August 20, 2014

1.  Scholar Start: What was your favorite thing about summer?  What was your least favorite?
2.  Mood Meter:  Find Your Greatness

3.  Objectives:  Colonels can identify valuable student information to share with Mrs. Travis and learn about their new teacher.
4.  OCHS Procedures

1. Scholar Start:What was your favorite thing about World History this year? What was your least favorite?
2. Mood Meter
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Google Survey: Student Voice on Class

Mrs. Travis Link

1. Scholar Start: What impact do you think WW1 had on the key players in WW2?
2. Reflect on project through google forms.
3. Video: World Wars/SMARTNotes- How did the wars shaped leaders of our world?

Purple Cow PLC Rubric

1. Scholar Start: Reflect on your museum exhibit. What makes your exhibit interactive? What do you hope the museum visitors will get out of your interactive portion of your exhibit?

2. Museum Creation!

3. Things to remember:

• Conversation in your group should only consist of on topic conversation!
• You are working with YOUR group ONLY
• There is PLENTY to do, so don’t forget about what your museum exhibit will need, how will you make it interactive, and what will you include in the description that will tie your exhibit back to our Essential Question?
• STUDENT MODEL- DESCRIPTION

1. Scholar Start: Who is responsible for what in the creation of your museum exhibit?
2. Mood Meter: Awesome Reaction to College Acceptance Letters
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Museum Construction!
5. Link to Rubric

1. Scholar Start:Think about the topics covered this week: Atom Bomb, Women’s evolving roles, and the GI Bill. What are the economic ties to each of these topics that resulted from WWII?
2. Mood Meter: Evolution of End Zone Dancing
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Economic impact of Atom Bomb, women’s roles, and Gi Bill: Discuss
5. Make a copy of the Google doc below: using the resources from the last week, answer completely.
6. Is it All About the Benjamins? Or is it about more? ORQ

1. Scholar Start: How do we honor and reward those who sacrifice their lives for our country?
2. Mood Meter
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. How to GI Bill Changed the American Dream: Chart: GI BILL

Meal Paragraph:  How did the GI Bill impact America economically after WWII up until today?

GI Bill Article

History.com Video and Short Article

1. Scholar Start: What are are some of the roles that women play in today’s society? How do you think that has changed in the last 75 years?
2. Mood Meter
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Photo Analysis Worksheets
1. Before the War Photos
2. During the War Photos 
3. After the War Photos and Article
4. Quick Write: Compare women’s roles after WWII to women’s roles today.  Have gender roles truly changed economically and socially in today’s society?

1. Scholar Start: We know that WWII ended with the Nazi party being stopped. What do you think the world would be like if Hitler and the Nazis were victorious? Why do you think this?
2. Mood Meter: Evolution of Mom Dancing
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Video: Hitler and the Rise of Nazi War Machine (15 minutes)
5. Timeline: Chronology of War. Using this “See and Hear” interactive timeline resource, students will make their own timeline recording the events of World War II with a visual representation.
6. Pick one event from each year on the website and tell why you think it is the most significant of the year. Then have 5 visual representations on the timeline as well.

1. Scholar Start:What do you think is meant by the saying, Germans were the first victims of Hitler.
2. Mood Meter
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Why Hitler?

Characteristics of Strong Leader: (5 minutes) Table

5.Blank Table: Those characteristics and evidence from the video.

6.Microlab/Written Response: In what ways did Hitler use his charisma to victimize German citizens for his benefit/beliefs.

