“Prosser’s Parking Lot” being removed in May of 2011. Today our normal conversations took a bit of a detour as we took some time to listen to music and talk about slave revolts. In class I played a song by one of my favorite musicians, Tim Barry, titled “Prosser’s Gabriel. The story that Barry tells is…
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Students, I’ll be out today because of a field trip I’m taking with AVID to the University of Arkansas. Here are your instructions for today while I’m out… Take your quiz and turn it into the sub After you finish, you will then have a blog assignment to finish on Kidblog.org You will pick from…
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Today in Arkansas we continued our conversations about Manifest Destiny and the continued removal of Native Americans and the ongoing conflicts that took place out west in the 1800’s. During this conversation we took one of our AVID strategies called philosophical chairs. In this activity students are given a statement and asked if they agree…
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In class on Wednesday we will be taking a look at Manifest Destiny and the contrasting views on whether or not it was the divine right of our nation to spread democracy from sea to sea. First we will watch a simple video from School House Rock about the topic then we will look at…
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Today in class we discussed population growth by looking at the most recent US Census data. We looked at our own state and discussed the factors that lead to population booms and dying communities in our state. The link to the website with an interactive map can be found by clicking here. Mr. McClung
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Today in class we will be discussing the discussion of Arkansas to become apart of the Union back in 1836. In addition we will be talking about the idea of leaving the Union as well…as we build up to our studies of the Civil War. Today we will be reading article that speaks about the…
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8.1 Review on Prezi Students, today we will continue our conversations about early politics in Arkansas, Indian removal, and the road to statehood. Mr. McClung
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Today in class we continued our conversations about the early territorial period in Arkansas and we took a few notes…shocker. In an effort to switch up our normal routine of taking notes we changed up our style just a bit. Today we used a Kagan learning strategy called expert groups. Their guided reading notes were…
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As we continue to move forward with our study of Arkansas history, we now begin to enter the portion of history that deals with Arkansas becoming a territory. For the past two days we have discussed the boundaries that were established by the Missouri Compromise in regards to slavery in the US. The Missouri compromise…
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