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WELCOME TO CURRICULUM NIGHT!

ANGELO NOGUERA

8TH GRADE SOCIAL SCIENCES

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ROAD MAP FOR TONIGHT

  • INTRODUCTIONS
  • GOALS FOR THIS YEAR
  • GUIDING IDEA FOR THE YEAR
  • SNAPSHOT OF OUR CURRICULUM
  • HOMEWORK, ASSESSMENT, AND GRADING
  • CONTACT INFORMATION

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ABOUT MR. NOGUERA

  • 13th Year Teaching
    • Completed Student Teaching at Kennedy in 8th Grade History during the 2012-2013 School Year.
    • Spent first 5 Years in 7th Grade History.
  • Prior to teaching, 3 years as an Instructional Aide in CUSD
  • Undergraduate-UC Berkeley, BA with High Honors in Political Science and Distinction in General Scholarship-2009
  • Graduate-Santa Clara University, MA in Teaching and Single Subject Credential in the Social Sciences-2013
  • Single Subject English Authorization-2016
  • Completed Administrative Credential Program and Eligible for Administrative Credential-2023

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GOALS FOR THIS YEAR�

  • Staying Organizing-How to stay on top of things.

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  • Advocacy-Creating and Developing Student Voice.

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Class Overview

  • Communication between students, family, and teacher will be key this year.
  • Class will be a mix of lecture, independent and group work, small and whole group discussion, and projects.
  • Using guiding questions in the Social Sciences to bridge content and create discussion in class.

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Guiding Idea For The Year

“How the past connects and still matters today”

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USING QUESTIONS TO BRIDGE CONTENT BETWEEN CONTENT AREAS

  • Questions allows us to bridge content between our subjects so that we can go in depth across content areas.
  • For example, how can I use argumentation explain which right in the Bill of Rights is most important today and why?

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CURRICULUM

  • Research-Constructing the narrative and gathering sources to support an idea.
  • Evaluating Primary/Secondary/Tertiary Sources-What is reliable?
  • Argumentative/Expository Writing-How can inform and take a position on a certain topic
  • Current Events Presentation-Individual Student Presentations Each Semester
  • Major Assessments: Evaluating Evidence, Bill of Rights Comic, Going West Podcast, Civil War Museum, Connections Between Past and Today

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SNAPSHOT: CONSTRUCTING THE NARRATIVE

  • Using a variety of sources, what narrative are students able to create about events in the past?

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Constructing The Narrative: The impact of the Gold Rush in California

  • Using Primary and Secondary sources, what would the textbook introduction be for how did the Gold Rush influence San Francisco’s development in the mid 1800s?
  • Students will be analyzing documents, using sourcing to know of a document’s origin, and breaking down images to describe the impact including:
    • What were some successes? Challenges? Failures?
    • What is one big idea we should take away about the Gold Rush in CA? Why is that idea important?

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Examples of Documents Used To “Construct The Narrative”

Arrival of Emigrants from Foreign Ports

Arrivals of Ship

(in tonnage

Bullion Imported and Exported (in dollars)

Males: 18,990 Females: 1,398 Children: 535

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Total: 20,923

American: 36,272 Foreign: 40,336

Total: 76,608

Import: 10,120,828 Export: 9,533,970.

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CLASSWORK, ASSESSMENT, GRADING POLICY

  • Homework is posted at the beginning of the week in class and on my class website.

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  • LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED!!!!!!
    • Assignments not turned in will count as a 0 in the gradebook until turned in!
    • Turn in even if students do not receive full credit.
  • Please check Synergy regularly

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CONTACT INFORMATION

  • Email (Best way to contact me)
    • Noguera_angelo@cusdk8.org

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  • Class Website-Can search Mr. Noguera’s website Kennedy Middle School
    • Updated Weekly