June 13-15

Final Exams:

Socratic Seminar to demonstrate skills and knowledge of the units studied this semester: Women's History; 1920s-1930s; and Native American History.

June 6 -12

After writing the in-class summative essay for the Native American History Unit, class turned it's attention to preparing for the final exam.

It was decided that a Socratic Seminar would be used to demonstrate skills and knowledge of the units studied this semester: Women's History; 1920s-1930s; and Native American History.

Students worked together to develop a list of big ideas; major concepts; and possible questions. Students had time to practice discussion of some of these issues.

Students who needed to miss the final exam due to the change in calendar were able to schedule an essay on the same questions; students who arranged ahead of time to write a final exam instead could pursue that option as well.

Friday 2 June; Monday 5 June

Classes completed interactive work with the lecture.

Students were given a set of documents relating to Indian Boarding Schools and a retrieval chart to help analyze the documents. Students added the unit essential question: What beliefs and attitudes have been prevalent about the Native Peoples of America, and how have these beliefs shaped the history of the United States and these people? to the prompt on this sheet.

Monday, 29 May through Thursday 2 June

Various classes are working at different paces through information on Native History.

This includes discussing issues raised in this lecture.

Students received and analyzed a document on treaties, and treaties between the United States and native nations.

Students read and analyzed a document purporting to be the transcript of negotiations between the Seminoles and the United States in 1834.

Class spent time discussing the Indian Appropriation Act and the Dawes Act.

Tuesday / Wednesday May 23 / 24

First students should review their notes from analyzing to nine documents in the packet "DBQ1 Native America"; then each student should write a summary of the attitudes they discovered and note what if any shift occurred over the 17th Century.

Period 7 will need to finish analyzing the documents beginning where they left off with document "D."

When each student has a completed summary of the documents the class should move on to do the following:


Students should view the following video 500 Nations Part II and take notes on the essential question of the unit:

Essential Question: What beliefs and attitudes have been prevalent about the Native Peoples of North America, and how have those beliefs shaped the history of the United States and of those people?

The class period will be too short to see the entire episode. Students should note the time stamp that viewing ended.

Monday, May 22

Students turned in their analyses of the 20s and 30s.

Mr. Zartler then continued with this slide lecture on depictions and early history of the native peoples of North America; thanks to Mr. Crotty for making the slide lecture.

Mr. Zartler will be a district trainings Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week.

Friday 18 May

Due to unscheduled absence, and a shortage of substitutes, the lesson plan for the day ended up being students working on the project due next week.