Tuesday 10/31

Happy Halloween. Enjoy this photo of a bat.

If you were absent today, we watched this

Monday 10/29

I ASSESS AND REVISE MY WORK

Debrief: <<-- LINK

Homework: Final draft due tomorrow for teacher assessment, grading, and sending to our reps.

Friday 10/26

Daily Learning Target: .I can ACTIVELY participate in our democracy around issues of immigration

Do Now: A survey on yesterday. (yes, complete even if you were out) <-- this is a link!

See yesterday's post for links & instructions on the letter.

Homework: Complete an updated draft of your letter for Monday


this article is good / helpful: NPR
Here's the most recent bill brought up in the senate: Dream Act 2017


Debrief: 9 weeks out of 40 are complete. What thoughts or feedback to you have going forward?

Thursday 10/26/2017

Greetings.
I hope you don't miss me too terribly in my absence. Please follow these steps, and I hope you have a strong class without me.

1) Who represents you in Washington? If you don't know, ask a friend sitting near you.

2) Hey, guess what I found out via twitter tonight? You can confirm or deny your predictions from yesterday's discussion:

3) Okay now that you've read that....  The answer to question 1 is.....  Elizabeth Warren & Ed Markey both represent you as your senators. Richard Neal represents you in the House of Representatives, as he represents the 1st Congressional District, which includes Berkshire County, as well as parts of Hampshire, Hampden, and Worcester counties.

4) You should use your notebook to take notes on the following
a. This video: on DACA

b. These articles (Article 1, Article 2), providing different perspectives on DACA

5) Begin drafting a letter to your representatives, which we will continue to work on tomorrow. Instructions: Write to your representatives, either supporting or opposing the DREAM ACT, pulling information from the articles given or other articles from reputable sources. In the letter you should do the following: introduce yourself (name, age, school, city), urge your representative to vote for or against the DREAM ACT, explain two or three reasons why you support or oppose the DREAM ACT, and include evidence or anecdotes to support your reasons and thank your representative for their time. Space it 1.5, rather than double space. It needs to be LESS than one page. (not counting the formatting, addresses, etc)

6) For Homework, Read through a few of the following websites & articles to increase your quantity of evidence for your letter.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/immigration/enrollment
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/census/2010/explorer.html
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2009.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/04/26/nyregion/26family.graphic.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/magazine/24DreamTeam-t.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=C848EEA027F9860EDBF5D971D0269F65&gwt=pay
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/the-possible-dream/?mtrref=undefined&gwh=D8B0ADA9F7BF747C7F236D82562A8D3A&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion
https://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/immigrant-children-in-legal-limbo/?mtrref=undefined&gwh=C331BD56D737A6AEB63138E5D77B70D7&gwt=pay
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/opinion/lweb24immig.html?



mtrref=undefined&gwh=26FBA963B6D9C30BE7E3A9B98AD78AE7&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion

More Sad News Regarding ICE / Border Patrol

Wednesday 10/25

Today's class involves a discussion around this article....

"The case of the undocumented teen who..."

Guiding Questions

·      What are the various conflicts highlighted by this conflict?

·      What are arguments and viewpoints of the various parties involved?

·      Which individuals and groups are being “defiant” and in what capacity?

·      When is it okay, or is it ever okay, to defy or go against a law?

·      What should happen?

·      How do you think this story will play out? What will be the likely outcome? Why?

Tuesday 10/24

DLT: I can identify the various groups of immigrants who came to America and when.

DO NOW CLICK HERE --- when you're done, download a copy of the video notecatcher below

We'll spend the beginning part of class talking about last night's reading. Then we'll watch a video responding to the grade's request to know "which immigrants came to the US and when?" which was voted by many as a point of interest.

Download a copy of this Video Notecatcher and save it to your onedrive. You can take your notes on this document OR if you'd prefer, you can set up your notes the same way in your notebook.

For folks who are out, here's the link to the video we're watching in class today

DEBRIEF: Answer this question

Homework: Continue reading the list of articles from yesterday. These all need to be read with about a half page of notes per article by Thursday. Note: There are EIGHT articles and most of them are fairly long, so manage your time well!

Monday 10/23

Monday 10/23

D.LT: I can evaluate key legislation in America’s immigration history

1) Voting on our Haikus
--> Vote Here <--

Crucial Legislation all of you should know about [[This document lists out all the laws from the other timeline we looked at last week]]

Naturalization Act of 1790 [The US has come a long way since its first, highly restrictive naturalization law]

Emergency Quota Act of 1921 / Immgration Act of 1924 [Eugenics Laws Restricting Immigration]

1965 Immigration & Nationality Act[Fifty Years On, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Continues to Reshape the United States

Immigration Act of 1990 [George Bush Statement on Signing the Immigration Act of 1990]

DACA ["Trump Moves to End DACA"] ["Obama's Full Statement on DACA"] / DAPA ["Supreme Court Acts, and Obama's Immigration Legacy Takes a Hit"] ["Trump Rolls Back DAPA"]


DEBRIEF DOC

Homework:

Read this article

Answer these questions before & during reading the article

Friday 10/20

DLT. I can evaluate the immigration history of the US

Do Now:  You have the first 15 minutes of class, from the bell, to complete your mini-poster

During class today we will be completing a gallery walk of our timeline 

Questions for Gallery Walk

After that we will work on our HAIKUs summarizing our nation's immigration history.

