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Monday

• No School!

Tuesday

• Assign: Historical Background
• Funny Picture
• Option 1: Students finish sharing Government Posters
• Option 2:  If students finished sharing posters, ask for 5 volunteers to share their Government Poster
• Class Brainstorm (p. 3): As students share Government Posters, class looks for common features across all governments.
• 5 min: Today's Takeaway! (p.3)

Wednesday

• Daily Goals for both lessons!
  GET A STAMP! Articles of Confederation Pro's and Con's (p. 4)
• Reading Circle (p. 4):
• -Students catch the ball and read three sentences
• -Students work with a Study Buddy next to them in the Reading Circle to answer question
• -Mr. Kelly tosses the ball to a student to answer the question.
• Study Buddies work on Success/Failures Chart (p.5)
• Review Chart as a class

Thursday
Daily Goals:

• • GET A STAMP! Articles of Confederation Pro's and Con's (p. 4)
    
  • GET A STAMP! Compare strong/weak central governments (p. 6-7).
  • Daily Goals: Compare/Contrast Weak/Strong Central Government
  Class:
  
  • Warm up: Do Now (p.6)
  • Articles of Confederation: Strong or Weak? Sentence Frames
  • Critical Thinking Question (p.7)
  Guided Practice
  
  • Read: Blue Book Ch.7.3, p.  139-140; Virginia & New Jersey Plans
  • Read: Blue Book Ch.7.4, p.141; Compromise Committee
  • Critical Thinking Question (students work with Study Buddy)
  Independent Practice
  
  • Compare/Contrast Strong/Weak Central Govt., (p.7 bottom)

Friday

• Daily Goals: Separation of Powers, 3 branches of government
• Warm up: Do Now (p. 8)
• Branches of Government Graphic Organizer