Quick update on what we did in class:

 

1. read Chapter 8, Section 2, from the beginning until the Convention Begins.

 

2. Chapter 8, Section 2, Part I, textbook work is due next class.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

P.S. Faith, travel safe, I turned the reading into a PDF for you.

 

Quick reminder: complete your body paragraphs for Whitman's poem and 8.1 Textbook Work (Part 2) for Monday.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Many of you were out for the Color Battle; be sure that you complete what you missed.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

There a number of students out sick today, so I thought it would be best to upload our in-class reading and the questions that went with it.

 

Best and get well,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Please be sure to finish your questions for Edmund Morgan's, War and Peace, Part 2.

 

They're attached; as are the reading and my embarrassing audio recording . . .

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

This is mostly for our absent friends: here's a copy of our in-class reading and worksheet.

 

If you need some help, then see me in PAWS next week.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

So, this week, we're not using our textbooks.

 

Instead, please be ready to turn in our "Day 1 Reading", and the Questions that go with it, at the start of our next class.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

Hello Class,

 

Please work to complete your choice project by the due date posted.

 

Remember, from class, your project must tell the narrative of Chapter 6, Section 2 in one of the following forms:

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Please prepare for this week's exam by completing Textbook Work, 6.2.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Please complete our Class Notes for the Stamp Act Protests.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Today, we began our study of changes to the British Taxation policies the decade prior to the American Revolution.

 

Sorry, I played a joke on the kids.  I wrote up a fake "District Tax" to help introduce the Stamp Act and get the students to feel something akin to the colonists' frustrations with their new taxes.

 

Here's a copy of what I passed out.

 

It's fake.  There is not a new tax on district paper.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Please complete your Cornell Notes and Textbook work for Chapter 5, Section 3.

 

Attached, you'll find those two worksheets, which we have worked on in class, and an audio recording of me reading the section.

 

Remember, we will have a multiple choice quiz on the textbook work after the assignments are collected.

 

The quiz will turn the Textbook Work for chapter 5, section 3, into a multiple choice test.  Remember, number 11, is a sample of the quiz.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

As you know, we've been building an understanding of the Columbian Exchange in class and now it's time for you to demonstrate what you've learned.

 

We've begun these projects in class, but you're tasked with finishing them at home.

 

Be mindful of your due date and refer back to your directions and resources as you complete your project.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

I apologize, I forget to upload our study guide for the Dissent test last Friday.

 

As such, let's postpone today's test and reschedule it for our first Block class this week.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Your rough draft responses to our Dissent writing prompt have been scored and returned to you.

 

Once again, come and see me if you would like me to annotate your writing and give you some pointers.

 

Your final draft is due next Monday.

 

I've attached our writing prompt in case you need a digital copy of it or our Body Paragraph Writing Directions.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

As you know, we are starting our extra-credit Dissent Presentations in class this Thursday and Friday; however, all students should begin submitting their presentations beginning next Monday, the 24th.

 

I'll begin scoring them on Aeries that Friday, which should be considered your soft deadline.  Once again, come and work with me before school or during PAWS if you need some guidance.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

P.S. I've attached my example to this post and the directions that my example followed.

 

Great work, today.

 

We've asked, What is Dissent?, we've discussed forms of dissent, and know, we're researching American Dissenters (past and present).

 

You've begun your research and presentation and we'll continue to work on it during class; however, I support you working on it at home.

 

Our incomplete list of Dissenters and Directions are attached to this post.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Here's a digital copy of our in-class reading and the Historical Literature Analysis that we started in class after our "play" was done.

 

Be sure to complete your questions by our next class.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Here are digital copies of our reading from class and the questions that go along with them.

 

Remember, we've already discussed the various questions in groups, as a class, and started to write our opinions down, independently.

 

Many of you have already completed the questions, but in case were absent or needed more time-here they are.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

 

 

Here's a digital copy of documents that were passed out in class.

 

Please note, as we discussed, we'll work on our I Am projects in class during the last 35 minutes of class the next time we meet.  They'll be due either the 6th or 7th, depending on the next time we meet.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Thanks for being awesome yesterday!!!  I'm excited to have such empathetic students!

 

Here's a copy of yesterday's documents, in case you feel like reviewing what we did.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster

 

Here's a digital copy of our second Class Participation Exercise: Spectrum Discussion, What is Dissent?

 

We should be able to complete it in class this Thursday or Friday. 

 

You'll either turn it in then, or finish it over the weekend (please don't put it in a backpack abyss).

 

Clean and annotated versions of our reading are attached to this post.

 

Best,

 

Mr. Foster