Archive for March 6th 2018

U.S. History

Tuesday-3/06/18:

  • Bell Work-1.) What reason does President Truman give to support his decision to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? 2.) According to President Truman, who was actually responsible for the use of the atomic bomb? Why can we infer he might have made a statement like this? 3.) Do you agree with his actions or would you have taken a different approach in an attempt to force Japan in to surrendering? *Thoroughly explain your thoughts
  • Attendance-While Class is Doing Bell Work
  • Writing Activity-Should we have dropped the atomic bomb?
  • Daily Objective-
  • Content Objective:
    • SWD evaluation of the justifiable reason and criticisms behind the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb by explaining why they feel it was the right or wrong decision to drop the bomb in an argumentative essay guided by a set of Cornell notes
  • Language Objective:
    • Students will read and state their opinion on the justifiable reason in addition to the criticisms behind the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb by creating a set of structured Cornell notes and using that to help them write an argumentative essay defending one of the two positions

 

Supplemental Materials: Writing Activity-Should we have dropped the atomic bomb?

Should we have dropped the atomic bomb-Writing prompt

 

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Government

Tuesday-3/06/18:

  • Bell Work-1.) Can you name the main focus of this of the map shown above? 2.) Based on this map, what is one way the Compromise of 1850 dealt with the issue of the expansion of slavery into the territory gained from the Mexican Cession? 3.) What might have happened if California had been admitted as a slave state in 1850 instead of a free state?  
  • Attendance-While Class is Doing Bell Work
  • Video-Schoolhouse Rock: America – I’m Just a Bill Music Video (3:21 min)
  • Presentation-Chapter 3-Section 3-Change by Other Means (Informal Amendments)
  • Activity-Change by Other Means (Methods of Change)
  • Daily Objective-
  • Content Objective:
    • SWD synthesis of the process in which laws are in traduced and changes can be made to legislative policy without having to formally amend the Constitution of the United States by interacting in a short presentation and creating a set of student centered guided notes
  • Language Objective:
    • Student will read and record information pertaining to the process in which laws are in traduced and changes can be made to legislative policy without having to formally amend the Constitution of the United States through listening to a short lecture and creating student centered guided notes

 

Supplemental Materials: Presentation-Chapter 3-Section 3-Change by Other Means (Informal Amendments) and Activity-Change by Other Means (Methods of Change)

Presentation-Chapter 3-Section 3-Change by Other Means (Informal Amendments)

Chapter 3 Section 3- Constitutional Change by Other Means-2018

 

Activity-Change by Other Means (Methods of Change)

Change By Informal Means-Chapter 3-Section 3-Activity