Imperialism lesson

Today we started imperialism in American history. I did some new ideas with some old ones as well and it really worked out. I introduced it by doing a picture opener. I cropped a picture of the USS Maine explosion a few different ways, showed bits of it to the class a little at a time then they guessed. I had some great guesses. I then wrote imperialism on the board and had the, guess the meaning a by showing them a wordle. After I had them write phrases using just the letters in imperialism describing what it meant. Overall, they were very into the lesson and brought up many ties to today (talking about you Guantanamo Bay).