Social Studies

Our new curriculum for Social Studies is FABULOUS!  The students love the visuals and videos that come with it.  Here are the instructions for access it at home:

https://app.studiesweekly.com

Students will click on the Clever link (below the regular login link), and when prompted to login, use: ·       SCH\Student ID number for both the username and the password.  It will prompt you to change your password after this.  Please make sure you write the new password down because I cannot go in and change it.

Studies Weekly in the Classroom

We use Studies Weekly for every social studies class and students are expected to have the newspaper with them for class.  When we read text, we utilize our close reading skills to annotate, analyze, and study the text.  Students are expected to follow along in class.  Like all subjects, students should study their notes for about 10-15 minutes every night.  They do not have to reread the the text (unless they would like to), but they should read over the notes we have taken on the newspaper.  I have provided an example as to how I instruct the students below (please see video).  ALL assessments given are open note (that is stated on top of the test and I remind students of that before taking it).  With that said, no test is given without us having gone through all topics on the studies weekly, whether it is through instruction during class or assigned for homework and then discussing it in class.  

Close Reading Example