8/20 Monday- Introduction to bell ringers and process. Discuss Constitution. Work on social contracts. Bellwork #1
8/21 Tuesday- Social contracts continue. CKH activity for class and groups. Bellwork #2
8/22 Wednesday- Learn and practice “Good Things” activity. Introduction to textbook worksheet. Bellwork #3
8/23 Thursday- Conclude textbook introductory worksheet. Bellwork #4
8/24 Friday- Bellwork #5 and Quiz #1 over all bellwork for the week.
8/27 Monday- 6 elements of Geography. Maps & map projections. Bellwork #6
8/28 Tuesday- Definitions worksheet Chapter 1. Bellwork #7
8/29 Wednesday- Finish worksheet. Assign Animals, birds & rivers for upcoming assignment. Bellwork #8
8/30 Thursday- Beginning of Year Test Day 1
8/31 Friday- Beginning of Year Test Day 2 . Give copies of Bellwork #9 & #10, Quiz #2 (open notes), and ABR Assignment.
9/3 Monday Holiday—No school.
9/4 Tuesday- Hand in Quiz #2. Lesson on Chap. 2 Landscapes, Climates & Human Geography of Texas. Bellwork # 11
Assignment— Outline fill-in
9/5 Wednesday- Lesson on Chap. 2 Resources & Chap. 3 Texas Regions & Coastal Plains. Bellwork #12
Begin Texas Map assignment.
9/6 Thursday- Lesson on Chap. 3 North Plains, Great Plains, Mountains. Continue Map work. Bellwork #13
9/7 Friday- Bellwork #14 & 15. Complete Quiz #3. Finish & hand in maps.
9/10 Monday- Study Guide and Review for Unit 1 Test
9/11 Tuesday- Unit 1 Test
9/12 Wednesday- Chapter 4 part 1 Chapter worksheet
9/13 Thursday- Chapter 4 part 2 continue worksheet
9/14 Friday- Quiz #4, Chap. 4 part 3
9/17 Monday- Celebrate Freedom Week— Constitution
9/18 Tuesday- CFW— Declaration of Independence
9/19 Wednesday- CFW— How a Bill Becomes a Law
9/20 Thursday- CFW— Federalism & State Powers Double Bubble
9/21 Friday- CFW— Quiz #5 & Constitution Video
9/24 Monday- Chapter 4 Review
9/25 Tuesday- Chapter 4 Test
9/26 Wednesday- Chapter 5 Spanish Explorers--Columbus, Cortes, & Narvaez
9/27 Thursday- Sp. Exp.--De Vaca, Estevanico, Marcos, & Coronodo
9/28 Friday- Quiz #6, Sp. Expl.--De Soto & Moscoso
10/1 Monday -Sp. Expl.-- De Onate
10/2 Tuesday- Columbian Exchange & videoquiz
10/3 Wednesday- Chapter 5 Review/ study guide
10/4 Thursday- Chapter 5 Test
10/5 Friday- Quiz #7 & make-up tests/work
10/8 Monday- STAFF DEVELOPMENT- no classes
10/9 Tuesday- Misions, presidios, & LaSalle
10/10 Wednesday- Spanish response & expansion in East Texas & San Antonio
10/11 Thursday- Return to E TX, & Rio Grande, mission life
10/12 Friday- Quiz #8, finish all Chap. 6 work
10/15 Monday- New policies, relations with US, Louisiana Purchase
10/16 Tuesday= Adams-Onis Treaty, Mexican & Green Flag Revolutions
10/17 Wednesday- Mexican Independence & Impact on Texas
10/18 Thursday- Review Worksheet, Chaps. 6 & 7, (counts as test grade)
10/19 Friday- Quiz #9, finish all work for week
10/22 Monday- Review all of Unit 2 Exploration & Spanish Period in Texas for Unit test
10/23 Tuesday- Complete review of Unit 2
10/24 Wednesday- Review game to prepare for test
10/25 Thursday- Unit 2 Test on chromebooks
10/26 Friday- Quiz #10, finish all work for week
10/29 Monday- Begin Chapter 8 Review Moses Austin, Stephen F. Austin and Austin’s Colony
10/30 Tuesday- Continue Chapter 8, Settlement of The colony, The Old 300, Austin’s other colonies
10/31 Wednesday- Empressario System & other colonies in Texas. Chapter worksheet
11/1 Thursday- Chapter 9 Worksheet, life in the Mexican Republic (timed pair share worksheet)
