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Yesterday's class showed why having a weak federal government made it difficult to hold 13 different states together as a nation. Trade was difficult because there were 13 different currencies, different trade  and tax codes, and no one to settle disputes that arose between states. This video says the who, what, when, and why the Constitutional Convention was held. Students practiced note-taking strategies to record the important information.
Strategies include:
-Think about what we are studying and how new information will fit in with topics we have already learned.
-What is the time the events are taking place?
-Who are the important players?
-Cause and Effect - what happened that caused something else to happen?

We also filled in the gaps. The video only told part of the story, and we looked up additional information to see how what happened at the Con-Con looks in today's world. While the House of Representatives allows people to be proportionally represented, the Senate gives each state equal votes. Today, how does this give small states disproportionate power and what does that look like for today's politics?

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Constitution USA with Peter Sagal | Philadelphia and the Constitutional Convention

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Historian Richard Beeman explains the issues facing the creation of a new government.

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We read about, then watching a film about the problems with trade in the new United States in the 1780s, but what was that really like? To get a deeper understanding, we conducted a role play. Each student portrayed a person in one of the original 13 states and was given a task to complete. They had to then navigate trade deals with representatives from other states. The board pictures illustrate the problems that they encountered.

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Articles of Confederation Role Play Pics

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Articles of Confederation Role Play Pics

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Photos of the Aricles of Confederation Role Play

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How to write an introductory paragraph to a multi-paragraph essay.

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How to write an introductory paragraph to a multi-paragraph essay.

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In our continuation of multi-paragraph analytical essay writing, we introduced/reviewed how to write an introductory paragraph. Students then had work time to either work on creating their own, or to revise their TRIAC body paragraphs after receiving teachers' feedback. Introductory paragraphs will be completed by Monday at the end of class.

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Students have had a study guide for a quiz that will be on Monday. We have given time during class to work on it. Today they also received a crossword puzzle to help them practice matching the words to definitions. The quiz will be matching, multiple choice, and put-events-in-order.

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Sami Friedman-Wellisch - Introductory Paragraph for December Essay 2017

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2021 Fall Jenn's Humanities Weekly Agenda 

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Part of the way we model learning history is to go over the material in different manners, and to repeat information in several ways so that students have a chance to really learn the information. Last week we read a textbook, answered questions, and learned new vocabulary. Today's movie helped review this information and give visuals to bring the ideas to life.

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Brainpop Movie about Articles of Confederation

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Brainpop Movie about Articles of Confederation

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We read a textbook last week, and to review we watched a short film to remind us about the problems the US faced in the period following the end of the Revolutionary War and the Constitutional Convention.

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Please note that we have only just introduced the concept of the US Constitution and the Constitutional Convention. We have mentioned that the group of people who wrote the document were white men working in secret. We have not gone into detail about some of the compromises that went into the process, including that slavery was not outlawed. We have told students that we will be delving deeper into not only the product (what the Constitution says) but also the way in which many voices were purposefully left out and the effect this has on our country then and now.