American History

1) Journal: What is something you would stand up for?
2) "What would you do?" -scenarios in groups
3) Notes: Unite
4) HW: Handout on Labor Union strike (one of the following two)
     -Pullman
     -Haymarket

World History

1) Journal: Friendly quiz
2) Renaissance map and questions
3) HW: ID (one of the Renaissance values)

American History and World History

*see Wednesday, August 29th

American History

1) go over HW (Problems of Industrialization)
2) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
         -clip
         -websearch
3) Skyscraper
No HW

World History

1) Renaissance Notes-Part 2 and 3
2) Mini Art Gallery
No HW

American History

1) Journal: Who do you think should take care of the poor.
2) Effects of Big Business
3) "What would you do"-scenarios
4) HW: "When Monopoly Wasn't a Game"-due next class period

World History

1) Journal: If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you travel to, why?
2) Notes: Renaissance
3) Renaissance Values handout/scenario and discussion
No HW

American History

1) Journal: If you owned your own business, what kind of boss would you be?
2) Robber Barons Contributions
3) finish Big Business web
4) Skyscraper
No HW

World History

1) Journal: Write a comment you would like to contribute from the BBC article from Friday
2) Go over ID's
3) Quick review of World Religions
4) Interact with History-Renaissance
No HW

American History

1) Journal: Friendly Quiz
2) Introduce Skyscraper
3) Big Business Web
4) HW: Robber Barons 1/2 sheet, due Monday 8/27

World History

1) ID
2) Notes: Decline of the Ottoman Empire
3) BBC Article
No HW

American History and World History

*see Wednesday, August 22nd.

American History

1) Journal: What is the most important invention of all time? Explain.
2) What is needed for Industrialization to take place?
3) Notes: "Why Industry, Why Now" and "Infrastructure"
4) Bronco Spirit Search
5) No HW

World History

1) Go over World Religions chart
2) Faith and Belief film
3) Venn-Diagram of religions
4) HW: prepare ID's - ID on Friday

American History

1) Journal: What is your favorite item to shop for?
2) "The Story of the Shoe"
3) What is Industrialization?
4) HW: Let's Talk, due Wednesday (4, 6) or Thursday (1,5)

World History

1) Journal: How important is religion to you? Why?
2) Notes: Islam
3) Major World Religions chart
4) No HW

American History

1) Journal: What types of history are there?
2) Notes: What is History?
3) Introduce BLOG and/or website
4) Textbook checkout
5) No HW

World History

1) Journal: Based on what we are learning about empires, do you consider the U.S. to be an empire? Explain.
2) Follow up questions to HW
3) Middle Eastern map
4) Notes: Ottoman Empire
5) Which Ottoman leader...?
6) No HW

American History

1) Journal: What are you most looking forward to this school year?
2) American History review/"What do you remember?"
3) Make sure the ID half sheet gets in your composition notebook
4) No HW

World History

1) Journal: What is your favorite time period of history and why?
2) The Ottoman Empire/Ripple Effect
3) Interact with History
4) HW: Article (actively read) and questions/map on back, due Monday 8/20

American History

1) Syllabus
2) Read article: "Why History"
       -Introduce active reading
3) HW: Questions over article, due tomorrow

World History

1) Syllabus
2) Introduce World History Timeline
3) Explanation of Middle Ages v. Modern World History
4) No HW

American History and World History

1) Welcome!
2) History Match Game
3) Introduce ID's
4) Student Information Sheet