May 13

6th Marking Period - Week 2

Monday

Homework

1. Read “Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin” article (pgs. 122-125 in packet)
2. Create Cornell notes in your ISN; record only notes about the effect Eli’s inventions had on slavery and on business
3. These words help summarize the effect: cotton gin, demand, supply, price, slave, interchangeable parts

Warm-Up 

North & South Transportation

I can recognize the regional (north / south) transportation differences of the early 1800s.  Regional differences can sometimes lead to conflict.

1. Open History Alive! textbook to pgs. 259-261
2. Use Read around the Text to learn facts about the regional transportation differences
3. On the whiteboard; use Roundtable
4. List 3 facts about the transportation of the North and 3 facts about the transportation of the South
5. Classroom Share & discussion (instruct on boat/ship keels and canal) 
6. T1W Question:  Looking at the t-chart, which region moved people and goods faster?  Support your anwer with facts.  5 or more lines 3 minutes

Words of Wisdom

Territorial Acquisition of Texas

I can use Read around the Text strategy to find the facts of how the USA acquired the terrritory of Texas.  I can create a map of USA expansion and matrix notes of the information I find. As the USA sread west it continued to divide into north and south regions.

1. Silently use Read around the Text text (History Alive! or America) in the appropriate section to discover why the USA wanted the territory of Texas and how it was acquired.
2. Roundtable whiteboard  notes:  when you locate a why or a how, quietly take the whiteboard and record a bullet point note (no discussion at this point0
3. Roundrobin discussion of what team recorded on whiteboards - did the books say different things?
4. Color expansion map and matrix
5. Classroom share, discussion, individual students record notes.