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Lessons: Regents Review Class

Date
Topic
Lesson
1/20
Final Reveiw before Regents Exam

1/19
Review Final Exam
Students will review their final exam.
1/18
Final Exam
Students will finish their 50 question final exam.
1/17
Review Quiz - Begin Final
Students will review quiz from last week and begin final exam.



1/13
Quiz Review Notes 41-50
Students take a 40 question multiple-choice quiz on review notes 41- 50.
1/12
Modern Latin America + Israel
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 49 + 50.
1/11
Collapse of Imperialism + Collapse of Communism
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 47 + 48.
1/10
OPEC + Modern China
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 45 + 46.
1/9
European Union and Modern Japan
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 43 + 44.



Fri
1/6
Holocaust
Students watch scenes from the film "Night and Fog"
Thur
1/5
Holocaust and Cold War
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 41 + 42.
Wed
1/4
DBQ Practice
Students have a third day to complete a DBQ essay on the geography of Britain and Japan.
Tue
1/3
DBQ Practice
Students have two days to complete a DBQ essay on the geography of Britain and Japan.



Fri
12/23
Violence in America
Last day before Christmas break/first day after strike - low attendance. Students watch scenes from "Bowling for Columbine".
Thur
12/22
Transit Strike
Transit Strike - extremely low attendance. Students watch scenes from "Bowling for Columbine".
Wed
12/21
Transit Strike
Transit Strike - extremely low attendance. Students watch scenes from "Bowling for Columbine".
Tue
12/20
Transit Strike
First Day of Transit Strike: Extremely low attendance
Mon
12/19
DBQ Practice
Students have two days to complete a DBQ essay on the geography of Britain and Japan.



Fri
12/16
Review of 9th Grade
Potential transit strike - low attendance - students did a matching game based on 9th grade material.
Thur
12/15
Re-take quiz from Tuesday
Students will re-take the quiz from Tue. and see if they improved after the review on Wed.
Wed
12/14
Review Quiz from Tue.
Students will Review the quiz from Tuesday. We will finish watching the last few scenes from Ghandi.
Tue
12/13
Quiz Review Notes 31-40
Students take a 40 question multiple-choice quiz on review notes 31-40.
Mon
12/12
Ghandi - WW II
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 39 + 40.



Fri
12/9
Snow Day
Snow Day - attendance very low.
Thur
12/8
Ghandi and Indian Independence
Students will watch scenes from the film Ghandi.
Wed
12/7
Ghandi and Indian Independence
Students will watch scenes from the film Ghandi.
Tue
12/6
Fascism - Hitler and Mussolini
Students will watch scenes from the film "The Great Dictator".
Mon
12/5
Japanese Imperialism - Appeasement
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 37 + 38.



Fri
12/2
Mustafa Kamal - Fascism
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 35 + 36.
Thur
12/1
World War I
Students will watch scenes from "Paths of Glory", to substantiate notes from WW I.
Wed
11/30
World War I - Treaty of Versailles
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 33 + 34.
Tue
11/29
Russian Revolution Students will watch scenes from "Doctor Zhivago".
Mon
11/28
Russian Revolution - Stalin and Totalitarianism
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 31 + 32. 2nd marking period grades handed out.



Wed
11/23
European Imperialism in Africa
Film "Mountains of the Moon". Students will view and discuss scenes from this film about the early days of English Imperialism in Africa, followed by regents questions about subject.
Tue
11/22
European Imperialism in Africa
Film "Mountains of the Moon". Students will view and discuss scenes from this film about the early days of English Imperialism in Africa.
Mon
11/21
Review Quiz and Thematic Essay
Students will review quiz from last Thursday and Thematic Essay from last Friday.



Fri
11/18
Thematic Essay
Students will have one day to complete a thematic essay on Political Revolutions. Students were given the essay question on Monday and have had all week to prepare.
Thur
11/17
Quiz
Students will take a 40 question multiple choice quiz on Review Notes 21-30.
Wed
11/16
Meiji Japan - European Imperialism
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 29 + 30.
Tue
11/15
Industrial Revolution
Students will watch scenes from the film "Modern Times". Students will then connect themes from the film to the Industrial Revolution via Regents Questions based on the Industrial Revolution.
Mon
11/14
Industrial Revolution - Karl Marx and Communism
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 27 + 28. Students get thematic essay to prepare for Friday.



