Friday, December 19, 2008
Utah Studies--Friday, December 19, 2008
Today in class students finished their Native American culture change posters. Period 2 also presented theirs. DUE MONDAY, JANUARY 5: Nothing, except the final 15 points of learning centers are due Wednesday, January 7.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Utah Studies--Thursday, December 18, 2008
Today in all classes students continued working on their posters. DUE TOMORROW: Classes will need to finish their posters.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Utah Studies--December 17, 2008
Today in all classes, students continued working on their Native American posters. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Utah Studies--Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Today there was no social studies lesson because students watched Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" in accordance with their language arts curriculum. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Utah Studies--Monday, December 15, 2008
Today in Period 1, 3-7 students finished comparing Chief Walker to Brigham Young. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but MANY of you have not turned in learning centers still! Please turn those in soon.
Today in Period 2 students worked on creating their posters that would show what happened to the Native Americans of Utah once settlers began to move in. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but MANY of you have not turned in learning centers still! Please turn those in soon.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Utah Studies--Friday, December 12, 2008
Today in Period 1, 3-7 students worked on creating a story showing the difference in thinking between Chief Walker, leader of the Utes, and Brigham Young, leader of the Mormons. DUE MONDAY: Nothing, but turn in late learning centers if you have them!
Today in Period 2 students took a short quiz on the settlement of Utah. Then they began to read Chapter 7 about conflict between the Native Americans and the settlers. DUE MONDAY: Nothing, but turn in late learning centers if you have them!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Utah Studies--Thursday, December 11, 2008
Today in Period 1, 3-7 students compared the point-of-view of Chief Walker of the Utes to the point-of-view of Brigham Young. These two leaders sometimes cooperated, sometimes clashed. DUE TOMORROW: Learning center points!
Today in Period 2 students began learning about how Native American culture changed once settlers arrived to Utah. DUE TOMORROW: Learning center points!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Utah Studies--Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Today in Period 1 students continued working on their Native American culture change posters. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but 10 points in learning centers are due on Friday!
Today in Period 2 students finished up their notes on the settlement of Utah. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but 10 points in learning centers are due on Friday!
Today in Period 3-7 students began working on their Native American culture change posters. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but 20 points in learning centers are due on Friday!
For the Stretch I hosted today, we had a fantastic speaker, Mike Rose, who has dedicated much of his life to researching the lost stories of Pearl Harbor. He has a particularly personal interest in this event since he was a 3 year old boy living in Hawaii in that time.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Utah Studies--Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Today in Period 1 students began working on the creation of their group's poster that will examine how Utah's Native American culture's were affected by the arrival of the settlers. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but 10 more points in learning centers are due Friday!
Today in Period 2 students continued to examine the patterns of early settlement of Utah and how this affected the early economy. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but 10 more points in learning centers are due Friday!
Today in Period 3-7 students continued researching how the arrival of settlers impacted Native American culture. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but 10 more points in learning centers are due Friday!
Monday, December 8, 2008
Utah Studies--Monday, December 8, 2008
Today in Period 1 students were given some time to work on learning centers. This is because they have 10 points due in learning centers by this Friday. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but get going on learning centers! Turn them in as soon as you finish them.
Today in Period 2 students continued learning about the early Utah settler economy. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but 10 points in learning centers are due Friday! Turn them in as soon as you can.
Today in Periods 3-7 students continued working on research for their Native American culture change posters. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but 20 points in learning centers are due Friday! Turn them in as soon as you can.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Utah Studies--Friday, December 5, 2008
Today in Period 1 students took a quiz about Native American and settler conflicts. Then they finished answering questions from Chapter 7. DUE MONDAY: Nothing, but 10 points in learning centers are due Friday, December 12.
Today in Period 2 students took a quiz about the LDS pioneers coming to Utah. Then they read about the Willie and Martin handcart disaster of 1856. DUE MONDAY: Nothing, but 10 points in learning centers are due Friday, December 12.
Today in Period 3-7 students took a quiz about Native American and settler conflicts. Then they began doing research from various historical sources about this subject. DUE MONDAY: Nothing, but 20 points in learning centers are due Friday, December 12.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Utah Studies--Thursday, December 4, 2008
Today in Period 1 students reviewed for the Rise and Stretch quiz tomorrow. They also worked on reading Chapter 7 about Native American and settlers. DUE TOMORROW: Be ready to take the quiz!
Today in Period 2 students began learning about the settling of Utah and how the early LDS pioneers tried to be more self-sufficient. They also reviewed for the Rise and Stretch quiz tomorrow. DUE TOMORROW: Be ready to take the quiz!
Today in Period 3-7 students reviewed for the Rise and Stretch quiz tomorrow. They also played a game that reviewed with them the importance of using an index when doing research out of books. DUE TOMORROW: Be ready to take the quiz!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Utah Studies--Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Today in Period 1 students were assigned a section of Chapter 7 to read and then discuss with their groups. That will continue tomorrow. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing.
Today in Period 2 students read some primary source documents that explained why Americans were drawn to the Western territories despite having to travel long distance by wagon. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing.
Today in Period 3-7 students finished reading Chapter 7 with their groups. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Utah Studies--Tuesday, December 2, 2008
I apologize for not posting yesterday, so today I will give a brief rundown of the last 2 days.
For Period 1 we had no class yesterday due to the assembly. Today students began learning about how Native American culture began to change due to the arrival of settlers. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but some students have yet to turn in the final draft of the essay. They will be marked in Skyward with a 0 if not turned in yet (or an "excu" if they've been absent).
For Period 2 students began learning about what brought the LDS pioneers to Utah in 1847. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing.
For Period 3-7, students continued learning about how Native American culture began to change due to the arrival of settlers. DUE TOMORROW: Nothing, but some students have yet to turn in the final draft of the essay. They will be marked in Skyward with a 0 if not turned in yet (or an "excu" if they've been absent).
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