A Young People’s History, Chapter 22, “Resistance”

Quizlet: Videos: No More Nukes, Protest in the 1980s, USA vs USSR, Cesar Chavez,
Gulf War Protests

Introduction:

1. How was resistance different in the late 70s,80s, and 90s from the 1960s?
2. What issues did they organize around?

No More Nukes!

1. Who pioneered the anti-nuclear weapons movement?
2. What did they get arrested for?
3. Who took a leading role against Reagan's bloated military budget and what did they do?
4. What was the largest political demonstration in American history?

Social Issues

1. What happened in Boston 1981?
2. Normal people were linking military policy with what?
3. What were Latinos struggling against and what did they do?

War and Antiwar

1. Explain some of the anti-war voices leading up to Desert Storm
2. How and why did the rhetoric change once the war started?
3. Why did Bush’s Desert Storm launch an “overwhelming force”?
4. Explain patriotic support of the war being very high and falling.

Remembering Columbus

1. What was the significance of 1992?
2. What did Natives do?
3. Why were people upset by the counter-Columbus events?
4. Where does hope in America lie?

Week 30: Atoms, West Africa, and Reaganomics

The student has started a new science textbook, skipping the first three chapters on Matter, Changing States and Density, as she studied this in elementary school. There was some confusion on what was expected of her writing the past weeks, as she thought the essays were her writing class and not homework for her other subjects. So she is still on Unit 6 and Cause-Effect Essays.

Math:

Science: Middle School Chemistry Chapter 4, Lesson 1 The Periodic Table and

Bonding (pg. 245-259) Quizlet, Videos: Atoms, Carbon, The Electron,

http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/multimedia/chapter4/lesson1#pencil_zoom

http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/multimedia/chapter4/lesson1#protons_and_electrons

Geography: Chapter 15 Societies and Empires of Africa,

Unit 2 Western African Civilizations (Quizlet), Mansa Musa, Empires of West Africa

Spanish: The Verb IR (to go). Quizlet Review + Make 20 sentences.

Writing: Unit 6 Cause-Effect Essay (pg. 154-163)

US History: A Young People’s History, Chapter 21, “Politics as Usual”       

Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapters 12-16 (Vocabulary/ Review)

A Young People’s History, Chapter 21, “Politics as Usual”

Vocabulary (Quizlet), Videos: Apartheid, Reaganomics, Fall of Berlin Wall,
Panama Invasion, Desert Storm,

Introduction

1. What was the political climate like in 1979, and who were suffering?
2. What was needed?
3. What are the two American traditions?

A Little Bit to the Left

1. What good things did Carter do?
2. Why did American want to end apartheid in S. Africa?
3. What bad things did Carter do?
4. What did Carter need to do?

Wealth and Poverty in America

1. What did the Reagan and Bush administrations do?
2. How did Reagan pay for his bloated military and what were the effects?
3. Explain why most Americans thought spending too much money on welfare was bad, but helping poor people in need was good?
4. What was the effect on the gap between the rich and poor during Reagan?

Desert Storm

1. What happened in 1989?
2. Why did the fall of communism make such a panic for American elites?
3. What did the Bush administration do?
4. What did the Bush administration tell the American people was the reason for Desert Storm?
5. What were the real reasons for Desert Storm?
6. If Saddam Hussein was so bad why did the US keep him in power?

Unit 8 ESL: Pulling it All Together and Preparing for More

It's the end of the academic year and we have made it through the entire Great Writing 1 textbook, having ordered it late. I am very proud that we muscled through it. I believe the students' writing has improved the past two years I taught these kids and they are now prepared for their writing class next year with a different teacher.

Our previous lesson, Unit 7 was our most difficult with writing complex sentences using adjective clauses. One of my co-teachers told me they don't learn that until 9th grade. The hardest part of teaching them is weaning them off of relying on writing everything with simple sentences. I have to require using at least one compound and one complex sentence. I told them good English has variety, not repetition. That's very hard to reinforce when they read so little English. I think writing has to be reinforced by reading literature and they just don't have the time the way their curriculum and education system is organized.

May/June 2019

WEEK 1 Reviewing Parts of a Paragraph
Class 1: pg. 208-211
Class 2 pg. 212-214

WEEK 2 Combining Sentences with a Connector
Class 1: pg. 215-218
Class 2: pg.219-221

WEEK 3 Peer Editing
Class 1: pg. 222-224a
Class 2 pg. 224b-226

WEEK 4 Original Student Writing
Class 1: pg. 227 (Activity 22)
Class 2: pg. 227 (Activity 23)

The ppt is a work in progress at the moment:

Week 29: Consent, African Societies and Empires

Math:

Science: Sex Ed: Consent (Quizlet, Videos:1, 2, 3, When Your Date Doesn’t Hear the Word No,  ) Essay: Write a small essay about what body sovereignty means to you.

Geography: Chapter 15 Societies and Empires of Africa,
Unit 1 North and Central African Societies (Quizlet),
Supply and Demand Video, The Almoravids, Crash Course 16,

1. What elements are necessary for mutually successful trade?
2. How do scarcity and abundance affect trade?
3. What was the effect of the Almohad rule on the Maghrib?

