Tuesday November 17th, 2015

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

U.S. History

Tuesday-11/17/15:
o Bell Work-1. What was the goal of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff? 2.Which group made up the members of the Ohio Gang? 3. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
o Attendance- While Class is Doing Bell Work
o Video- NFL Settles Concussion Lawsuits (6:59 min)
o Video-Fast food workers strike for higher pay (5:19 min)
o Activity-Labor Unions Today Primary Source Documents and Inside Look at How the Union Works in Major League Baseball Documents
o Daily Objective-
o Content Objective:
 SWD evaluation of the practices/policies of hourly workers and management during a labor dispute by defending their position and agreeing to negotiated terms that will end the strike.
o Language Objective:
 Students will read, write and orally debating the practices/policies of hourly workers and management during a labor dispute through a group activity designed to negotiated terms of a settlement that will end the strike at their fictional company is facing.

 

Supplemental Materials: Activity-Labor Unions Today Primary Source Documents and Inside Look at How the Union Works in Major League Baseball Documents

Activity-Labor Unions Today Primary Source Documents and Inside Look at How the Union Works in Major League Baseball Documents

Trade Union Activity-An Inside Look at How the Union Works in Major League Baseball

Trade Union Activity-Union daily life stories

 

Video Link: Video- NFL Settles Concussion Lawsuits (6:59 min) and Fast food workers strike for higher pay (5:19 min)

NFL Settles Concussion Lawsuits (6:59 min)

 

Fast food workers strike for higher pay (5:19 min) 

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Government

Tuesday-11/17/15:
o Bell Work-1. What concern is Jefferson expressing in this statement? 2. The Framers tried to address concerns such as the one expressed by Thomas Jefferson by__________________________.
a. Forbidding the naming of a monarch at any time.
b. Letting the States ignore the Constitution if it went against their own laws.
c. Reserving for the States all powers not expressly granted to the National Government.
d. Concentrating all power in the National Government.
o Attendance- While Class is Doing Bell Work
o Thinking Map-How the States Cooperate-Tree Map
o Video-Hurricane Katrina Aftermath: In the Shadow |Retro Report |The New York Times (11:49 min)
o SSR Article-Katrina Article
o Reflection Questions-Katrina Article
o Daily Objective-
o Content Objective:
 SWD evaluation of the federal government’s failure to react to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina by interpenetrating textual evidence in a read and respond activity
o Language Objective:
 Students will read and record the failures of the federal government in the wake of Hurricane Katrina through reading a primary source and responding to guided reflection questions

 

Supplemental Materials: Thinking Map-How the States Cooperate-Tree Map, SSR Article-Katrina Article, Reflection Questions-Katrina Article and Chapter 4-Study Guide

 

Thinking Map-How the States Cooperate-Tree Map

How States Cooperate-Tree Map-Gov

SSR Article-Katrina Article

Katrina Article-Chapter 4

Reflection Questions-Katrina Article 

Katrina Article-Questions

Chapter 4-Study Guide

Chapter 4-Study Guide-Half Sheet-2015

 

Video Link-Hurricane Katrina Aftermath: In the Shadow |Retro Report |The New York Times (11:49 min)

 

Hurricane Katrina Aftermath: In the Shadow |Retro Report |The New York Times (11:49 min)

 

 

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