HOTA: Thu., 12/16/2010 (SEHS); Fri., 12/17/2010 (CHS)
Agenda:
- Write Civil War essay test
Important note: If you were unable to take the Civil War test on the 16th or 17th, you will make up the test on the first day of history class after winter break.
Homework: Read “The Intimately Oppressed” from A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Answer the reading questions for ten points. Due January 5.
CORRECTION: Also read the short handout on the rights of women in 1848 before answer the reading questions.
HOTA: Wed., 12/15/2010
There was a lockdown at Churchill High School today, so students were not able to take the Civil War essay test. Instead, students will take the test on Friday. Ms. Schabtach has generously offered to give us the extra five minutes we need to have a full 50 minutes.
ECON: Wed., 12/15/2010 (SHS); Thu., 12/16/2010 (SEHS)
Agenda:
- Finish externality poster presentations
- Watch The Corporation
- Discussion
Homework: None for next class. Comprehensive microeconomics test on January 10 for South and Jan. 11 for Sheldon, 100 points. Current events commentary #2 due on January 18, South, Jan. 19 for Sheldon, 200 points.
HOTA: Mon., 12/13/2010 (CHS); Tue. 12/14/2010 (SEHS)
Agenda:
- Review essay criteria
- Finish Reconstruction lecture
Enrichment opportunity: Check out this recent New York Times blog post from Richard Striner on one cause of the Civil War:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/how-lincoln-undid-the-union/?hp
Homework: Study for essay test. Format: Students will choose from one of three options and write an essay in 50 minutes. There will be one option for each of the following topics: Causes of the Civil War, the war itself, and Reconstruction. Essays will need a clear thesis, thoughtful consideration of an alternative/opposing view, and numerous pieces of specific, relevant evidence to support the thesis. Test dates: Churchill on Wed., 12/15/2010, South on Thu., 12/16/2010. Value: 100 points.
ECON: Mon., 12/13/2010 (SHS); Tue., 12/14/2010 (SEHS)
Agenda:
- Poster/video presentations
- A few solution examples
- Demerit goods song
Homework: None.
HOTA: Thu., 12/9/2010 (CHS); Fri., 12/10/2010 (SEHS)
Agenda:
- Overview of test criteria
- Lecture on reconstruction
Homework: Study for essay test. Format: Students will choose from one of three options and write an essay in 50 minutes. There will be one option for each of the following topics: Causes of the Civil War, the war itself, and Reconstruction. Essays will need a clear thesis, thoughtful consideration of an alternative/opposing view, and numerous pieces of specific, relevant evidence to support the thesis. Test dates: Churchill on Wed., 12/15/2010, South on Thu., 12/16/2010. Value: 100 points.
ECON: Thu., 12/9/2010 (SHS); Fri. 12/10/2010 (SEHS)
Agenda:
- Lecture on Positive externalities of production
- Positive externalities of consumption
- Group work time for externality posters
Homework: Complete group poster or videosof externalities, 100 points. Make sure to clearly explain the difference between the merit/demerit good and the externality it creates for a third party. You need to create two diagrams, but you do not need to draw graphs of solutions. Just explain a possible solution.
HOTA: Tue., 12/7/10 (CHS); Wed., 12/8/10 (SEHS)
Agenda:
- Self-assessment debrief
- Group reconstruction plans
- Plan presentations
- Reading debrief
Homework: Finish reading chapter 16, from “Reconstruction in the States” to the end of the chapter. Write out the five most important things you learned from reading the section with an explanation and write out three questions you have about the reading (5 points).
ECON: Tue., 12/7/10 (SHS); Wed., 12/8/10 (SEHS)
Agenda:
- Lecture on negative externalities diagrams
- Video on Florida wildlife preserve
- Work time for externalities poster/video
Homework: Read pp. 140-145 in Ch. 13. Bring a recent news article with an example of a positive externality and explain in writing how a bystander experiences an unpaid benefit (10 points).
HOTA: Fri., 12/3/10 (CHS); Mon. 12/6/10 (SEHS)
Agenda:
- Finish video on Emancipation Proclamation
- Discuss “Women Soldiers in the Civil War”
- Self-assessment on Civil War and states
- Self-assessment debrief
- Lecture on end of war and challenges of reconstruction
Homework: Read chapter 16 in The American People textbook from beginning up to but not including “Reconstruction in the States.” Write out the five most important things you learned from reading the section and write out three questions you have about the reading (10 points).
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