Movie Extra Credit format
Date |
In Class Activity |
AP Homework |
Homework for All |
Thurs
9/18
|
Lecture: Reconstruction main issues (3 slides) Reconstruction: Were blacks truly free? Was it a success? Film/Reading and table debate
Reconstruction Debate: Traditional v Revisionist
The Successes/failure of Reconstruction (Afterward reflect on the best point of the opposition in your notes). |
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
Make sure you've finished the first page of Guiding Questions in your blue packet. |
Mon
9/22
|
Lecture: Reconstruction and play acting: Impeachment
Film: Many Rivers to Cross. |
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 |
Print out and take a look at the Family history immigration projects and decide who to interview
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 |
Wed
9/24
|
Finish:Many River
Discuss Immigration Projects
Review Lecture: America Moves West: Native Americans, The Homestead Act, 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 |
Tues
9/24
|
Finish Lecture: West and discuss the Plight of the Farmers (Wizard of Oz)
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.
Here is a studyguide for Reconstruction and the West for the brief upcoming quiz.
Go to new Unit Gilded Age |
Thurs
9/26
|
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
Go to the new site
Study for Quiz |