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Friday, January 13, 2023

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Happy Friday Maroon Team families! We are now two school weeks into the new calendar year and the students have already started some major thinking about next year! Course recommendations for core area teachers were due this past week and on Friday the students watched a video about the electives that are available to the students in the high school. 

This Past Week: 

Here's a quick rundown of what we did this past week: 
  • Monday: On Monday the students started to investigate the history of the interaction between the various Native American tribes in the west and the United States government as our nation expanded. The students started working in collaborative groups to help identify and explain 32 different terms related to this unit.  
  • Tuesday: The students finalized their terms today and we reviewed and discussed them by playing a Gimkit to help them make sense of the events. 
  • Wednesday: The students did an activity called an "Iron Chef Eduprotocol" today.  Each desk group had one student become an expert on one of the following events, and then shared out their information in presentations: 
    • Chief Redclouds War 
    • The Sand Creek Massacre 
    • Custer's Last Stand 
    • The Massacre at Wounded Knee Creek 
  • Thursday: The students started to work on the assignment called #040-List/Group/Label. We took some time to ensure the students understood the assignment and how they would be graded because it is deceptively simple. In this assignment, the students are asked to create groups of 3-5 terms from the list of terms they researched earlier this week--they then create labels for each grouping of terms and explain how they are connected. 
  • Friday: Today was all about next year--we spent the entire period watching the high school course electives video listed above. 



Next Week: 

Here are a few highlights of what the different classes will be doing next week: 

Social Studies (Pd. 1, 4 & 5):
  • The students will start the week by working on completing the #040-List/Group/Label activity we started last week. Tuesday will be the last day to work on it in class and it will be due Thursday night (after another Independent Workday in WIN). 
  • The students will also complete their last graded assignment of this quarter when they work on combining all of the information we've discussed this quarter to help them answer the driving question--"Should the United States pay reparations to Native American tribes?"

Honor's Social Studies (Pd 2 & 8):
  • The students will start the week by working on completing the #040-List/Group/Label activity we started last week. Tuesday will be the last day to work on it in class and it will be due Thursday night (after another Independent Workday in WIN). 
  • We'll look into a series of primary source documents from the Carlisle Indian School towards the end of this week. 

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