Thur
11/10
Enlightenment - French and Latin American Revolutions
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 25 + 26.
Wed
11/9
Responses to Absolutism - Scientific Revolution
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 23 + 24.
Mon
11/7
Mercantilism - Absolutism
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 21 + 22.



Fri
11/4
Review of Quiz
Review quiz from Thursday.
Thur
11/3
Quiz
40 question multiple-choice quiz on review notes 11-20.
Wed
11/2
Cortez - Slave Trade
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 20. Analysis of Neil Young song - "Cortez the Killer".
Tue
11/1
MesoAmerica - European Exploration and Cortez
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 18 + 19.
Mon
10/31
DBQ Review - Reformation + MesoAmerica
Students will review their DBQ's from last week.



Fri
10/28
Renaissance - Reformation
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 16 + 17.
Thur
10/27
Mongols - Plague
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 14 + 15.
Wed
10/26
DBQ - Economic Reform
Students will finish their DBQ on Economic Reform.
Tue
10/25
DBQ - Economic Reform
Students will have two class period to complete a 8 document DBQ on Economic Reform.
Mon
10/24
Web Pages Down
Mr. Moloney shut down lesson due to frustration because the web pages he had worked on for the lesson were all broken due to server problems.



Fri
10/21
Document response practice.
Students will use state provided rubric to grade each others answers from Monday.
Students will then review questions from Wednesday.
Thur
10/20
Document response pracitce.
Students will have 42 minutes to answer short answer questions for 8 documents. Taken directly from former Regents Exam.
Wed
10/19
Web Pages Down - Textbook Lesson.
Unit 7 - Regents Review Book.
Tue
10/18
Web Pages Down - Testbook Lesson.
Unit 6 Regents Review Book.
Mon
10/17
Web Pages Down - Textbook Lesson.
Unit 5 Regents Review Book.



Fri
10/14
Early Japan - Mongols.
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 13 + 14.
Wed
10/12
Document response practice.
Students will use state provided rubric to grade each others answers from Monday.
Students will be polled as to their ancestral background.
Tue
10/11
Document Response practice
Students will have 42 minutes to answer short answer questions for 8 documents. Taken directly from former Regents Exam.



Fri
10/7
Crusades - Early Japan.
Notes and sample questions from review notes #'s 12 + 13.
Thur
10/6
Review DBQ Essay.
Medieval Times.
Review DBQ. Notes and sample questions from review notes #11.
Mon
10/3
Review Quiz
Students Review quiz from last week.



Fri
9/30
Quiz
Quiz on Topics 1 - 10 from Global Notes.
Thur
9/29
DBQ Essay
Two-day Document Based Essay on major historical revolutions.

Wed
9/28
DBQ Essay
Two-day Document Based Essay on major historical revolutions.
Tue
9/27
World Religions - Medieval Period
Students will get notes, mini-lecture, class discussion, and past Regents Questions on todays topic.
Mon
9/26
Hammurabi - Greece - Rome - Silk Road
Students will get notes, mini-lecture, class discussion, and past Regents Questions on todays topic.



Fri
9/23
Cultural Diffusion - Neolithic Rev. -
River Valley Civilizations.
Students will get notes, mini-lecture, class discussion, and past Regents Questions on todays topic.
Thur
9/22
Cronology, Geography + Time Line Questions.
Students will get notes, mini-lecture, class discussion, and past Regents Questions on todays topic.
Wed
9/21
Primary Sources - Fact + Opinion Questions.
Students will get notes, mini-lecture, class discussion, and past Regents Questions on todays topic.
Tue
9/20
Document response practice.
Students will use state provided rubric to grade each others answers from Monday.
Mon
9/19
Document response practice.
Students will have 42 minutes to answer short answer questions for 8 documents. Taken directly from former Regents Exam.



Fri
9/16
Comparative Religions.
Students will finish their posters from Thur.
Thur
9/15
Comparative Religions.
In groups students will create a poster comparing and contrasting six major religions.
Wed
9/14
Roman Law. Alexander the Great. The Silk Road.
Jigsaw Lesson.
Tue
9/13