Mrs. Duty's Class- ATLAS Academy at Tennyson Middle School
About Mrs. Duty's Class
Calendar
1-6 Weeks
#1 Heroes explore and colonize
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Activities- Heroes and Colonization
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Quiz Review Vocabulary
Colonial Photo Gallery
Recipes for Rat-Grass Soup, etc.
The French and Indian War
Celebrate Freedom Week
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Celebrate Freedom Lessons
Virtual Field Trips
The American Revolution
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Review for Quiz#2
Philadelphia- Where We became America!
Virtual Field Trips
#2 Challenges-Writing the Constitution
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Writing the Constitution
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Patriot Pen Contest-Veteran's Week
A More Perfect Union
#3 One Small Step . . . We all make a difference!
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The Age of Jackson
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Virtual Field Trip
#4 Challenge of Change: Voices-Manifest Destiny
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Virtual Field Trip
Industrialism: The North and South and $$$$$
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Virtual Field Trips
#5 Call to Action-Reform/Culture
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Field Trip
Sectionalism and the Civil War
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Virtual Field Trips
#6 Laughter- Humor out of hard times-Reconstruction
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Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
MIni Courses
Duty's Mini Course Schedule
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Research Skills
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Big 6 Research Methods
GI Joe and Jane-
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The Hero Project
Texas Fallen Heroes Memorial Wall
Oral History Project
Veteran's Day Parade
Media and the Message- The Morning News
So you want to be a lawyer?
Lights! Camera! Action!- Let's make a movie!
Washington, DC or Bust!
Washington DC
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Ephemera and Miscellania
TPSP - Everything you have always wanted to know!
Social Studies Games and Puzzles
Places we will go
Maps
8th Grade Social Studies TEKS
HISTORY FAIR
History Fair Expectations (Due Dates)
Just Rules
Creating a Quality Project
Explanation of Topic
List of Topic Ideas
Link to PDF copy of samples and Topic Book
Bibliography Links and Tips
How to do a Bibliography- Step by Step
Process Paper Examples
WEB 2.0 Presentation Tools
Map of Jamestown and the surrounding area in 1624
13 Colonies with notations of slaves by colony. Graph the slave population. What does this tell you about the future for the colonies?
The North American continent before the French and Indian War
This map shows who claimed what prior to the war.
Proclamation Line of 1763
This map shows who claimed what after the French and Indian War
A Map of the major battles of the American Revolution