Date |
In Class Activity |
HW: AP Only |
HW: All
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Fri
8/18 |
Coming to America Lesson: (Meet in the Student Center) |
Sign up for Class Companion.
Watch and take notes on Introduction & Period 1: 1491-1607
Watch and take notes on CC#2 |
Read over the Green sheets, sign them, and return them by Tuesday.Have your parents sign the Film Permission Slip, sign them and return them by Tuesday.
Download, print and put at the front of your binder the US History Format. Organize your binder accordingly.
Interactively read HAPPY Analysis
Over the course of the semester each student is required to do 3 out of class participation forms each semester. These do not count for events you are required to do (e.g. football players going to a football game). the rules are here HOC description. Remember two are school events supporting your peers and the third is a historical visit with pictures and a paragraph about the experience. |
Tues
8/22 |
What is history and historiography?: Review of Cornell Notes,
Lecture: Review 1491-1754 |
Read and take notes on Chapter 1.3-1.5 (pages 17-27)
Read the colored paper you received in class - blue, yellow, white, purple, or salmon - canceled bc of fire alarm
If you want to review the two videos we watched in class again they can be found here: Unit 1 & Unit 2 |
Watch and do the worksheet for 7 Years War. It can be found here. |
Thur
8/24 |
Jigsaw - Life in Colonial America: Letters from the Colonies: Jigsaw. Compare to Iroquois
Mini Lecture: the Causes of the Revolution - Shot heard round the world (video)
4 Corners Activity: Primary Sources
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Watch and take notes on Taxes & Smuggling It can be found here
Download, print out, interactively read, and keep comparison in your notes |
Interactively read Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Slavery at the end summarize the arguments and state why you think one side has a more compelling argument.Watch and do worksheet for American Revolution It can be found here
If you want to get ahead, interactively read the first two pages of the Constitution packet |
Mon
8/28 |
Film Clip: The Patriot
The Revolutionary War and the AoC
Read Virginia Convention  Read & Discuss Declaration of Independence, (film clip-Nat'l Treas)
Mini-Lecture Development of the Constitution, |
Watch and take notes on Period 2: 1607-1754. Turn these in on Wednesday.
AP Students with last names A-M read Yes and N-Z read No
Remember that if you have questions regarding the homework to put them in the Facebook group
Preamble (Video Clip) |
Interactively Read Constitution Simulation You do not need to fill out the preamble but you and your partner (or team of 3) should fill in your points for articles 1-5 |
Wed
8/30 |
AP Mini Debate: Was the Revolutionary War Conservative or not?
Groupwork on Constitution (Reform the AoC): Present Constitutions
Finish Lecture: Adoption of Constitution stories
Start foreign policy of the first 5 presidents
Note: There is a lot of homework tonight Watch Crash Course Episode 15 and do Ep 15 Worksheet
Remember that if you have question on homework put them on facebook group |
Note: There is a lot of homework tonight Interactively read Foreign Policy till 1812
Interactively read the Option in Brief packet (Do not write a summary tho). |
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Fri
9/1 |
Hotseat: The War of 1812 (4 Corners Activity)
Start Lecture/Case Studies: A New Nation and Challenges to Federalism. |
Note: There is a lot of homework tonightInteractively read and do the questions for the National Bank Background
Interactively read and answer the questions for the 3 positions on the National Bank . Make sure you're able to argue each of the positions for class on Wednesday
Interactively Read and do the guiding questions for Indian Removal |
Interactively Read: Nullification
Watch Crash Course Episode 18 and do this worksheet
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Wed
9/6 |
National Bank Cabinet Battle
Play acting Marbury v. Madison
Lecture/small group case studies on Nullification & Judicial Review the question of judicial review - Cherokee Removal & the Slide toward the Civil War
Select Roles for Trial of Henry Wirz |
Interactively Read and summarize Andrew Jackson Historiography. Which do you believe and why? Interactively read and do John Brown Trial Prep. Last Name A-K you must defend John Brown and L-Z prosecute John Brown for treason. |
Watch Crash Course Video Episode 16 and answer these questions: What was "Republican Motherhood"? What was the Cult of Domesticity? Why were reform movements available for women to join in an otherwise limited opportunity time period? What rights were women hoping to gain? Why did some abolitionist leaders stand against women's rights? What were the 3 characteristics of the 19th-century women's rights movement?
Interactively Read: Start of Political Parties |
Fri
9/8 |
MEET in Ms Ritchie's room
Abolitionism and an attempt to avoid the war.
John Brown's Raid Trial
Negotiations to avoid the Civil War
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Interactively Read: White Abolitionists.
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Interactively read Hamilton Good & Bad |
Tues
9/12 |
Meet together in the Annex for: Hamilton Day
Lecture on Abolitionism
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Take Cornell notes on pages 252-258 & 262-266 |
Interactively read and summarize Historians & the Civil War
Print out and bring to class (but don't do the Immigration Project |
Thur
9/14
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Introduce Immigration Report
Secessionitis  |
Complete Sherman Total War |
Finish reading your blue packet interactively. You do not need to negotiate the rest of it.
Start thinking about your Immigration Report
Watch Episode 20 of Crash Course and do this worksheet
Note: Extra Credit film for this unit is Glory. Use this form for all extra credit films offered. |
Mon
9/18
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Civil War 1861-1864 and the emancipation (who is responsible) |
You will have a short answer question (SAQ) on your Civil War Test: Make sure you know TEA and use the format on your test. Here is a video you should watch before taking the test.
Write a paragraph with the thesis at the end (remember to recognize other positions and STATE your own in the thesis) the final question from today's class: What caused the end of legal of slavery in the USA? |
Watch and take Cornell Notes on Sherman's March in preparation for our next class.
Don't forget to study for the upcoming test
Prep for your role in the Andersonville Trial and come to class dressed on Tuesday.
Meet in the annex Tuesday for the trial and double history day! |
Wed
9/20
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Double History Day: Meet in MAP Annex -
Lecture: End of the Civil War 1864-5
Lecture/Discussion/Debate: Humanity in War & the Trial of Henry Wirz |
Interactively read the first two pages of the Reconstruction Historiography packet
Reminder: The AP Exam structure looks like this. 
On your first test you will have the multiple choice and one SAQ question (remember TEA). |
Here is a Study Guide for P Students. This study guide covers about 75% of the AP test as well. |
Fri
9/22
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Meet in Annex1491-Civil War Test
Begin Reading America Moves West
Rest of class English |
Interactively read the Crow v the Homesteaders
Watch and Take Notes on Crash Course Episode #22: Reconstruction and 1876
Interactively read and do Turner Thesis |
Enjoy a night of no homework
Go to new website. |
