Immigrant Experiences - Avalon-

Today's Agenda:

"Ellis Island"
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• Discuss comments from yesterday's Today's Meet
• Watch Avalon

HW:  Immigration research

Local news: Should we extend the death penalty to people that kill innocent toddlers? Here is the article about a Somerswoth NH man that was just sentenced to 30 years in prison for smothering his girlfriends two year old.
 

The Marginalized

Today's Agenda:

• Finish the poetry analysis
• Drawing conclusions about the Native American experience (no separate assessment for the N.A)
• Back to the immigrant experience: Avalon, Today's Meet

"Assimilation of Native Americans" 
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Contemporary Native Americans

Today's Agenda:


• Immigration project-introduce
• Sherman Alexie and Margaret Atwood Poems: literary elements, themes, and connections to history
• Bringing the Native American experience/ideas together and to a close
• Short clip from Smoke Signals

"The Smoke Signal" by Frederic Remington
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Native American Resistance/Legacy

Today's Agenda:

"Sitting Bull" This image (or other media file) is in the public domain

• Retaliation for Custer and his men: Newspaper Account of the Event
• Wounded Knee Massacre Video is from Ken Burn's The West
• Looking back...
• Other failed resistance efforts...
• Sherman Alexie's blog again if you are interested in reading a funny contemporary native American

Rememberance: Today is the 50 year anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Here is ABC's coverage of the day.

Native American Resistance 1850-1890

Today's Agenda:

Article: Lincoln and the Execution of the Sioux
Custer's Last Stand/The Battle of Little BigHorn handout/map
Custer's Last Stand video
Conclusions?

"Custers Last Stand"This media file is in the public domain in the United States

HW:

Answer any of the following questions in the comments for today's blog post.

• What 3 ideas did you take away from the video? 
• What questions did you have during the documentary?  What ideas were interesting to you?  
• What surprises you about the encounter between Native Americans and the Seventh Calvary?  

The Marginalized

Today's Agenda:

• Review the Homework/Discussion of Native American demise in the second half of the 19th century.
• Lecture/Discussion: Native American Resistance (1850-1890)
• Sand Creek Massacre from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• Video Clip

An actual Native American author today!

Sherman Alexie. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

The Marginalized

Today's Agenda:

• The Jungle Test
• Review the Children of the Plains
• Stats and Statistics: The Current Status of Native Americans in the U.S. 
• Lecture/Discussion: The Native American "Problem"
• Pageant Activity: Use Chapter 26 to answer the following question: What led to the decline of Native American life in the second half of the 19th century? Specifically, cite three different examples from the chapter to support your answer.

"Her Know, Dakota Sioux 1899"  This work is in the public domain in the United States

                                         

Totally Random...

Here is a video of my two favorite things, Katy Perry and a child overcoming a disability!

The Marginalized

Today's Agenda:

• Smore Submissions (see video below)
• Review The Jungle - test tomorrow 
• Writing Prompt
• Native American Intro

If interested, here is a recent article from the Atlantic about the real differences between Republicans and Democrats.

HW:

• Submit your Smore
• On this blog entry, post your thoughts about "Children of the Plains"
• What surprises you?
• What angers you?  
• Other thoughts/comments/questions

Smore Submissions

Please submit your Smore on this post!

Spencer Adamson

Taylor Bramhall

Colton Burnham

Luisa Cobar

Jessica DeRosa

Matthew Descoteaux

James Dogil

Elena Fischer

Patrick Frydryck

Kerri McCarron

John McCarthy

Mercedez McManus

Maleeha Mohammed

Emily Morris

Olivia Mosto

Emma Mulry

Emilyann Nault

Dominic Palermo

Michael Parisi

Mikayla Ramsdell

Brad Ratay

Olivia Redden

Stephanie Rodriguez

Kaleigh Samowski

Logan Shore

Isabella Thibodeau

Ben Wilson

Janny Zhang

Smore Introduction/Layout

Today's Agenda:

• Libguide for today
• Examine Smores
• discuss layout
• pros/cons
• text layout
• Google doc: "Suggestions for Smore"
• Evaluating your information 
• purpose of Smore

HW:  Smore 

Researching

Today's Agenda:

• The Jungle Test
• Canceled!!!  I am sorry...I planned too much!
• Inventions Project - Questions
• Using Wikipedia - What is appropriate?  
• Databases and Search Terms
• Easy Bib Introduction
• How to log on 
• How to use 
• Library

HW:  Gather your information on Easy Bib

List of inventions

Here is the list.

