Grade 11 Honors - April

4-01

PSSA Testing; Berkeley on Bacon and the Indian Policy; Reading Apprenticeship: How to read / understand point/counterpoint
  1. Identify Berkeley's answer to Bacon
  2. Locate Berkeley's definition of treason
  3. Establish Berkeley's supporting points
  4. Determine how Berkeley counters Bacon
  5. Find the hinge pin

    Overall, determine which argument bears the test of historical accuracy and why. 

    Keep in mind: What work does history seek to do? What makes history authentic? What cultural work does history perform?    

4-17 Set up SHS Blog Accounts; Customize

4-02

PSSA Testing; Berkeley on Bacon's Indian Policy; Reading Apprenticeship: Understanding rebuttal in counterpoint 4-18 Mr. McMahon's Last Day Student Teaching

4-03

PSSA Testing; Laptops: Collaborative Project with Environmental Science: Media Project 4-19  
4-04

PSSA Testing; Laptops: Collaborative Project with Environmental Science: Media Project

4-20  
4-05

 

4-21 Set up NetVibes or PageFlakes Accounts; Customize; Check Blogs and RSS Feeds; Import student blogs and RJS webpage into Pageflakes or NetVibes (use Ginger version); Check Primary Source Homework New Unit: First 3 Readings for Thesis and Main Ideas; Take Climate Survey
4-06

 

4-22 Reading Apprenticeship: Understanding Golden Line and S.P.E.R.M. / Daily Life Implications for Primary Source Texts; Determining 3A's: Authority, Authenticity, and Author: Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity," Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God"; First Blog Post
4-07 PSSA Testing; Laptops: Collaborative Project with Environmental Science: Media Project 4-23 Reading Apprenticeship: Understanding Golden Line and S.P.E.R.M. / Daily Life Implications for Primary Source Texts; Determining 3A's: Authority, Authenticity, and Author: America's First Political Cartoon: "Join or Die"; Franklin's Way to Wealth
4-08 Laptops: Collaborative Project with Environmental Science: Media Project 4-24 Proofing IP Slides and Videos on Large Screen
4-09

Joint Presentations: Collaborative Project with Environmental Science: Media Project

4-25

Professional Development Day: No School

4-10

Joint Presentations: Collaborative Project with Environmental Science: Media Project; Continue Presentations (incomplete from 4-9); Washington, DC Trip

4-26  
4-11

Washington, DC Trip

4-27  
4-12

 

4-28 Import Blogs, Wikis, RJS Web page; IP Period; Finish Blog posting; Script meetings/revisions
4-13   4-29 Tagging Blogs;IP Period; Finalizing Scripts; Paperwork for PM and Weekend IP Practices due; Read next 4 Primary Source Texts and Outline for Thesis and Evidentiary Support
4-14 Joint Presentations: Collaborative Project with Environmental Science: Media Project; Continue Presentations (incomplete from 4-9) 4-30 PSSA Science: Period 3 Cancelled; Period 5 Auditorium: Proofing Slides and Videos
4-15 Joint Presentations: Collaborative Project with Environmental Science: Media Project; Continue Presentations (incomplete from 4-9)

 

 
4-16 IP Script Writing: Collaboration and Team Meetings