American History: Spring Semester (1/5/22)

This Week's Agenda

This Week
M	Teacher Workday
T	Teacher Workday
W	Introduction / Map / Annotations
T	American Revolution Inquiry
F	Rising Tensions

Greetings!

One Semester Congratulations! We are embarking on getting all of U.S. History (up to the last election) into one semester. We have a new standards called "Inquiry" as well that needs to be accomplished. We are going to complete this standards through using the County Mandated Inquiries and Case Method Institute. You will have sureys here and there (always for the Case Method, this is actually from the Case Method Institute as they develop new cases every year and are building the program) as check ins for what worked well versus what could use from tweaking. Thank you for your hard work and patience in advance.

Graphic Organizers Just like you had in Civics, Graphic Organizers are optional. If you do not use the graphic organizers, that is fine, you are expected to take notes in a method that works for you. If you decide to take digital notes it'll be your responsibility to make them available in a non-digital format for the quiz at the end of the year. If your digital notes match another students' digital notes in regards to content (you copied and pasted my slides, you printed multiple copies, etc.) you will not be allowed to use them on the final quiz or will receive a zero. Please note it is referring to the content and not you changing the font/color/size, etc. There is a question in Canvas to set your intentions for the semester.

Case Method Institute We are using Case Method again this semester (not nearly all the ones originally intended due to content that needs to be covered). Case Method is a pedagogy (educational practice) that was implemented at Harvard Business School and then a professor utilized it in a History Class. There are multiple classrooms through out North Carolina that are utilizing this method to better prepare for college and socratic seminar classes. You will have a docket of information (usually about 20 pages, but it is this long because it provides information for any stance you'd like to take). You will be graded on your annotations (50 points - highlighting and notes) and then class discussion (50 points). So each case will be 100 points total, please make sure you are keeping up with the case and not leaving it for the day before. I am trying to make sure you have a week for reading/annotations and then discussion when we complete cases.

Questions? E-mail me at kemiller@gaston.k12.nc.us Thank you for your time!