American History Topic 8 Lesson 4 The Course of War

Essential Question:  When is war justified?

Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 512, 513-519
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 513
• Journal Taken Notes 201
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 202
• Lesson Check page 519
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

•  Ken Burns Civil War

World Geography Topic 11 Lesson 3 Origins and Beliefs of Buddhism

Essential Question:  What Should Governments do? 

Engage:

• Video: 

Explore:

• Read pages 563-567
• Define and Draw Vocabulary page 563
• Journal Taken Notes 292
• Lesson Summary 
• Lesson Summary Spanish

Evaluate:

• Journal Practice Vocabulary page 293
• Lesson Check page 567
• Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

•  Life, The Universe, and the Buddha: Crash Course Religion #6

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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