7th Grade Learning Objectives: Students will “review the Origins of Christianity through a Triangle-Square-Circle-Warmup,” they will “analyze persecution of Christians through a Primary Source Rewrite Activity,” they will “analyze the growth of the religion of Christianity through a Partial Multi-Flow Thinking Map,” and they will “examine Roman Culture and its Legacy through Accountable Talk and Cornell Note Taking.”
7th Grade Guiding Questions: What was the relationship between Rome and Judea like? Who was Jesus and what did he teach? How did the religion of Christianity develop and change? How did Christianity spread?
8th Grade Agenda: Warmup, Topic 0, Lesson 4: A Tradition of Liberty and Rights, The Lost Colony of Roanoke Activity, First Great Awakening Primary Source Rewrite, Topic 1, Lesson 1: The French and Indian War Brainpop and Cornell Notes (if time).
8th Grade Learning Objectives: Students will “analyze A Tradition of Liberty and Rights through a Triangle-Square-Circle warmup,” they will “investigate the Lost Colony of Roanoke through a reading and writing activity,” they will “examine the First Great Awakening through a Primary Source Rewrite,” and they will “analyze the French and Indian War through Brainpop, Accountable Talk, and Cornell Note Taking.”
8th Grade Guiding Questions: What did John Locke suggest that people can do if governments violate their natural rights? What ideas of government did Baron Charles-Louis Montesquieu have that challenged the idea of the divine rights of monarchs? How did the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers affect colonists such as Benjamin Franklin and others?
HW for 7th: 2 Frayer Model Vocabulary Words (Topic 1, Lesson 4: Roman Culture and Its Legacy, 8th: 2 Frayer Model Vocabulary Words (Topic 1, Lesson 1: The French and Indian War).