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Operation SMILE (6th grade only)

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Welcome and introduction

HW: Get Course

Outline Signed

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Review Course Procedures

Why Vote?

Voter Knowledge Survey

Voter Registration and Nominations

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Campaigning

Election Day: Student Council Election

Election Returns

Newspaper Article: Reporting on the election

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september 2007

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-5 Themes Worksheet

-Group Work: Illustrating 5 Themes

-Review 5 Themes

-Quiz: Write a paragraph comparing place and location

-Discuss Key Terms and Current Events

HW:

-Key Terms due Thursday

-Current Event Due Friday

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-Review Key Terms

-Cause and effect: Movement of People

-Relating to and applying the 5 Themes

-Sketch a map of the world based on what you remember

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-Discuss maps and mapmaking

-Google Earth and satellite maps

-Review Latitude and Longitude

-Latitude and Longitude activity (group work)

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-Review lat. and long. activity

-Examine "interaction" through current events

-Present and discuss current events

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- PowerPoint: Physical regions of the US

- Group Work: Climates of the US

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-Key Terms due Wednesday

-Current Event Due Friday

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- Remembering 9/11

- Read Articles about 9/11 and its importance

-Continue Climates

- Population, regions, and climate worksheet

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-Review Key Terms

- Review population, regions, and climate worksheet

- Classwork: p. 14-15; p. 17 questions 3 and 6

- Discuss rivers and lakes of the US

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Open House - 7:00 pm

-Discuss "The Tools of History"

- Look at examples of Primary and Secondary sources and bias (worksheet)

- Read about why we study history (Hakim book)

- Review TEST TORROW

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School Dance - 7:00 pm

-Review Chapter 1 (Sections 1-3)

- Test - Geography

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1. Constitution Day / Reading Activity
2. Discuss: The First Americans
3. Video and Questions: Kennewick Man
4. HW:    Key Terms due Wednesday

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1. Discuss: Culture and Religion of the Native Americans
2. Guided Reading Practice: Chapter 2 Section 2
3. Introduce Research Assignment
4. Key terms due tomorrow!

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1. Review Key Terms
2. Discuss research, sources, and using the internet for research
3. move to 204 Computer Lab

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1. Discuss and review writing expectations.
2. Move to 204 Computer Lab
3. Continue work on research
4. Current Event due tomorrow!

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Student Pictures

1. Conclude research in 204 if needed
2. Present research results for extra credit

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1. Introduce major civilizations
2. Guided Reading: Olmecs, Mayas, Aztecs, Incas
3. Review Guided Reading
4. PowerPoint: Achievements of major civilizations
5. HW:    Key Terms due Wednesday AND Current Event Due Friday

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1. Read in Hakim: “Let’s Turn North”
2. Discuss European society and exploration
3. Compare European society with those you have studied in the Americas.  Which societies were more advanced?  Explain.
4. Key Terms due Tomorrow!

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1. Discuss: Columbus’ voyage
   1. Why?
   2. Where was he going?
   3. How did he get there?
   4. Where did he think he was?
2. The Diary of Christopher Columbus
3. Discuss the reading and review the questions
4. Review Key Terms

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1. Read pp. 69-72 and Create a Cause and Effect Chart of Columbus’ Voyage
2. Review Chart and Discuss Columbian Exchange (show pictures, discuss long term impacts of items)
3. Reflect: Should we celebrate Columbus Day?

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Interim Reports Issued

- Quest: America and Europe to 1492

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Warm-up: If you met someone with a very different background than your own, how would you react?  What would you want to know about them?

-Read The First Americans” p. 103-108

Conquistador Skit

-HW: Key Terms due Wednesday

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-African states and cultures

-Spain and the African slave trade

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-The Protestant Reformation

-Exploration and European rivalries

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-New France vs. New Netherland

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Quiz: Europe Settles the New World

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-The rise of England and the Lost colony of Roanoke

-Key Terms

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Solving the mystery of Roanoke

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Quiz: Columbus and Colonization

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-Settling Jamestown: The Jamestown Adventure

-Key Terms

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-The Starving time

-House of Burgesses

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-Religious Persecution

-Landing at Plymouth

-Mayflower Compact

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-Life at Plymouth

-Quiz: Compare Plymouth and Jamestown 

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-Founding the New England Colonies

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-Pilgrims vs. Puritans

-Puritan life and culture

--Key Terms

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-Salem mini-project: Media Center

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-Work on mini-project

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- Present Projects

- Movie Clip: The Crucible (or other film)

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- Present Current Events

- More of The Crucible (or other film)

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Student Success Planning - Computer Lab

-Key Terms

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-Review of New England Colonies (modern witch hunts)

-Formation of Middle Colonies

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-Formation of the Southern Colonies

-Life in the Southern Colonies

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-Review: 13 Colonies

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-Mercantilism

-Triangular Trade

- Key Terms

Honors Essay:

What is courage?  Why is courage a difficult trait to have in politics?

