Yesterday in class we took some time to discuss the New Madrid Fault Line that is located in northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri. This fault line is still active and it is thought that back in the early 1800’s the line produced an earthquake of an 8.0 magnitude. In order to show my students the…
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Today we will be discussing the art of writing a strongly worded letter. Today the topic of your letter will be in response to the journal entry of Schoolcraft and his response to Arkansans. For the sake of this activity, we will say that his journal entry was published in a local newspaper (1820ish) and…
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Today we will be going back to the early days of the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase and we will be talking about explorers that visited Arkansas during that time period…more specifically, we will be discussing the journey of Henry Schoolcraft. Schoolcraft was a New Yorker who toured Arkansas in 1819 and wrote about his…
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Today in class we took some time to debrief about our test from the previous day and analysis the data just a little bit. The image above is of a screen shot of the test data that I shared with my students today. We looked at the concept of a bell curve and how we…
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Students, today you will take your unit 1 test in Arkansas History. Don’t forget about your essay questions…one of them being how a bill is created. Mr. McClung
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Recently we finished our city projects using the Glogster website. Students were asked to pick a city in Arkansas and do a research project over that city and record it on an online poster board. Although this project gave us plenty of fits, overall I was very pleased with the final product…here are a couple…
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It’s here…embedded above is the study guide for our first unit test in Arkansas History. Mr. McClung
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Students, embedded above are the notes covered today in class about De Tonti and Arkansas Post. Mr. McClung
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Students, here are the notes from the past two days of class covering the first European explorers of Arkansas. Mr. McClung
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Students, today we will be starting a mini project in which we will research the three native tribes of Arkansas. The instructions for this assignment are listed above. Mr. McClung
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