1. Oct 19 th Learning Target: I can understand the reasons for the Spanish American War. Literacy Target: to annotate text to understand authors claims Opener: Place the four ideas into the two ideas- Business InterestsExpansionist ideals Yellow JournalismAdvocates of Monroe Doctrine Special Interest GroupsNational Policy Which of these two was more of a reason to declare war on Spain? Explain.

2. Task Take out your document packets Finish your historical thinking charts from speakers Then take out your GREEN grade reflection- Wait for papers to come to you

3. Closure Explain why the Spanish American War was caused by the agitation of special interest groups. Self Evaluation Pirate ship rating on your learning target Today I learned… ALL WORK must be turned in by 10/26