Kathy O'Reilly

Trunk Show Assignment

All classes will begin working on the Trunk Show Download TrunkShowRevised assignment in class Thursday.

April calendar 

Local Government Powerpoint

Students, you may find this powerpoint helpful as you complete the local government activities.

Download Local Government and Citizenshipabridged

Week of April 11th

I hope you had a wonderful spring break.  We will be preparing for the social studies crct this week.  The social studies test is scheduled for Monday, April 18th.  Please come to class with any questions about the CRCT review packet and be ready to move quickly!

The answers to the April calendar are:

1  Benjamin Mayes

4.  Carl Vinson

5.  Richard Russell

6.  Lend-Lease

7.  Ivan Allen

8.  William Hartsfield

11.  Ellis Arnall

12.  Ted Turner

13.  Sibley Commission

14.  SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordiating Committee)

15.  albany Movement

18.  Warm Springs

19.  Jimmy Carter

20.  Maynard Jackson

21.  MARTA, school districts

22.  county

25.  city

26.  local property taxes

27.  Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax

28.at least 18 years old, a citizen of the U.S., and a legal resident of Georgia and the county in which he or she registers

29. foreign nationals who choose to become American citizens and give up thier citizenship in those other countries

1st, 2nd, & 3rd hour classes will finish our look at Georgia's role in World War II tomorrow.

Download WWII

 

4th hour ac students will begin a unit on local government and citizenship (pages 564 - 583).

Download Countygovernmentquestions

Download Citygov

The attached CRCT review is very helpful!  Download Crct-review...download-print-and-study

 

All classes will be working on the CRCT review packet this week. 

Download Social-studies-crct-review-4-1

 

Spring Break Assignments

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hour Classes:

1.  Finish April calendarDownload April Calendar

2.  Finish Civil Rights timeline using the timeline on page 423 in text. Download CIVIL RIGHTS TIMELINE

3.  Finish page one of CRCT review packet. Download Social-studies-crct-review-4

 

4th Hour: AC

1.  Finish April calendar Download April Calendar

2.  Finish power point activities

• Download Moderngeorgiafrom Talmadge to Young Write an epitaph for each of the politicians described in the powerpoint.
• Download Post-world-war-ii-developments-in-georgia-1 Complete the activities described in the last slide.

3.  Complete page one of CRCT review packet and the section on government.  Download Social-studies-crct-review-4

 

If you did not turn in your Civil Rights learning stations activities, be sure to complete the activities over the break. Download CIVIL RIGHTS UNIT LEARNING CENTERS

Remember: Text website- www.mystatehistory.com

Check out Georgia Stories at www.gpb.org  user name: brown  password:  thrasher

Have a great spring break!

March 29th

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hour Classes:

1.  Notes on Georgia's New Deal Governors:  Download Georgia's New Deal Governors Revised

2.  Video:  FDR and Warm Springs

3.  Homework:  Read pages 398 - 401 "4 W's": Who? What? Where? When? and "H"-How did each of the New Deal governors impact Georgia?

Students will complete a civil rights "scavenger hunt" Download CIVIL RIGHTS SCAVENGER HUNTin class tomorrow.

AC students worked in the media center on civil rights stations. Download CIVIL RIGHTS UNIT LEARNING CENTERS

Download CIVIL RIGHTS SCAVENGER HUNT  We will finish this activity in class tomorrow.

 

Week of March 28th

Students will receive a progress report Monday.  Any missing assignments must be made up by Friday, April 1.

Activities for the Week:

AC:

Monday- FDR's New Deal programs and their impact on Georgia.  Check out "The Roosevelt Rap" at Internet Archive-FDR Presidential Library

Tuesday/Wednesday- Civil Rights Learning Centers  Download CIVIL RIGHTS UNIT LEARNING CENTERS

Download CIVIL RIGHTS SCAVENGER HUNT

Thursday-Georgia's role in World War II.  Use the text to complete a graphic organizer and pie chart to examine Georgia's contributions to the war.

Friday-Students will begin work on CRCT packet.

 

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hour Classes:

Monday-Great Depression and New Deal We will focus on the following New Deal programs:

• Agricultural Adjustment Administration
• Civilian conservation Corps
• Rural Electrification
• Social Security Act

Download Great-depression-3

Tuesday/Wednesday-Civil Rights Movement 

Download CIVIL RIGHTS SCAVENGER HUNT

Download CIVIL RIGHTS TIMELINE

Thursday-Career Day (Focus on local government)

Friday-Students will begin work on CRCT review packet

 

We will be moving quickly.  Please be sure to complete any missing work by Friday!  

We will look at post-World War II Georgia   Download Post-world-war-ii-developments-in-georgia-1 and local government Download Local-Governments after Spring Break! 

March 21st

AC Class:  Students turned in the New South Round-Up questions. Complete guided reading for homework.

1st, 2nd, 3rd hour Classes: You will complete the guided reading in class tomorrow.  Finish the New South Round-Up for homework.

We will take notes about Georgia's role in World War I in class tomorrow. Download Worldwar1powerpoint and answer the attached questions. Download Worldwar1questions

We will review the March calendar in all classes tomorrow. Download March 2011

Answers to March Calendar:

1.  Reconstruction

2.  Carpetbagger

3.  Freedmen's Bureau

4.  Scalawag

7.  Andrew Johnson

8.  13th

9.  14th

10.  15th

11. Tenant farmers could make a small profit.

14.  Henry McNeal Turner

15.  Ferguson

16.  Henry Grady

17.  Bourbon

18.  Julliette Gordon Low

21.  Tom Watson

22.  Rural Free Delivery

23.  Jim Crow Laws

24.  Booker T. Washington

25.  Atlanta Compromise

28.  W.E.B. DuBois

29.  Leo Frank

30.  Zimmerman Telegram, sinking of the Lusitania

31.  John Styth Pemberton

 

 

Week of March 14th

AC students will work on the New South newspaper assignment.  Completed newspapers must be ready for our "gallery walk" when students come to class Friday.

1st, 2nd, 3rd hour students will begin the section on the Bourbon Redeemers Download Georgiaredemptionyears(pages 312-316).  We will take powerpoint notes Download Bourbontriumvirategovernors  Download New South and students will create flip books for important people and events of the era.

Students in all classes will complete a quiz about the New South in class Friday.

Text book pages used for Redemption and New South: 312 - 360

Coach Book pages:  106 -116

AC New South Newspaper

4th Hour students will begin work on a newspaper for the New South era. Download Newsouthnewspaperprojectrubric

The following websites will be helpful in completing this assignment:

ikeepbookmarks

Georgia Studies Images

On level students created brochuresDownload Reconstruction Pamphlet to review the Reconstruction period using notesDownload RECONSTRUCTION.  Brochures were due Friday.

Week of March 7th

1st, 2nd, & 3rd Hour classes will complete the Civil War test Monday. Download Civil-war-study-guide

4th Hour AC class will continue looking at the period of Reconstruction.

All classes may use the attached powerpoint to preview Reconstruction  Download RECONSTRUCTION

You may access the video clip at Georgia Public Broadcasting.  Your user name is brown and password is thrasher. The title of the video clip is The Saga of Reconstruction.

AC classes will begin working on a New South newspaper project on Thursday.  Download New South

All students should continue working on the March calendar.  Download March 2011