11 /2 Friday- Quiz #11, Finish Chapter 9 worksheet
11/5 Monday- Begin Chapter 10—Fredonia Rebellion, Mier Y Teran, Law of April 6, Anahuac
11/6 Tuesday- Chap. 10—Anahuac Battle, Turtle Bayou Reolution, Battle of Velasco, Conventions of 1832 & 1833
11/7 Wednesday- Finish Chap. 10 lessons, S. Austin arrest, Briscoe & Travis, Cos military, Chap. or Unit Review
11/8 Thursday- Chapter 10 Test (or Unit 3 Test if department chooses)
11/9 Friday- Quiz #11, Video on Goliad
11/12 Monday- Review for Unit 3 Test
11/13 Tuesday- Unit 3 Test on chromebooks
11/14 Wednesday- Battles of Gonzales & Goliad; Declaration of Nov. 7; Chap. 11
11/15 Thursday- Siege & Battle of the Alamo; Texas declares independence & writes Constitution; Chap. 11
11/16 Friday Quiz #12, Runaway Scrape, Fannin, Battle of San Jacinto; Chap. 11
11/26 Monday (shift due to short days on 11/15 & 16) Texas Indep., Constit., Runaway Scrape, San Jacinto; Chap. 11
11/27 Tuesday Alamo Film Part 1
11/28 Wednesday Alamo Film part 2
11/29 Thursday Alamo Film part 3
11/30 Friday Alamo Film finish
12/3 Monday Begin Chap. 12, 1st Term of Houston, Treaties of Velasco- Worksheet A
12/4 Tuesday Finish Chap. 12, Term of Lamar, Houston’s 2nd term, Regulators- Worksheet B
12/5 Wednesday Chapter 13 Life in the Texas Republic Population groups, immigrants, culture- Worksheet
12/6 Thursday Begin Chap. 14 Seeking recognition, troubles with Mexico- Activity worksheet
12/7 Friday Quiz # 13, Mier Expedition
12/10 Monday Term of Anson Jones, Review Unit 4
12/11 Tuesday Unit 4 Test; Begin Chap. 15 Annexation Chapter Section reviews
12/12 Wednesday Chapter 15- State Constitution government, early governors
12/13 Thursday Mexican War, result & long-term changes Film notes
12/14 Friday Quiz #14, Texas Rangers & frontier clashes
12/17 Monday Begin review for Semester Test
12/18 Tuesday Finish review for Semester Test
12/19 Wednesday Study Day for Semester Test
12/20 Thursday Semester Test periods 1, 2, 3, and 4 Early dismissal
12/21 Friday Semester Test periods 5, 6, and 8 Early dismissal
1/8 Tuesday Begin Chapter 17 Round Robin Farming, Agriculture, Transportation
1/9 Wednesday Continue Chap. 17 Round Robin Education, Religion, Slavery
1/10 Thursday Chapter 17 Worksheet
1/11 Friday Quiz #15, Finish all work
1/14 Monday Film introducing Civil War; Writing on one of steps leading to war
1/15 Tuesday Begin Chap. 18’ Causes, beginning of war, Map assignment
1/17 Wednesday Battles across nation and in Texas; Battle Chart
1/18 Thursday War on home front, end of war; hangings, Palmito Ranch, Juneteenth. Worksheet
1/19 Friday Quiz #16, finish all work; 2nd & 3rd to Computer Lab for Immigration town project
1/21 Monday School and Federal Holiday
1/22 Tuesday Review sheet for Unit 5 Common Assessment
1/23 Wednesday Kahoots review for Unit 5 Common assessment
1/24 Thursday Unit 5 Test
1/25 Friday (shortened schedule) Quiz #17 Finish any missing assignments
1/28 Monday Introduction to Reconstruction, Videos on overview, Juneteenth and Texas impact
1/29 Tuesday Begin Chap. 19 Emancipation, 13th Amendment, Freedmen’s Bureau, Johnson Plan Group work & Sect. 1
1/30 Wednesday Continue C. 19. 14th Amendment, Reconst. Act, Texas government. Continue Grp. wk. Sect. 2
1/31 Thursday End of Reconstruction, Jim Crow Laws, Sharecropping. Chap. 19 Worksheet
2/1 Friday Quiz # 18 Finish all assignments for week.
