Tidbits from Tibbetts

April 13

Students in my 2nd, 3rd and 4th period classes need to finish up the county government and city government worksheets tonight for homework!

AC - 1st period needs to work on the GA Squares worksheet for homework

April 11-13

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

2nd, 3rd and 4th  hour classes will finish our look at Georgia's role in World War II tomorrow.

Download WWII

 

1st 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

April 1st

 
The students were given a CRCT review packet today.  Download SOCIAL STUDIES CRCT REVIEW  You must complete page one of the packet over the break.  We will continue to work on the review packet during the week of CRCT. 

HAVE A SAFE AND RELAXING SPRING BREAK AND COME BACK READY TO WORK ON APRIL 11 :)

March 29 - April 1

March 28 - Finished Chapter 11 Guided Reading and took notes on FDR's New Deal programs.

March 29

 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 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?

March 30 -

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

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

March 31 - CAREER DAY/LOCAL GOVERNMENT

April 1 - Complete Civil Rights 

 

 

March 21- 23

March 21- students received a Guided Reading Packet for Chapter 10 and took the Benchmark 3 test.

March 22 - copy down the calendar answers below:

March 23 - We will take notes about Georgia's role in World War I in class. Download Worldwar1powerpoint and answer the attached questions. Download Worldwar1questions

We will review the March calendar in all classes March 22 . 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

March 15 - AC Project

AC New South Newspaper

1st 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

 

March 14 - 18

March 14, 2011

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.

 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 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 students will work on the New South newspaper assignment.  Completed newspapers must be ready for our "gallery walk" when students come to class Friday.

 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 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

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.

 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 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

March 4

Today, students will finish the study guide for the Civil War. AC students will recieve the worksheet on Reconstruction.  Please study over the weekend and be prepared to test on Monday, March 7.

Ms Tibbetts

Feb. 28

There will be a February Calendar Quiz tomorrow. Please study tonight!

 

Feb. 14 -18

Week of February 14th

We will begin our study of the Civil War this week (chapter 8 in the text).

AC Classes:  Download CIVIL WAR MENU PLANNER  We will be working in the medial center this week.

2nd, 3rd and 4th  Hour classes:   Download CIVIL WAR ASSIGNMENTS CHECKLIST

Students will work in pairs using the text and the Atlas of United States History to complete assignments.

 

The attached assignments will be completed:

Download TheRoadtoWarQuestions

Download NorthSouthResources

Download CivilWarStrategies

Download CivilWarKeyBattles