Wednesday, October 26th, 2016

Monday October 21, 2016

Job Shadow Reminder

Circle: If you could make one cameo appearance in a TV show which one would it be?

Fall of Rome:
Learning Target: In this unit you will learn to identify historical events and determine whether similar things are occurring today. You will also learn to determine whether what happened in the past helps us make decisions now.

Presentation Preparation: In class we will begin preparing for our first presentation.  You will presenting to staff and parents the connections/similarities between the Fall of Rome and the United States.  Remember, we study history to recognize patterns and hopefully to avoid the same mistakes the people before us made.

Practice Presentation Checklist

1. With your group, decide on the one reason that Rome fell that you will be responsible for.
2. Figure out what happened -- be able to describe the reason you have.
3. Figure out why it was bad. Be able to explain how it contributed to Rome's fall.
4. Find a modern equivalent with a news article.  What's happening now that's similar? Determine if you news source is trustworthy.  Remember Football DBQ questions, POV, etc.
5. Figure out how this thing that's happening now is bad for the US.  How does it make us weaker.
6. Determine whether the US is headed for a fall.
7. Finally, construct a presentation that accurately tells the audience how and why Rome fell, similarities to what is happening here in the USA, and if you believe that America is in slow decline similar to Rome or if it isn't.

Another Quiz on Claims

Text Home: Conferences

Reading for Meaning (need stickies)
In order to write about literature, you must learn the think about literature.  We'll be reading a short story in order to learn the habit of answering three questions: What does it say? What does it mean? What does it matter?

Silent Reading
1) Read & identify passages to support claims that explain theme -- the point of the book.
2) Write

In the future: Fall of Rome DBQ