The Oregon Coast at the Ecola State Park.
Hi everyone,
Today was the end of our Native American unit, as students finished writing the DBQ essay in class (if you had both Mr. Puterbaugh and I twice to work on it). Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Behavior LT 2: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
Critical Thinking LT 5: I can justify and support arguments or interpretation with appropriate evidence.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Soundtrack: "The Raiders March (a.k.a. "Indiana Jones Theme")" by John Williams. Selected for today because it was intended as a pump up song for writing the essay!
Critical Thinking LT 5: I can justify and support arguments or interpretation with appropriate evidence.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Soundtrack: "The Raiders March (a.k.a. "Indiana Jones Theme")" by John Williams. Selected for today because it was intended as a pump up song for writing the essay!
AGENDA 10/29/18:
News Brief - Keanna
Graphic Organizers
Reservations/Assimilation
Essay Work Time
We also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class over the weekend.
Kate was selected to do the next news brief.
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
We also watched Westview Wildcat News at the start of the period, so we could focus on writing the rest of our time together. Here it is if you wanted to watch it again:
Graphic Organizers: Because the class was constructing the Documents Based Question (DBQ) essay response in class, which involves analyzing sources and then constructing a response to an essay prompt, we wanted to be able to review a few ways to write essays with the help of graphically organizing your thoughts.
This first graphic organizer was one most of my students used last year during the World War I essay preparation:
We also went through a more specific DBQ graphic organizer, which can be found here:
These are just two ways of organizing your thoughts. If you feel like you can write a well organized essay without a graphic organizer, that's fine, too! We attached these graphic organizers to the Google Classroom post with the DBQ and had paper copies available, as well.
Reservations/Assimilation: Last week, we made a list of major issues related to Native American reservations and assimilation.
Here are the notes that we took down together:
Since the two options for essays were about the impact of reservations and assimilation, we hoped this helped!
Here are the notes that we took down together:
Since the two options for essays were about the impact of reservations and assimilation, we hoped this helped!
Next class, we will begin our next unit, on civil rights! Thank you for your continued hard work - see you then!
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