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World Geography Topic 11 Lesson 1 Early Civilizations of South America

 Essential Question:  What Should Governments do?

Engage:

• Video: Geography Now Afghanistan

Explore:

• Read pages 542-547, 549-556
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 549
• Journal Map Skills p. 279
• Journal Taken Notes 288
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 289
• Lesson Check page 556
• Lesson Quiz 

Ken Burns The Civil War

 EQ: How did sectionalism help lead to civil war?

 Engage:

•  Vocabulary

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin
3. Bleeding Kansas
4. Dred Scott

Explore:

•  Ken Burns: The Civil War (Prime Video) 

Explain:

1. During the mid-19th century, southerners and northerners both had fears around slavery. What did many southerners fear? What did many northerners fear?
2. What threatened to upset the “delicate equilibrium of power”?
3. In the course of three months how many men died in Bleeding Kansas? How long did the events around Bleeding Kansas continue?
4. In 1857 the Supreme Court refused to free an enslaved person. What was his name? What was the reasoning?
5. At the end of the video, President Abraham Lincoln called the nation “A House Divided.” What did he mean by this?

Evaluate:

• Episode 1 Worksheet

Extend: 

• PBS Ken Burns in the Classroom The Civil War site

 

American History Topic 8 Lesson 3 Division and the Outbreak of War

  Essential Question:  When is war justified?

 Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 500, 501-511
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 501
• Journal Taken Notes 199
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 200
• Lesson Check page 511
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

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World Geography Topic 10 Review

  Page 538 Review and Assessment

Page 539

• Vocabulary and Key Ideas 1-7
• Critical Thinking 8-12
• Analyze Primary Sources 14
• Analyze Maps 15-17

American History Chapter 8 Lesson 2 Growing Tensions

 Essential Question:  When is war justified? 

Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 488, 489-499
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 489
• Journal Taken Notes 196
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 197
• Lesson Check page 489
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

•  Small House of Uncle Thomas Ballet from The King and I

World Geography Topic 10 Lesson 4 Conflicts in Southwest Asia

Essential Question: How should we handle conflict?

Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 531-537
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 531
• Journal Take Notes page 27
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 274
• Lesson Check page 537
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

•  Geography Now Syria

American History Topic 8 Lesson 1 Conflicts and Compromises

 Essential Question:  When is war justified? 

Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 474-474, 479-487
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 479
• Map Skills 185
• Journal Taken Notes 194
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 195
• Lesson Check page 487
• Lesson Quiz 

 

World Geography Topic 10 Lesson 3 Governments in Southwest Asia

Essential Question: How should we handle conflict?

Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 523, 524-530
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 524
• Journal Take Notes page 27
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 272
• Lesson Check page 530
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

•  Rick Steves Central Turkey 

American History Topic 7 Review

 Page 472 Review and Assessment

Page 473

• Vocabulary and Key Ideas 1-7
• Critical Thinking 8-12
• Analyze Primary Sources 14
• Analyze Maps 15-16

World Geography Topic 10 Lesson 2 Where People Live and Work in Southwest Asia

Essential Question: How should we handle conflict?

Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 514, 515-522
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 515
• Journal Take Notes page 268
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 269
• Lesson Check page 522
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

• Rick Steves  Iran Yesterday and Today (55:44) 

American History Topic 7 Lesson 6 Arts and Literature

 Essential Question:  Why is culture important?

 Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 465-471
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 465
• Journal Taken Notes 180
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 181
• Lesson Check page 471
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

• The Hudson River School Art Movement
• Transcendentalism Explained: Emerson and Thoreau and the Themes of the Transcendentalist Movement

World Geography Topic 10 Lesson 1 Cultural Diversity in Southwest Asia

Essential Question: How should we handle conflict?

 Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 498-505, 507-513
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 507
• Journal Take Notes page 266
• Map Skill Journal page 257
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 267
• Lesson Check page 513
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

• Rick Steves The Holy Land (56:46)

American History Topic 7 Lesson 5 Reform and Women's Rights

 Essential Question:  Why is culture important?

Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 450, 451, 452-463
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 452
• Journal Taken Notes 177
• Journal Quick Activity Abolitionists Speak Out page 17
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 177
• Lesson Check page 463
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

•  Crash Course History 19th Century Reforms

American History Topic 7 Lesson 4 Abolitionism

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

Essential Question:  Why is culture important?

 Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 443-449
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 443
• Journal Taken Note 174
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 175
• Lesson Check page 449
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend: 

• Crash Course History The Underground Railroad

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

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 

 

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

 EQ: 

• 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

1. How has this documentary made you think differently
   about the civil rights era?
2. In what ways does this program affect your views of history and the
   ways it should be told?
3. 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?
4. Some of the interviewees implied that during the civil rights era “there were two Americas.”
   Do you think this is an accurate description?
5. How do the interviewees in this film describe their experiences as students during integration?
6. How does the social climate of your school compare/contrast to that of public schools during
   integration?
7. How does the theme of forgiveness appear in the stories?
8. In what tangible ways can you see the impact of the civil rights era in your community?
9. 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?
10. Why are some “voices” readily heard in the historical record while others are not? In what ways
    can historians seek out unheard voices?
11. 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

World Geography Topic 8 Lesson 7 Challenges Facing Africa

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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 

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