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//AM Session Highlights//

 * Reflections - Successes & Challenges
 * ISN - Interactive Student Notebook - Checkup (OH)
 * Getting the Big Idea - Using the [|Executive Summaries & Pacing Guides]
 * [|Strategies] Packet
 * Utilizing the Strategy Packet - linking strategies to the Unit Understandings
 * "Hook - Line - Sinker" Review

//PM Session Highlights//

 * Unit Sequence (Pacing Guide) & Social Studies TAKS (Highlighted)
 * Classroom Walkthrough
 * Unit 2: Latin America - HA Lesson 2 - Demographic Matrix - tips
 * Unit 2: Latin America - HA Lesson 4 - Mexican Mural (Visual Discovery) - modifying, planning ahead
 * Unit 3: Middle East - Binder lessons
 * Lesson Swap
 * Looking at Student Work
 * Planning Calendars

Resources
Here are a few of the resources used in the training session.
 * Library of Congress - [|For Teachers] - Excellent source for activities utilizing Primary Sources
 * [|PortaPortal] - guest user: mleerssen - Collection of resources pulled together for Units 1 and 2
 * Scholastic.com - [|Immigration] activities: [|Who Lives in America?]
 * [|Twoogle] - Search multiple sites and search engines at one time
 * [|Wordle] - Create word collages (such as this page header)

=**Reminders**=
 * Be explicit in teaching the Unit Understandings - refer back frequently during the lesson?
 * Address the needs of all students in your classroom - vocabulary development, scaffolding, extensions, etc.
 * Reflective question: How would it feel to participate in a Social Studies lesson in your classroom?