Events from 4/4 to 4/8

Hello Albert Hill students and families! I hope your spring bring brought great relaxation and enjoyment to you all! We are now in the home stretch for the remainder of the year. Here is what I have planned in class for students this week:

Monday 4/4/16:

Students will return and complete some review assignments to recap what they may or may not know about causes of the American Civil War. We will complete a review assignment together as a class, and they will complete an open note test.

To bring some humor to the Civil War from a cartoon, here is a Youtube link to the show "Histeria" talking about various details, events and people from that time-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxbWCrys-RY

Tuesday 4/5/16:

Students will take a look at photos showing conditions in the northern and southern states during the Civil War, and we will take the time to identify and locate the Union, Border, and Confederate States. Students will then create a blank map filling each state's allegiance and location.

Expect a homework assignment to come home tonight with a reading about Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address :-)

Wednesday 4/6/16

We'll be taking a look at important leaders of the Civil War including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, Frederick Douglass, Stonewall Jackson (USI.9d). Our main activity of that day will have everyone do a role play after reading about one of those famous men. Students are to read and act as if they were someone like Abraham Lincoln  or Jefferson Davis. After identifying each individual, students will take a quiz on this information.

Thursday 4/7/16

After completing a short review of the important people of the Civil War, we'll take a look at some of the major events and battles (USI.9e). Our big activity of the day will be to create a large timeline so we can hang it outside of the classroom for all of us to see!

Friday 4/8/16

We will begin a large study guide and review all content covered in class from this week. Additionally, we will use the laptops to play review quizzes off the website "Kahoot" and students can win prizes for high scores!

And as always, here are additional online resources for you to take advantage of:

Students can also refer to Brainpop for additional information and interactive quizzes also!
Reminder that the log in information is as follows
username: rpschools
password: richmondpub1

Flocabulary:
Username and password: richmondcps

solpassorg.
Choose Middle School and USI, Select a game, choose any RPS middle school in the drop down box, and the password is "richmond".


Thank you for your time! Feel free to contact me for anything at all in regards to your child's progress at cmazella@richmond.k12.va.us or via phone at 804-780-6107.

3/14/16-3/25/16 Events

Greetings Albert students and families!

For the remainder of this week, students will be concluding their studies on Westward Expansion, New Inventions, Territories, and reform movements such as Abolition and Suffrage.

There will be a unit test for students on this topic on Tuesday 3/15/16. Students will have a study guide completed in class to help them prepare for this assessment.

For any additional review, please feel free to refer to some of the games on solpass.org!

The password on the website when prompted is "richmond" and use the drop down box to find any RPS middle school when told to do so.

Beginning on Wednesday 3/16/16, we begin covering the Civil War! It's an exciting topic that is rich in Virginia and Richmond's history.

For further enhancement of your child's knowledge, feel free to refer your child to this web page on history.com:

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history/videos/us-inches-closer-to-war

Students and parents can anticipate coverage of the following topics on the following days:

3/16/16
Causes of civil war (USI.9a)

3/18/16
States rights and issues of slavery (USI.9b)

3/22/16
Identification of Union, Confederate, and Border states (USI.9c)

3/24/16

Important leaders of the Civil War including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, Frederick Douglass, Stonewall Jackson (USI.9d)

Students can also refer to Brainpop for additional information and interactive quizzes also!
Reminder that the log in information is as follows
username: rpschools
password: richmondpub1

Causes of the Civil War
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/civilwarcauses/

Events of the Civil War
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/civilwar/

The Underground Railroad
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/undergroundrailroad/

Frederick Douglass
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/famoushistoricalfigures/frederickdouglass/'

Abraham Lincoln
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/famoushistoricalfigures/abrahamlincoln/

Thank you for your time! Feel free to contact me for anything at all in regards to your child's progress at cmazella@richmond.k12.va.us or via phone at 804-780-6107.

2/22/16-2/26/16 Events

Greetings! Apologize for the hiatus.

This week in class, students can expect to be involved in content with Westward Expansion and the reasons for doing so.

Students will observe Brainpop clips as snapshots which illustrate various details of territories gained including:

The Louisiana Purchase

California

The Oregon Territory

Florida

Texas

Parents, if you wish to look at some of these with your child on brainpop.com feel free to do so using our log in and password!

Username- rpschools
Password-  richmondpub1

Here are some of the links to those videos as well:

https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/westwardexpansion/

https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/mexicanamericanwar/

https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/goldrush/

https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/lewisandclark/

Each of the videos has great games and other quizzes to partake in.

Additionally, students can expect to have 2 review assignments on the Reasons for Westward expansion on Wednesday 2/24/16 and Friday 2/26/16.

Here are the objectives listed that students will be covering this week on the VDoE website if you wished to go further in depth on these topics with your child.
Refer to pages 27 and 28:
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/frameworks/history_socialscience_framewks/2008/2008_final/framewks_ushist1865.pdf


Furthermore, if there were any other questions you may have had, feel free to email me at cmazella@richmond.k12.va.us or call me at the school at 804-780-6107.

New Year! New Excitement!

With the 2015-2016 school year now 3 days in, I am thoroughly excited to begin a new journey with our students here at Albert Hill. I hope this website will be a valuable tool to both parents and students!