Mr. Murray and Ms. Colter's U.S History and Government iBlog

U.S. History

Monday-12/09/19:

• Bell Work-1.) Identify the key character who wrote this press release. 2.) What are some of the problems with President Hoover’s hope for how the American people would respond to the challenges of the Great Depression? 3.) Are you a person who agrees with President Hoover’s position that the best way to combat the economic turmoil of the Great Depression was through “individual generosity…, and mutual self-help” or should it be the government’s responsibility to take care of its own people in times of financial crisis? *Thoroughly explain your position
• Attendance- While Class is Doing Bell Work
• Presentation-Chapter 14-Section 2-Hardship and Suffering During the Depression
• Video-History Brief: The Dust Bowl (4:04 min)
• Reading Activity-Letter’s from a Dust Bowl Survivor

• w/ reflection questions

• Writing Prompt-Letter’s from a Dust Bowl Survivor
• Daily Objective-

• Content Objective:
  • SWD synthesis the how the collapse of the stock market in 1929 led to the economic hardships experienced during the Great Depression and the ways in which American families were forced to fight through these challenges by interacting in a short presentation
  • SWD synthesis of the agricultural and environmental effects the Dust Bowl had on the Midwest and Great Plains region of the United States by composing a letter from a historical perspective
• Language Objective:
  • Students will read and record information pertaining to how the collapse of the stock market in 1929 led to the economic hardships experienced during the Great Depression and the ways in which American families were forced to fight through these challenges through listening to a short lecture
  • Students will read and record a narrative pertaining to the agricultural and environmental effects the Dust Bowl had on the Midwest and Great Plains region of the United States by writing a letter to a loved one as if they were living through the Dust Bowl

 

Supplemental Materials: Presentation-Chapter 14-Section 2-Hardship and Suffering During the Depression, Reading Activity-Letter’s from a Dust Bowl Survivor w/ reflection questions and Writing Prompt-Letter’s from a Dust Bowl Survivor

 

Presentation-Chapter 14-Section 2-Hardship and Suffering During the Depression

 

Reading Activity-Letter’s from a Dust Bowl Survivor w/ reflection questions

 

Writing Prompt-Letter’s from a Dust Bowl Survivor

 

______________________________________________________________________________

Government

Monday-12/09/19:

• Bell Work-1.) Who do you think the characters in the political cartoon are meant to represent? 2.) What is the underlying theme (metaphorical meaning) of the political cartoon? 3.) In your opinion what would happen to our political system if the roles in this political cartoon were reversed?   
• Attendance-While Class is Doing Bell Work
• Presentation-How a Bill Becomes a Law-Streamlined Version-2017
• Video- ‘Regular Order’: Lawmaking The Old-Fashioned Way | Ron’s Office Hours | NPR (2:44 min)
• Activity-Creating a Classroom Law

• Part One: Drafting a Bill

• Daily Objective-

• Content Objective:
  • SWD synthesis of the process in which a bill is drafted and becomes a law by interacting in a collaboratively based classroom activity
• Language Objective:
  • Student will read and record information pertaining to the process of turning a bill into a law through working as a group to craft a piece of legislation that would positively impact the students of Fordson High School

 

Supplemental Materials: Presentation-How a Bill Becomes a Law-Streamlined Version-2017 and Activity-Creating a Classroom Law Part One: Drafting a Bill

 

Presentation-How a Bill Becomes a Law-Streamlined Version-2017

 

Activity-Creating a Classroom Law Part One: Drafting a Bill