Tomorrow is the State of Oregon's 161th birthday! This is a photo I took at Trillium Lake by Mt. Hood. I have no idea who the boy fishing is, but loved the scene.
Dear class,
We continued our unit on the "Roaring" 1920s in class and celebrated Oregon's birthday! Here's what happened in class today:
We continued our unit on the "Roaring" 1920s in class and celebrated Oregon's birthday! Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
KNOWLEDGE ALT 8: I can identify how technological knowledge and innovation shapes a society, place, or region.
AGENDA 2/13/20:
News Brief - Henry
Forecasting
Politics in the 1920s
News Brief: Henry had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: NYTimes.com - Coronavirus Cases Seemed to Be Leveling Off. Not Anymore.. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Brandon was assigned to do the next news brief.
Today's Black History Month fact is that on February 14, 1817 (203 years ago tomorrow), Frederick Douglass (who was a black intellectual and abolitionist, born into slavery and who taught himself to read) was born - or, at least, it's the day he claimed, as there was no record of his birth under slavery.
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):
Brandon was assigned to do the next news brief.
Today's Black History Month fact is that on February 14, 1817 (203 years ago tomorrow), Frederick Douglass (who was a black intellectual and abolitionist, born into slavery and who taught himself to read) was born - or, at least, it's the day he claimed, as there was no record of his birth under slavery.
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):
Forecasting: Because students received their forecasting forms in Community yesterday, I wanted to make sure to take the time in class to go through Social Studies course options for everyone. Here's the presentation I went through (which every Social Studies teacher is doing, as well):
I was happy to take questions and also sign forecasting sheets if students were ready. The forms are not due in Community until February 26th, so there is still plenty of time!
Politics of the 1920s: We started this section by looking at some of the scandals that were a part of President Harding's administration in the early 1920s (including the famous Teapot Dome scandal):
To continue our dive into learning about various aspects of the 1920s, we went through this PowerPoint together as students took Cornell Notes:
We finished the presentation in class, and made a summary of notes (using the Cornell Notes process). As I said in class, you will be using all of your notes from this unit (and the Great Depression) to write a final in class essay, in a Documents Based Question format.
Cartoon Analysis: We did not get the chance to do this in class, due to the forecasting conversation, so you will have the chance to do this with the guest teacher next class, as I will be out at an all day 9th grade success meeting. See you next Friday!
Cartoon Analysis: We did not get the chance to do this in class, due to the forecasting conversation, so you will have the chance to do this with the guest teacher next class, as I will be out at an all day 9th grade success meeting. See you next Friday!
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