Project Continued

In Class: The students continued to work on their projects with the laptop computers.

Homework: Work on project.

PLEASE NOTE!! STARTING TOMORROW I WILL HAVE A NEW WEB PAGE ADDRESS. PLEASE WRITE DOWN THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS AFTER YOU CONNECT TO THIS LINK: http://croninschronicles.edublogs.org/

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USE THIS LINK TO WORK ON YOUR PROJECT AT HOME. THANKS.
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Project on Early Civil Rights leaders

In Class: Today the students will begin a week long project with their presentations due this Friday. Each group will be assigned an early Civil Rights leader c. late 19th and early 20th centuries and design a newspaper that will include an article on the person as well as an advertisement on the International Cotton Exposition and an editorial on the county Unit System.

Homework: Work on your project.

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Review for the Reconstruction Test

In Class: Today we reviewed for the Reconstruction Test tomorrow.

Homework: Study and review for the Test tomorrow.

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Georgia's Response to Reconstruction

In Class: Today we discussed Georgia's response to Reconstruction. The students filled out a worksheet as we discussed the various issues that were taking place.

Homework: Review all material for our Reconstruction Test on Friday.

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Review

In Class: Today we reviewed for the Third Nine Week Post Test which will be given tomorrow.

Homework: Review for the Third Nine Week Post Test tomorrow.

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Unit 5 Antebellum and Civil War Test

In Class: Today the students took the Unit 5 Antebellum and Civil War Test. If time permits after the test the students will begin a worksheet on the Freedman's Bureau.

Homework: Review Unit 5 Part IV vocabulary words for Quiz next week.

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Review of Civil War Battles

In Class: Today via a Power Point presentation we reviewed our worksheet on the key battles of the Civil War from Friday.

Homework: Review for our Antebellum and Civil War Test tomorrow.

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Key Battles of the Civil War

In Class: Today the students did research on the key battles of the Civil War. If we have time we will also review the vocabulary words for Reconstruction.

Homework: Review all material for our Antebellum and Civil War Test next Tuesday, March 10th.

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War Strategies of the Civil War

In Class: Today we reviewed the war strategies of both the North and South during the Civil War via a Power Point presentation.

Homework: Review all material for our Antebellum and Civil War Test next week.

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Strategies of the Civil War

In Class: Today the students located information about the strategies of the North and South during the Civil War. We will review these ideas tomorrow.

Homework: Review all material to date.

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Power Point Review

In Class: Today we reviewed the resources of the North and South prior to the Civil War via a Power Point presentation.

Homework: Review all material to date.

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Resources of the North and South

In Class: Today the students filled in a graphic organizer noting the resources of the North and South at the beginning of the Civil War.

Homework: Continue to review all material to date.

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Unit 5 Part III Vocab. Quiz

In Class: Today the students took the Unit 5 Part III Vocabulary Quiz. After the Quiz they began work on Unit 5 Part IV Vocabulary.

Homework: Continue to review all materila to date.

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The Road To War

In Class: Today the students located the issues that led to the Civil War. We then reviewed these ideas in class. We also reviewed the vocabulary words for tomorrow's Quiz.

Homework: Review for the Unit 5 Part III Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow. Continue to review all notes for our Test next week.

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Power Point and Review

In Class: Today we viewed a Power Point on Slavery and Compromise. We then reviewed the worksheet from yesterday on the Election of 1860.

Homework: Review for the Unit 5 Part III Vocabulary Quiz on Friday. Continue to review all material to date.

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Election of 1860

In Class: Today the students were given a worksheet to locate answers from the text about the Presidential Election of 1860.

Homework: Study for the Unit 5 Part III Vocab. Quiz on Friday. Continue to review all material to date.

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Slavery and Compromise

In Class: Today the students used a worksheet to show the differences between the Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. We then viewed a Power Point on this subject.

Homework: Reveiw all material to date.

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Vocabulary Quiz Unit 5 Part II and Review of Yesterday

In Class: Today the students took the Unit 5 Part II Vocabulary Quiz. We then reviewed the Souther Social Ladder by way of a Power Point. We discussed this as we went through the Power Point.

Homework: None

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Pop Quiz

In Class: Today the students had a Pop Quiz on the differences between the North and South during the Antebellum period in Georgia. They then were given a worksheet and had to describe the Social Ladder in Georgia during the Antebellum period.

Homework: Review for the Unit 5 Part II Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow.

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Review and Antebellum Social Ladder

In Class: Today we reviewed, via Power Point, our worksheet from yesterday on the differences between the North and South prior to the Civil War. Then the students were given a worksheet to structure the Social Ladder in Georgia during the Antebellum period.

Homework: Finish any work not completed in class then review all material to date.

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Antebellum Georgia

In Class: We finished the worksheet on Unit 5 Part II Vocabulary. The students then read page 215 in the text and we discussed the ideas expressed there. We then looked at a chart on page 216 and the students began work on a worksheet showing the differences between the North and South prior to the Civil War.

Homework: Review all material to date.

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Test Unit 5 Part I

In Class: Today the students took the Unit 5 Part I Test. They then began work on the Vocabulary worksheet Part II Unit 5.

Homework: None

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Reveiw

In Class: Today we reviewed for the Unit 5 Part I Test tomorrow.

Homework: Review for the Test tomorrow.

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CLOZE Activity - Removal of Native Americans from Georgia

In Class: Today the students were given a worksheet and then read the text (Chap. 6 Section 6) to locate the answers. Afterward they began work on the Review Sheet for our Unit 5 Part I Test on Friday.

Homework: Reveiw for the Test on Friday.

