Welcome to Portable 1: US History with Mrs. Chilson Please grab a syllabus, a book, and

an introduction - you will have assigned seats!

Agenda/Announcements for today

• Seating Chart – by alphabet • Book or CD numbers • FYI – picture day is Tuesday! • Read over Syllabus – homework (10 pts extra

credit). Also, tissues = 4 pts e.c.

About Me… • I graduated from Eastern Illinois University

with Secondary Social Science Education degree

• I moved to WA in 2003 and started at LSHS • I completed a Masters’ Degree in School

Counseling at Seattle Pacific University in 2009

• I have two kids – 4 year old (Noelle) and 2 year old (Zoe)

• I want you to feel welcome here! • Fill out your introduction sheet

Zoe & Noelle

One of the many reasons I love Lake Stevens…

One of the many, many reasons I love Lake Stevens…

Why do we study history?

Answer on the white board.

How do we approach truth and determine significance?

1) Subjective sources (people who tell the story) = Who says?

2) Objective sources (“facts,” “judgments,” primary documents = What is said?

3) Personal ideas = What am I to say?

SOAPStone

Speaker Occasion Audience Purpose Subject Tone

The CHALLENGE

- Figuring out who YOU are is how you can understand history - For example, I hope you will

discover your interests and biases

The CHALLENGE

We are the historians

“We often say that great figures make history, but in truth historians make

history. Great figures may shape events, but historians make the history of those

events. I am a historian. If you think about the past, you too are a historian. We make history, for better or worse. And we also consume a lot of history

made by others.” – Professor Alan Kimball

Welcome to Portable 1: US History with Mrs. Chilson

Entry Task: Please grab a white board and marker and briefly answer the question (your ideas/opinion), “How can we arrive at TRUTH in history?” Announcements: - Pictures taken on Tuesday (beginning of

this period) - Syllabus and/or tissues due on Tuesday

Revolution Pre-Test

• This is only for participation points; just do the best you can!

JEOPARDY TIME!

• Volunteer Scorekeeper • Come up one at a time from your group

(table for today – same order every time). • You can use book, notes, whatever – but

no one can pass up info to you. • Make points when you get it right, lose

points when wrong. Teams never go negative.

• Cheating or being negative to teams? Lose 50 pts.

This state is 429x larger than Rhode Island but R.I.’s

population is larger.

ALASKA

Multiple Choice: What percentage of American

children live in low income households?

a. 8% b. 15% c. 44% d. 67%

Multiple Choice: What percentage of American

children live in low income households?

a. 8% b. 25% c. 44% d. 67%

Name at least 4 of the words from the acronym,

SOAPStone

This state has 3X as many cows as people.

MONTANA

Be specific: when is the ONLY time when you can listen to

headphones/IPOD?

INDEPENDENT STUDY ONLY!

Multiple Choice: the Average US citizen drinks the

equivalent of ___ sodas each year. a. 200 b. 340 c. 460 d. 600

Multiple Choice: the Average US citizen drinks the

equivalent of ___ sodas each year. a. 200 b. 340 c. 460 d. 600

Entry Tasks make up what percentage of your grade?

10%

This is the only state/place in the US where coffee is commercially grown.

HAWAII

Your _________has more computer power than all of

NASA when they put two men on the moon in 1969.

CELL PHONE And a birthday card that sings 'Happy Birthday' to you has more computer power than all the Allied Forces of 1945. Hitler, Stalin, Churchill

would have killed to get that chip that you simply throw away in the garbage.

Japan has 593 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people. Germany has 540 motor vehicles for every 1,000

people. How many do you think the US has for every 1,000 people (+/- 100)?

845 motor vehicles per 1,000 people

How do you access information if you were

absent?

Clipboard, Skyward

Multiple Choice: Nearly _____ million American adults live

with their parents.

a. 5 b. 10 c. 25 d. 50

Multiple Choice: Nearly _____ million American adults live

with their parents.

a. 5 b. 10 c. 25 d. 50

You will need to fill out self-evaluations on your

performance in these 4 areas: Reading Writing

Speaking Listening

US has the highest rate of ___________ and

__________ in the world.

Teen Pregnancy – 22% Population in prison – 715 per

100,000 people

Where did Chilson go to GRADUATE school?

Seattle Pacific University