Difficulties in City Life...But the Innovations!

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss Spirit Reading from the weekend
• Chapters 3 and 5 discussion
• Introduction to Invention Project, list of inventions, project workshet
• Creative Commons Tutorial
• Google Form
• Google Forms tutorial

Homework:  Begin reading Chapter 26 in Pageant-The American West

Interesting article about the Common App. from Slate. Almost all of you will be exposed to this next year as you apply to college.

Veteran's Day

Insightful and funny commentary from comedian George Carlin on our servicemen.

Love to watch servicemen and women reuniting with their families!

Killing Kennedy

Airing Sunday night at 8pm on the National Geographic Channel is the TV movie based on the O'Reilly book on the Kennedy Assassination from Lee Harvey Oswald's perspective. Here is the link. Watching this is not required but if you have a chance check it out.

Social Media Use

I found this article about Twitter and college admissions...something we may all want to consider!

Immigrants, city life, entrepreneurs -- Is there a way to work together?

Today's Agenda:

Carnegie 1903 by Louis Dalrymple.  Image is
for use in the public domain. 

• Far and Away debrief
• themes
• characterization
• symbols
• connections
• political machine -
• examine yesterday's political cartoon
• examine today's political cartoon
• connection to yesterday's Spirit reading
• The Jungle chapters 3 and 5 - discussion

HW:  "An Immigrant Woman Face Life Alone in the Big City"

Art Analysis document for Currier

City Life

The Political/Industrial Machine
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Today's Agenda:

• Review: Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth
• Conclusions from Far and Away
• The Political Machine
• Theme
• Characterization
• Immigrant Experience
• Chapter 3 and 5 discussion of The Jungle

For Further Discussion: 41% of young adults will live substantially below the poverty line. Here is the information to prove the following point: "Young adults are lazy, unmotivated to work, and are a financial burden to hard working Americans."

Enriching Information: Here is an interesting article from a very popular conservative financial guru Dave Ramsey about personal money management, how to avoid debt, and become wealthy.

Forging an Industrial Society

Today's Agenda:

• Quick Write: Use specific issues/examples that we discussed in class or ones that came from the article we read.
• Draw a conclusion about yesterday's discussion on wealth/morality/and how we make decisons about what is right and wrong. 
• Is Moralism Dead? OR
• What is the problem with trying to legislate morality? 
• Continue the film Far and Away using Today's Meet
• conclusions/connections to immigration, big business, city life
• Homework: read Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth
• Continue reading chapter 25 in Pageant 

Forging an Industrial Society

Today's Agenda:

Finish the review of the "Industrialists" (Chapter 24 in Pageant)
Discussion: Wealth and Morality
Review: article from last night

Further reading (optional) from Slate: "Why does Sweden have so Many Billionaires?"

Begin reading Chapter 25 in Pageant "America Moves to the City"

Immigration - Corruption in Big Business

Today's Agenda:

• Review major concepts from Friday
• Far and Away - Today's Meet
• Review Industrialists - chapter 24 of Pageant
• discussion about wealth - contemporary connections

HW:  

• Reading: Is America Less Moralistic Now, or has its code just changed? from the Atlantic
• Come in with questions and/or comments about the article.
• You may need to read the article 2 times!  Mrs. Desjadon needed to!  The sentence structures are challenging.  
• The Jungle Chapters 3 and 5 due Wednesday - 

The Jungle

Today's Agenda:

• Quiz chapter 2
• Characterization - chapters 1 and 2 
• History work time