Thursday, April 16, 2026

American History Topic 8 Lesson 6 The War's End

Essential Question:  When is war justified?

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary page 207
  • Lesson Check page 543
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

  • Ken Burns Civil War 

 

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

World Geography Topic 11 Lesson 6 South Asia at Work

Essential Question:  What Should Governments do?

 Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary page 300
  • Lesson Check page 585
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:



World Geography Topic 11 Lesson 5 Living in South Asia

Essential Question:  What Should Governments do?

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary page 298
  • Lesson Check page 578
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:



Friday, April 10, 2026

American History Topic 8 Lesson 5 Emancipation and Life in Wartime

  Essential Question:  When is war justified?

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary page 204
  • Lesson Check page 530
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

  •  Ken Burns Civil War

 

Thursday, April 09, 2026

World Geography Topic 11 Lesson 4 Later History of South Asia

 Essential Question:  What Should Governments do?

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary page 295
  • Lesson Check page 574
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:


Wednesday, April 08, 2026

World Geography Topic 11 Lesson 2 Origins and Beliefs of Hinduism

Essential Question:  What Should Governments do? 

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary page 291
  • Lesson Check page 562
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

  • Buddha and Ashoka: Crash Course World History #6

Tuesday, April 07, 2026

American History Topic 8 Lesson 4 The Course of War

Essential Question:  When is war justified?

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:

  •  Ken Burns Civil War

Monday, April 06, 2026

World Geography Topic 11 Lesson 3 Origins and Beliefs of Buddhism

Essential Question:  What Should Governments do? 

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:

Wednesday, April 01, 2026

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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:

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:

Extend: 

 

Thursday, March 26, 2026

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

  Essential Question:  When is war justified?

 Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:

  •  

 

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

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

American History Chapter 8 Lesson 2 Growing Tensions

 Essential Question:  When is war justified? 

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:

World Geography Topic 10 Lesson 4 Conflicts in Southwest Asia

Essential Question: How should we handle conflict?

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:

Monday, March 23, 2026

American History Topic 8 Lesson 1 Conflicts and Compromises

 Essential Question:  When is war justified? 

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

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:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:

Thursday, March 12, 2026

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

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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

Essential Question: How should we handle conflict?

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:

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

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

American History Topic 7 Lesson 6 Arts and Literature

 Essential Question:  Why is culture important?

 Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:


Monday, March 09, 2026

World Geography Topic 10 Lesson 1 Cultural Diversity in Southwest Asia

Essential Question: How should we handle conflict?

 Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:

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

 Essential Question:  Why is culture important?

Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

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

Extend:

Wednesday, March 04, 2026

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:

Evaluate:

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

Extend: 

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:

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)

 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

Thursday, February 26, 2026

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:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary page 224
  • Lesson Check page 435
  • Lesson Quiz 

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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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



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)

EQ:
  • To what extent did Jefferson's actions as President reflect his principles?
Explore:
  • What did Lord Dunmore's Proclamation do?
  • Why were there runaway slaves around Yorktown during the battle?Evaluate:
  • Class Discussion Questions 
Vocabulary:
  1. abolitionist
  2. bonds
  3. chattel
  4. conductor
  5. Emancipation
  6. flogging
  7. fugitive
  8. inhumane
  9. manumission
  10. maroon
  11. revolt
  12. station master
  13. slave
  14. slave patrol
  15. station
  16. Underground Railroad

World Geography Topic 8 Lesson 3 Later African Civilizations


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

Engage:

  • Read pages 405, 406-411
  • Define and Draw Vocabulary page 406
  • Note Taking Activity- Outline
  • Journal Take Notes page 214

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary page 215
  • Lesson Check page 411
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:


Wednesday, February 11, 2026

World Geography Topic 8 Lesson 2 Ancient Egypt and Kush

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

Engage:

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary page 213
  • Lesson Check page 404
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

  •  

World Geography Lesson 1 Topic 8 Human Origins

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

 Engage:

  • Video: 

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Map Skills page 211
  • Practice Vocabulary page 187
  • Lesson Check page 396
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

  •  

 

American History Topic 6 Review

 Page 402 Visual Review with students

Page 403

  • Vocabulary and Key Ideas 1-7
  • Critical Thinking 8-11
  • Analyze Primary Sources 13
  • Analyze Maps 14-16

Friday, February 06, 2026

American History Topic 6 Lesson 7 Manifest Destiny in California and the Southwest

 

Essential Question: Why do people move?

