Wednesday, March 30, 2022

McDonald County School Board Candidates

These are the candidates running for McDonald County School Board. The election will take place next Tuesday, April 6. We will watch these videos and on Tuesday we will have a mock election where you will vote for two candidates. Tuesday night we will find out if your candidates are successful.





Thursday, March 24, 2022

Westward Expansion

 EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 Engage:

  1. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  2. Manifest Destiny
  3. forty-niners
  4. prospect
  5. empresario
  6. merchant,
  7. Gadsden Purchase
  8. abolition
  9. subsistence farming
  10. Santa Fe Trail
  11. California Gold Rush
  12. Oregon Territory
  13. Mormons
  14. Oregon Trail
  15. Donner Party

Explore:

Explain:

  • What was Manifest Destiny?
  • How did the US acquire the Oregon Territory?
  • How did the US acquire Texas?
  • What were the causes of the Mexican-American War?
  • How did the US gain control of the Southwest?
  • Who were some of the famous explorers of the western US?

Evaluate:

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

People and Culture of Central Asia Day 1

 



EQ: How have political and religious changes influenced the cultures of Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  •  How did Russia's diverse population develop?
  • How did the Soviet Union impact life in Russia?
  • What influences shape modern Asia?

Evaluate:

Worksheet

Vocabulary: 

  1. architecture
  2. Tatars
  3. Slavic peoples
  4. mosque
  5. colonization
  6. Rus
  7. Mongols
  8. Arab Empire
  9. caravan
  10. steppe
  11. glasnost
  12. capitalism
  13. assembly
  14. autocracy
  15. authoritarian

Russian Empire

                             

EQ: Why did the Russian Empire Fail?

Engage:

  •  Review last lesson

Explore:

  •  Engineering an Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire (44:52) HistoryVault

Explain:

  • What was the nickname of Ivan III?
  • When was Moscow founded?
  • What empire did Russia borrow religion and architecture from?
  • Who ruled over the Russians for three centuries until they were defeated by Ivan III?

Evaluate:

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Challenges of Expansion

 

EQ: Did the benefits of expansion outweigh the costs?

Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  • How did the Northwest Ordinance aid the expansion of the United States?
  • Which Northern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
  • Which Southern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
  • How did Native Americans react to the early expansion?
  • What was the American System?
  • How did transportation improve?
  • What economic measures supported the American System?

Evaluate:

  1. Land Ordinance of 1785
  2.  Northwest Ordinance of 1787 
  3. Erie Canal
  4. market revolution
  5.  Gibbons v. Ogden
  6. National Road
  7. Adams-OnĂ­s Treaty  
  8. pioneer 
  9. McCulloch v. Maryland
  10. Tariff of 1816 
  11. meridian 
  12. Treaty of Ghent

Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Geography of Russia

  

EQ:

  • How does geography effect life in Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  • What are the major physical features of Russia and Central Asia?
  • What countries make up Russia and Central Asia?
  • What is the climate like in Russia and Central Asia?
  • What is the natural vegetation like in Russia and Central Asia?

Evaluate:

Tuesday, March 08, 2022

European Union

  



EQ:

  •  What is the European Union?

Engage:

Explore:

Explain

  1. taxes
  2. debt
  3. federation
  4. feudalism
  5. imperialism
  6. supply and demand
  7. command economy
  8. parliament
  9. constitutional monarchy
  10. free trade
  11. commerce
  12. division of labor

 

Evaluate:

  • Vocabulary
  • EU Timeline

Thursday, March 03, 2022

Rick Steves Eastern Europe

 





EQ: What are some of the countries in Eastern Europe?

Explore:

  • Rick Steves Poland, Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria

Explain:

  • What are some of the cities RS visits in Eastern Europe
  • What important sites does RS visit?

Evaluate:

  • Rick Steves' Worksheet

Age of Jefferson Day 6

 

EQ: How did the United States deal with the Barbary Pirates during Jefferson's Presidency?

Explore:

Explain:

  • Who are the Barbary Pirates
  • What problems did they cause to the US?
  • How did Jefferson deal with them?

Evaluate: 

  • Class Discussion