Week of 10/26/30 - 10/30/20

 Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills.

QOD: Which of the 50 states has the highest population?

Circle: What is one of your pet peeves?

5 Themes: We will be going over the five themes of geography and how they impact us. 

Location: We will be learning about relative and absolute location. We will be doing a quick lesson on how to read latitude and longitude.

Place: We will be talking about what place is in relation to the five themes. Students will be completing an example for the high school.

Movement: We will be talking about what movement is. Students will be trying to come up with examples of movement in the United States.

Human/Environment Interaction: We will be talking about what Human/Environment Interaction is. Students will be thinking about how they adapt to and change their environment. 

Region: We will be learning about what a region is. We will be trying to come up with different regions for the state of Maine. 

My Town Project: Students will be introduced to the "My Town" project.

On Zoom

Pod B: Students will be completing their argumentative paragraph for the Lunchroom Fight. 

Pod A: Students will be working on and completing their "My Town" project.

Week of 10/19/20 - 10/23/20

Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills. Students will be informed on the major political issues in our country and where the candidates stand on those issues. 

QOD: Two countries have over a billion people in them, name them both. What American was known as the "father of his country?"

Circle: If you had to get a tattoo, what would it be of? If you had to sing karaoke in front of the whole school, what song would you pick?

Claim, Evidence, Warrant: We will be talking about what claim, evidence, and warrant writing is and how to do it. https://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/mwollaeger/cdw.htm

Lunchroom Fight: Students will be looking over the lunchroom fight scenario, and will be reading the different witness statements. 

Lunchroom Fight Evidence: After reading the witness statements, students will be evaluating each witness. Students will try to identify what biases each witness might have, and will ultimately have to rank how reliable they think each witness is.

Homework: Students will be finishing the Evidence Context chart for the Lunchroom Fight. 

Zoom:

Pod B: Students will be working on their bias videos. All information for these videos is on Google Classroom.

Pod A: Students will be completing their argumentative paragraph for the Lunchroom Fight. 

Week of 10/13/20 - 10/16/20

Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills. Students will be informed on the major political issues in our country and where the candidates stand on those issues. 

QOD: On what day of the year does America vote for president. 

Circle: What's your favorite season and why?

Political Issues: Students will be doing some research on the major political issues surrounding this election. We will be making a master list of some of the major issues as a class. 

Discussion & Questions: Students will get to talk in groups about which issues are most important to them and why. They will then get a chance to ask any questions that they have about the issues.

Issues and Candidates: Students will be completing an assignment on Google Classroom where they will talk about which issues are most important to them, where they stand on that issue, and which candidate aligns closer with their belief.

Week of 10/5/20 - 10/9/20

 Learning Target: Students will be working to create a classroom learning community. Students will be working to get better at essential reading, writing, and analyzing skills.

QOD: What is the longest river in the United States?

Circle: What do you think is the best age to be?

Intro: We will be going over what point of view and bias are as well as how they relate to each other. We will be having a class discussion to start things off. 

Bias: Students will be reading a sheet about bias and how to spot it. We will then have a discussion about what was read. 

Identifying: Students will be presented with a series of scenarios and will be trying to determine if there is bias in each one. If there is bias, students will be asked to identify exactly what was biased. 

Virtual/Remote:

Pod B:

Evaluating a Primary Source: Finish this assignment if you have not already done so.

Maine Maps: Finish your special purpose map that you started creating last class.

Daily Exit Ticket

Pod A:

Source Bias: Students will be picking an article of their choosing to evaluate for bias.

Bias Example: Students will be creating a short video as an example of bias. 

Daily Exit Ticket