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Field Trip

In Class: Today the students were taken to North Cobb High School for a presentation on the slave trade during the 1800's.

Homework: Review for the Test: Unit 5 Part I on Friday.

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Finish Worksheet from Friday

In Class: Today the students finished the worksheet on early Georgia. We then discussed their findings in class.

Homework: Study for the Unit 5 Part I Test on Friday.

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CLOZE Activity - New Frontiers in Georgia

In Class: Today the students will begin a CLOZE activity on the expantion of Georgia after early statehood.

Homework: Review all material to date for a Test next week.

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Graph: Slave increase and Cotton Production

In Class: Today the students used two handouts (slave increase per decade and cotton production per decade) to graph the correlation between slave increase and cotton production. If we have enough time they will then begin a CLOZE activity on pages 184-188 on "Life on the Georgia Frontier."

Homework: Review all material to date.

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Slaves and the Cotton Gin

In Class: Today, becuase of the early release day, we viewed a videostreaming on Slaves and the Cotton Gin and their interaction.

Homework: Continue to review all material to date.

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Complete Economic and Technology in early Georgia

In Class: Today the students finished their worksheet on economic and technology in early Georgia. We then reviewed the sheet.

Homework: Continue to review all material to date that we have studied.

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Economic growth in early Georgia

In Class: Today the students read pages 180-181 in the text and reported on how the Cotton Gin had an impact on ecomonic growth in early Georgia. They then were given handouts on slave increase and cotton production over a fifty year period and graphed these events.

Homework: Continue to review all material to date.

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Finish Article on Land Fraud

In Class: The students finished working on their article which will be due on Monday.

Homework: Review all material to date.

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Current Events worksheet

In Class: Today the students will use a worksheet to list the 5 W's (who, what, when, etc.) about the Yazoo Land Fraud. They will be reporters during that historic period and report (like a current event) about the situation. At the conclusion they will write a one page article about the event.

Homework: Review for our Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow.

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Complete yesterday's worksheet

In Class: Today the students finished the worksheet from yesterday: "Land Fever."

Homework: Continue to review all material to date.

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Land Fever

In Class: Today the students worked on several worksheets involving the Yazoo Land Fraud. The information was on pages 177 and 178 in the Textbook.

Homework: Review all material to date.

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Review Unit 4 Test and finish Vocab. Unit 5

In Class: Today we reviewed the Unit 4 Test then the students finished their vocabulary worksheet for Unit 5.

Homework: Review today's work.

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Unit 4 Test

In Class: Today the students took the Unit 4 Local Government Test. After the test they began working on the vocabulary worksheet for the next unit.

Homework: None

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Review for Unit 4 government test

In Class: Since the writing test ran long yesterday and I did not meet with 3rd or 5th periods, we are going to have our review for the Unit 4 test today and then the test tomorrow.

Homework: Review the Study Guide for the Unit 4 Test tomorrow.

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Wednesday, January 21st Review Sheet

In Class: Today the students had a review sheet to answer questions that will be on the Test tomorrow.

Homework: Finish the review sheet and STUDY it for the Unit Test tomorrow.

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Review for Unit 4 Test

In Class: Today we had our review for the Unit 4 Test this Thursday.

Homework: Review for the Unit 4 Test on Thursday.

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Writing Assignment

In Class: Today the students wrote an essay explaining which service they would give the most money to if they were a commissioner in a county. This essay will show what the students have accomplished over the past week of study.

Homework: Review for the Unit 4 Test next Thursday, January 22nd.

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Continuation of Budget Project

In Class: Today the students, in their groups, gave a report on how they spent their budget money for services in the county from yesterday work. We then voted and debated who spent what until we came to a consensus on how much money was to be spent for each county service.

Homework: Continue to review for the Unit 4 Test next Thursday, January 22nd.

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County Budget dispersal

In Class: Today the students were put into groups of three. They were given a handout with the 15 services we looked at and discussed yesterday. They then had to divide a county budget of $100 million dollars between these services and justify why each area received the amount of money it got.

Homework: Continue to review all material for our Unit 4 Test next Thursday, January 22nd.

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County Budgets

In Class: Today the students did background reading on pages 566, 568, and 569 in the textbook. They then had to list in order their choice of services that they thought would be most important to spend tax dollars on.

Homework: Continue to review all material we have covered for the Unit 4 Test on Thursday, January 22nd.

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Reading Organizational Charts

In Class: Today the students were given a worksheet and a handout. They was used the handout to answer questions about how City and County governments are organized.

Homework: Review all material to date for our Unit 4 Test which has been moved to January 22nd. Make sure you review the vocab. words as well.

A Note from the principal: Awtrey's PTSA is sponsoring an Internet Safety Workshop this Thursday, 1/15, at 6:30 p.m. in the theater. Jeff Inman, coordinator or Prevention Intervention, will be our guest speaker.

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Vocabulary Quiz

In Class: Today the students took the Unit Four Local Government vocabulary quiz. We then reviewed the worksheets on county and city governments that we completed in class this week.

Homework: Review all work for our Unit Four Test on Jan., 21st.

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City Governments

In Class: The students read pages 570-574 in their textbook then completed a worksheet on city governments.

Homework: Continue to review for our vocab. quiz which we will have tomorrow.

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County Government

In Class: Today the students read an article on county governments in Georgia. They then completed a worksheet on what they read.

Homework: Review vocab. worksheet for a quiz on Friday.

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Local Government

In Class: Today the students worked on a worksheet with the vocabulary words they will need when we begin studying Local County and City governments in Georgia tomorrow.

Homework: Finish the worksheet from today if not completed in class.

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