Lesson Plans: Week of May 14th

Education & Technology & Life

May 13, 2007

This week we focus on the discovery of America as well as the enlightenment.

Objectives: H.7SS.7; P.7SS.3; GEO.7SS.3; GEO.7SS.4; GEO.7SS.5

Date	What We’re Doing in class	Homework
5/14	WU Refresher: How we did on last week’s test Intro: The King and Queen United Streaming Video: Queen Isabela
5/15	WU Introduce the concept of the Enlightenment: Group Work Presentation: Exploration and Enlightenment
5/16	WU Conclude Presentation Book Assignment
5/17	WU Review: For Anchor Test Game
5/18	WU Anchor D Test

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