2/4 Monday Begin Chapter 20 Indian Wars- Trty. of Little Arkansas, Tty. of Medicine Lodge, Comanches, Buffalo Term sheet
2/5 Tuesday Chapter 20 Section 1 & 2 Worksheet
2/6 Wednesday Ch. 20 Sect. 3 & 4 Adobe Walls, Palo Duro Canyon, Red River War, Reservation Life Term sheet #2
2/7 Thursday Ch. 20 Section 3 & 4 Worksheet
2/8 Friday Unit 6 Review Worksheet— Civil War, Reconstruction, Indian Wars Chapter 18, 19 & 20
2/11 Monday Unit 6 Review Worksheet---Finish and correct
2/12 Tuesday Kahoots Review over Unit 6 WRITING MOCK TEST—Move plans down 1 day
2/13 Wednesday Unit 6 Test
2/14 Thursday Begin Chapter 21 The Cattle Kingdom—Early influences, Longhorns, Cattle Trails
2/15 Friday Quizzes #19 & 20 on combined sheet
2/18 Monday Staff Development
2/19 Tuesday Begin Chap. 21 (see previous Thursday)
2/20 Wednesday Finish Chap. 21 Barbed wire, blizzards end of Open Range
2/21 Thursday Begin Chap. 22 Railroads & Farming—Rail boom & growth, changes to farming
2/22 Friday Bellringer Quiz #21, Finish Chap. 22
2/25 Monday Begin Chapter 23 The Oil Boom Spindletop, Boom & bust, Wildcatters, Boomtowns
2/26 Tuesday READING MOCK TEST----Bump down 1 day
2/27 Wednesday Mighty Times Video part 1 & 2---Telpas Writing assignment #1
2/28 Thursday Unit 7 Worksheet/Test
3/1 Friday Mighty Times Video part 3 & 4---Telpas Writing assignment #2 Quiz #22 as Take home
3-4 Monday Begin Chap. 24- Reform- Farms, Grange, Populists, Ross, Hogg, & Ferguson Outline Assignment
3/5 Tuesday Finish Chap. 24, Progressive Movement, Temperance Movement, Suffrage Movement Outline #2
3/6 Wednesday Begin Chap. 25 Rural Life & Urban Life early 1900s. Worksheet
3/7 Thursday Spanish-American War, Mexican Troubles, World War 1. Video writing assignment.
3/8 Friday Begin Chap. 26—Demobilization, Civil Rights, Jazz Age. Word search & Quiz #23 as Take home
3/11 Monday Finish Chap. 26—Great Depression/New Deal Oerview, Stories, Questions
3/12 Tuesday Kahoot Review for Unit Test
3/13 Wednesday Study, Take Unit Test on D-Mac
3/14 Thursday Show movie Old Yeller to classes—fill in Worksheet
3/15 Friday Finish movie Old Yeller and Worksheet
3/25 Monday Students will study STAAR vocabulary. 30 words on 4 square sheets.
3/26 Tuesday Students will study STAAR vocabulary 30 more words on 4 square sheets
3/27 Wednesday Students will study STAAR vocabulary 30 more words on 4 square sheets
3/28 Thursday Students will take bechmark test
3/29 Friday Students will complete benchmark test Quiz #24 as a take-home
4/1 Monday Students will review vocabulary words for test tomorrow. Make-ups for benchmarks.
4/2 Tuesday Students will take Vocabulary Test and hand in all 4 squares. Begin film on Jamestown.
4/3 Wednesday Finish Jamestown film, do video lesson on 13 colonies.
4/4 Thursday Watch film Life in Colonies. Divide into 3 groups, group assignemnt & presentations.
4/5 Friday Activities packet on the 13 colonies.
