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Welcome to Fremont Junior High & Seventh Grade Social Studies!!

OPEN HOUSE. Welcome to Fremont Junior High & Seventh Grade Social Studies!!. Your Teachers are. Mr. Anderson Mrs. Blum Ms. Geair Mr. Whitehead. Teacher E-Mails. Aaron Anderson : aajander@mpsaz.org Joanna Blum : check her webpage! Ann Marie Geair : ageair@mpsaz.org

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Welcome to Fremont Junior High & Seventh Grade Social Studies!!

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  1. OPEN HOUSE Welcome to Fremont Junior High & Seventh Grade Social Studies!!

  2. Your Teachers are.. • Mr. Anderson • Mrs. Blum • Ms. Geair • Mr. Whitehead

  3. Teacher E-Mails • Aaron Anderson: aajander@mpsaz.org • Joanna Blum: check her webpage! • Ann Marie Geair: ageair@mpsaz.org • Chris Whitehead: crwhiteh@mpsaz.org

  4. IMPORTANT SKILLS

  5. DISTRICT SOCIAL STUDIESCURRICULUM STANDARDS: • http://www.mpsaz.org/scsoc/pdf/sec_ss_dec_07/ss07_world_geo.pdf

  6. COURSE OVERVIEW: • 1st Semester: 1) Arizona and the World 2) Westward Expansion and Pre-Civil War 3) Civil War and Reconstruction 4) Industrial Era

  7. EXAMPLE:

  8. UNIT: Westward Expansion & Pre-Civil War

  9. PRIORITY PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE: • S1C6-PO1: Analyze the factors leading to the Civil War:

  10. S1C6-PO1 continued: • a) role of abolitionists and Underground Railroad • b) Sectionalism and States’ Rights • c) Westward expansion (Manifest Destiny, Texas War for Independence, Mexican War) • d) Missouri and 1850 Compromises

  11. S1C6-PO1 continued: • e) Dred Scott Decision • f) Kansas-Nebraska Act • g) Lincoln/Douglas Debates • h) Birth of the Republican Party • i) Lincoln’s Election

  12. VOCABULARY& CONCEPTS: • Terms: • Civil War, abolitionist, underground railroad, sectionalism, states’ rights, expansion, Manifest Destiny, Texas War for Independence, Mexican War, Missouri Compromise,

  13. TERMS continued: • 1850 Compromise, Dred Scott Decision, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln Douglas Debates, birth of Republican Party, property rights, enslavement, population density, agrarian South, industrial North

  14. COURSE OVERVIEW: • 2nd Semester: 1) Progressive Era 2) Imperialism 3) World War I 4) The 1920s & 1930s 5) Pre-World War II

  15. PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING:

  16. EXAMPLE: • Technology integration using PowerPoint and other computer based programs • Hands-on projects individually and in groups using graphic organizers, cooperative learning and critical thinking

  17. Possible PBL • Students creating a storyboard based on their research on how Arizona became a state -Requires the student to become a historian They will have to read and summarize their research as well as illustrate the main ideas on their storyboard. • Another possibility is to have the student become a muckraker (a reporter that digs up the dirt on corrupt companies or government)

  18. QUESTIONS • ???????????????????????????????????????

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