CLASS CALENDAR - 1st Quarter (red
means that it will be graded)
July 26-Students Return, Introductions and Classroom Rules
July 27-My Responsibility as a Student
July 28-Quarter One DAPS Pre-Test
July 29-Geography: Chapter 1 - Looking at The Earth, Section
1 - Using the Geography Themes
July 30-Geography: Chapter 1, Section 2 - Planet Earth
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Aug. 2-Geography: Chapter 1, Section 3 - Landforms
Aug. 3-Geography TEST 1
Aug. 5-Educational Video "The Amazing
Earth"
Aug. 6-Crossword Puzzle - Natives
of North America"
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Aug. 9-History: Chapter 1 The World Before the Opening of the Atlantic
– Section 1 The Earliest Americans
Aug. 10-History: Chapter 1 The World Before the Opening of the Atlantic - Section 2 Native American Cultures
Aug. 11-History TEST
1
Aug. 12-History:
Chapter 1 The World Before the Opening of the Atlantic - Section 3 The Trading Kingdoms of West Africa
Aug.13-History:
Chapter 1 The World Before the Opening of the Atlantic - Section 4 Europe Before Trans-Atlantic Trade
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Aug. 16-History: Chapter 2 New Empires in the Americas – Section 4 The Race
for Empires
Aug. 17-History: Chapter
3 The English Colonies - Section 4 Life in the English Colonies
Aug. 18-History TEST over Chapter
2 Section 4 and Chapter 3 Section 4
Aug.
19-Biography Assignment: Queen Isabella and Malintzin
Aug.
20-Biography Assignment: Estevanico and Henry Hudson
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Aug. 23-Chapter 9 A New National Identity – Section 2 Nationalism and Sectionalism
Aug.24-"ism" and develop three questions for a test
Aug.25-Chapter 10 The Age of Jackson – Section 2 President Jackson’s Administration
Aug.26-Economics Worksheet: The Panic of 1837
Aug. 27 -TEST over Chapter 9 Section 2
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Aug.30- TEST over Chapter 10 Section 2
Aug.31-Parent/Teacher Conferences
Sept.1-Parent/Teacher Conferences
Sept.2-Missing Assignment Day
Sept.3-Crossword Puzzle, European Exploration
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Sept. 7-Mid Term Exam
Sept. 8-Interprepting Maps, Population
and Expansion
Sept.9-Chapter 11 Expanding West –
Section 1 Trails to the West
Sept.10-Crossword Puzzle: The California Gold Rush
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Sept.13-TEST over Chapter 11
History: Chapter 12 The North – Section 2 Changes in Working
Life
History: Chapter 14 New Movements in America – Section
1 Immigrants and Urban Challenges
History: Chapter 14 New Movements in America – Section
3 Reforming Society
History: Chapter 14 New Movements in America – Section
4 The Movement to End Slavery
History: Chapter 14 New Movements in America – Section
5 Women’s Rights
