4/6-7 Thursday-Friday

Guiding Question:

What were the effects of the debate over slavery?

Objectives:

Collaborative: Students will understand the divergent paths of people in the North and South by watching an episode of America: The Story of Us and completing a viewing guide with at least 80% accuracy. 

Independent: Students will learn about the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its effects by reading and completing guiding questions with at least 80% accuracy. 

Standards:

8.6 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.
8.7 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.
8.9.5 - Analyze the significance of the States' Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott c. Sandford decision, and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

CCRA.R.1 – Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

ELD A.1 - Exchanging information and ideas with others.

Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

- On your objective tracker, dissect the objectives you will be working to complete for today. Be prepared to explain the objectives in your own words if I call on you. 

Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 55 minutes: 

- Watch America The Story of Us Episode 4: Division
- As we watch, you will be expected to answer the questions on your viewing guide. 

Independent (Voice Level 0) 25 minutes:

Task 1: Trouble in Kansas guiding questions in Google Classroom. 

Here is the reading for this assignment. 

Early Finishers: Watch CNN Student News, play Free Rice, read an article on NewsELA, complete any missing assignments, contemplate the meaning of life. 

At the end of this station, complete the "next steps" portion for that station's objective. If you met the objective, write "none" in that box. 

Collaborative (Voice Level .5 - 1) 25 minutes: 

Step 1: Read the source about "States Rights" collaboratively as a station. 

Step 2: On your quarter sheet of paper answer: Do you think that each state had a right to keep slavery if it was in their best interest? Why or why not?  

Step 3: Discuss first in your table groups, then as a station. 

At the end of this station, complete the "next steps" portion for that station's objective. If you met the objective, write "none" in that box. 

Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

Flip to the calendar section of your Objective Tracker. Add a + for each objective you completed for today and a - for objectives you were not able to complete. 

Homework: 

Make sure you've finished the Trouble in Kansas questions in Google Classroom.