1. Scholar Start:If you were in conditions such as the ones we saw in the film of Europe, do you think economic systems such as communism or socialism would sound appealing to you? Why or Why not?
2. Mood Meter:Look Up
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Finish rise of Communism/Socialism
• Crash Course: Capitalism and Communisim
• Video-Russian Revolution
5. Germany’s Rise to Power

1. Scholar Start:Connect the following quote to Germany’s feelings after WWI: “There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.” -Margaret Thatcher
2. Mood Meter: Russia and Ukraine
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Finish up Hitler and German Response
5. Intro Video to Aftermath of WWI

Table: European Economic Hardships utilizing Website on Edmodo/Blog

Europe 1914
Europe 1919
World 1914
World 1919

1. Scholar Start:Germany was not included in the Treaty of Versailles negotiations. How would this make you feel if you were Germany? Predict the impacts of this on future global events.
2. Mood Meter: Never too young to dream...and dance!
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Treaty of Versailles Close Reading
5. Map Activity
6. German and Hitler’s Response to Treaty

1. Scholar Start:If you were President Wilson, what provisions would you have for the end of WWI?
2. Mood Meter:Patience Test
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
5. Negotiate Terms Activity

1. Scholar Start: What are the benefits of war? Consequences?
2. Mood Meter: What will you achieve
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Costs of War
5. Picture Analysis : Each group gets a visual image from the aftermath of WWI
6. Quick Write: Based on the photos you just analyzed, predict the economic consequences of the aftermath of World War One.  
7. 100 Years since beginning of WWI/Twitter #costofwar?

1. Scholar Start:List 5 things in your life that are super important.  Rank these “necessities”.
2. Mood Meter: 25 Reasons Why Education is Important
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Task Deconstruction: Is it All About the Benjamins?

1.  Scholar Start: How do you feel about the IA you took in March in comparison to the IA you took before winter break? Are the reading passages easier to understand?
2. Enthusiasm Meter: Hot Kool-Aid
3. Vlog: Peer and Self Assessment Rubric
4. Students will reflect on the Do good fences make good neighbors project:  Survey: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Project

5.  IA Reteach Lesson Activity

1. Scholar Start: What was the most memorable part of the Do good fences make good neighbors project?
2. Mood Meter: U-Move
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Students will assess their peers Vlogs’s: Do good fences make good neighbors.
5. Make a copy of Rubric and title it Vlog: Peer and Self assessment. Make a key at the bottom with the color each group member uses to assess your video.
6. Make sure Rubric is located in your World History folder!!

1. Scholar Start:What are two things you  have learned from the Wevideo editing process? Any new information you would like to share to help your peers?
2. Mood Meter:Dog Shame
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Finish videos
5. Edit or add finishing touches
6. How to upload videos to youtube. (other source depending on accessibility)

1. Scholar Start: What different effects or props can help you communicate your message for your video more effectively?
2. Mood Meter: Music Therapy
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Editing Workshop

1. Scholar Start:What criteria of the rubric must you and your peers meet to achieve mastery for the vlog portion of the project?
2. Mood Meter: 10 Things that Make You Happy
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Vlog Production Sessions: For more information, click on This week's presentation.

Teacher Model: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? 

1. Scholar Start: What are qualities of effective e-communication (using media such as video and the internet). What distinguishes effective e-communication from ineffective e-communication?
2. Mood Meter: Inspiration!
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Finishing touches on Editorial/Self Assessment
5. Vlog Production Session

1. Scholar Start:Why do journalists use video to present their opinions on current events?
2. Mood Meter: John Green Healthcare Editorial
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Editorial Workshop
5. Rubric Assessment: Copy Rubric and put in World History folder. Highlight your self assessment on the copy in your folder.

1. Scholar Start:What makes a good editorial? What goals must be met to have successfully written a good editorial?
2. Mood Meter: Kid President: How to Change the World
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Classroom Cultural Expectations
5. Editorial Workshop
6. Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Teacher Model
7. Self-Assess Work up to this point with Rubric

Roundtable Discussion Videos

Check out the playlist I created on youtube to use the Roundtable Videos as evidence in your editorial:
Roundtable Videos

1. Scholar Start:In present time, what are ways in which we express our opinion publicly?  What are the expectations for these forms of expression?
2. Mood Meter
3. Objectives and Agenda
4. Title IX Survey
5. Editorial