Manifest Destiny & Reconstruction



Movie Extra Credit format

Date

In Class Activity

AP Homework

Homework for All

Tues


9/26

  • Reconstruction: Were blacks truly free? Was it a success? Film/Reading and table debate
  • Read Ch14 Summary and Review and take Notes and then write a SAQ on the following: a) Briefly explain why ONE of the following developments best represents the cause of the Civil War in the United States. 1. Abolitionism 2. Tariffs 3. Kansas-Nebraska Act b) Provide at least ONE example of a specific historical event or development to support your explanation in part (a). c) Briefly explain why ONE of the other options is not as persuasive as the one you chose in part (REMEMBER TEA for your answer)
  • Watch, take notes on, and write a summary on the video clip: Ken Burns: The Transcontinental Railroad End with a thesis statement addressing the question - To what extent did the Transcontinental Railroad transform America?
  • Interactively read and write a summary for Historians & the West
  • Interactively read and write a summary for your Reconstruction Cartoons packet
  • Thur


    9/28

    Meet in Annex
  • Read through Debate Packet and then argue: The Successes/failure of Reconstruction (Afterward reflect on the best point of the opposition in your notes).
  • Watch Crash Course 23 take notes and summarize
  • Read and take notes on 517-519 and answer the SAQ on 519, 546-547, Read 527-528 & do questions
  • Make sure you're working on the Family history immigration projects
  • Extra credit for watching one of these movies (Molly Maguires, In America, Avalon, Joy Luck Club, ) over the weekend and turning in the following form/paper by the end of the unit
  • Mon


    10/2

  • Double English Day: Meet in MAP Annex -
  • Film: 12 Years a Slave & class analysis
  • Watch and take interactive notes and summarize Crash Course #24 the American West
  • Make sure you're working on your immigration project
    Wed


    10/4

  • Discuss Immigration Projects
  • Review Lecture: America Moves West: Native Americans, The Homestead Act, Frontier House, the Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad
  • Start Lecture: Farmer Problems 1860s-1880s
  • Interactively read and summarize: Populism & Historians
  • Continue working on Family history immigration projects
  • Read and do: How the Other Half Lives
  • Note: If you received less than a 70% on the test you can do a debrief
  • Fri


    10/6

  • Finish Lecture: Plight of the Farmers (Wizard of Oz)
  • Lecture: Gilded Age -Technology Changes the Nation; Corporations and Monopolies; Lives of the Middle Class in the Gilded Age
  • Choose an Immigration Debate Group for the upcoming hotseat, debate, & workshop
  • Watch & Take Notes on Crash Course #25: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
  • Print out the brief excerpt of Bryan's famous Cross of gold Speech and interactively highlight it. Does Bryan sound like anyone today? Explain
  • Download this document and take notes on the video. You will complete the document with a group in class so have some ideas
  • Family history immigration projects due next a week from Monday.
  • Go to new Unit Gilded Age
  • Updated 8/14/23