Today and tomorrow the students will go on a field trip to share their children's books with elementary school students.
Warm Up: No warm up this week.
Lesson: Today the students shared their Mexico culture projects from last week. Homework: None Warm Up: No warm up this week
Lesson: This week, the students are working on their Mexico Today Culture Project. For a more detailed description of this project, view last week's posts. The students are encouraged to work on this project outside of class, as it is a lot of work! The project is due at the end of class on Friday. Homework: Project due at the end of class on Friday Warm Up: The students watched CNN 10 and summarized one news story in a complete sentence. To watch today's episode, click here.
Lesson: Today the students continued working on their Mexico Today Project. The students are learning about the culture and government of Mexico today. They will compare and contrast this information with what they know about the Untied States. The students will work on this project over the next week, and it will be due next Friday at the end of class. This project will be a lot of work, so the students are encouraged to work on it outside of class. For a detailed description or the project, click here to see the introductory PowerPoint and click here to see the student description and note-taker packet. Homework: Work on project Warm Up: Fill in the correct vocabulary word.
____ 1. Huge areas of farm or ranch lands owned by wealthy people of Spanish ancestry. ____ 2. Church outposts in rural Mexico. ____ 3. A person of mixed European and Indian ancestry. Lesson: Today the students learned about a project about Mexico today. The students will learn about the culture and government of Mexico today and they will compare and contrast this information with what they know about the Untied States. The students will work on this project over the next week, and it will be due next Friday at the end of class. This project will be a lot of work, so the students are encouraged to work on it outside of class. For a detailed description or the project, click here to see the introductory PowerPoint and click here to see the student description and note-taker packet. Homework: Work on project Warm Up: What Catholic priest led the revolt to win independence from Spain?
Lesson: Today the students read about what Mexico is like today. The students read pages 48-52 in the textbook. As the students read, they answered questions about Mexico today. For a copy of this worksheet, click here. Homework: Finish Mexico Today questions Warm Up: The hacienda system is defined as “huge areas of farm or ranch lands owned by wealthy people of Spanish ancestry.”
Lesson: Today we reviewed for the Mexico history test. We played a review Kahoot game and the students filled out a practice timeline. Then the students took the Mexico history assessment. Homework: None Warm Up: In your opinion…
Lesson: Today we read a section in the textbook about the Mexican colonialism and independence. Then the students wrote down the definition of several history terms. The terms we learned about were:
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