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Mr. Mr. Saindon's
United States History Class
United States History / Mr. Saindon & Mr. Connor Hurst
Monday, March
Monday, March 16 to Friday, March 20
This Week:
Students will be placed in groups to write a skit and fill out a template:
Group Skits
Showtime
Moving West
Act it Out
You be the Teacher
Dramatic Portrayal
This week:
Scripts Due Wednesday with notes taken by each student)
Performance will be on Thursday and Friday
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Read the text and questions in the Interactive Notebook
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Research at home on the internet
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Collect at least three pics and two maps to bring into class
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Write a 5 to 10 minute skit that ‘tells the story’ and addresses the central questions in the I.N.
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Your skit must address the MOTIVES HARDSHIPS and LEGACIES of those groups moving west
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Find a basic format and storyline and reinact/teach/portray what happened
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Be creative
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Put together simple costumes
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Practice and perform a 3 to 6 minute skit with several scenes
National Holiday: Thanksgiving
The True Story of Thanksgiving
The Mouse on the Mayflower
The Plymouth Plantation: The First Thanksgiving
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Promise
Click on George Washington and go to the National Archives to see Washington's proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789, as an official holiday of "sincere and humble thanks."
Then...read about Lincoln's declaration...and then find out what President Roosevelt did....
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