5

7

5

Haikus will be submitted here

Homework: No Homework this weekend

Thursday 10/19

Immigration Timeline

Requirements.

• Create a Mini-Poster for your assigned topic
• 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper
• Year & Title Large at the Top
• Balance of words and illustration. color is good.
• Should adequately and accurately explain & summarize your event (consider WHY your law was made / what was going on in the world that may have motivated US legislators to pass such a law)
• Research 3 sources to support your work (write down sources on back of poster)

Scoring: ST3 I can clearly convey information and ideas through effective organization

ST4: I can produce clear and coherent writing

Wednesday 10.18

Do Now: Based on last night's homework (see post below!), what things that are your most important priorities for this unit? Respond here please

Responses to Video Here


Homework: Find 3 news articles from the last month only, online, that are related to immigration and post each to the form in the link below with a brief one-sentence description of the article. Each story must come from a different source.

THIS FORM for homework submissions

Tuesday 10/17

Remember.... Our new target is...
"I can analyze the experience of immigrants who moved to America and evaluate the success of their integration into American society"

After we complete the timeline activity, we will have quiet reading time with a selection of texts, jigsawed across the classroom. You will read the same text as your neighbors. While reading, take notes independently, but discuss & synthesize your document together. 

[[CLICK ANY QUESTION TO OPEN THE SURVEY TO ANSWER THEM]]

1. What are the core ideas of the reading?
2. What are the most important supporting details? 
3. Are there any specific statistics or data included?
4. Does the author have an agenda / opinion?
5. What is your overall takeaway -- how does this reading bring you closer to the learning target?

1. Dream Act

2. INS Part 1

3. INS Part 2

4. INS Part 3

5. The Wall

6. White Nationalism

7. Immigration as Curriculum? 

8. Springfield Refugee Resettlement // Also Read two or three stories from the UN Refugee Site


Homework: Vice Reading

Look through “The New Americans” for at least 10 minutes

In ¾+ page, based on class and homework readings, What do you hope to see in this immigration unit over these next few weeks?

Monday 1-/16 Immigration

New Long Term Target!!
I can analyze the experience of immigrants who moved to America and evaluate the success of their integration into American society

Please complete these three questions for your do no.

DO NOW: Survey Here

Homework: Research the even on your slip of paper and write a 1 paragraph summary about it. Catch: your summary should not mention the NAME of the event, or the DATE of the event!



Later in class we will complete

this one

Closing out our RECONSTRUCTION Target

YOUR PAPERS

Here's the scoop with how I want your paper.

(note, if you already shared me to your file, you don't need to re-share, you just need to change the name)

Step 1: Find your rubric from the instruction packet, put your name on it, put it into the inbox.

Step 2:

Ideal: Change the filename of your paper to "11.(your section) FINAL LT1 Last, First" (where that is your name) Make sure I'm shared into your document on OneDrive. Click the "share" button and type in "Galanis" and "Galanis, Jonathan" will show up. Click it. Share with me.

Only if you absolutely HAVE to: 

Do the same as above, but on googledocs.

Paper Copy

Debrief Link

TEST DAY - Reconstruction

YOUR EXAM WILL BE POSTED

CP Exam:
HERE

Honors Exam:
HERE

WHEN IT IS TIME.

GOOD LUCK.

Tuesday 10/10

IMPORTANT READ
There are a LOT of things I need you to think about as you progress toward your final draft of your papers due this Friday. I've read every person's paper over the last 2 weeks and I need to make sure the following things are clear as you complete your final revisions and submit one of your two major assessments from your first learning target of 11th grade.

1. You must use and cite appropriate sources.
• This should include primary and secondary sources
• This should not includes sources such as wikipedia, wordpress, history,com, answers.com, etc.
• Your paper should have an abundance of citations, wherever you are using someone else's ideas or summaries of events
• Quotations OR paraphrases MUST be cited, or you risk plaigiarism
• If you are in breach the school's code of academic integrity, you risk receiving 0s on your report card for habits of work. DO NOT SUBMIT SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK AS YOUR OWN -- THIS IS A HUGE ACADEMIC NO-NO AND WHEN YOU'RE IN COLLEGE YOU CAN GET KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL FOR IT
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2. There are a lot of words I consistently had to correct the capitalization of...

