June 2011

Congratulations students! You did it!  You finished middle school!  Thank you for a wonderful year!  As you look forward to high school be sure to store your Interactive Student Notebook in a safe place!  This is a valuable resource for social studies knowledge, reading and note-taking skills, and organization.  You did a great job at the end of the year using class time, planners, your peer network, and after school study time to organize and complete assignments in your Interactive Student Notebook.  Just in case you have all the papers but need to still paste pages in for safe storage, here is the general order of information:

• Alien and Sedition Acts vocabulary and notes
• Immigration Today T1Writing
• Federalists/Democratic-Republicans T-Chart
• Map of USA physical features (that you labeled from memory & checked)
• Land Claims in North America in 1796 map questions
• Historical Fiction:  Too Soon A Woman by Dorothy M. Johnson ( from ELA textbook) Double Journal Entry
• Too Soon A Woman vocabulary
• Gone West Video Learning Quiz
• Lewis and Clark Geography Challenge
• USA Expansion Map with Territorial Acquisitions Matrix
• Regions of the North and South T-Chart Notes:  Geography, Economy, Transportation, Society (as the nation moves west it continues to divide North and South;)
• Life in the West notes -legacies of various groups
• Contributions of Mexicanos notes
• The Slave System Map questions/answers and slavery mini-lecture notes - including North & South political, economic, and geographic conflict over the system
• USA Expansion Geography Challenge handout
• Comparing Past and Present:  The 1800s to Today
• Missouri Compromise Map questions/answers
• The Compromise of 1850 & The Kansas-Nebraska Act Map questions/answers
• Preview of Ch. 22 The Civil War - picture/caption/map list of facts
• Discovery Education Video Notes:  The American Civil War
• Preview of Ch. 23 Reconstruction - picture/caption/map list of facts
• Discovery Education Video:  The American Civil War:  Reconstruction
• The Rebel/Confederate Flag Today T1Writing

Don't forget to READ this summer.  I, of course, recommend historical fiction.  Click on the READ Historical Fiction tab above to see award-winning novels.  Have a great summer!