Mrs. Connors' Classroom

1.) Bell Work: Get your map and supplies ready to finish your maps!

2.) Complete the last few steps for the Urban Game maps!

In the end we will have the following  totals on our maps:

95 houses
22 factories
3 schools
4 cemeteries
5 stores
1 museum
1 canal
4 churches
2 railroads
1 3×3 common
18 tenements
9 nice houses
2 jails
11 pubs
3 hospitals
1 theater

Reminder: 9th graders DO NOT have school Tuesday the 9th or Wednesday the 10th due to SAT/PSAT testing. See you Thursday!

Bell Work for 03-29-19:

• Find your piece of paper. Grab one tiny tile & one big tile.
• Double check to make sure you have:
  

  1 compass 1 river 1 canal 1 bridge 2 roads

  20 tiny houses Commons 3×3 1 “my house” 1 “big house” 1 church

  1 cemetery 1 pub 1 store 1 coal mine 30 trees

We will complete Round 4-13 today! When we return from Spring Break we will finish our maps.

Reminder for Freshmen: NO SCHOOL April 9th & 10th, 2019 due to SAT/PSAT testing!

Have a safe & restful Spring Break!

See you on Monday, April 8th, 2019!

Bell Work for 03-28-19:

• Take one piece of paper, one tiny tile, and one big tile.
• Take one blue highlighter unless you have your own.
• Your paper will be landscape format, so the longer sides are the top and bottom.
• Draw a compass rose using pencil in the lower right hand corner of the page.
• Draw a river going from the west side of the paper to the east. Make it the width of the big tile. Color it blue.

We are creating maps of a village & evolving it over the Industrial Revolution into a city!

Bell Work:

Get out your SAT SLOT packets & your Chromebook (make sure it is your number!) for the two quizzes.

1.) SAT Industrial Revolution Quiz uses pages 6 & 8

2.) The Jungle SAT SLOT Quiz uses pages 7 & 8

1.) Bell Work:

Read p. 6-7 in your SAT SLOT packet. Circle any words you are unfamiliar with so we can define them as a group.

2.) Read & annotate 2 SAT SLOT passages

3.) Discuss as a class the Four Square boxes

Answer these questions:

• Define the words from our bell work.
• Write a 2 sentence summary of the pictures & passages on p. 6.
• From the introduction, what was Sinclair’s primary concern? p. 7
• What is the tone of the passage? Underline evidence to support the tone. p. 7
• Complete Box 1: The author’s claim & the main idea. p. 8
• Complete Box 2: Details that support Box 1. p. 8
• What was Sinclair’s purpose in writing The Jungle? (Put in box 3) p. 8
• Complete Box 4. p. 8

We have TWO SAT SLOT quizzes tomorrow!

1.) Bell Work:

What is an entrepreneur? Can you list or name a few examples? (famour or otherwise)

2.) Discuss the process of industrialization using the wool industry as an example.

3.) Factory WS Reading & Factory WS Questions

1.) Bell Work:

What did you learn from this activity? What surprised you? Answer in complete sentences.

2.) Notes on the Industrial Revolution. Discuss why England was the best place for it to start.

1.) Bell Work:

What is Industry? How does it affect you? Answer in complete sentences!

2.) Industry Activity Group Activity!

Some of our awesome group work!

1.) Bell Work:

Which colonial powers were there in Latin America? Which had the most territory?

2.) Open Notebook QUIZ on Nationalism & the Latin American Revolutions!

1.) Bell Work:

p. 685 Interpreting Maps Questions 1 & 2

2.) Latin American Revolutions Map WS

Your map assignment is due before you leave today. Any late assignments will not be graded for full credit. (Absences are the exception.)

3.) Open Notebook QUIZ tomorrow on Nationalism & the Latin American Revolutions!