• Civil War
• Reconstruction
• the North
• the South
• Southerners
• Northerners
• Union
• Confederacy
• Congress
• President
• laws such as 13th Amendment or Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes
• Republican
• Democrat

3. MAKE SURE that you look at our group research doc if you need sources & the feedback docs for self-assessment. This is very detailed and provides suggestions for what you should include in your paper!

CP:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gtgeEF8ZrF1PAIVC-6wj3lKUdKM6wzJ4ZZgFQXO4U9k

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jAiBa8pMJus-hU5abj7AS6qGRgnoHerKjgrjK3eO6QI

Honors:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bym2zT76Rpw7M8NFvAsZM1W3_tvLT-vPAeWlDyPoSeE/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aaSMucT5XJi1JQOlvqD7xgEri5HdtLTcgjyOYvy-15g/edit?usp=sharing

4. Make sure that you look CLOSELY at the RUBRIC and the criteria for success. This tells you what you NEED in your paper and what you need to do!!!

5. Honors paper is 4-6 pages // CP is 3-5 -- The minimum is number of COMPLETE pages.


Today's Do Now: -->Click Here<--
 Today's Debrief (last 5 minutes): -->Click Here<--

Readings to help you get wicked smaht about things we didn't go into with a lot of detail.

Today is a review day. I do need you to respond to THIS SURVEY first though to help me with looking through you papers. Everyone, please complete it and then make sure I have access to your paper in the way you described in your survey.

During work time be sure to organize, read, and consider what types of questions may be asked. Please read through the documents below to help build up your knowledge base around topics we didn't spend a great deal of time on in class.

The Enforcement Acts

Redeemer Governments

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Civil Rights Act of 1875

The Emancipation Proclamation

10/5/2017

Do Now:  [have homework out on desk] Ask the person next to you 5 of your questions. Record the % they got right.
Post to this FORM

Today is independent work time on your papers.
Remember, WORKS CITED & IN-TEXT CITATIONS AAAAAAAAND make sure you check the document with revision suggestions in the previous post! 

Homework: Updated 3rd draft due TOMORROW!

Debrief (last 6 minutes)

Wednesday 10/4

Do Now: Please respond and submit your answers in the first 5 minutes of class
DO NOW CLICK HERE

Homework: 3rd Draft of Essay due FRIDAY. Final Draft NEXT FRIDAY.

During class work time today you should be doing the following

1) updating your works cited and in-text citations in your paper.

2) completing additional research to fill in the content gaps in your paper. You can use THIS DOCUMENT or for honors this document to figure out what your paper may still need
MLA 8

http://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-8/

http://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-format/how-to-cite-a-parenthetical-citations-mla/?from=eb_home

This document includes suggestions for revision and requirements for specific topics

and for honors this one

Tuesday 10/3

I hope today things work better than they did yesterday... but we'll see.

Google Drive: Exam Review Guide
Drop Box: Exam Review Guide


Please tell me that works. If not I'll have to share it with you differently.

Work Time Agenda:
1) The first priority is finishing any incomplete work from yesterday
2) Once you finish that you should move on to work on your multiple choice questions
3) After that if you still have time you can work on your paper.

Read through these suggestions before writing your questions
http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning_design/rules-for-multiple-choice-questions/

You may work collaboratively on this if you can do so at a respectful volume.

Homework: Complete 10 multiple choice questions.

Debrief

Amendment 13-15

AMENDMENT XIII
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


AMENDMENT XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5.
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.


Amendment XV.
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude—
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Monday 10/2

Super Important Things you should probably write in your agenda / add to your calendar, etc.

1) You need a NEW draft for FRIDAY. This should include additional research done throughout the week and the incorporation of MY feedback to you.
2) Your final draft of your paper is DUE FRIDAY 10/13 (yes, Friday the 13th... spooooooookyyyyy)
3) You have an EXAM on Reconstruction next THURSDAY 10/12

Agenda 10/2

Character Trait: Perseverance [it's a long few weeks on this same paper, but the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight, keep calm & carry on]

HOW2: I'm going to be conferencing with individual students about their papers today, so it's important that we're staying on task & focused!

DLT: I can analyze reconstruction-era legislation

Do Now: In your notebook, Explain the 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments from what you remember last year... or as many of them as you can recall. If you are unable to do this independently, please do a quick search to refresh your memory before responding

What are we doing today?
I'm running through due dates, the coming couple of weeks, and we'll be talking about the 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments.

In small groups we'll be taking a closer look at the 14th amendment, modeling after what we do with 13 & 15 together. (these are listed in the previous post (above)
Also review these other key pieces of legislation

Senate Dot Gov Reconstruction Legislation



Debrief
Overall, what do these amendments guarantee? What mechanisms enforced them? Do you think these amendments are well enforced today?