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-Continue Triangular Trade

-Discuss modern trade

-Colonial Government

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-Colonial Society

-Great Awakening

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Report Cards Issued

-Test: 13 Colonies

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- Great Awakening

-Enlightenment in the colonies

-Key Terms (week 11)

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-European Rivalry in North America

-War between the French and English

-Native Americans choose sides

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-The Fall of new France

-British North America

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-Quiz: French and Indian War

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-Scrapbook - French and Indian War

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-Scrapbook - French and Indian War

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-Outcomes of the French and Indian War

-The new shape of North America

-Pontiac's War and the Proclamation of 1763

-Key Terms (week 12)

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-Discuss: Need for Taxes

-Timeline: Events Leading to the Revolution

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-Review Timeline

-Taxation Activity: Current Affairs

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-Continue Taxation Discussion

-Create a poster, pamphlet, or speech supporting or opposing a tax increase

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-Present points of view on tax increase

-Relate back to Revolutionary time period / review what we have done so far

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-Boston Massacre

-Boston Massacre Activity - Comparing Viewpoints

-Key Terms (week 13)

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-Tea Act

-Boston Tea Party

-Intolerable Acts

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-First Continental Congress

-Minutemen /militia

-Current Affairs Activity - minutemen today

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-Paul Revere Activity

-Lexington and Concord

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-Olive Branch petition

-Unit Assessment

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-Early fighting

-Second Continental Congress

-Common Sense

-Declaration of Independence

-Key Terms (week 14)

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-Declaration of Independence

-Impact

-Slavery?

-Importance today

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-Defeats and Hardships

-Valley Forge

-The Crossing: Turning Point in the War

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-Washington's leadership

-The War moves South

-Map out major battles (including dates)

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-Women and African Americans in the War

-Assessment

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-Yorktown: French assistance and defeat of Cornwallis

-Video clip: The Patriot?

-Key Terms

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-Treaty of Paris

-Review: Revolutionary War

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- Test: Revolutionary War

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-Video: The Crossing

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Geography Bee Class Competition

Articles of Confederation

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Correcting the Articles: Const. Convention

--Key Terms

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Compromises: -Large vs. Small

-Slavery (North vs. South)

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-Ratifying the Constitution

- Federalist Papers

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-Federalist vs. Anti-federalists - Federalist Papers

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- Quiz: Articles vs. Const., ratification, Federalist Papers

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-Federalism and the Bill of Rights

-Key Terms

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- Bill of rights - majority rule vs. minority rights

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Bill of Rights - property rights

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Bill of Rights - individual rights

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Quiz: Bill of Rights, Federalism, rights of citizens

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-Three Branches of Government

--Key Terms (due Friday)

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-Three branches - checks and balances

-Protection of Rights

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- Amending the Constitution

-Review Bill of Rights

-Other major amendments

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- Current Events and government?

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-Review 3 Branches

-Federalism / State and Local Governments

-Key Terms

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-Finish State and Local Governments

-Begin Citizenship

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-Finish Citizenship

-Begin Review

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-Review: Government

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-Test: Government

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-Review Checks and Balances

-Washington as President

-Key Terms

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-Washington's Presidency

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-Washington's Foreign Policy

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-First Political Parties

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-Adams/Alien and Sedition Acts

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-Jefferson and the Democrats

-Key Terms

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-Louisiana Purchase

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-Louisiana Purchase / Lewis and Clark

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- Debate: Was Louisiana Purchase legal?

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-Quiz: Louisiana Purchase

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- Embargo Act

-Madison Takes office

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-War of 1812: Causes

-Key Terms

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-War of 1812: Battles and Results

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-Industrialization and Westward Expansion

-Key Terms

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-American system and westward expansion

-US Gains Florida

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-Monroe Doctrine: American hegemony

- JQA vs. Andrew Jackson

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-Jackson and Expansion: Trail of Tears

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- Continue Jackson and expansion

-Jacksonian Democracy

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-Debating Jackson: $20 Bill

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-Jackson Project

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-Oregon Country

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-Oregon Country

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-Republic of Texas

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-The Alamo (Movie)

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-The Alamo (movie)

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-Mexican War

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-Mexican War

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-Review Mexican War

-Key Terms

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-Manifest Destiny

-California Gold Rush

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-The Rush West

-Review Expansion

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-Key Terms

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1 Life in the North: Immigration

2 Cotton and the South

3 Life in the South

4 Slavery and slave life

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Mrs. McKain's B-Day

8 The Fight against Slavery

9 -Seneca Falls and Women's Rights

10 -Other Reform movements

-Review

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-Missouri Compromise

15 Slavery and the west

-Compromise of 1850

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- Kansas-Nebraska Act

-Bleeding Kansas

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-Republican Party Forms

-Election of 1860

-Secession and Ft. Sumter

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-Leaders

-Battles

23 Emancipation Proclamation

- 54th Mass.

24 The War Comes to an end

-Battles

-Gettysburg Address

-Leaders

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-Welcome to economics - Microeconomics

-Introducing demand

-changes in demand

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-Introducing supply

-changes in supply

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-Price - where supply equals demand

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-Predicting shifts; subsidies, substitute and complementary goods

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-Review supply and demand

-Quiz: Supply and demand (Standard 1)

-Introduction to Macroeconomics

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-Connection: Supply of money and inflation

-Federal Reserve

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- Banks - interest rate connection

-Borrowers and lenders

-Economic growth

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-Fiscal vs. monetary policy; taxes and taxation

-Government services

-Circular flow model

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-Quiz: Macroeconomics (Standard 2)

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-Review: Why do we trade?

-Specialization

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- Costs and benefits of trade

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- Dealing with the costs: government trade policies

-Who wins?

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- Free trade vs. fair trade

- Protectionism in history - change over time

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-Quiz: Trade and trade policy

-Begin Economics 3

-Discuss culture and economics

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- Culture and economics

- Connecting economics with social studies

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--Final DSTP Review!!

DSTP - Science

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