WEEKLY CALENDAR (SEPT 10, 2012 – NOV 2, 2012) Week Guiding Questions Topics/Lessons Assessments (diagnostic, formative, summative, interim) Key Vocabulary 1 1. How has the environment changed since the Industrial Revolution? 2. Is there a relationship between “Global Warming” and industrialization? Global Warming and Industrialization graphs to finds trends and changes Pre-assessment question: What role do industry and technology play in your life Graph analysis Global Warming Revolution Industrialization Standards Assessed: Reading: RH6-8.1-2 Week Guiding Questions Topics/Lessons Assessments (diagnostic, formative, summative, interim) Key Vocabulary 2 3. Why is alternative energy being debated in our society? Distinguishing fact and opinion using informational texts Chart distinguishing fact / opinion based on class articles Green policy Alternative Energy Standards Assessed: Reading: RH 6-8.1, 2, 4, 6, 8 Week Guiding Questions Topics/Lessons Assessments (diagnostic, formative, summative, interim) Key Vocabulary 3 4. How has technology affected the industrial growth of the United States? Compare photos of different of transportation Discuss the level of efficiency of each DBQ test Performance Task 1: whether the Industrial Technology Canals Revolution Industries
5. How did the invention of the railroad and the building of canals help the Industrial Revolution? Revolution had a positive or negative effect on the environment Standards Assessed: Reading: RH 6-8.1-2 Writing: WHST 6-8.1-2 Week Guiding Questions Topics/Lessons Assessments (diagnostic, formative, summative, interim) Key Vocabulary 4 6. What is a Company vs. a Corporation? 7. What is the stock market? How can it affect our everyday life? company and corporation of how the stock market operates diagram comparing and contrasting company vs. corporation specific stocks in the stock market Corporation Stocks Market Companies Buying on margin Standards Assessed: Reading: RH 6-8.4 Week Guiding Questions Topics/Lessons Assessments (diagnostic, formative, summative, interim) Key Vocabulary 5 8. How did an economic collapse and an environmental disaster the Great Depression? Causes leading to Black Tuesday Immediate reactions to stock market crash Chart 3 causes of the crash Analyze graphs and photos of the Great Plains and explain their Dust Bowl Black Tuesday
How the Dust Bowl affected and deepened the Depression impact on the Depression. Standards Assessed: Reading: RH6-8.1-2, RH6-8.7 Week Guiding Questions Topics/Lessons Assessments (diagnostic, formative, summative, interim) Key Vocabulary 6 9. How did the great Depression affect the life of the Americans? How to analyze primary sources Determining reliable primary sources Performance Task #2: Photo Essay – Choose 5 primary sources from class that depict the difficulties of life during the Great Depression Hooverville Primary / secondary sources Standards Assessed: Reading: RH6-8.1-2. RH6-8.7 Writing: WHST6-8.2 Week Guiding Questions Topics/Lessons Assessments (diagnostic, formative, summative, interim) Key Vocabulary 7 10. How did the country recover from the depression? 11. How did the collapse of Wall Street lead to the biggest mortgage crisis in history? Skim and scan FDR’s New Deal programs Compare / contrast economic crisis of ’29 and ‘08 Venn diagram of both crashes Comprehension questions based on the New Deal Regulation Taxes Class Income Mortgage Economic crisis