1. January 8, 2013

2. Bellwork Explain in detail why the answer you choose is correct. Explain in detail why each of the other three choices are incorrect Revising and Editing DIRECTIONS Read this passage and answer the questions that follow. (1) George Washington hired engineer Pierre L’Enfant to plan a new capitol city. (2) The new city would be called Federal City and would be located in Maryland. (3) L’Enfant was later fired. (4) Surveyor Andrew Ellicott redrew the plans but upheld much of L’Enfant’s vision. (5) By 1800, President John Adams had moved into the White House. (6) It was far from finished. (7) It was damp. (8) The city was later renamed. (9) Today, Washington, D.C., reflects L’Enfants vision of a city of open space. 1. What change, if any, should be made in sentence 1? A. Change engineer to Engineer B. Insert a comma after L’Enfant C. Change capitol to capital D. Make no change 2. What is the most effective way to combine sentences 3 and 4 to form a compoundcomplex sentence? A. L’Enfant was later fired, but when surveyor Andrew Ellicott redrew the plans, he upheld much of L’Enfant’s vision. B. L’Enfant was later fired, and surveyor Andrew Ellicott redrew the plans but upheld much of L’Enfant’s vision. C. When redrawing the plans, surveyor Andrew Ellicott upheld much of L’Enfant’s vision, even though L’Enfant was fired. D. Much of L’Enfant’s vision was upheld by surveyor Andrew Ellicott, who redrew the plans after L’Enfant was fired.

3. Common Core Standards “Civil Disobedience” RI 2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

4. Watch video on “Civil Disobedience” (21 minutes) Discuss: “the best government is the one that does the least” “the best government is the one that does nothing”

5. Background As part of his 1844 re-election bid, President John Tyler pushed for the annexation of Texas, then an independent nation. Although Tyler lost the election, the issue consolidated opposing views: southerners favored annexing Texas as a slave state, whereas northerners feared that doing so would give slave states too much power in congress. The annexation succeeded under Tyler’s successor, James K. Polk, who inherited a boundary dispute with Mexico. Polk offered to buy the disputed area from Mexico, along with what is now New Mexico and California. When Mexico refused, war broke out. The hostilities lasted much longer than the quick series of battles that Polk had hoped for, but it finally ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, in which the Rio Grande border was finalized and Mexico ceded New Mexico and California to the United States for $15 million.

6. Silently read “Civil Disobedience” p. 390 (20 Minutes) Get in groups and do questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

7. Exit Ticket The result of Thoreau’s civil disobedience was a night spent in jail. In what ways do people today react to nonconformity? How do you act towards those who refuse to conform?