Engage:

Explore:

  • Read pages 392-401
  • Define and Draw Vocabulary page 392
  • Take Notes Journal page 153 

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary p. 154
  • Lesson Check page 401
  • Lesson Quiz  

Thursday, February 05, 2026

World Geography Topic 7 Review

 Page 382 Visual Review with students

Page 383

  • Vocabulary and Key Ideas 1-7
  • Critical Thinking 8-11
  • Analyze Primary Sources 13
  • Analyze Maps 14-16

Tuesday, February 03, 2026

World Geography Topic 7 Lesson 5 Challenges Facing Northern Eurasia


Essential Question: What role should people have in their government?

Engage:

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary p. 197
  • Lesson Check page 380
  • Lesson Quiz 

 

Monday, February 02, 2026

American History Topic 7 Lesson 6 New Spain and Independence for Texas

Essential Question: Why do people move?

Engage:

Explore:

  • Read pages 383-391
  • Define and Draw Vocabulary page 383
  • Note Taking Activity

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary p. 152
  • Lesson Check page 391
  • Lesson Quiz 

 

World Geography Topic 7 Lesson 4 Northern Eurasia at Work

                              

Essential Question: What role should people have in their government?

Engage:

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary p. 194
  • Lesson Check page 375
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend: 

 

Friday, January 30, 2026

Snow Day AMI Day 4

Look for day 4 AMI assignments in your worksheets. If you can’t find them, head on over to Google Classroom and find them on Mrs. Rachel’s class. Remember, the AMI assignments are due when you return. Stay safe and warm!

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Snow AMI Day 3

Look for day 3 AMI assignments in your worksheets. If you can’t find them, head on over to Google Classroom and find them on Mrs. Rachel’s class. Remember, the AMI assignments are due when you return. Stay safe and warm!

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Snow AMI Day 2

Look for day 2 AMI assignments in your worksheets. If you can’t find them, head on over to Google Classroom and find them on Mrs. Rachel’s class. Remember, the AMI assignments are due when you return. Stay safe and warm!

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Snow Day AMI 1



If you don’t have the work we sent home with you check Google Classroom. Remember, work must be completed and turned in when you come back. We expect you to do the assignments at home during your AMI days!

Thursday, January 22, 2026

American History Topic 7 Oregon Trail Game

  

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

 Game Day:

World Geography Topic 7 Lesson 3 Living in Northern Eurasia

Essential Question: What role should people have in their government?

Engage:

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary p. 192
  • Lesson Check page 370
  • Lesson Quiz 

 

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

World Geography Topic 7 Lesson 2 The Soviet Union and Its Breakup


 Essential Question: What role should people have in their government?

 Engage:

  • Video:

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary p. 189
  • Lesson Check page 365
  • Lesson Quiz 

 

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

American History Topic 6 Lesson 5 Settling Oregon Country

 Essential Question: Why do people move?

 Engage:

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary p. 150
  • Lesson Check page 381
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

  •  

 

World Geography Topic 7 Lesson 1 Russia Emerges

Essential Question: What role should people have in their government?

 Engage:

  • Video:

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary p. 187
  • Lesson Check page 359
  • Lesson Quiz 

Extend:

  •  

 

Friday, January 16, 2026

American History Topic 6 The Lowell Girls

  

 

EQ:
  • Why do people move?
Explore:Explain:
  • Who were the Lowell Girls?
  • How did the plans for the mill come to America?
  • What obstacles did the mill owners find over time?

Thursday, January 15, 2026

American History Topic 7 Lesson 4 Westward Movement

  

Essential Question: Why do people move?

Engage:

  • Video: 200 Years on the Eerie Canal

Explore:

Evaluate:

  • Journal Practice Vocabulary p. 148
  • Lesson Check page 374
  • Lesson Quiz  

    Wednesday, January 14, 2026

    World Geography Topic 6 Review

     Page 344 Visual Review with students

    Page 345

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