Sunday, January 31, 2021
Week Five 2/1/21-2/5/21
Cohort A
| This Week | |
|---|---|
| M | Principles and Rights/Amendments |
| T | Limitations of Rights |
| W | Unit Three Definitions; Backstory |
| T | Everfi Lesson One |
| F | Legislative Branch - Sketchnoting |
Greetings! Partner Project is officially beginning. Students have a partner and they will choose their relationship (married, friends -roommates, family - roommates). They either have already drawn careers and rolled for kids, or will be doing so this week. This Wednesday students will explain their type of relationship, how long they've known each other, and how they met.Each week during the course of the semester we will be doing something involving personal finances and adulting. Our next item is taxes, we also will look at mortgages (renting v. mortgages, but they'll 'buy' a house as part of the project), Property Taxes, Cars and Car Taxes, as well as maintenance, and then food. We will also have multiple 'scenarios' that students will draw - broken refridgerator, etc. and then students will have to budget to see how long it'll take to pay for those types of items. We will also be working on Everfi which is an online Personal Finance lessons to help reiterate the lessons of the Partner Project.
Unit Three - Already Over We are wrapping up Unit Three this week. We will test Unit Three next week on the first in person day. We will also be starting Unit Four with sketchnoting for the Legislative Branch this week. We will still have regular quizzes, but tests will pause until the end of Unit Six. Then we will have the Branches of the Federal Government Test, which will cover Units Four, Five, and Six (Legislative, Executive, and Judicial)
Test Retakes If you have a test you need to retake, you have a short window of opportunity to complete them - you can come for reteach/retest or you can complete the study guide by hand and turn it in - in order to be able to retest. Unit One can no longer be retested at the end of this week. If you plan on doing reteach/retest that needs to be arranged before arrival and not a surprise that you are staying after school. If you have questions, please let me know.
Interdisciplinary ProjectIf you have not resubmitted your proposal for the Interdisciplinary Project, this is past due. You need DATA to support that there's a PROBLEM BEFORE researching solutions. If you can not find data to justify that there's a problem, then you need to look for new data and a new problem.
Questions? E-mail me at kemiller@gaston.k12.nc.us Thank you for your time!
Cohort B
| This Week | |
|---|---|
| M | Legislative Branch - Sketchnote |
| T | Everfi Personal Finance Lesson One |
| W | Unit Three Definitions; Backstory |
| R | Principles and Rights/Amendments |
| F | Limitations of Rights |
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Week Four - 1/25/21-1/29/21
Civics and Economics - Spring Semester (1/25/21)
Cohort A
| This Week | |
|---|---|
| M | Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation/Shay's Rebellion |
| T | U2T (Unit Two Test) |
| W | Unit Two Vocabulary Quiz; Map Quiz |
| T | First Attempts at Government - Notes and Check In |
| F | Compromise and Structure - Notes and Check In |
Greetings! Next week, you are finding out who your partner is for the Partner Project (we are drawing these AFTER the Unit Two Test on your in-class days). You will be asked to choose a piece of paper - it'll have careers on it, and then dice - potential children. You will have to establish some components of your lives based on these bits of information next week, but you will decide what type of relationship, how long you've had the relationship, and school appropriate storylines. You are NOT planning and writing them this week. You are just finding out the initial information. Next week you'll write the storyline you agree upon.
Unit Two - Already Over We have our Unit Two Test this week. Have you looked over the study guide in Canvas? Have you looked back at your notes. We will cover the intial failings of the Articles of Confederation in both Unit Two AND Unit Three. Make sure you are paying attention to Shay's Rebellion as it is on your test while we are sketchnoting.
Late Work/Retakes If you haven't yet noticed, or I haven't yet done it (depends when you are reading this), the items for the first week of school are disappearing this week, they will reappear when it is time for finals, but they will be hidden for the rest of the semester because it is too far past to do those assignments. Next week ALL of Unit One will also disappear because we will be in Unit Three. So if you have a test you need to retake, you have a short window of opportunity to complete them - you can come for reteach/retest or you can complete the study guide by hand and turn it in - in order to be able to retest. This is not I wait until the end of the nine weeks and then decide what I need to do. You should be working as we go along. If you have questions, please let me know.
Changes in Canvas at End of Week So I am participating in a pilot program of syncing Canvas and Power School together (a few other teachers are also participating). Due to the set up of a sync, individual Cohorts can't be labeled on assignments. So on Fridays during Fourth Period, I will remove Cohort Labels and make a universal due date for all in order to sync the assignments with Power School. Please make sure the assignments are in by their due date so you don't have a zero.
