Mrs. Suggs: March 2006

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March 31, 2006

Weekly assignments for week of 4/10

Here are the tentative assignments for this week. ***Be sure to notice that we will be having a test on Friday:-)***

Lesson plans for April 10th – 14th

Monday:

1. Warm up –Which side was better prepared for war – why?
2. Review causes of war and what we talked about before the holidays.
3. Return any graded projects.
4. **Finish video – The Great Locomotive Chase and/or finish crossword puzzle on chapter 11,12, & 13 – go over puzzles to make sure answers are correct
5. Homework: Read pages 194, 197-202 and answer ?’s page 202

Tuesday:
1. Warm up – why do you think that prison life was so much harder for soldiers during the Civil War – maybe than any other war?

2. Discuss prison life for the soldiers during the war – both northern and southern prisons – hit on Andersonville.
3. Watch Georgia Stories I, program 9 – First Century of Statehood, Part IV.
4. Return any graded projects.

Wednesday:
1. Warm-up: Why was Sherman so destructive with Atlanta?

2. Return any graded projects.
3. Discuss the end of the war – Georgia gets involved, Sherman’s march to the sea, surrender at Appomattox Court House
4. Complete chapter review page 203 – Reviewing Main Ideas #1-10, Give It Some Extra Thought #1-3, and Going Further #1

Thursday:

1. Review game – to prepare for tomorrow’s test.

Friday:

1. Chapter 13 test
2. Illustrate chapter 14.

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March 27, 2006

Weekly assignments - week of 3/27

Lesson Plans: Week of 3/27-3/31/06

1. Warm-up:
2. The Gettysburg Address:
a. Pass out worksheet “From Lincoln’s Perspective”
b. Follow plans on pink sheet – from Just A Few Words, Mr. Lincoln - discuss w/class how we all have to make difficult choices
c. Read book to class
d. Have students get with a partner to complete side w/basic questions from the book (13A) & go over
e. Have students look at costs and benefits of the Civil War and complete the backside of the worksheet (13B), then discuss as a class.
f. Homework: Have students complete the “Loss in War” worksheet to see what the costs really were. There is a word search on the back of the worksheet that the students can complete if they want.

Tuesday:

1. Projects are due with presentations.

Wednesday:

1. Finish up any presentations.
2. Have students work with a partner to complete crossword puzzle on “The Civil War Period” – let the students work on it the best they can, and then fill in the few answers that they won’t know (some General names and battle names).

Thursday:

1. Warm up
2. Quiz on information covered so far.
3. Watch video – The Great Locomotive Chase

Friday:

1. Return quiz and go over.
2. Finish video – The Great Locomotive Chase

Have an awesome spring break!!!!!!!!!!!!

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March 21, 2006

Civil War Flag/journal project

The due date for your Civil War project is Tuesday, 3/28 (next week). We will begin presentations the same day:-)

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March 20, 2006

Assignments for week of 3/20/06

Here are your assignments for this week. Be sure to check in with me if you are absent:-)
Mrs. Suggs

Lesson Plans – week of 3/20-3/24 – 2006 The Civil War

Monday:

1. Warm-up – what is the advantage to the Southerners to be fighting on their own soil?
2. Return terms quiz.
3. Read with a partner selections about soldiers in war and fill out comparison chart – share with the class. **On side of the sheet, students need to answer thought questions from the board – a. Which soldier was more prepared for war? b. Why is military training important? c. What were some interesting things you learned about the life of a soldier?
4. Complete math activity on backside of comparison sheet - homework if not finished in class.

Tuesday:

1. Warm-up- What was life like for the people left at home – the ones that didn’t go off to fight?
2. Discuss worksheets from yesterday.
3. Watch DVD on “Bull Run”
4. Class work/homework: Students read on own and answer questions to worksheet on Bull Run and A New Plan.

Wednesday:

1. Warm-up: What types of new inventions come about because of the Civil War – how do these inventions totally change our way of thinking about war?
2. Discuss how this war was a “modern war” – discuss how many new military inventions came about during this time period – one in particular is the use of ironclads. Read aloud story #13 “The Strange Mission of the Hunley” (pg.79 of American Adventures). Discuss the story – mention to the students that there is a great made for television movie on the Hunley. Read together The Modern War – I and with a partner, write a news story following the directions at the bottom of the worksheet. Partners need to include an illustration. These will be due to share on Thursday.
3. Homework: Read pages 191-194 and answer ?’s on page 194 (#1-4)- review why railroads are so important in war (The Great Locomotive Chase)

Thursday:

1. Warm-up – How did Southerners react to Emancipation Proclamation? What about Northerners? And, what about slaves? How will this change people’s lives (all people)????
2. Work on story about ironclad.
3. Class work/homework: complete worksheets: The Modern War II and The Emancipation Proclamation- read and answer questions.
4. Share some of the stories about the ironclads and turn in.

Friday:
1. Warm-up:

2. Civil War word search as a race w/partner
3. Discuss battle of Antietam – read story Bloody Antietam (pg. 73 of American Adventures). Discuss medical treatment of the time – read “medical treatment” in the Civil War packet
4. Homework – Read and answer questions about Antietam – worksheet from The Civil War – I

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March 13, 2006

Just checkin' in:-)

Here are your bonus point questions: This bonus question expires on Tuesday (3/14) at midnight!!