4/8 Monday Activities packet on colonies and exploration
4/9 Tuesday STAAR Writing Test---6th period finish packets and quiz 25
4/10 Wednesday Begin mini-unit on American Revolution
4/11 Thursday Complete mini-unit on American Revolution
4/12 Friday Quiz # 26, finish all work for week
4/15 Monday Students will review World War 2 & the Cold War
4/16 Tuesday Begin mini-unit on the Constitution & Bill of Rights
4/17 Wednesdsy Complete mini-unit on Constitution & Bill of Rights
4/18 Thursday Students will review Life in the 1950s & the early Civil Rights movement
4/19 Friday No school...bad weather day
4/22 Monday No school...bad weather day
4/23 Tuesday Video, reading & worksheet on Constitutional Compromises
4/24 Wednesday Worksheet and searching the Constitution for answers to questions
4/25 Thursday Finish assignment from yesterday
4/26 Friday Students will review Texas and the US during the 1960s & 1970s (Chapter 28)
4/29 Monday Students will complete worksheet on Chapter 28
4/30 Tuesday Students will go to room 302 to enroll for next year
5/1 Wednesday Students will do assignment on Western expansion
5/2 Thursday Students will begin film on Western expansion and answer treview questions
5/3 Friday Students will finish film, question, and all work for this week
5/6 Monday Film and questions on Division film (ATSOU ep. 4)
5/7 Tuesday Chapter 29 Review & Worksheet
5/8 Wednesday Jackson era & Manifest Destiny group activity begin
5/9 Thursday Jackson era & Manifest Destiny group activity finish
5/10 Friday Chapter 30 Review & Worksheet
5/13 Monday STAAR Testing
5/14 Tuesday STAAR Testing- Awards assembly
5/15 Wednesday Field Trip Day
5/16 Thursday Chapter 31 Review & Worksheet
5/17 Friday Chapter 32 Review & Worksheet
5/20 Monday Finish all work from book (mainly Algebra testers)
5/21 Tuesday Begin review for Semester Test
5/22 Wednesday Complete review for Semester Test
5/23 Thursday Semester Test Classes 1-4 Early Release
5/24 Friday Semester Test Classes 5-8 Early Release
8/19/19 Monday CKH Activity, Introduction to US Map assignment. Discuss Bering, Olmec, Maya, Aztec & Inca
8/20/19 Tuesday CKH Activity, Finish Map assignment. Discuss Native American cultures pre-1492
8/21/19 Wednesday CKH Activity, Begin Textbook Scavenger Hunt. Discuss West African History pre-1500.
8/22/19 Thursday CKH Activity, Finish Textbook Scavenger Hunt. Discuss European History to 1492.
8/23/19 Friday Map Quiz/Test. Create Classroom Social Contracts,
8/26/19 Monday Finish Map Tests as needed. Finish Social Contracts. Introduce Sources & Bellringers.
8/27/19 Tuesday Primary & Secondary Sources & Activities
8/28/19 Wednesday Finish work on sources. Begin Bias & Reliability.
8/29/19 Thursday Finish work on Bias & Reliability
8/30/19 Friday Quiz on Bellringers, finish all work for week.
9/2/19 Monday Labor Day NO SCHOOL
9/3/19 Tuesday Chapter 2 Worksheet—Columbus, Spanish conquests, Middle Passage
9/4/19 Wednesday Finish Chap. 2 Worksheet, Introduce Roanoke & Jamestown
9/5/19 Thursday Southern & Middle Colonies
9/6/19 Friday Vocabulary Quiz # 2, Plymouth Colony
9/9/19 Monday Finish charts of 13 colonies, begin narrative pages.
9/10/19 Tuesday Finish narrative pages on 13 Colonies, begin maps
9/11/19 Wednesday Picture Day
9/12/19 Thursday Review Glorious Revolution, Great Awakening and French & Indian War Maps & worksheets
9/13/19 Friday Review Taxation, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, Lexington & Concord Finish worksheets
9/16/19 Monday Review for Unit 1 Test
9/17/19 Tuesday Constitution Day Preamble & reasons for Constitution. Assign Preamble activity
9/18/19 Wednesday Unit 1 Test
9/.19/19 Thursday Celebrate Freedom—7 Articles of Constitution & 3 Compromises
9/20/19 Friday Celebrate Freedom 27 Amendments to the Constitution
9/23/19 Monday BOY Testing
9/24/19 Tuesday BOY Testing
9/25/19 Wednesday Video—Liberty Kids & Worksheet
9/26/19 Thursday Beginning of American Revolution & Dec. of Independence
9/27/19 Friday Preamble Activity due, Continue American Revolution
9/30/19 Monday Rebellion to Revolution video & questions
10/1/19 Tuesday King George & taxes role-play
10/2/19 Wednesday Declaration of Independence analysis paper
10/3/19 Thursday War in the North & West 1776-1779 Battle Map
10/4/19 Friday America: the Story of Us video & questions with sub (Groat in Kagan training)
10/7/19 Monday Staff Development & Planning—No students
10/8/19 Tuesday Finish video from Friday and questions
10/9/19 Wednesday War in the South 1779-1781 (Worksheet)
10/10/19 Thursday End of War & Treaty of Paris
10/11/19 Friday Yorktown video and questions
10/14/19 Monday Hand out & complete review sheet for Unit Test
10/15/19 Tuesday Continue to review for Unit Test using T-Chart and cards
10/16/19 Wednesday Kahoot on Revolutionary War
10/17/19 Thursday Unit Test
10/18/19 Friday Revolutiuonary War Tug of War activity outside or in indoor. All Tests must be completed today.
