We talked a bit in class about the role that native Hawaiians had in shaping the settlements of the Pacific Northwest. This is a photo I took on Kauai, Hawaii in 2014.
Dear class,
We continued our unit on Native Americans today in class and learned about forced displacement alongside the expansion of the United States. Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Behavior LT 3: I can communicate and work effectively within a team or group.
Critical Thinking LT 5: I can justify and support arguments or interpretation with appropriate evidence.
Soundtrack: "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D. Selected for today because of the importance of passing culture down to the youth in each nation and because of our continued look at the "young" nation of the United States. Lyrics here.
Critical Thinking LT 5: I can justify and support arguments or interpretation with appropriate evidence.
Soundtrack: "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D. Selected for today because of the importance of passing culture down to the youth in each nation and because of our continued look at the "young" nation of the United States. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 10/16/19:
News Brief - Ean
Grades
Finish Early Expansion
Map Activity
Homework: Read the blog. Complete your map activity by next class. The next news brief is assigned to: Abimbola.We also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Abimbola was selected to do the next news brief.
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Grades: After the news brief, we talked about grades that have been posted so far for this class, most notably the Comparative Biography, and how students could revise and improve if they wanted. Common issues were MLA formatting and needing to explain more about the similarities and differences found in the biographies of the student selected "Great American."
Early Expansion: Last class, we started to go through a PowerPoint explaining some of the necessary background information for understanding how the United States expanded and took over Native American territory. Here's the presentation:
And here is the note taking guide that I gave to students in class:
This hopefully was review for many students who should have had this information in middle school, but I know that not everyone did. Please use the note guide and add to the notes with what was discussed in class (which was much more in depth than just the text on the slides).
Map Activity: As the last slide of the presentation above indicates, the next step in class was to complete this graded map activity, which seeks to provide some more historical context for what happened to create the United States and to forcibly displace native inhabitants of the land. Here is the activity (this should be completed and turned in on Google Classroom - I also have a few paper copies in class):
To earn a good score on this assignment, I want to see students thinking critically about each of the maps and connecting them to the notes that we took on the slideshow above. If you did not complete this in class today, please finish it and turn it in as homework.
