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DIGITAL AGENDA
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CLASS CALENDAR
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NOTEBOOK RUBRIC
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HABITS OF MIND
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HISTORICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
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SENTENCE STARTERS
Work Ethic & Expectations
Read/Understand
Silent reading and quiet questioning, apply all the reading strategies that you have been taught. If you do not understand what you have read, stop, reread, and define words until you understand.
If you need help,
"Ask 3 then me."

Write/Make
Do and submit quality work, consistently be on task, use evidence to support your claim, explain your reasoning, and follow all the directions.
If you need help,
"Ask 3 then me."

Listen/Speak
During discussions, always use the language of history. If you are unsure how to do this, use the words on the word wall at the front of the classroom, the sentence starters provided, and/or your notes in your composition notebook. 
If you need help,
"Ask 3 then me."

WELCOME TO THE TIME MACHINE, AGENTS.

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CLICK THIS UNIT HEADING PICTURE TO DOWNLOAD THE LECTURE FOR THIS THEME UNIT.
Theme #2: Immigration (1-2 weeks)
Questions: What obstacles do immigrants encounter and how can we help them to overcome them? 

Purpose: To practice the skills of a social scientist so that you can become a real world problem solver and ethical member of society.

Doing: You will.. listen to your peers and solve problems together, use instructional rubrics to guide your learning, read directions and follow them to complete a project by yourself or with your peers, find the central ideas and information in texts that will help you find problems and create solutions, and you will present your findings to your fellow citizens.
theme2-geography.pdf
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theme2-immigrant_groups.pdf
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theme2-political_parties.pdf
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theme2-immigration_laws.pdf
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theme2-immigration_issues_and_history.pdf
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MISSION 1: Read/Understand
Read closely and analyze video, various texts, and statistics about immigration in America.

Learning outcomes: 
1. Can analyze secondary source texts to find central ideas and information that will help you solve real world problems.
2. Can ask relevant questions to improve your understanding.
3. Can clearly connect content and ideas, advanced comprehension of at and above grade level texts.
MISSION 2:
Write/Make
Write expository texts, including a narration and an evaluation of historically significant events. 

Learning outcomes:
1. Use the Google Drive to produce and publish writing and present ideas.
2. Can predict some possible outcomes of your solutions to immigration problems.
3. Can write using academic and content vocabulary.
4. Can write an appropriate citation.
MISSION 3:
Listen/Speak
Listen and speak to your peers and Ms. Detterich during collaboration and scholarly discussions. Use Habits of Mind.

Learning outcomes:
1. Can verbalize what you have learned or what you are learning, such as academic and content vocabulary, historical reading, writing, and thinking skills, and content knowledge.
2. Can verbally articulate ideas, confusion and questions, predictions, and solutions.

CLASSROOM RESOURCES

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HISTORY ALIVE TCI
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8th Grade History
Content Standards
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READING & WRITING
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READING & THINKING
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COMMON CORE
History Standards
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EDMODO
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VOCABULARY
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SECRET MISSIONS
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UNIT PLAYLISTS
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READING LEVELS
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DO SOMETHING.ORG

Finished with your work?

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iCIVICS GAMES: YOU NEED A COMPUTER FOR THESE GAMES
GAMES THAT CAN BE DONE ON THE iPAD:
1. Best of History Online Games
2. HIstory Channel Games
3. Kids.gov History Games
    (Approved by the President!)
4. Mission U.S.
5. Jamestown Adventure Click Here OR HERE
6. Lewis & Clark Adventure