1. Good morning!
Please turn in parent letter signature slips in the basket (just the bottom part).
In your notebook, write down today’s agenda from the board.
Get out your responses to the homework questions, and be ready to discuss them.

2. Good morning!

3. Good morning!
Please turn in parent letter signature slips in the basket (just the bottom part).
In your notebook, write down today’s agenda from the board.
Get out your responses to the homework questions, and be ready to discuss them.

4. Group Discussion How do you define “history?”
You have 3 minutes to share your responses and settle on the best definition to which you can all agree.
Write your group’s definition on a piece of paper to share & post.

5. An argument about the significant past
Two Good Definitions:
History is…
An argument about the significant past
Change over time

6. What is History Not? History is: Not just a list of dates & facts
Not trivia
Not conclusive. We continue to argue about it and its meaning.

7. Why is history important? Or, why is it not?
What do you think?
3 minute group discussion
Share

8. Trotter says…
History is important because it helps us to understand who we are, and where we can go.

9. Historical Thinking

10. Group Activity You are what you eat. What conclusions can we draw?
Using the following pictures, what conclusions can you draw about these people based on what you see?
In other words, use evidence to make an argument.
Each picture is data about a different person. What conclusions could you make about them based on what you see?
Write down your group responses.

11. Science Teacher – Eats all Local fool

12. College Students

14. Carpenter/Hunter

15. Bar Tender

16. Street advertiser - $425/month fixed income

17. So What?
Historians use significant facts or data to support historical arguments.
Some arguments are better than others.
What else would we want to examine to make better arguments about the owners of these refrigerators?

18. New Seats

19. Historical Thinking Quiz
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
When was the Vietnam War?
Who is the best musician of all time?
Who has been the greatest US president?
Why is race important in America?
What does it mean to be an American?

20. Historical Thinking: Levels of Questioning
Level 1 - Recall
Directly from text
Dates, facts, vocabulary
Level 2 – Analysis & Inference
Reading “between the lines”
Draw logical conclusions from known premise
refrigerators
Level 3 – Synthesis
Beyond the text
Inquires about value, importance & application

21. Recognize levels of questioning.
This is what we do!
Always question texts.
Recognize levels of questioning.

22. Review How do we define history?
Historians use significant _______ to support historical __________.
What are the three levels of questioning?

23. Business Meeting: What does it mean to be in Trotter’s Class?
Syllabus
Class expectations
Tardies
Phones & technology
Bathroom –
Before the bell?
15/15
CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR EACH CLASS!!!

24. HOMEWORK Read excerpts document on the website
American Political Philosophy
What did the leaders of the American Revolution value in terms of political philosophy?
How did they try to protect these political values in the government they created?
First attempt: Articles of Confederation
Second attempt: Constitution