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Tuesday, March 03, 2026

World Geography Topic 8 Review

Page 436 Review and Assessment

Page 437

Vocabulary and Key Ideas 1-7
Critical Thinking 8-12
Analyze Primary Sources 14
Analyze Maps 15-18

Monday, March 02, 2026

American History Topic 7 Lesson 3 King Cotton and Life in the South

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner

Essential Question: Why is culture important?

Engage:

Video:

Explore:

Read pages 431-442
Define and Draw Vocabulary page 431
Note Taking Activity
Journal Take Notes page 172
Lesson Summary
Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

Journal Practice Vocabulary page 173
Lesson Check page 442
Lesson Quiz

Friday, February 27, 2026

American History Topic 7 Voices of Civil Rights (Black History Month)

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Why is culture important?

Engage: Vocabulary Review

Bigotry
Children’s Crusade of 1963
Complicit
Exonerate
Freedom Rides
Ideology
Infallible
Injunction
Jim Crow

Explore:

Voices of Civil Rights Video (44:20)

Explain: Questions take from: https://images.history.com/images/media/pdf/VoicesofCivilRightsguide.pdf

How has this documentary made you think differently
about the civil rights era?
In what ways does this program affect your views of history and the
ways it should be told?
How do you define civil rights? In light of your answer, what would you say are the beginning
and ending dates of the civil rights era in the United States?
Some of the interviewees implied that during the civil rights era “there were two Americas.”
Do you think this is an accurate description?
How do the interviewees in this film describe their experiences as students during integration?
How does the social climate of your school compare/contrast to that of public schools during
integration?
How does the theme of forgiveness appear in the stories?
In what tangible ways can you see the impact of the civil rights era in your community?
Historians often ensure historical accuracy via fact-checking. How could someone ensure the
stories in this film are accurate? How is fact-checking for oral history similar to the process for
printed documents? How does it differ?
Why are some “voices” readily heard in the historical record while others are not? In what ways
can historians seek out unheard voices?
The stories in this program will be archived at the Library of Congress. What are some steps
and technologies we can use to preserve these stories for future generations?

Evaluate:

Class Discussion of questions

Extend:

Nine from Little Rock video

Thursday, February 26, 2026

World Geography Topic 8 Lesson 7 Challenges Facing Africa

mapping-africas-natural-resources-8fc6407ca5f9

Essential Question: Who should benefit from a country's resources?

Engage:

Video: Geography Now Somalia

Explore:

Read pages 429, 430-435
Define and Draw Vocabulary page 430
Note Taking Activity
Journal Take Notes page 22
Lesson Summary
Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

Journal Practice Vocabulary page 224
Lesson Check page 435
Lesson Quiz

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

World Geography Topic 8 lesson 6 Arica at work

Essential Question: Who should benefit from a country's resources?

Engage:

Video:

Explore:

Read pages 423-428
Define and Draw Vocabulary page 423
Note Taking Activity
Journal Take Notes page 221

Evaluate:

Journal Practice Vocabulary page 222
Lesson Check page 428
Lesson Quiz

Extend:

American History Topic 7 Lesson 2 Industrialization and Immigration

Essential Question: Why is culture important?

Engage:

Video:

Explore:

Read pages 421, 422-430
Define and Draw Vocabulary page 422
Note Taking Activity
Journal Taken Notes 170

Evaluate:

Journal Practice Vocabulary page 171
Lesson Check page 430
Lesson Quiz

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

World Geography Topic 8 Lesson 5 Living in Africa

Essential Question: Who should benefit from a country's resources?

Engage:

Video:

Explore:

Read pages 419-422
Define and Draw Vocabulary page 419
Note Taking Activity
Take Notes page 219

Evaluate:

Journal Practice Vocabulary page 220
Lesson Check page 422
Lesson Quiz

American History Topic 7 Lesson 1 Industrial Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

Essential Question: Why is culture important?

Engage:

Video:

Explore:

Read pages 404-407, 409-420
Define and Draw Vocabulary page 409
Note Taking Activity
Journal Taken Notes 168

Evaluate:

Journal Practice Vocabulary page 169
Lesson Check page 420
Lesson Quiz

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

World Geography Topic 8 Lesson 4 Colonization and Independence in Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade

Essential Question: Who should benefit from a country's resources?

Engage:

Video:

Explore:

Read pages 412-418
Define and Draw Vocabulary page 412
Note Taking Activity
Journal Take Notes page 219

Evaluate:

Journal Practice Vocabulary page 220
Lesson Check page 418
Lesson Quiz

Extend:

Black History Month Lesson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore

By His Excellency the Right Honorable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, His Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of VIRGINIA, and Vice Admiral of the same.

A PROCLAMATION

As I have ever entertained Hopes, that an Accommodation might have taken Place between GREAT-BRITAIN and this Colony, without being compelled by my Duty to this most disagreeable but now absolutely necessary Step, rendered so by a Body of armed Men unlawfully assembled, firing on His MAJESTY'S Tenders, and the formation of an Army, and that Army now on their March to attack his MAJESTY'S Troops and destroy the well disposed subjects of the Colony. To defeat such treasonable Purposes, and that all such Traitors, and their Abettors, may be brought to Justice, and that the Peace, and good Order of this Colony may be again restored, which the ordinary Course of the Civil Law is unable to effect; I have thought fit to issue this my Proclamation, hereby declaring, that until the aforesaid good Purpose can be obtained, I do in Virtue of the Power and Authority to ME given, by His MAJESTY, determine to execute Martial Law, and cause the same to be executed throughout this Colony: and to ****** the Peace and good Order may the sooner be restored, I do require every Person capable of bearing Arms, to resort to His MAJESTY'S STANDARD, or be looked upon as Traitors to His MAJESTY'S Crown and Government, and thereby become liable to the Penalty the Law inflicts upon such Offenses; such as forfeiture of Life, confiscation of Lands, &. &. And I do hereby further declare all indented Servants, Negroes, or others, (appertaining to Rebels,) free that are able and willing to bear Arms, they joining His MAJESTY'S Troops as soon as may be, foe the more speedily reducing this Colony to a proper Sense of their Duty, to His MAJESTY'S Crown and Dignity. I do further order, and require, all His MAJESTY'S Liege Subjects, to retain their Quitrents, or any other Taxes due or that may become due, in their own Custody, till such a Time as Peace may be again restored to this at present most unhappy Country, or demanded of them for their former salutary Purposes, by Officers properly ***** to receive the same.

GIVEN under my Hand on board the Ship WILLIAM by Norfolk, the 7th Day of November in the SIXTEENTH Year of His MAJESTY'S Reign.
DUNMORE

(GOD save the KING.)

During the battle of Yorktown Joseph Plum Martin experienced this:

During the siege, we saw in the woods herds of Negroes which lord Cornwallis, (after he had inveigled them from their proprietors,) in love and pity to them, had turned adrift, with no other recompense for their confidence in his humanity, than the small pox for their bounty and starvation and death for their wages. They might be seen scattered about in every direction, dead and dying, with pieces of ears of burnt Indian corn in the hands and mouths, even of those that were dead. After the siege was ended many of the owners of these deluded creatures, came to our camp and engaged some of our men to take them up, generally offering a guinea a head for them.

(p. 174, Chapter 7 The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plum Martin)

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