9/11-12 Monday-Tuesday

Guiding Questions:

What reasons did the colonists have for wanting independence from England?

Objectives:

Collaborative: Students will analyze the Stamp and Quartering Acts by reading, annotating sources, and answering questions with at least 80% accuracy. 

Independent: Students will work to increase their lexiles by reading an article about the French & Indian war, summarizing, and completing the activity with a score of at least 75% 

Standards:

CA HSS.8.1 - Understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation. 

RH.6-8.22 - Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source

RH.6-8.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text

WHST.6-8.9 - Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis and reflection

ELD B.6 - Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed.

Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

Objective Tracker 

Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

Intro to Unit 2: Revolution 

Independent (Voice Level 0) 40 minutes: 

Task 1: Achieve3000, "Happy Birthday, Yankee Doodle" You need to complete all 5 tabs for this article. 

- You only need to summarize paragraphs that are more than two sentences! You may write your summaries as bullet points for my class. 

- Your thought question answer only needs to be 3-4 sentences. 

- Achieve articles are summative grades. You cannot get higher than an NP if you did not summarize. Yes you need to summarize the Dig Deeper section! In order to complete a "makeup Achieve" you need to also complete all 5 tabs and the summaries on your makeup article as well. 

Task 2: Unit 2 Word Wall. Here is a list of the vocabulary terms and here is a template/rubric for your Word Wall. You can complete your Word Wall digitally and share it with me (ecobb@laalliance.org) or you may complete it on a piece of paper. 

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

We will be annotating primary and secondary source documents and answering questions together on the Stamp and Quartering Acts. 

Here are sentence starters for the document questions. 

If you weren't here or lost the paper, here is a digital copy.  

Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

Objective self-reflection form. Reflect on your mastery of the objectives for today. Were you able to meet them, why or why not? 

Homework: 

Complete your Unit 2 Word Wall! Here is a list of the vocabulary terms and here is a template/rubric for your Word Wall. You can complete your Word Wall digitally and share it with me (ecobb@laalliance.org) or you may complete it on a piece of paper.