12/1-2 Thursday-Friday

Guiding Question:

What conflict existed in Washington's Cabinet? 

Objectives:

Students will investigate the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton by reading and by either creating a rap battle or writing informational paragraphs with a score of at least 3/4 according to a rubric. 

Students will investigate George Washington's cabinet and the emergence of two political parties by reading their TCI text and citing text evidence to complete a scavenger hunt with at least 80% accuracy. 

Standards:

HSS.8.3.4 - Understand the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
RI.8.1- Cite textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. 
ELD.C.10 - Writing informational texts to present ideas and information. 

Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

Write today's objectives in your own words. What are the activities you will be completing and how do you know whether or not you completed them? 

Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 10 minutes: 

- Washington's Cabinet: Hamilton vs. Jefferson 
- Listen to "Cabinet Battle No. 1" 

Independent (Voice Level 0) 40 minutes: 

Task 1: TCI Scavenger Hunt (in Google Classroom) If you forgot your TCI log in information, the sections are available here. 

Task 2: Watch this video and complete a circle map on a half sheet of paper. Your circle map should have at least 5 pieces of information. When you are done, write a 5 sentence summary on the back. 

Early Finishers: Makeup Achieve articles, watch CNN Student News , read an article on NewsELA, complete missing assignments. 

At the end of this station, reflect on the objectives you just worked to complete. On your paper you need to write whether or not you met the objective AND how you know this. For example, "Yes I met this objective because I completed all five tabs for the article, summarized everything including the dig deeper, and I scored 88% on the activity!" 

Collaborative (Voice Level .5 - 1) 40 minutes: 

We will be reading short biographies about Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson together as a station. You will then have time to work to create either a rap battle or write two 5 sentence paragraphs comparing Hamilton and Jefferson using information you have learned. 

Here are instructions and the rubric for the rap battle. 

Here are instructions & the rubric  for the paragraphs. 

Here are short biographies of both men. 

Here is a reference of their views on various topics.  and here is another reference of their views on various topics. 

All assignments should be completed on a piece of lined paper. 

At the end of this station, reflect on the objective you just worked to complete. On your paper you need to write whether or not you met the objective AND how you know this. For example, "Yes, I met the objective because I was able to annotate and I am confident I answered at least 8 of the 9 questions correctly." 

Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

Who do you agree with more, Hamilton or Jefferson? Why? 

Homework: 

Use this weekend to complete missing assignments. The deadline to submit them is NEXT Friday, December 9th!