 (if haven't already) Thursday, November 13: Today we finished presenting the Unit Projects. Additionally, students drew a map of North Star from memory on p. 47 in the workbook, like Miera drew a map of Utah for the Spanish explorers. In Class: Map of North Star (p. 47) Monday, November 3: First we went of the the test review questions in the workbook. We then played a review game to prepare for the test on Friday.
In Class: Test Review in workbook Homework: Study and work on Unit Project Wednesday, November 5: Today was our Pow-wow. Students participated in different Native America activities. In Class: Native American Online Scavenger Hunt Homework: Study and work on Unit Project Friday, November 7: Today we took the test on Unit 3 (Native Americans). We then were introduced to the Spanish Explorers with Map Notes on p. 46 of the workbook. In Class: Native American Test, Spanish Explorers (p. 46) Homework: Unit Project! Due next class! And Current Event #2 |
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