8th Grade--Students will finish Lesson 4 and begin the Review and Assessment.
7th Grade Learning Objectives: Students will “discuss the factors that led to the Roman empire’s decline,” they will “identify the attempts that Rome’s leaders made to hold the empire together,” they will “explain what happened to the two halves of the Roman empire,” and they will “describe which parts of society challenged Roman emperors.”
8th Grade Learning Objectives: Students will “explain what John Locke suggested that people can do if governments violate their natural rights,” they will “summarize Baron Charles-Louis Montesquieu’s ideas that challenged the divine right of monarchs,” they will “discuss how the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers affected colonists such as Benjamin Franklin and others,” and they will “compare some of the ideas that emerged from the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution.”
HW for 7th--Rome Critical Thinking Question: Constructed Response due today, 8th--Thirteen Colonies Critical Thinking Question: Constructed Response due today.