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mcculloughmg (at) kalamazoo.k12.mi.us

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New Trimester

I hope everyone’s first trimester of the 2010-2011 went well!  Please utilize this website if you are in any of my social studies courses at Loy Norrix H.S.   The tabs above will take you to appropriate pages for my Sociology, Psychology or U.S. History courses.  If you have any questions outside of the school day please email me @ mcculloughmg@kalamazoo.k12.mi.us and I will attempt to get back to you within a day!

11-30-10

Bellwork:

•Write down your favorite unit of study this year and a reason why.

•Write down your favorite class activity from this year and a reason why.

This will go into helping our teachers to retool the content for students prefered learning.

Then we played a game of Jeopardy which helped us to study for our final:

CLICK HERE FOR JEOPARDY GAME!

11-29-10

Task of the day:  List 5 people we have studied in this class in chronological order of their importance.

We had time to continue our review sheet (CLICK HERE FOR U.S. “A” REVIEW SHEET)  and went over questions.

11-22-10

Task of the day:  Write down 5 key terms from the first half of this class you remember and define each one in your own words.

We followed this brainstorming bell work with beginning our study for the Final for U.S. “A”.  There will be a writing portion on the final.  CLICK HERE for a copy of the study guide/plan for the writing portion of the final next week.

11-19-10

We completed watching “Grapes of Wrath” and wrote down specific events that paired well with the Depression/New Deal.

11-18-10

Word:  Grapes of Wrath

Def:  Please use textbook

Today we watched clips from the Grapes of Wrath and looked at feelings and historical events centered around the Depression and Dust Bowl.

11-17-10

Words: Works Progress Administration.

Definition:  Please use textbook.

Task:  Do you think the WPA was a good use of federal money even though we were still in a depression?  Why or why not?

Today you completed a Milham Park History activity which helped you to walk through early Kalamazoo, 20s Kalamazoo, Depression Kalamazoo and the New Deal WPA Kalamazoo.  CLICK HERE for a copy of that assignment.

11-16-10

Word: Agricultural Adjustment Act

Def: Please use Textbook

Today we looked as some visuals of New Deal Act, completed our list of New Deal programs and then created our own poster to show the characteristics of a program.

11-15-10

Word: Federal Securities Act

Def: Please use textbook

Q: GIST of picture below

We spent time today talking about a variety of New Deal programs and Acts and began to fill out a chart of programs and their pros and cons.  We also read excerpts from FDR’s inaugural address and looked over our questions that were homework last night.  CLICK HERE for the chart/homework.