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09-10
Goal: Listen to President Obama's Speech on the Importance of Education. Discuss the importance of education.
Set an academic goal.
IC: Warm Up Writing Question
IC: Write down personal response to the following questions:
1.
Why is education important?
2. How would our country be different if people did not have to go to school?
IC: Class discussion over
above two questions.
IC: Watch the videotape of President Obama's Speech to Students.
IC: Set an academic goal and define
four steps to reach that goal.
09-14 & 09-15 (preliminary)
Goal: Be able to locate the lines of the globe on a globe and/or a map.
Complete step one in Kids2College Program.
IC: Warm Up Writing Question
IC: Kids2College Survey
IC: "Lines of the Globe" explanation--longitude,
latitude, Prime Meridian, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Hemispheres (Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western), North
Pole, South Pole, Axis.
09-11
Goal: Listen to President Obama's Speech on the Importance of Education. Discuss the importance of education.
Set an academic goal. Understand how history effects our lives / 9-11 Discussion
IC: Warm Up Writing Question
IC:
Talk about how 9/11 changed history. Teacher relays personal experience and photographs from having been atop the World
Trade Center and having been to Ground Zero.
IC: Write down personal response to the following questions:
1. Why is
education important?
2. How would our country be different if people did not have to go to school?
IC: Class discussion over
above two questions.
IC: Watch the videotape of President Obama's Speech to Students.
IC: Set an academic goal and define
four steps to reach that goal.