Welcome to Back to School Night

1. Mrs. Elizabeth Frohoff English Cluster & History Teacher Yearbook Advisor Room 232/233 Welcome to Back to School Night Please take a moment to fill out the questionnaire about your student.

2. About Me • UCSD Alum • Single Subject Credential from SDSU • Masters in Education: Curriculum & Literacy • from USD • Married to Software Security Engineer • Kaeleb 15, Julian 11 • 2 dogs, Lab & Pug • Steelers, Dodgers Fan • Love to travel, read, • garden, sail, Star Wars nerd

3. Teaching Experience • 11th year teaching • Lincoln High School • Children’s Creative & Performing Arts Academy- Private School • 6th Year at UC High

4. English Cluster • Students will focus on developing their critical thinking, reading, writing, listening and speaking skills on 3 thematic units: • Students will utilize a variety of texts & mediums • Identity: When and how do we decide what our identity is? What shapes our identity? • What shapes our identity? • Self-Actualization • Identity within Society • Culture/Race/Religion • Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset • Anchor Text: Of Mice & Men or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

5. Faces of Love: What are the types of love? • Self Love vs Narcissism • Universal Love • Familial Love • Romantic Love • Anchor text: Romeo & Juliet • Change Over Time • What impacts people’s decisions and how do they shape the person and society over time? • How does society change and evolve? • Anchor Text: Of Mice & Men or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

6. World History: Why does history matter? • Students will analyze past events and how they are still impacting our world today • Industrial Revolution • How does industrialization improve and impact countries? • Origins and the Spread of the Industrial Revolution • Developing vs. Developed Nations: Industrializing in today’s world • Effects of Industrialization: Socialism vs. Capitalism, Climate Change • Imperialism • What is the impact of imperialism on modern society? • The Scramble for Africa • Belgian Congo • Rwandan Genocide • South Africa Apartheid • Imperialism in Asia • China’s Ascendance • India’s Fight for Independence

7. WWI • How did WWI impact the rise of fascism and the dawn of WWII? • The Western & Eastern Front • Paris Peace Conference Simulation • Collapse of Empires • WWII • How did WWII shape the modern world? • Rise of Dictators • European Theater • Pacific Theater • Holocaust • Cold War & Post Cold War World • What is the impact of the Cold War on the current geopolitical climate? • United Nations • Proxy Wars: Vietnam, Korea • Berlin Wall & it’s Fall • Rise of Putin

8. Course Breakdown

9. Assessments

10. Notebook Check Rubric

11. Extra Credit • A student doesn’t need extra credit to pass • Some opportunities for extra credit but not very many • Winter & Spring Break for sure • Take full advantage of all extra credit opportunities!!

12. Electronics • School Policy: No electronics to be used in class • Students will place their phone in their assigned pocket holder for duration of class. Students will not be dismissed until everyone has their phone. • Electronic Devices will be confiscated if seen and given to the office for parents to pick up. Pick up days are Wed & Fri • Citizenship will suffer

13. Yearbook: Excelsus • Designed to provide students with journalism skills and the ability to apply those skills to the actual production of the school’s yearbook • 4 Deadlines, multiple spreads for each deadline • Grading • Participation • Attending events for your page • Attending mandatory Yearbook events • End of Year Distribution • Lunch Distribution • Yearbook Shirt Days • Yearbook Promotional Events • Spreads • Everything will be in the google drive • Interviews/stories, photos, etc. • Classwork (more 2nd semester after Yearbook Final Deadline)

14. Class Structure • Plan Week • Working with your team plan out who is doing what and when • Topics for interviews • Ideas for photos & coverage, layout • Design Week • Find the design inspirations for page • Design the layout of your page • Plan out your stories • Build Weeks (2 weeks) • Conduct interviews, photography sessions • Create the page • Coverage Week • Figure out who needs to be on the page for maximum coverage of staff and students • Use the coverage board • Tag your page • Proof Week • Edit the page

15. Stay Connected! • Website: www.efrohoff.wordpress.com • Follow the blog for daily updates and lessons and when absent • View the Daily Activity & Homework Assignments & Resources • Check PowerSchool for Grades • Access through UC website • Student has password • Email, or Call • Email or call about your child’s progress • Email is the best and quickest way to contact me. I usually return emails with 24-48 hours • efrohoff@sandi.net • 858-457-3040 ext. 115/116

16. Questions? • Don’t forget to please fill out the questionnaire about your student • You can turn it in now or have your student return it tomorrow

17. Common Core • Deeper Understanding of Concepts • Improve students ability to analyze information from a variety of sources: textbooks, primary and secondary sources, historical documents, & multimedia sources • Conceptual Understanding, Focus on How • Further develop and improve critical thinking skills through literature & with regards to past events and their influence on current social, cultural and political events and the future • Real World Situations • Analyze events and evidence, formulate opinions about historical, political and economic events and consequences, be able to defend their opinion using information and observations as well as documents and sources gathered from class & the real world

18. ArtsTech U.S. History • ArtsTech Mission Statement: A multi-disciplined approach to the arts teaches students to use a creative mindset to apply their emotions and intangible wants to concrete, career based scenarios. • Core Values: • Teamwork • Follow-through • Attention to Detail • Core Beliefs: • Creativity is transferable across disciplines. • Creativity is a mindset, not a medium or a product. • There is no shortcut to success. • Students will study major turning points that shaped the United States, from the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction through the present. We will analyze the social, cultural and political impact and effect these monumental events have had on our modern society. • All units will be focusing on how the events of that time period shaped & impacted America today

19. U.S. History Course Topics • Review of Early US History • Colonialism • American Revolution • Westward Expansion • Civil War & Reconstruction • Industrial Revolution • How did the Ind. Rev. shape US globalization? • Age of Imperialism • How did imperialism impact the US relationship to modern nations? • World War I • How did the impact of WWI alter US society? • Great Depression • How did the impact of the Great Depression change America’s psyche? • World War II • How did WWII change the US role in the world? • Civil Rights Movement • What is the impact on the Civil Rights Movement on modern America’s activist movements? • Cold War Era • How did the US actions during the Cold War shape our decisions in the turn of the century? • Turn of the Century US • What should be the US role in global society? How has our past shaped that course?