Monday September 30, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What was your favorite Disney movie as a kid?

Five Themes Oxford Hills: Students will be working together at their tables to describe and draw the Oxford Hills area using the five themes of geography.

Five Themes Postcards: Students will be working individually to complete the five themes postcards.

Tuesday September 24, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: Who is your favorite musical artist?

5 Themes Practice Test: We will be working through the five themes practice test together as a class.

Kahoot: We will be playing a Kahoot as a class to study for the Five Themes of Geography test. 

Partner Up: Each student will grab a piece of paper with a random word on it. Their goal is to find the other person in the room with the same word. Once students are paired up, they will ask each other the question of the round. The last group to find each other has to share out each others answers.
- What is your least favorite food?
- What is your favorite genre of music?
- What is your favorite type of ice cream?
- What is your most used emoji?
- What is your favorite video game?

Exit Ticket: Which theme are you having the hardest time understanding?

Wednesday September 18, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What was your favorite activity on the playground?

A Little History: Students will be working in groups to come up with 2-3 good test questions from the reading for homework. They will then answer these questions.

Human/Environment Interaction: Students will be taking notes on the basics of Human/Environment Interaction as it pertains to the five themes of geography. Students will then be tasked with trying to find all the different ways people interact with the environment in Maine.

Practice Test: Students will be working in groups to try and answer the questions on the five themes of geography practice test.

Homework: Read Chapters 16-18 and annotate. Reading Quiz on Friday.

Monday September 16, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What is your favorite show to watch right now?

A Little History: Students will be working in groups to come up with 2-3 good test questions from the reading for homework. They will then answer these questions.

Movement: Students will be taking notes on the basics of Movement as it pertains to the five themes of geography. Students will then be tasked with trying to find what is imported into Maine and what is exported out of Maine.

Region: Students will be taking notes on the basics of Region as it pertains to the five themes of geography. Students will then be tasked with trying to find all the different regions you could break Maine into.

Homework: Read Chapters 13-15 and annotate.

Thursday September 12, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What state would you want to live in for the rest of your life?

Little History Chapters 8-10: Students will be taking a short quiz over these chapters.

9/11 Video Series: We will be watching this series of videos from the day.

Seating Chart Activity: Students will be working together in groups to research and discuss the ways that 9/11 still impacts us today. This is a great article to read!

Writing: Students will be writing a paragraph arguing the 2 most important ways they think America has changed as a result of 9/11.

Movement: Students will be taking notes on the basics of Movement as it pertains to the five themes of geography. Students will then be tasked with trying to find what is imported into Maine and what is exported out of Maine.

Region: Students will be taking notes on the basics of Region as it pertains to the five themes of geography. Students will then be tasked with trying to find all the different regions you could break Maine into.

Homework: Read chapters 11-12 in A Little History of the World.

Tuesday September 10, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Blogger & Classroom: Students will be bookmarking and joining the Blogger and Google Classroom.

Little History Chapters 4-7: Students will be working together in groups to answers questions on chapters 4-7 in A Little History of the World.

Relative Location: Students will be working together to describe a mystery place. Other students will be trying to figure out the location of this mystery place.

Place: Students will be writing a claim, evidence, warrant paragraph on why they think Maine is a great, or not so great place to live.

Movement: Students will be taking notes on the basics of Movement as it pertains to the five themes of geography. Students will then be tasked with trying to find what is imported into Maine and what is exported out of Maine.

Exit Ticket: Why are you taking honors for history?

Homework: A Little History of the World chapters 8-10. Individual reading quiz next class.

Friday September 6, 2019

Learning Target: Students will be learning how to create a classroom community. Students will know and be able to apply the five themes of geography. Students will know local and global geography.

Circle: What is your favorite season and why?

Student Interviews: You will be interviewing one of your fellow classmates and then reporting out their answers. There will be two rounds, questions 1,2,3 will be asked in the first round and questions 1,4,5 will be the second round.

The questions will be:

- Whats your name?

- What town are you from?

- What's your favorite movie?

- How many pairs of shoes do you own?

- If you were a superhero, what power would you have?

Five Themes: I will be introducing the five themes of geography. I will be explaining to the class what each of the five themes is and why it's important. Students will then work together in groups to describe Maine using the five themes of geography. They will then write a claim, evidence, warrant paragraph arguing whether Maine is or isn't a great place to live.

Lit Circles: Students will be discussing the reading from A Little History of the World in their table groups.

Exit Ticket: What is one thing you are excited about for high school and one thing you are nervous about?