Notes for Honors Students Before Tomorrow's Class!

This post is for the Honors Level class meeting online Friday at 3:00:

The following question was this weeks opportunity question: During Washington’s two terms, early signs of sectionalism appeared. What caused these divisions? Do you think they helped set us on a road toward civil war? If so, how?


We will begin class by discussing this question orally.  Afterwards I will go over the new class format and offer some advice on the pace of your reading, etc. in order to get through your assignments in this new class format.  (Basically I will suggest that you complete all your reading and assignments before Tuesday's class just like before - but just table our discussion of them until Friday.  Friday morning you can look over them again before class.) 

I have been thinking about how to conduct our opportunities in this new format.  I think that we will do them orally.  We will each pick a question to answer/teach to the rest of the class and then we will give each other feedback and discuss the questions.  (You should still try and answer all the questions before class so that you can comment on your peers answers!)  After class is over you will prepare a written answer and turn it in to me the next class.  We'll at least try it this way a couple of times to see how it goes!

We will not have our economics lesson this week, I will reschedule that. I feel like since we did not cover the Bill of Rights in class that we should go over that in more detail instead.  I will post a link to the first 10 ammendments on the blog for you to print in the morning.

We will also talk about Bartram and look back over some other PSH readings that we haven't discussed so make sure you have your PSH handy.

If I can fit it in we will also have an introductory lesson on how to examine a historical document. If we don't fit that in, there will be plenty more opportunities in the next two years!

If you can, look up the definitions of those different forms of government before we meet!

I'll 'see' and 'hear' you tomorrow!

Mrs. Amber