Thursday, September 5th

Goal

• Deconstruct the primary source readings on the Mexican-American War
• Explore Thoreau's philosophy on life regarding civil disobedience, conformity, and transcendentalism 

Starter

•  Fill in this spreadsheet with the link to your DP
  
• Honors: Conference Sign-Up Sheet
• Then complete the survey at the bottom of today's blog

Agenda
1.  Share your historical thinking skills chart notes with a partner. 

2. Whole class discussion to deconstruct the readings

• Review: What is "Manifest Destiny"?
• Go over the "Discussion Questions" at the end of John O'Sullivan's article
  
• Read aloud excerpts from the  North Star Editorial:  How does the author highlight the class and race dimension of the war? How does the author feel about Manifest Destiny?
• In what ways do you see these two conflicting views on war playing out in more modern times?

3. Go over the Annotation and Edmodo Post instructions for TNTSJ

4.  Silently read and annotate pages 14-40

• Jot down annotations from pages 1-14
• Try to identity juxtaposition on page 23: Which characters are juxtaposed and what similarities or differences are the playwrights highlighting?
  
• Don't forget to Blog on Edmodo and respond to other student's posts.
• If done early, get crackin' on homework!

5.  Ashley's ppt on Transcendentalism

6. Read aloud pages 25-29, 34-38

Homework

• Due TOMORROW: Edmodo blog on Syrian conflict (read and respond to my post and/or share other links on the conflict and react to the one you post or ask the class a question.
  
• DUE MONDAY: TIB DP Update and Reflection

HONORS: work on your project proposals due next week!