THIS IS IT!!!
 
This next week is totally devoted to working on your National History Day project (each of my Social Studies classes will be dedicated to finishing up the final work). That means - only THREE WORKING DAYS LEFT!

The SCHOOL CONTEST will be held in Mr. Johnson's room this Thursday during your classroom time.

TWO TEAMS WILL BE SELECTED FROM EACH CLASS AS FIRST & SECOND WINNERS WHO WILL GO ON TO THE REGIONAL COMPETITION IN KELLOGG (Saturday, March 15th).
More details will come on the REGIONAL, but be aware there is an entry fee of $8.00 for those going onto the next level!

For the FIVE CATEGORIES make sure you use the official NHD grading rubric/checkoff-list that was passed out in class. If you need another form, click below:

• paper (individual only)
• exhibit
• performance
• documentary (video)
• web site

This is a 200 point assignment - so be diligent!

CHECK THE RULES for each project type if you have questions on your entry.

DUE DATE: Thursday, February 27, 2014

•  Your entry must be ready to present by the end of school, Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - you should be able to simply come into class on Thursday and present immediately (You may deliver your project before school on Thursday, February 27 if you make prior arrangements with Mr. Johnson)
  
  WEBSITES must be ready to present on Thursday - the url for your site must be presented to Mr. Johnson no later than the end of school on Wednesday. You will also upload your final website to NHD by the end of Thursday for final approval.
  
  PAPERS may be partially read during your class presentation, if you wish - but you will still be held to 3-5 minutes. PAPERS are also sent for final approval on Thursday.
  
  
• Your entry must include, along with the project, itself:
• Your team's clean, printed THESIS STATEMENT & OUTLINE
• Your personal, clean, printed ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Your personal, clean, printed PROCESS PAPER
  
• Your team must come ready to present your project with a 3-5 minute talk about your work. After your presentation, the judges will be allowed to ask questions and consider the entries.

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• The Idaho State History Day site is located here.

• The Regional Contest is in Kellogg on Saturday, March 15, 2014. 

• The Idaho State History Day competition will be in Boise held on April 12, 2014.

The National History Day competition will be held in Maryland on June 15-19, 2014.

The official rule book may be downloaded here.
The theme overview sheet may be downloaded here.
The sample topics sheet may be downloaded here.

Go to http://www.nhd.org/ for more information (or click the logo below).

   

An odd week...but a helpful one!
 
With only three days (and a TEST on Tuesday [the 1920's to the Great Depression] and New Deal Puzzle Presentations on Wednesday, which should not take the whole period) this will be a work week - NHD is over in ONE WEEK! This is a week to get some things done!

The New Deal, FDR's Alphabet Soup Puzzle Presentation assignment sheet can be located here, in case you lost yours. Remember, I've changed the points (from 50 to 20) and NO WRITE UP - just come ready to present to the class your findings on the New Deal Agency assigned to your table team...

TEST on Tuesday!!!! Be ready to know the FIRST SEVEN PRESIDENTS of the United States (yes, their first and last name as well as the dates of their administration)... 

• PRESIDENT'S LIST 
• Presidential Rap - it's back!!!!

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NO READING THIS WEEK!

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NO CURRENTS THIS WEEK

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NHD is over next week!
Stay focused and use your time wisely!

• NHD CALENDAR - use this to keep up with the upcoming deadlines!
• The PROCESS PAPER (100 point assignment) is due in THIS WEEK - February 20th:
  Process Paper
  SAMPLE Process Paper

The assignment we discussed last week is available here, in case you need the RUBRIC or INSTRUCTIONS (if you lost your copy and need to make another one). BE CREATIVE - provide at least TWO MAJOR EVENTS from each President's Administration time period - and HAVE FUN!!!

• RUBRIC and INSTRUCTIONS
• PRESIDENTIAL LIST

DUE: Thursday, May 15 -- YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR THIS!!!

