Social Studies PLC
Muskogee High School
Members
Leader: Diane Walker
Reporter: Keith Coleman
Team Members: Zach Anderson, Kerry Hilmon, Kevin Hogue, Cynthia Kane, Paul McCann, Jason Medrano, Todd Peck, Dewayne Pemberton, Jack Reavis, Dyan Riley, Janet Stowers, Diane Walker, Don Yates
Team Leader for next year: Kevin Hogue
Co-Leader: Paul McCann
Reporter: Keith Coleman
Product/Process
We produced a booklet with primary sources that are aligned with the Oklahoma Academic Standards (OAS) for the U.S. History EOI. We have also focused 9th Grade Oklahoma/Govt. and 10th grade World History textbooks/OAS with these documents so that there is vertical alignment.
Process: We broke up into small groups dividing the OAS between the groups making sure there was a U.S. History teacher in each group while having the group be heterogeneous in the other grades and subjects. At the end of 2 meetings for each standard we would then rejoin into our large group and discuss what we had found and determined what were good resources.
Other products/decisions
Benchmarks and Technological Advances
2013 our EOI score was a 66
2012 our EOI score was a 57
We have raised our score by 11 points
Kevin Hogue built a 9th and 10th grade EOI prep benchmark using Study Island questions which were used this past semester for the first time. We hope to start the next school year off with these being used at least 2x a semester for 9th grade semester classes and 3x or more for the 10th grade year long World History classes.
Progress: New Technology we are able to now complete benchmarks in our classroom, do research for project based learning and primary source document reading instead of having to reserve a computer lab so all of these processes should be easier for next year
Content Standard One Example
Prentice Hall World History Modern Era
Primary Sources, Standard 1, Objective 2:
Sites for General Use
- Our Documents.gov: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
- Library of Congress teacher resources: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/
- National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/
- Documents from 800 AD to 2009 AD http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
- Immigration Pg. 342 Italian, 351 Jewish 368 Irish Immigrations,
o Pg. 530 Isolationism
o http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us29.cfm
ohttp://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/immigration/
- Chinese Exclusion Act Pg. 530
o http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=47&page=transcript
None of these are in World Book/ Some are in Oklahoma: Land of Opportunity
- Assimilation pg. 126
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/assimilation/
Wounded Knee
o http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/wklakota.htm
- Dawes Act—Pgs. 270-271
o http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=50&page=transcript
- Red Cloud’s Cooper Union speech
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/faragher7/medialib/chapter18/18.htm
- Chief Joseph’s I Will Fight No More pg. 233