1. Read the comic and answer the questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES!
Warm Up:
Read the comic and answer the questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES!
What is Calvin’s opinion on history class?
Do you agree or disagree? Why?

2. Today’s Meeting: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Class Meeting:
Today’s Meeting: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Meeting procedures: ?

3. Today’s Agenda: Reminder of Class rules
Class Discussion: Why study history? What do historians do?
Set up notebooks
Begin personal timelines

4. Final Rules:
1. Listen and Follow Directions 2. Respect the students, teacher, and class materials 3. Try your best 4. Help Everyone

5. If the rules are broken:
If you make a mistake and break a rule, I will ask you to take a break.
If you are consistently breaking a rule, there will be consequences:
I will talk to you
I will talk to your parents
I will send you to the dean

6. What is Calvin’s opinion about history class? Do you agree or disagree?

7. Why study history?

8. Social Studies helps us understand…Culture

9. …Change over time

10. …People and perspectives

11. …Individual development and identity

12. This year in social studies we will:
Think like a historian
Write like a historian
Put ourselves in the shoes of historical figures

13. Take out your spiral notebook!
Notebook Setup:
Table of Contents (1-130)
Skip 2 pages—begin numbering pages (1-130) #1 must be on the left side!!
Page 1: Course Overview
Page 2: Interactive Notebook Guidelines
4. Write your name, my name, and the block number on the front or inside cover!

14. Timelines: Turn and Talk!
What is a timeline?
What do timelines help us do?

15. Timelines help us see:
Events in chronological order (what happened first, second, third)
Change over time
How much time passed between events
Cause and effect (did one event cause another?)

16. Timelines:

17. Personal Timeline:
One of your first assignments will be to create a personal timeline of your life. Before we begin, think of 5 important events that happened in your life. Then, write 1-2 sentences explaining why each event is important.

18. Ms. Cruickshank’s 5 events:
April 7, 1989: I was born.
December 1999: I got my first guitar.
2001: My grandfather died.
January 2012: I studied abroad.
August 2013: I started my first year of teaching.

19. Line up by hair length!
WITHOUT TALKING line up by hair length…people with the longest hair in the front, shortest hair in the back!
Partner up with the person standing next to you and share your five events!

20. Create a timeline of your life:
Using your 5 events, create an illustrated timeline of your life. Each event should have a date, heading, picture, and key phrase.

21. Create a timeline of your life:
Place your ruler on the black line
Every 2 centimeters, make a mark with your pencil
Each line will represent one year
The large black line on the left will represent the year before you were born.

24. Signal for Quiet ?

25. Break Spot ?

26. Bathroom Procedure: ?

27. Pencils: ?

28. Cell Phones: ?

29. Gum: ?

30. When the teacher or a student is talking:?

31. Packing up procedure:
Clean out inside of desk (no trash, pencils, materials)
Clean underneath tables
Gather materials and stack neatly on desk

32. Line up by hair length!
WITHOUT TALKING line up by hair length…people with the longest hair in the front, shortest hair in the back!
Partner up with the person standing next to you and share your timeline!

33. American History Title Page
What would the title page of an American History book look like?! On the first TWO pages of your history notebook, create a title page with drawings, words, descriptions, etc. with everything you know about American History.

34. Turn and Talk! What do historians do?

35. What do historians do?
Historians… Look at primary and secondary sources and ask questions.

36. Think like a historian…
What do you see, what does it say? What time period is it from? What can it tell us about history?

37. Practice with a primary source!
What do you see, what does it say?
What time period is it from?
What can it tell us about history?