Friday, September 7, 2007

Fri. - Building Timelines

If you check this website after school, you'll generally find two things - a recap of the day's lesson and/or class notes along with the night's homework assignment. Today's post is a good example of what you can come to expect in the coming months.

Daily Recap - Fri. 09/07/2007:

Today, we built some general time lines for US History. First, I asked if anybody had trouble remembering a few dates - namely their birthday, their sibling's birthday, and their parent's birthday. Most people were ok with this - so you should also be able to remember ten to fifteen important dates in US History.

I wrote ten dates on the board, and you got into small groups of two to three students. In these groups, you used your textbooks to look up what pivotal events in US History occurred on these dates.

If you were absent, you should look up these dates on your own and compare your list with someone who was in class. The years were: 1492, 1607, 1776, 1783, 1800, 1828, 1861, 1876, 1898, and 1914.

For homework, you were to choose one of the events that we talked about in class, read about it in the textbook and/or online, and write a short description (one to two paragraphs) of what happened.

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