SUBJECT: The Great Depression (continued) 1929-1941
 
We will continue our discussion of the Roaring 20's and the lead up to the Great Depression. We will also do something a bit different - instead of a typical reading assignment, I have a new class presentation assignment instead: the "Alphabet Soup" New Deal Agencies of FDR...
 
Expect DAILY QUIZZES this week!
(if 80% of the class participates and has a B or an A on all quizzes, I will dismiss next week's test!)

***YOU WILL NEED TO RE-LEARN THE FIRST 11 UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS BY NEXT WEEK!***
Yes, their first and last name as well as the dates of their administration... 

• PRESIDENT'S LIST 
• Presidential Rap - it's back!!!!

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READING due next Tuesday (February 18th):

• NEW DEAL PUZZLE ASSIGNMENT 

• THE CHART of the NEW DEAL agencies is due next Monday as your reading.

DEADLINE: due next TUESDAY! (February 18th)

ALSO NEXT TUESDAY each Table Team will PRESENT their research of FDR's ALPHABET NEW DEAL AGENCY! You will also hand in your team's research (see rubric for more details)...


50 POINT ASSIGNMENT! 
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NO CURENTS THIS WEEK (FOCUS on your New Deal Puzzle Assignment and your Process Paper)
We will have our WEEKLY WORKDAY on Monday.

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ONLY 5 IN-CLASS,WORKING DAYS!
Stay focused and use your time wisely!

• NHD CALENDAR - use this to keep up with the upcoming deadlines!
• The PROCESS PAPER (100 point assignment) is due in NEXT WEEK - February 20th:
  Process Paper
  SAMPLE Process Paper

The assignment we discussed last week is available here, in case you need the RUBRIC or INSTRUCTIONS (if you lost your copy and need to make another one). BE CREATIVE - provide at least TWO MAJOR EVENTS from each President's Administration time period - and HAVE FUN!!!

• RUBRIC and INSTRUCTIONS
• PRESIDENTIAL LIST

DUE: Thursday, May 15 -- YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR THIS!!!

SUBJECT: The Great Depression 1929-1941
 
The Roaring 20's was a great, prosperous time...
...but that does not mean everyone was wise in their use of their blessings. We will analyze and study not only the causes of the Great Depression, but also some of the proposed solutions - some worked, some did not...but one solution, sadly, tragically, most now agree.
Bringing us together as a nation, unified as one people...in war. 

Expect a QUIZ this week!

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READING due Monday (February 10th):

• READ - Great Depression, p. 1-4 

• QUESTIONS - p. 1-2

DEADLINE: due next MONDAY! (February 10th)

FOR TUESDAY STUDY HALL: Calvin Coolidge Speech EXCERPTS
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DUE WEDNESDAY (we will do them in class)
START searching for topics you want to DEBATE...
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ONLY 6 IN-CLASS,WORKING DAYS!
Stay focused and use your time wisely!

• NHD CALENDAR - use this to keep up with the upcoming deadlines!
• The PROCESS PAPER (100 point assignment) is due in three weeks - February 20th:
  Process Paper

The assignment we discussed last week is available here, in case you need the RUBRIC or INSTRUCTIONS (if you lost your copy and need to make another one). BE CREATIVE - provide at least TWO MAJOR EVENTS from each President's Administration time period - and HAVE FUN!!!

• RUBRIC and INSTRUCTIONS
• PRESIDENTIAL LIST

DUE: Thursday, May 15 -- YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR THIS!!!

TEST CORRECTIONS

I want you to focus on your Annotated Bibliography this week (Due this Thursday)!

SUBJECT: A Return to Normalcy (1919-1929)
 

"America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality."

Warren G. Harding

Now that the war was over, the country needed a breath of air - a rest - a retreat. And President Warren Harding offered such a respite.

