Social Studies:
Chapter 20: Immigration and Urbanization
Pages 632 - 654
WARNING: Study Chapter 20 Focus Question assessment this Wednesday on questions 1-4.
BRING NOTES DAILY FOR CREDIT...
Always work on answering the focus questions!
Tuesday December 18 we read to the end of section 3. We also got a handout showing the floor-plan of a typical tenement and talked about a variety of diseases easily contracted in these overcrowded buildings such as Cholera, Dysentery, Typhoid and Tuberculosis!
Last week we also worked on the "Evidence For- Evidence Against"in-class activity.
Check out this website about tenements:
NYC Tenement Museum Online Tour
On Wednesday and Thursday (12/5 & 12/6) we discussed the migration patterns of our family members in class and created a map depicting the regions of the world our ancestors had come from before coming to Biddeford, Maine. This unscientific exercise was meant to make a student-connection to the chapter we are studying now. Most students have turned in their research for full credit, though a fair number of students neglected to complete their two-day assignment. I am collecting late homework work today (12/6) for reduced credit and will call the homes of students who continue to neglect this assignment.
Homework continues to be to study vocabulary, perhaps cut out the flash-cards I provided each student with (also found on the right hand margin of this blog under SS Handouts in 3 parts), and to fill in focus question answers as we go over the work in class.
ELLIS ISLAND LINK:
Passenger Lists etc can be found here to have some fun researching family names:
Ellis Island Research Link (basic)
Choose Passenger Search
Use my username and password
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Read Upton Sinclair's Novel: The Jungle online for free!
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
ENGLISH:
Wednesday 12/12, we began working solo or in pairs on writing a dialogue. Special attention will be paid to punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing and sentence variety. This in-class project should be turned in on a pen-drive by Monday 12/17
SURPRISE DIALOGUE QUIZ TODAY 12/10: OPEN NOTES
STUDY NAPVACPI POEM FOR ADDITIONAL QUIZ: We retested everyone on this test the following day. If their grade for Dialogue Test remained less than 10 of 10, then I recommend that they restudy again and schedule a personal retest with me.
At this time we are practicing writing, punctuating, capitalizing and paragraphing DIALOGUE.
Students are getting participation credit for contributing to class practice. We will be creating passages with dialogues as a project, but the actual rubric has not yet been handed out.
