The struggle of Reconstruction and creating equality never ended.  Your homework 4-4-19 was to look up Martin Luther King, Jr. and make connections to the 10 year struggle we studied after the Civil War. [The Church Commission 1970s too]  The original sin of slavery was described to us by Benjamin Franklin as a sleeping problem in the Constituition.  Today we are still working on equality for all.  As we said in class, your 8th grade class will use our class content from this year, and compact it into your 11th grade course, in 6-8 weeks, and then move on to a more modern era.  You need to remember this year for better life-long learning.  You might want to keep uploading your learnings to your google sites.[it will be one of your final grades]  Again the IPNB is due Tuesday 4/9 it has been on the board and in the illuminate site for days.  Too many late coupons have been used this year.  Ask for help if your need some.

Below are two videos that may help you with what we are doing in AVID and in US History class.  Both are our ideals and social contract hearings that we are all working towards.  I hope the videos help you in your pursuits to be a philosopher king.  You might add them to your notes.  Best Wishes.

So many of the students have learned to use the social contract.  Many are learning the CLIC—Content, Literacy, Inquiry and Citizenship—as helpful markers to why we are studying these historical events.  We have talked about this California framework idea and how each topic relates to a larger picture of American history.  The idea that equality in our lives helps us to promote an environment that we all can learn in is KEY!  There are still, however, a few that have not tried to implement the ideas and are getting behavior cards and journals frequently.  These students are not making the grade and so are seeing fewer improvements.  These students are having the hardest time achieving, because they are still trying to grow their prefrontal cortex, and in some cases refuse to positively add to our class culture for all students' success.  So the year has begun to take its toll on how our students acting out negatively school wide.  Get all your friends to follow the social contract.  Are you trying?  Really trying?

Executive function—being able to regulate ourselves—is our goal to be ready for college and high school.  The majority of students have tried to create the elements of the interactive personal notebook to meet the rubric score they want, A,B,C....  It is not enough to want a grade, but use the techniques in class to make that grade come to fruition.  Do the work get the grade!  Many students in every period are utilizing these tasks and are making great strides of becoming scholars of history.  We have talked about using other's ideas or taking info from the internet.  Work being cited is important to know so you are not plagiarizing someone else ideas.  We have talked about the 7 Things that Hold Americans Together from UCLA Prof. Robert Dallek.  We have worked on SHEG and primary sources [Wayback Wednesdays].  We've worked on focused notes for the chapters.  Our class has worked on space, place, and time for our course.  The important connections we make to current events from notes on CNN 10, for example, will help you later in high school and college.  The tool of laptops and website access has helped you get to information more quickly into your IPNBs.  But your attitudes towards your learning to become philosopher kings is what is most important.  Do you want your society to be just and fair while you become a philosopher king?  Do you want to be a philosopher king?  Are you up to the challenge of learning?

Suggestions to ask yourself:
​•Does the left side [output] clearly show my thinking or restate what I already worked on?
•Can the left summarize all my thinking and it shows my new thinking?
•The output shows my best effort.
•I have synthesized all the info on the right before I created the left side.
•I have highlighted or annotated the right and I have shown that to the reader.
​•I have worked with the textbook and went over my notes a second or third time.
•I have highlighted areas I am unclear about.
•I have asked for help when stuck.
•Areas I am not clear about I will bring to the class and discuss.
​•I have used all my time well in class.
•I have really tried my best on the notebook....

Students not making the grade:
I have spent 15mins a night?
I have used the class time given to me to clear up confusion or instructions?
I am trying my best?
I am sleeping 8 hrs?
I am not breaking the social contract everywhere I go?
Why am I getting journals and behavior cards?
Why am I not trying my best?
Should I ask for help and try more?

These are the thoughts you should try to answer.  Many of you who are worried about your lower grades ask for extra credit.  Answer these questions on an output for extra credit in the new notebook.  Write the questions on an input and you can get extra points.  Honesty in your answer is the key to getting points added.  Please remember to add to new notebook's Table of Contents.

Best wishes.
Mr. C

To learn how 7th and 8th grade social studies are linked to the ideas of diplomacy and enlightenment, then look at links below:
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http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/holbeins-the-ambassadors-a-renaissance-puzzle-part-two-symbols/

http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/ARTH214/ambassadors_hot_spots.htm

You are about ~150 school days from being a high school freshman.  Please see if you can meet with a class ambassador listed below every couple of days when you seem stuck, each class day is best if they have time to help you.  From the consistent grades and abilities they have demonstrated, these students have a grasp of all the elements of our class.  The more people we can add, we will be able to have more study buddies and pair-share partners.  
These students usually:

• Write down the homework in the agenda.  
• Complete agenda write-ups at the end of class.  
• Write the classwork into the notes.  
• Add to the T.O.C. the assignment before class, at least a date entry for the CNN or textbook chapter notes, classwork, or daily assignment.  
• In class verbal participation and collaboration.  
• Not all spend the 15 minutes a night, but many do.

