Friday, May 17, 2013

May 17

6th Marking Period - Week 2

Friday

Homework
Quiz yourself and/or have others quiz you over your Westward Expansion notes, North and South Region notes.  No notes on test. 


Warm-Up 
Channel One News Show and Quiz
I can can apply social studies concepts to local, national, and world events, issues and problems. 

Words of Wisdom
Territorial Acquisition of Mexico
I can use Read around the Text strategy to investigate how the USA acquired the Mexico Territory.  I can create a map of USA expansion and matrix notes of the information I uncover.  As the USA spread 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 Mexico and how it was acquired.
  2. RoundRobin Discussion:  take turns - each person says one thing for each question.
    Why did USA want Texas?
    How did we get it?
    When?
    Who was president?
  • Classroom share, discussion, (include focus on facts learned about the Oregon Trail)  individual students record notes.
  • Color expansion map and matrix
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