Happy Halloween From Ms. Posateri!

Homework for the Week:  The Era 1 test is this Friday November 2nd.  The homework assignment for the week is to use the study guide outline, handed out in class, to create a study sheet for the test.  The study guide outline is also attached to the documents section of my blog.  In class on Monday I will give students tips on how to study for this exam and explain expectations for the study sheet.  

Below are two really great events coming up in the Denver Area if you are interested! 

An Evening with Immaculee: Rwanda Survivor: Thursday, November 1, 7:30 pm at the
Newman Center. For more information, click here

Tuesday October 16th - Students worked on their Civil War Dramatizations and Chapter 11 homework was handed in.  I will not be posting grades for Chapter 11 homework until after Team Building.  If you look at this assignment in power school you will see if your son/daughter handed this in or not.  The grade will be posted later next week. 

Monday October 22nd - This is the final day of preparation for Civil War Dramatizations.  Teams need to have final scripts ready to go and have Ms. Posateri sign off on their dramatization.  There will not be a homework assignment for the week of October 22 - October 26.

Tuesday October 23rd - Check your group's performance date, 1/2 of the groups will go today.

Wednesday October 24th - World Affairs Challenge Elective and Workshop

Monday October 8th - Students watched the last scene of the movie Glory and discussed it.  You may want to ask your son/daughter about the movie, the students seemed to get a lot out of it and their understanding of the Civil War is much deeper. 

I assigned Chapter 11's homework that is due on Tuesday October 16th.  See the attached document below for an explanation of the assignment. 

Tuesday October 9th - Students will be working on their Civil War dramatizations.  This is a group project that is explained in a document below.  Presentations will be the week after team building.

Wednesday October 10th

10/1Monday - Homework for Chapter 8 is due today.  Students will grade themselves with a rubric and hand in their work for Ms. Posateri to grade. 

Students will have time to complete the mini-geography challenge and timeline challenge for the Civil War.  Both of were started in class last week and I told the students they would have time to complete them in class Monday. 

Homework for Chapter 10 will be assigned and is due on Monday 10/8. Students will be reading about how the Civil War affected the

  STARGATE PARENTS:  The information below is about a FREE Community Conversation that will be at DU on October 9th.  All Starage students and parents are welcome to go, this is not a school sponsored event so you are responsible for your own transportation and signing up.  Space is limited so sign up today if you want to go.  I posted a link to the reservation website below under the "internet" resources.      

Not On Our Watch:
The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur

Featuring:  John Prendergast

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
       7:00 - 9:00 pm

Newman Center for the Performing Arts
The University of Denver ...

Monday 9/24 - I will hand back the graded quizzes from Unit 1 and discuss the results.  We will review 4 skills from the quiz that students will be working on throughout the year:  inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, making inferences, and understanding historical interpretation.  Students will also go over course expectations for quizzes and Era exams. 

Next, students will watch a 20 minute video lecture on the Civil War.  It covers what events led up to the Civil War and establishes background knowledge they will need to move forward this week.  Students will then take notes and discuss the main points in the video.  If you miss class today you will need to make up the video lecture at lunch. 

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It is Friday afternoon and I wanted to blog and let everyone know it was a great week!  The students did some outstanding critical thinking about the Constitution and the discussions ranged from debating current Constitutional Law to analyzing the Constitutionality of different hypothetical situations in the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of government.  The goal was to get students thinking like Constitutional Lawyers and it was a success.  In our pursuit of the truth we got off track from our goals for the Civil War Unit.  The work that was scheduled this week for Thursday 9/20 and Friday 9/21 will be condensed into next week's lessons.  I will post a newsletter for next week that reflects these changes so if you were out of class please see me on Monday to get a summary of what you missed.  The make-up assignment will differ from the small group activity that we did in class, but it sho ...

Monday 9/17 - First drafts of the essay assignment from last week are due.  Students will grade their own work with a rubric to get them thinking about their thinking.  Along with the essay and rubric students will hand in the research they did last week which includes the analysis of the photograph stations (primary sources) and the reading notes from Chapter 2 (secondary source).  Ms. Krill and Ms. Posateri will be grading the first drafts over the next two weeks and then we will begin the revision process. 

Students will also take an open note and open book quiz on Chapters 1-3.  Below is a quick summary of the essential question for each chapter.  Students should keep this quiz for the first Era Test which will be coming up in the next 3-4 weeks.  (I will re ...