Spanish: Review -ER verbs and write 20 sentences

Writing:

US History: A Young People’s History Part 2, Chapter 20, “Under Control?”

Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapters 6-11 (Vocabulary: 6-10, 11) Is Atticus a Good Father?

After Chapter 6, take a quiz.

Chapter 6 Questions:
Why does Scout disapprove of Jem's and Dill's plan of looking in at one of the Radleys' windows?
What does Mr. Nathan Radley know about the intruders in his garden?
Why does Miss Stephanie refer to a “negro” over whose head Mr. Nathan has fired?
Why does Dill's explanation of Jem's state of dress almost land him in trouble?

After Chapter 11, do a review.

A Young People’s History, Chapter 20, “Under Control?”

Videos: Watergate Timeline, Nixon’s Resignation, US Impeachment, SNL,
US Bombing of Cambodia, Laos, CIA in Cuba and Chile, Allende and Pinochet (Khan Academy)

Vocabulary: (Quizlet)

Why did the American public distrust their government?

Watergate

1. Was Watergate Nixon’s only crime? Explain.
2. What happened to Nixon’s VP?
3. What happened to Nixon?
4. What happened to the corporations that made illegal contributions to Nixon’s campaign?

America Overseas

1. Why was the public upset over US foreign policy at this time?
2. What did Kissinger think was the remedy for the US government and what did he do?
3. What exactly happened at Tang Island?
4. What did Democrats and Republicans both agree on?
5. How did Congress act like sheep?
6. How did Ford break the law?
7. What examples of meddling in foreign countries sovereignty, did Congressional committees find the CIA had done?
8. What had the FBI had done?
9. What did America’s Bicentennial look like?

To Kill a Mockingbird for 7th Grade

Pre-Reading:

1. Who is Harper Lee? Her neighbor was the famous writer Truman Capote!
2. What is your first clear school memory? Write a poem.

• Chapters 1-5: Vocabulary, Read until chapter 5 and make a prediction.

(Quizlet: Vocabulary). Select theme songs for important characters. How does each song suit the character?

• Chapters 6-11 (Vocabulary: 6-10, 11) Is Atticus a Good Father?

After Chapter 6, take a quiz.

After Chapter 11, do a review.

• Chapters 12-16 (Vocabulary/ Review)
• Chapters 17-20 (Vocabulary)
• Chapters 21-26 (Vocabulary)
• Chapters 27-31 (Vocabulary), Test, Essay Questions

Full movie here.

Harper Lee's Discovery: Go Set a Watchman
NY Times Review

Resources:

https://www.facinghistory.org/mockingbird

http://teachingtokillamockingbird.com/
http://universalteacher.org.uk/prose/tokillamockingbird.pdf

Week 28: STIs, Aksum, Harper Lee and The 1960s American Cultural Revolution

• Math: Unsolvable Equations
• Science: Sex Ed: Reducing Your Risk of STIs/STDs (Quizlet, Videos: Protection, Myths, How to Use a Condom, Herpes,

• Geography: Ch 8, African Civilizations, Unit 3 The Kingdom of Aksum
• Spanish:

1. Review -AR verbs
2. Use your Spanish/English dictionary and write 20 sentences.

Mix up pronouns/-AR verb conjugations and use a variety of vocabulary.

• Writing: Unit 6, Cause-Effect Essay, pg.140-149a
• US History: People’s History, Chapter 19, “Surprises”
• Reading: “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

1. Pre-Reading: What is your first clear school memory?
2. Chapters 1-5: Vocabulary
3. Read until chapter 5 and make a prediction.
4. Review: Vocabulary
5. Select theme songs for important characters. How does each song suit the character?

Chapter 19: The 1960s American Cultural Revolution

Young People’s History, Chapter 19, “Surprises”

From who did the biggest surprises come from?

Bob Dylan’s songs: Masters of War, Times are a Changin’

Vocabulary: (Quizlet)

Videos: Women’s Movement, Alcatraz, Wounded Knee 1973

I. Women’s Lib

1. Where did the women’s lib movement start?
2. What did women throw into the Freedom Trash Can and what did that symbolize?
3. What is the “feminine mystique”?
4. Why is welfare a women’s issue?
5. How are women controlled?

II. An Indian Uprising

1. How did the US gov’t try to control Natives?
2. Why are treaties an embarrassing topic for the US gov’t?
3. What kinds of civil disobedience did the Indians engage in?
4. What happened at Alcatraz?
5. What happened at Pine Ridge?
6. What other fringe groups of the US population began to organize?

Week 27: Bantu Migration, Vietnam War and Gender

The student has a short two day week, as she will be out of town.

Math: Continue Algebra Course

Science: Sex Ed; Sexual Orientation and Gender (Video: Watch and write down any questions)

Geography: Ch 8, African Civilizations, Unit 2 Migration: Bantu Speaking People (Quizlet) Videos: Push-Pull Factors in Migration , Khan Academy, Bantu Migration

Essay Questions (Choose one). You may need to use the internet for research:

1. How does migration shape the modern world?
2. How did the migration of Bantu speaking people shape Africa?

US History: A Young People’s History, Chapter 18, “Vietnam”