Christmas Vacation — No School 🎄

Clintondale High School is currently on Christmas Vacation. Classes will resume on Monday, January 6, 2025, at 7:35 A.M.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year, Dragons!

Christmas Break Countdown 🎶

⏰ What We Did

• Due to low student census, listened to Christmas music and played classroom games

Black Tuesday — 29 Oct 1929 📉

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression

⏰ What We Did

• Watched a History documentary on the lead-up to the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression

Taking to the Text: Causes of the Great Depression 📖

Today's class was led by a guest teacher. 🏫

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression

⏰ What We Did

• Watched a tutorial on how to talk to a text
• Silently read a provided article while interacting with the text

⚙️ Resources

• Talking to the Text (T4) Bookmark
• T4 Demonstration Video
• The Causes of the Great Depression

Guided Questions: The United States Turns Inward (1920s and 1930s) 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Understand the changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War II, investigate the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society, and how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state

⏰ What We Did

• Answered guided questions about isolationism and the domestic affairs the United States experienced following World War I

⚙️ Resources

• Guided Questions: The United States Turns Inward (1920s and (1930s) (OpenStax U.S. History)

Alike But Different: "The United States Turns Inward" 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Understand the changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War II, investigate the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society, and how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state

⏰ What We Did

• Read a provided text regarding American isolation during the 1920s and 1930s
• Compare and contrast the two decades

⚙️ Resources

• The United States Turns Inward (1920s and 1930s)
• Alike But Different: The United States Turns Inward

Era 6 Assessment 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess Era 6 comprehension

⏰ What We Did

• Completed the Era 6 Assessment

Era 6 Assessment 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess Era 6 comprehension

⏰ What We Did

• Began the Era 6 Assessment

Era 6 Review ♻️

Late Start Day 🕣

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review concepts introduced in Era 6

⏰ What We Did

• Due to today's Late Start, the Era 6 Assessment will take place tomorrow
• Prepare for tomorrow's Era 6 Assessment by reviewing the six main topics covered in the unit

Era 6 Review ♻️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review concepts introduced in Era 6

⏰ What We Did

• Returned and corrected past work from Era 6 to review for tomorrow's assessment

Era 6 Infographic Project ℹ️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and consequences — both positive and negative — of the Industrial Revolution and America’s growth from a predominantly agricultural, commercial, and rural nation to a more industrial and urban nation between 1870 and 1930
• Select and evaluate major public and social issues emerging from the changes in industrial, urban, and global America during this period

⏰ What We Did

• Finished the Era 6 infographic poster, summarizing each of the six major topics covered in U.S. History & Geography

Era 6 Infographic Project ℹ️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and consequences — both positive and negative — of the Industrial Revolution and America’s growth from a predominantly agricultural, commercial, and rural nation to a more industrial and urban nation between 1870 and 1930
• Select and evaluate major public and social issues emerging from the changes in industrial, urban, and global America during this period

⏰ What We Did

• Due to technology issues, began creating an "old-school" infographic poster (i.e., on poster paper) summarizing each of the major topics covered in Era 6

⚙️ Resources

• Era 6 Infographic Rubric (Updated)

Era 6 Infographic Project ℹ️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and consequences — both positive and negative — of the Industrial Revolution and America’s growth from a predominantly agricultural, commercial, and rural nation to a more industrial and urban nation between 1870 and 1930
• Select and evaluate major public and social issues emerging from the changes in industrial, urban, and global America during this period

⏰ What We Did

• Continued creating an infographic on Easel.ly, summarizing each of the six major topics covered in Era 6
• Easel.ly is still blocked by the school district; Technology was contacted again
• Continue compiling information and graphics for each of the six topics covered in Era 6

Era 6 Infographic Project ℹ️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and consequences — both positive and negative — of the Industrial Revolution and America’s growth from a predominantly agricultural, commercial, and rural nation to a more industrial and urban nation between 1870 and 1930
• Select and evaluate major public and social issues emerging from the changes in industrial, urban, and global America during this period

⏰ What We Did

• Began creating an infographic on Easel.ly, summarizing each of the six major topics covered in Era 6
• Easel.ly is blocked by the school district; Technology was contacted
• Begin compiling information and graphics for each of the six topics covered in Era 6

Era 6 Infographic Project ℹ️

Today's class was led by a guest teacher. 🏫

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the causes and consequences — both positive and negative — of the Industrial Revolution and America’s growth from a predominantly agricultural, commercial, and rural nation to a more industrial and urban nation between 1870 and 1930
• Select and evaluate major public and social issues emerging from the changes in industrial, urban, and global America during this period

⏰ What We Did

• Using the ccs-student.net email address, created a free account on Easel.ly for the purpose of creating an infographic summarizing each of the major topics covered in Era 6
• Easel.ly is blocked by the school district

⚙️ Resources

• Easel.ly Sign-Up
• Era 6 Infographic Rubric

Sequencing Suffrage 👵

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze the successes and failures of efforts to expand women’s rights, including the work of important leaders and the eventual ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

⏰ What We Did

• Using last Monday's article "The Battle for Suffrage," placed given events in the correct sequence and provided the year for each

⚙️ Resources

• Article: The Battle for Suffrage
• Sequencing Suffrage: Chronological Order Activity