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Mike Grapner

8th Grade American History

email address: mike.grapner@adams12.org

Phone - 720-972-3283

Here's a copy of the course syllabus

Here's a copy of the Current Event form

Be on Time, Be Polite, Be Prepared.

Please make sure you review all school policies as well as Liberty Core policies. 

Online Textbook

To access our textbook online, follow these simple instructions

1. Go to www.glencoe.com/ose
2. In the student login box towards the top of the page enter F9360E7B35.

3.  It is case sensitive.  If you copy and paste this information be careful to not paste in an extra space or period. 
4. !Viola! Our students now have access to our textook online.

Homework

Students will have MyAccess Homework beginning 11/9.  The prompt is available now.  All students know how to get into this program. 

Go to www.MyAccess.com and enter your login and password. 

Find Mr. G's prompt on Women in Colonial America

There will be some outside research for this assignment.  However, students will be able to attain basic information from the textbook. 

Please make sure you see Mrs. McVeigh in the LMC for passwords to access the encyclopedia/media services section of the CMS Library Website.  It's very informative and pretty dang cool.

Final submissions for this prompt are due Tuesday, November 24.

Supplies

Students will need a new 70-page single subject notebooks for Trimester 2 beginning November 23rd.   

Where we are headed

We are currently looking at the very early beginnings of colonial Amerca.  How did these groups interact with their environment?  How did they interact with the natives that were already there?  What challenges did they face?   

Civil War Reenactment Information

Here is a link for the Civil War Packet information/permission slip/student contract.  The fee for this year's event is $30.00.  I do have a limited number of scholarships available.  Please contact me if you would need one of these. 

All inquiries are kept confidential. 

Assignment Links and Calanders

There are links provided for any homework assignment below each calander week and within the calander.  Just click on them and it will take you to a link with any reading and any worksheet that is needed.  At the bottom of the page, there is a list of assignments to date.  As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me at mike.grapner@adams12.org. 

This calendar is "fluid"...it may change due to unforseen circumstances.  Please check back often.

 

M - 11/9
T -11/10
W - 11/11
R - 11/12
F -11/13
Period 1

Chapter 3.2 Review

MyAccess Homework

Chapter 3.2 Quiz

Chapter 3.3 Work

Chapter 3.3 Work

Chapter 3.3 Quiz

Chapter 3.4 Work

Chapter 3.4 Work

Period 2

Honors

Chapter 3.2 Review

MyAccess Homework

Chapter 3.2 Quiz

Chapter 3.3 Work

Chapter 3.3 Work

Chapter 3.3 Quiz

Chapter 3.4 Work

Chapter 3.4 Work
Period 3

Chapter 3.2 Review

MyAccess Homework

Chapter 3.2 Quiz

Chapter 3.3 Work

Chapter 3.3 Work

Chapter 3.3 Quiz

Chapter 3.4 Work

Chapter 3.4 Work
Period 4

Chapter 3.2 Review

MyAccess Homework

Chapter 3.2 Quiz

Chapter 3.3 Work

Chapter 3.3 Work

Chapter 3.3 Quiz

Chapter 3.4 Work

Chapter 3.4 Work
Good Stuff
         

 

This calendar is "fluid"...it may change due to unforseen circumstances.  Please check back often.

 

M - 11/16
T - 11/17
W -11/18
R - 11/19
F - 11/20
Period 1

Quiz 3.4

Chapter 3 Review

Chapter 3 TEST

Chapter 4.1 Work

Chapter 4.1 Work

Chapter 4.1 Quiz

Chapter 4.2 Work

Chapter 4.2 Work

Period 2

Honors

Quiz 3.4

Chapter 3 Review

Chapter 3 TEST

Chapter 4.1 Work

Chapter 4.1 Work

Chapter 4.1 Quiz

Chapter 4.2 Work

Chapter 4.2 Work
Period 3

Quiz 3.4

Chapter 3 Review

At Career Fair

Chapter 3 TEST

Chapter 4.1 Work

Chapter 4.1 Work

Chapter 4.1 Quiz

Chapter 4.2 Work

Period 4

Quiz 3.4

Chapter 3 Review

At Career Fair

Chapter 3 TEST

Chapter 4.1 Work

Chapter 4.1 Work

Chapter 4.1 Quiz

Chapter 4.2 Work

Good Stuff

         

All Past Assignments/Notes This Trimester                                 

Current Event form                                                                                            

9-11 Reading/Writing

Chapter 2, Section 2

HW: The First Americans

NA Project

NA Project with tribes

Native American Packet

3.1 - Early English Settlements Work

Directions

GR 3.1

Content Vocabulary Work

Word Map

Gentlemen of Jamestown Graphic Novel

Chapter 3.2 Review