Questions? E-mail me at kemiller@gaston.k12.nc.us Thank you for your time!
Cohort B
| This Week | |
|---|---|
| M | First Attempts at Government - Notes and Check In |
| T | Compromise and Structure - Notes and Check In |
| W | Unit Two Vocabulary Quiz; Map Quiz |
| R | Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation;Shay's Rebellion |
| F | U2T (Unit Two Test) |
Monday, January 18, 2021
Week Three - 1/18-1/22
Civics and Economics - Spring Semester (1/18/21)
Cohort A
| This Week | |
|---|---|
| M | Holiday |
| T | Stirrings of Rebellion |
| W | Unit Two Definitions; Meal Plan |
| T | Early Colonies through Establishment (Notes and Check In); Map Review |
| F | Declaring Independence (Notes and Check In) |
Greetings! This week in Civics you will do the second component of what will become the Partner Project. You will need to find a recipe that meets with any dietary restrictions in your house and then do a cost analysis of how much it will cost to make - you will also have a budget, so if it goes over cost, you'll need to cut out ingredients (changes the taste) OR find a new recipe. This fits in with Unit Eleven in case you are wondering why things are appearing in Unit Eleven even though we are on Unit Two. Unit Eleven will be completed primarily over the course of the semester on Weds. in addition to your quizlet/vocabulary assignments. After the Partners are established you'll also have class time to discuss with your partner as the project continues.
Colonial America Unit Two is focused on Colonial America. So as subjects of the British crown and then being inspired to gain our independence and become a nation of our own. There will be a map quiz next week on the Thirteen Original Colonies so make sure that you are doing the map review.
World History? Due to the Interdisciplinary Project and the Partner Project you will not be completing the "Dear George" Project. That doesn't make the Declaration of Independence any less valuable to our heritage as a nation. On Friday, we will look over the document in class. However, if you are in Cohort A, we won't have a class due to the holiday in which we do this, if you were in World History last year you have "Revolutions Review Packet" in which we went over the important factors. Look in your Google Drive. If you were in Sociology, on Friday there will be a link to my file. You can review the comments and the important components. This is just looking at it - make sure to look at the important Enlighteners who come up in the second paragraph, the ways we attempted to fix it, and the Eternal Statement. Questions after looking it over? Let me know!
Questions? E-mail me at kemiller@gaston.k12.nc.us Thank you for your time!
Cohort B
| This Week | |
|---|---|
| M | Holiday |
| T | Early Colonies Through Establishment; Map Review |
| W | Unit Two Definitions; Meal Plan |
| R | Stirrings of Rebellion |
| F | Declaring Independence |
Friday, January 8, 2021
Week Two - 1/11-1/15
Civics and Economics - Spring Semester (1/11/21)
Cohort A
| This Week | |
|---|---|
| M | Rights and Heritage/ Duties and Responsbilities (EdPuzzle) |
| T | Unit One Test |
| W | Unit One Vocabulary Quiz; Grocery Interview |
| T | Enlightenment Thinkers |
| F | Enlightenment DBQ |
Greetings! This week in Civics you will do the first component of what will become the Partner Project. You will need to interview the member of your household about Grocery Shopping - while there is a number 9 for you to discuss with them, I don't need that information provided to me in the interview. YOU are writing their responses, NOT them (this is your assignment). If your schedule does not line up with a member of your household let me know and we'll talk groceries or I will see if someone else is available to chat groceries
Unit One Test This week we have the Unit One Test (yes, I know, already). The study guide is posted in Canvas and is not for a grade, but should be looked at to make sure you know the information. Due to our interdisciplinary project launching the same day as the test you should ask any questions you have BEFORE the day of the test. We will take the test as soon as we enter the room.
Unit Two We are moving into Unit Two this week, as well as wrapping up Unit One. Enlightenment Thinkers is our first note sheet for Unit Two. While Unit Two is longer than Unit One it is only slightly longer, so another test is soon approaching. If you have not filled in your Political Ideologies Quiz yet, please make sure you have that done by the beginning of this week. All projects for the semester get assigned at the beginning and our first Civics Project is approaching in addition to the Interdisciplinary one.
Questions? E-mail me at kemiller@gaston.k12.nc.us Thank you for your time!
Cohort B
| This Week | |
|---|---|
| M | Enlightenment Thinkers |
| T | Enlightenment Document Based Questions |
| W | Unit One Vocabulary Quiz; Grocery Interview |
| R | Rights and Heritage/ Duties and Responsibilities (EdPuzzle) |
| F | Unit One Test |
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