New Quarter!

I'm so excited for 2nd Quarter. There have already been grades entered for the 2nd quarter. Sophomore Parents should have received an Email with a link to signup Genius. Please choose a timeslot to meet with me and Mr. Hubbard.

Next Week:

Government: Students will be covering 3 lessons, They will have vocab Homework. Monday Night, as well as at least 20 minutes of going over their notes Tuesday and Wednesday to make sure they are prepared for the Quiz on Thursday.

History: We Are starting a Project. Below is information about it. Students will be writing a letter to a time traveler to give him advice about how to fix the problems of the Gilded Age (Hint: Most are still huge problems today). This will be a project to help the students with their informational writing as well as their research skills and citations.

 

(Entry letter)

Greetings,

I am a forlorn traveler. You may not believe this but I am coming to you from the year 1895! In my limited technological capability I was only able to send this letter to your “interwebs” in hope someone could contact me back.

My time period is great need of assistance! We in the United States of America are on the brink of great misfortune! Our water is dirty and cannot be imbibed! Our cities are filthy and crime is on the rise! Immigrants and people of different religions are mistreated by the government and businesses! African Americans are having their rights stripped away every single day! The very rich are getting richer while the regular person is getting more destitute! Politicians are corrupt and being purchased by these same wealthy interests to increase their greed! Workers are crushed beneath the yoke of these same greedy people and the government helps them!

I know in an amazing world where you can send letters through the air invisibly to one another you must have solved these great problems! Please I beg you advise the people of the Gilded Age! How did you fix these problems? Pease for our entire timeline, we need your help!

PS: For those wondering about a Paradox, your letters will effect my timeline but will have not affect on yours.

Rubric For Gilded Age Assignment!

	Exceeds Standard (20)	Meets Standard (15)	Below Standard (5)
Knowledge of the Gilded Age	Students have no errors in information and show a well rounded knowledge of the events of the Gilded Age	Students have 1 errors in their information and have limited knowledge of the events of the Gilded Age	Students have many errors in their information or their language is imprecise  or they do not have very much information about the Gilded Age
Information about today	Students have no errors in information about the issues affecting people today. There is well rounded knowledge of the events affecting people right now.	Student has 1 error in their information about today and have limited knowledge of the events of today	Student has many errors in their information, or their language is imprecise or they do not have very much information about what is happening today.
Writing Conventions	There are no errors in capitalization, punctuation, grammar, spelling, sentence structure, or citation.	There are less than 3 errors in Capitalization, punctuation, grammar, spelling, sentence structure, or citations	The letter is riddled with errors or citation is done wrong or is incomplete.
Letter Structure	The student uses an informational letter structure in their writing and adheres to it throughout.	The student has less than 2 errors in informational letter structure in their writing	It is not clear that this is a letter for the majority of the writing.
Solutions	Student includes ideas for solutions to the problem that have been proposed by scholars and explains how those solutions can work, and possible consequences.	Student includes ideas for solutions to the problem that have been proposed by others, or themselves. They have difficulty explaining why they might work.	Student does not include solutions or these solutions are not well explained.