7th Grade Learning Objectives: Students will “examine the rapid growth of Christianity through a warmup,” they will “preview vocabulary through a Visual Vocabulary activity,” they will “analyze persecution of Christians through a Primary Source Rewrite Activity,” and they will “analyze the growth of the religion of Christianity through a Partial Multi-Flow Thinking Map.”
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, Dialectical Journal, The Lost Colony of Roanoke Activity, First Great Awakening Primary Source Rewrite (if time).
8th Grade Learning Objectives: Students will “analyze how the spread of religious enthusiasm during the Great Awakening reinforced democratic ideas through a warmup,” they will “examine A Tradition of Liberty and Rights through a Dialectical Journal,” they will “analyze the Lost Colony of Roanoke through a reading and writing activity,” and they will “engage in a First Great Awakening Primary Source Rewrite (if time).”
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: Active Journal Page 13 HW due Today, 8th: Active Journal Page 9 HW due Today.