PLC MINUTES 12/4 and 12/6|

PLC 12.4 & 12.6

Attendance: Funk, Kelly, Tinker

Civics: 
Our LTs are just a little bit off: Mr. Kelly is a bit ahead of Ms. Funk!

-> Kelly: showing The Congress documentary
-> Funk: executive orders mini project/presentation + take home quiz

Friday:
-> Kelly: Gerrymandering
-> Funk: Legislative branch start

Giving a small open notes quiz Friday on the Executive Branch!

Discussed topics for next week:

M: Legislative
T: Legislative
W/R: Legislative
F: Baby Legislative quiz

World History: 

Thursday; Speed Dating
Friday: Louis XIV

Discussed topics for next week: more at next week's PLC.
All next week is French Revolution!


12.6 
Finalized WH learning targets and discussed sophomore/junior conferences

M: (12/10) We will describe the causes of unrest in France against the monarchy.
T: (12/11) We will describe the events of the Tennis Court Oath & the Estates General.
R: (12/13) We will describe actions taken by the bourgeoisie and sans-culottes that led to the French Revolution.
F: (12/14) We will define the "Reign of Terror" and the impact it had on the French.

Finalized Civics learning targets:
M: We will identify the two parts of the legislative branch.
T: We will analyze the Constitution to find the powers of Congress.
W: We will describe the journey of a bill to a law.
F: REVIEW FOR  FINALS

11/13 + 11/15 | PLC MINUTES

Tuesday 11/13 
* Wrapped up the Election Project
* Planned our new unit (Three Branches overview -> Executive Branch after Thanksgiving to End of Semester)

* Talked about Civics Test Final & World History general final

• Giving the Civics Citizenship Test 2x: take the better of two scores for the Final 
• Double bubble for grades? 
• Discussed how to review for the finals; shared different techniques for reviewing for major tests and what might work the best with our students 

Thursday 11/15 

*Briefly reviewed the meeting contents of earlier in the week 

*Discussed the DBQ: it's going well for both Kelly and Funk! 

*Talked about "my favorite no" technique for working with thesis statements

*Deciding on curving the final; use of gradecam for the final 

*Covered failures/making a fail list/intervention 

*Formal/informal powers of the Presidency 

11/5 Gold Day Minutes

Gold Day Minutes

Set final schedule for election project: Project will end Tuesday. 
Begin Executive Unit starting block day!

Talked through logistics for the rest of the project
*Debate prep questions -> combed through them for accuracy and relevance and prepared for Wednesday.
*Set election values and grading: decided to meet and talk about what does and doesn't work in PBL as it finishes
*Adding in clout and travel committees for next year?
*Also next year; working on gearing towards specific issues (unions/policy for industrial, healthcare for medical)

11/1

Attendance   Funk, Kelly, Roy

Election Project

Timing for this is excellent with election day next week. 
Students are debating.

Teachers plan to combine 3rd periods since both of their classes are pretty small to help with the debates.

There is a rubric for scoring the debates.

Students will be asked to evaluate the project, their performance and their group.  This project is a backpack opportunity. 

Ms. Funk will be presenting this activity on Gold Day.

The usage of Google Classroom has been very positive for these teachers and has helped with make up work and helping the students find the materials.  The teachers are seeing more investment from the students because of the usage of technology. 

The current plan is to use the Citizenship test as the Final which will also serve as somewhat of a diagnostic exam to determine what students are ready.

Upcoming:  Legislative Branch

PLC 10/2

Easy PLC day today. We've already set our learning targets for the next two weeks.
*Discussed U of L mentor situations; set agenda for PLC time on Gold day.
* Started discussing civics project but we'll finalize them next week!

PlC 9/25

PLC Notes 

Planned learning targets for the next three weeks.
Rearranged our curriculum a little bit to make it make a little more sense for World History.
 Adjusted topic flow to: renaissance -> reformation -> scientific revolution -> age of exploration -> ottomans, safavids -> absolutism which will cover us until the end of October.

LTs:
M: We will describe the ideologies of the Federalists and Anti Federalists.
T: We will describe the "common good" when it comes to American Government.
W/R: We will analyze the Bill of Rights.
F: NO SCHOOL

LTs (world):
M: We will identify Descartes and Bacon and the creation of the scientific method.
T: We will become experts on a Scientific Revolution era scientist.
R: We will teach the class about one scientific revolution scientist.

Upcoming: 
Civics Test (backwards planned): Oct 12th
Begin Civics Election Project (Backpack opportunity and possible PBL): Oct 15th

PLC 9/20

9/20 PLC Minutes
*We only met once this week due to Backpack training.

Set learning targets for both World History and Civics next week.
Decided to push intervention to the next Viking Time slot (we only have one major assessment; by then we will have had three.)

LTS:
Civics: 
M: We will describe the battles of the American Revolution.
T: We will describe the strengths and the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
W/R: We will reenact the constitutional convention and compromise on a government plan.
F: We will compare and contrast the Federalist and Anti-Fed point of view.

WH: 
M: We will define the term "schism" and its impact on the Catholic Church.
T: We will identify three reasons why the Catholic Church was weakened during the Renaissance.
R: We will describe the three major reformers of the Protestant Reformation.
F: We will identify the actions taken by the Catholic Church during the Counter Reformation.

PLC 9/13

Civics PLC meeting 09/13
(PLC only required to meet once this week thanks to embedded PD on Backpack on Friday)

We switched LT's (Kelly taught colonial society Tuesday, Funk taught magna carta/english BoR) so we'll finish out the week doing the opposite. (Funk: colonies, Kelly: magna carta etc)

Civics Assessment date: October 12th (Unit 1 test: 75pts)
Tentatively set week by week plans with topics to cover. Backwards planning directly from the test, written by Funk.
Set up learning targets for next week as well.

CIV
M: 9/17: We will explain the actions taken by the Brits that led to American anger.
T: 9/18:  We will identify the reasons laid out by Thomas Paine for the Americans to start the Revolutionary War.
W/R: 9/19 + 9/20: We will justify the reasoning for the Americans to participate in the Boston tea party.
F: 9/21: We will describe the major battles of the American Revolution.
(I will create a timeline with my classmates and research one point on said timeline)

WH:

M: We will identify which of the inventions of the Renaissance is the GOAT.
T: We will identify the impact of the invention of the printing press on society.
W/R:  We will compare and contrast the northern and southern Renaissance.
F: We will describe the conflicting views of the Catholic Church and the new Renaissance thinkers.

PLC 9/6/2018

Attendance:  Funk, Kelly, Tinker, Roy

Teachers worked on Review and Poster project  in class today. 

The students were a little squirrelly today with the very extended class period.

Plan is ready for next week.    Test is ready. 

Revolution and Federalism to start on the block day.  Backward Mapping for the next unit will begin next week after critiquing last year's test.

Worked on PGP and SLF. 

PLC 9/4

Met on Tuesday during 6th period. Attendees; Kelly and Funk

Set plans for World History
Moved quiz date to Monday pending review for both classes
Briefly discussed Civics (more on Thurs)
Created a plan for Hall of Fame speaker (3rd period, Friday)

PLC 8/29

Special Meeting today: Funk out tomorrow (PM) so we moved to Wednesday.
(Sorry the minutes are a little late! It's been a very hectic week.)

Inside: 

*Planning for the week; September 4th - September 7th
*To-dos for each teacher
*Talked through how to use IC/gradebook and grading strategies
*Shared resources for the next week.

PLC 8/23

Valley Harbor Training
Added Admins and Authors to Civics page and Social Studies pages