Dear Students & Families,
Each week's EELRs (Emergency Education Learning Resources) are listed below. As mentioned before, these activities/assignments are created to help students practice and maintain LA and SS skills during these weeks of school closures due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
These activities/assignments are optional and will not be graded at any points. However, students will have an opportunity to have feedback from Ms. Gilpin and myself.
Each week's EELRs (Emergency Education Learning Resources) are listed below. As mentioned before, these activities/assignments are created to help students practice and maintain LA and SS skills during these weeks of school closures due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
These activities/assignments are optional and will not be graded at any points. However, students will have an opportunity to have feedback from Ms. Gilpin and myself.
Week of April 6-10, 2020
Personal Primary Source Reflection
Task:
**Make sure you also incorporate your journal entry so I can have some content and make sure the content is something that you are comfortable with both of us reading.
Integrated LA/SS
Analysis practice
The goal of this activity is to identify the parts of a good paragraph.
Task: Assignment on Teams, there are sample paragraph that you will need to read and identify the BTS, evidence and analysis.
Memoirs: Making History
Task: Write one or more personal journal entries for this week while school is closed, more detailed directions in Teams and on Ms. Nguyen’s website. Upload to the Teams assignment, “Journal Entry Week 4/6-4/10” so Ms. Gilpin and Ms. Nguyen can follow along with your experience!
Task:
- Choose one journal entry from your Memoir: Making History assignment. If you didn’t do this assignment or want to write a more updated journal entry, feel free!
- After you have selected a journal entry, pretend that you are a historian or student of history in the future. Let’s say 2050 or further! You have been asked to read the journal entry of a high school student’s experience living through the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic.
- Write a short source reflection on the source. Consider the sources origins, purpose, content, value, and limitations it would have for historians understanding the pandemic and its impact on the public at the time. You can write your reflection in a paragraph or two or if you prefer making an OPCVL chart, that’s fine too.
**Make sure you also incorporate your journal entry so I can have some content and make sure the content is something that you are comfortable with both of us reading.
Integrated LA/SS
Analysis practice
The goal of this activity is to identify the parts of a good paragraph.
Task: Assignment on Teams, there are sample paragraph that you will need to read and identify the BTS, evidence and analysis.
Memoirs: Making History
Task: Write one or more personal journal entries for this week while school is closed, more detailed directions in Teams and on Ms. Nguyen’s website. Upload to the Teams assignment, “Journal Entry Week 4/6-4/10” so Ms. Gilpin and Ms. Nguyen can follow along with your experience!
Week of March 30 - April 3, 2020
Check your Crash Course Viewing Guide
If you turned in a completed Crash Course Imperialism Viewing Guide, you can go to Teams to check your answer, there should be an answer key in your submitted assignment already or by the end of the day.
For all other SS assignments that you turned in, feedback will be given to you by next week.
Integrated LA/SS
Thesis practice
The goal of the activity is to review the three parts of a thesis.
Task: Dissect and identify the HOW, WHAT and SO WHAT in some sample thesis. The activity is in a Teams assignment called, “Dissecting a Thesis”
Cecil Rhodes Language Analysis practice
Task: Using the same source from last week’s OPCVL source analysis (Cecil Rhodes excerpt), write a thesis driven paragraph analyzing the rhetoric (pathos, logos, and ethos) and/or propaganda techniques that contributes to the author’s purpose (review your OPCVL chart if you forgot author’s purpose). Your paragraph should have at least two quotes from the text.
Submit to Teams by Friday at 3pm for feedback the following week.
Memoirs: Making History
On any given day we are living history, but it just so happens that we are now living through a globally historic event: COVID-19 pandemic 2020. Become the primary source that high schoolers will eagerly cite, and Netflix will want to buy.
Task: Write one or more personal journal entries per week while school is closed, more detailed directions in Teams or here. Upload to the Teams assignment, “Journal Entry Week 3/30-4/3” so Ms. Gilpin and Ms. Nguyen can follow along with your experience!
OPCVL Source Analysis practice (from last week)
If you did not get a chance to work on this activity last week, you will have another opportunity to work on it this week.
Submit by Friday at 3pm for feedback.
**Please note that you will just receive feedback the week after the following for it. Those that did this last week will receive feedback next week.
If you turned in a completed Crash Course Imperialism Viewing Guide, you can go to Teams to check your answer, there should be an answer key in your submitted assignment already or by the end of the day.
For all other SS assignments that you turned in, feedback will be given to you by next week.
Integrated LA/SS
Thesis practice
The goal of the activity is to review the three parts of a thesis.
Task: Dissect and identify the HOW, WHAT and SO WHAT in some sample thesis. The activity is in a Teams assignment called, “Dissecting a Thesis”
Cecil Rhodes Language Analysis practice
Task: Using the same source from last week’s OPCVL source analysis (Cecil Rhodes excerpt), write a thesis driven paragraph analyzing the rhetoric (pathos, logos, and ethos) and/or propaganda techniques that contributes to the author’s purpose (review your OPCVL chart if you forgot author’s purpose). Your paragraph should have at least two quotes from the text.
Submit to Teams by Friday at 3pm for feedback the following week.
Memoirs: Making History
On any given day we are living history, but it just so happens that we are now living through a globally historic event: COVID-19 pandemic 2020. Become the primary source that high schoolers will eagerly cite, and Netflix will want to buy.
Task: Write one or more personal journal entries per week while school is closed, more detailed directions in Teams or here. Upload to the Teams assignment, “Journal Entry Week 3/30-4/3” so Ms. Gilpin and Ms. Nguyen can follow along with your experience!
OPCVL Source Analysis practice (from last week)
If you did not get a chance to work on this activity last week, you will have another opportunity to work on it this week.
Submit by Friday at 3pm for feedback.
**Please note that you will just receive feedback the week after the following for it. Those that did this last week will receive feedback next week.
Week of March 23-27, 2020
History content refresher
Learning Objective: Review history content that we have learned thus far
*great for students who have been missing class the last couple of weeks before the school closures
Directions:
OPCVL Source Analysis practice
Learning Object: Practice source analysis, analyzing the values and limitations of a source
*practice for paper writing and a skill that will be required next year
Directions:
Motives for Imperialism Chart
This was the last thing we worked on before leaving and it was assigned as homework before we left.
Finish up the chart, scan or take a picture of the chart and upload it to the Teams assignment and I will share with you the answer key to check your work.
Learning Objective: Review history content that we have learned thus far
*great for students who have been missing class the last couple of weeks before the school closures
Directions:
- Watch the Crash Course World History #35: Imperialism (https://youtu.be/alJaltUmrGo?t=201) with the viewing guide posted Teams.
- Submit by this Friday at 3pm and I will provide an answer key (via your Teams submission) for you the check your answers.
OPCVL Source Analysis practice
Learning Object: Practice source analysis, analyzing the values and limitations of a source
*practice for paper writing and a skill that will be required next year
Directions:
- You are given a primary source, critically read it, and fill out the guided OPCVL chart.
- The assignment with detailed directions is in Teams.
Motives for Imperialism Chart
This was the last thing we worked on before leaving and it was assigned as homework before we left.
Finish up the chart, scan or take a picture of the chart and upload it to the Teams assignment and I will share with you the answer key to check your work.