Please try to follow this Student Dialogue:
Johnny:  Maria, would you please help me on _________? [asking nicely]
Maria:  Sure, I think I have time.
Johnny:  Can I copy it?
Maria:  NO. Mr.C says we can not copy, but I will talk to you about the assignment and show you how I did it.
Johnny:  I am sorry I asked to copy I know I was not supposed to ask that because it is unreasonable.  I think it is reasonable to listen to you about how you did this assignment.  Where you found things, used handouts, and what you used to guide you on the assignment.
Maria:  Thanks for understanding we should follow the social contract on all our assignments.  Here is what I did..........
Johnny:  Thank you for taking the time to help me.  I hope we can do this again in the future.
The End.
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Please use the blog to ask questions or communicate ideas and questions.  Please be respectful and follow the social contract.  I will add more when I check the grades again each week.  Finish the farewell address wayback.  Take care.  If you did well on your notebook a high B or A please submits your name on the blog to be an ambassador.

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To begin, God in America talks about the Spanish explorers and what will take place with the Pueblo indians, after they have been coerced into converting to being Catholic and speaking Spanish.  The Native Americans are thinking they are just adding more Gods to their own polytheistic culture.  You should check your notes for the first 9 mins if we run out of time in class Wednesday.  We did watch the protestant reformation coming to the new world in class and what the Puritans were trying to accomplish.  You might compare this episode to Cabeza De Baca and Coronado from two weeks ago to the Pueblo indians story.
 
To end, Anne Hutchinson was a figure that changed the way in which American's view their own liberty.  She decided that she was able to talk to her God by herself, without an institution to give her faith.  The decision to not follow the religious laws and doctrines of John Winthrop's theocracy, helped create a conflict and then her trial.  Anne had to argue for her own conscience and beliefs to her community. She began a debate on religious tolerance and free speech.  This fervor was to later shape the way in which Americans practiced their religious convictions and convictions towards government.

More Research Links:
lbjws.blogspot.com/2015/11/american-biography-1637-massachusetts.html
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/anne-hutchinson.html
http://www.history.com/topics/anne-hutchinson
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/john-winthrop.html​

Above ​activist artist Ricardo Levins-Morales wrote the following about this poster, “The social gains of humanity did not invent themselves and will not defend themselves. Only organized people can do that.”  Through out modern civilization workers have been the backbone of almost all of our changes.  The way in which we have treated humans and their labor has had many transitions for 10,000 years of civilization.  WE are still trying to end modern slavery.  Further that freedom and justice for all is for all, and we are not there yet.

Even in the Medieval Era serfs burned the Lords records to end the struggle of oppression.  Even the era you studied in 7th grade was very oppressive to the lower classes. [see more http://www.historytoday.com/sean-mcglynn/violence-and-law-medieval-england.]  Further in the 20th Century workers changed the way in which students/children were used as a resource to the system of industrialization.  As societies grew more workers asked the questions like making devices that kill humanity.  Jacques Jares believed that workers of the world should unite for global peace.  If we refused to make and produce items weapons of mass destruction and oppression that destroy the world, then, those in power will not be able to use such things of the natural world.  Jares was ultimately assassinated in trying to stop the "war to end all wars."  Again we are all in this experiment of Democracy together.  To be able to identify and fix the problems we face for our future, we all need to follow the social contract, and see positive solutions for the problems. Then to act to leave the earth better than when we were asked to be stewards of it during our lifetime.

Further the freedom of thought is one of the most important ideas we have tried to foster in the United States of America.  In 1943 it was ruled by the United States Supreme Court that the pledge of allegiance was unconstitutional and that we are not able to forces school students to salute the flag, if they deem it to be against their own conscience.  We will study this basic premise when we see Anne Hutchinson take on the Puritans.  She will contest the ideas that her own thoughts about her god are her own, and no institution can tell her different.  Her philosophy is still with us today.  Further this idea she had will become the basis of the American Revolution's fervor and the eventually ending of slavery.  In God in America, the professional theologians explain that the religious conscience becomes the full force to end tyranny and rid the American Colonies of a King, ruling over the people.  So again the people are the sovereigns and make the strength of our federal constitution and American workplace.  Long live the American worker who fights for the struggle to make all our lives better.