Unfortunately, his administration did not help. Racked with scandal, Harding's time in office was one of a move away from Progressivism and a return to peace. His untimely death brought us his Vice President as our new, thirtieth President, Calvin Coolidge and one of the most prosperous times in America's history - the Roaring 20s!
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READING due Monday (February 3rd):

• READ - The Roaring Twenties, p. 3-6 

• QUESTIONS - p. 2-3

DEADLINE: due next MONDAY! (February 3rd)
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DUE WEDNESDAY!
YES, this week they are due! We will do them in class.
(...keep looking around at your world...)
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 DUE THIS FRIDAY!
 
ONLY 7 IN-CLASS,WORKING DAYS!
Come prepared with your supplies to work on your projects!

• The ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (100 point assignment) is due this Thursday, January 30th:
  Annotated Bibliography (here's an example of an Annotated Bibliography)
• The PROCESS PAPER (100 point assignment) is due on February 20th:
  Process Paper
• NHD CALENDAR - use this to keep up with the upcoming deadlines!

TUESDAY!
YES - I know, it's the first day back...
This week's test will be over the SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR to WORLD WAR I's end...

Go over your notes - you'll do fine!
Review the PREAMBLE TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE...but you're experts by now!...


[REMEMBER your notebooks must either have pasted highlighted printouts of the reading OR notes from the reading - THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL! YOUR NOTEBOOKS WILL BE GRADED THIS TUESDAY WHILE YOU TAKE THE TEST!]

SUBJECT: The Fourteen Points 1919
 
Versailles!
The Peace Treaty ended the war and set up conditions for Germany's surrender. But real, continual world peace was what Wilson was striving for - his Fourteen Points was his attempt to "end all wars."

Be prepared to work with your table team to represent either Wilson's peace plan...or present your own.
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READING due Monday (January 27th):

• READ - The Roaring Twenties, p. 1-2 AND Warren Harding's Speech (be ready to answer questions next Tuesday)

• QUESTIONS - p. 1

DEADLINE: due next MONDAY! (January 27th)
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Last week we did not have CURRENTS.
THIS WEEK WE WILL NOT HAVE CURRENTS EITHER so we can focus on our class discussion (...but remember to keep looking around at your world...) _________________________________________



ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE NEXT FRIDAY!
 
ONLY 8 IN-CLASS,WORKING DAYS!
Come prepared with your supplies to work on your projects!
YOU WILL BE GRADED THIS WEEK FOR BRINGING SUPPLIES!!!

• The ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (100 point assignment) is due on January 30th:
  Annotated Bibliography (here's an example of an Annotated Bibliography)
• The PROCESS PAPER (100 point assignment) is due on February 20th:
  Process Paper
• NHD CALENDAR - use this to keep up with the upcoming deadlines!

SUBJECT: World War I 1917-1919 (continued)
 
"Lafayette, we are here"

Charles Stanton, Aide to John J. Persing

America was allied to the French in defeating the British in the Revolutionary War. It was only a notion that General John J. Pershing's aide suggested at the grave of the Marquis de La Fayette (George Washington's French Major-General and friend).

On July 4, 1917, as our "Doughboys" reached France, Stanton made a speech honoring the Revolutionary War hero near his tomb. 

France helped us.
It was now our turn.
Alliances was one of several reasons we went "Over There" to fight Germany and the Central Powers.

QUIZ - this week - review the meanings of the Declaration of Independence Preamble phrases again...
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READING and answer the weekly questions by next Tuesday (January 21st):

• READ - World War I, p. 3-6
• QUESTIONS - p. 2-3

DEADLINE: due next TUESDAY! (Monday is a holiday)

• Wilson's Fourteen Points - for Tuesday (and next week's inclass discussion)

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DUE WEDNESDAY (we will do them in class, like last year)
Remember to keep looking for stories you would like to debate later this year...
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ONLY 10 IN-CLASS,WORKING DAYS!
Come prepared with your supplies to work on your projects!

• NHD CALENDAR - use this to keep up with the upcoming deadlines!
  
  
• The ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (100 point assignment) is due on January 30th:
  Annotated Bibliography (here's an example of an Annotated Bibliography)
  
  
• The PROCESS PAPER (100 point assignment) is due on February 20th:
  Process Paper