Notes about grades:
Final exam grade will be open to see on Turnitin.com today after school. Remember that it is worth 90% of your final with the brainstorming sheet worth the other 10%. There are comments on turnitin for your final. If you would like to discuss your final with me, please make an appointment to see me AFTER THURSDAY.
Civil Rights Portfolio rubrics (for those of you that submitted them) will be returned at the end of class today.
In class today, I introduced our next unit which is going to culminate in the writing of a research paper. However, in order to help set the context for that paper as well as find potential topics, we are going to begin 2nd semester with a mini-unit on the Promises and Problems of post Civil War America.
To gather information, we will make use of the "Crash Course" series of videos as well as entry level research databases and primary documents. Students will be asked to take careful notes on the Crash Course videos, annotate* and then answer questions and analyze the documents, and add their research to a group research document that will be explained in class tomorrow.
Today, we watched Crash Course -- Industrial Society in class. Tonight's homework is posted in the new assignment sheet.
*For all documents that you annotate during this unit, you should consider their context, main ideas and details, significant quotations, difficult vocabulary and language, what the document says about its time period, and connections to other events in history.
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