Georgia is excited today about the approval of a new company that is going to build a plant here and bring in revenue to our state. What plant am I referring to? Where - what town (town - not city) and county is the plant being built? And, who was influential in helping make the company's decision to build a plant in Georgia?

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Just checkin' in:-)

Here are your bonus point questions: This bonus question expires on Tuesday (3/14) at midnight!!

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March 10, 2006

Important information

For those of you that are frequently checking my blog:-)...here is a little heads up on your notebook check!! We will be having a notebook check sometime between Monday and Wednesday of next week (3/13-3/15). The three things that I will be checking for are: questions pages 169 & 173, The North Before The War worksheet, and chapter 13 illustration. This will probably be one of the last grades of this grading period - shoot for 100%!!!!!:-)

Mrs. Suggs

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March 07, 2006

Assignments for week of 3/6

Here are the assignments for the entire week. As always, these are subject to change - but I feel confident we will get through all of this material in one week's time:-) Be sure to check in with me if you are absent.
Thanks Suggs
**Don't forget that grades will be cut off this week - Friday.

Lesson plans – week of 3/6/2006

Monday: 1. Go over homework worksheet.

2. Worksheet w/partner – race.
3. Finish quilt pieces – due tomorrow.
4. Homework - worksheet on The South Before The War.

Tuesday:

1. Warm-up – Why did it matter how many slave vs. free states we had prior to the war? Discuss compromises made to help settle this issue, and how people reacted each time a new territory was gained with slave vs. free state.
2. Go over yesterday’s worksheet on The South Before The War.
3. Share quilt pieces.
4. Complete vocabulary activity for chapter 12 – with a partner.
5. Class work/homework - Cause/effect worksheet, and chapter review page 183 (Reviewing Main Ideas #4-7, Give It Some Extra Thought #3, and Sharpen Your Skills #2)

Wednesday:

1. Test on chapters 11 and 12.
2. Illustrate chapter 13 – The Civil War

Thursday & Friday - video Race For Freedom with discussion questions.

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Assignments for week of 3/6

Lesson plans – week of 3/6/2006

Monday: 1. Go over homework worksheet.

2. Worksheet w/partner – race.
3. Finish quilt pieces – due tomorrow.
4. Homework - worksheet on The South Before The War.

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

1. Test on chapters 11 and 12.
2. Illustrate chapter 13 – The Civil War

Thursday: **need to have a notebook check over chapters 11-13 sometime early next week.

1. Return test
2. Judge illustrations
3. Review causes of war. Discuss the naming of the war – how different people have named it different things such as: The War Between The States, The Civil War, Second American Revolution”, the Rebellion, War For Confederate Independence, War of Secession, War for Separation, the Insurrection, and lastly – The War! Why so many names were used to describe the same war? - this can be a written activity.
4. Look at picture of infantry men on page 185 – discuss the dress of the soldiers – volunteer unit with uniforms all different (forerunners of the National Guard) – this difference in the way people made it difficult sometimes on the battlefield because we tend to think of the North as blue and the South as gray.
5. Look at illustration on page 184 – have students examine what they see and share with the class – demonstration in Georgia just after Lincoln’s election in 1860 – How do the people appear? Why?
6. Put Civil War terms on the board (or overhead) and let students try to organize them as either Northern terms or Southern terms to describe events from the war. There will be a quiz on this early next week – students will be given the terms, and they have to organize them as either north or south.
7. Homework – Cause and Effect: Prelude to the Civil War and read pages 184-188 and answer questions on page 188 (all of them).

Friday – this is a crazy day because of Performing Arts in the morning at the end of 1st and all of 2nd

1. Review terms from yesterday.
2. Georgia Stories

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March 03, 2006

Assignments for Friday, 3/2

Here are the assignments for today:-)

1. We went over and discussed homework from last night and the "Thought Questions" worksheet from earlier this week. We are getting ready for our test over chapter 11 & 12 on Wednesday (3/6).
2. Students spent about 10 minutes beginning their homework worksheet - The North Before The War.
3. We started our Freedom Quilt today - got partners and started sketching out plans. Projects will be presented on Tuesday.

Mrs. Suggs

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March 02, 2006

Assignments for Thursday, 3/2

Here are your assignments for today:

1. We discussed with the concept of slavery with our warm-up, and built on this with a discussion of the Underground Railroad and Harriett Tubman.
2. I read the book, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt to the class - discussing key points along the way.
3. Classwork - students completed the worksheet - Growing Economical and Regional Differences (two sided).

**We will begin working on our own "freedom quilts" tomorrow with partners - and on paper instead of actually sewing on to cloth.

If you were absent today, please be sure to get the worksheet from me when you return.
Thanks
Mrs. Suggs

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March 01, 2006

Assignment for Wednesday, 3/1

Today we took an open notes, worksheets, notebook quiz on everything we have discussed so far related to the time before the Civil War. I will try to get these back by either tomorrow or Friday. If you were absent today, you will need to make up this quiz tomorrow.
Thanks
Mrs. Suggs

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