Movie Extra Credit format
Date |
In Class Activity |
AP Homework |
Homework for All |
Thurs
9/18
|
Lecture: Reconstruction and play acting: Impeachment
Film: Many Rivers to Cross. |
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 white packet (Reconstruction Timeline) if you didn't finish it in class.. |
Mon
9/22
|
Finish: Many Rivers
Discuss Immigration Projects
Review Lecture: America Moves West: Native Americans, The Homestead Act, the Gold Rush, Transcontinental Railroad
Start Lecture: Farmer Problems 1860s-1880s |
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 Lecture: West and Native Americans: Was it a genocide?
Start Lecture: The Plight of the Farmers (Wizard of Oz) |
Watch and take interactive notes and summarize Crash Course #24 the American West |
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
9/26
|
Double English Day: Meet in MAP Annex -
Film: 12 Years a Slave & class analysis
Assign Immigration Hotseat roles |
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 10/7)
Here is a studyguide for Reconstruction and the West for the brief upcoming quiz. |
Tues
9/30
|
Quiz: West & Reconstruction
Finish Lecture on Populism
Start Lecture on Gilded Age & Immigration
Assign Roles for Sweatshop Trial |
Interactively read and summarize: Populism & Historians |
Finish interactively reading and taking notes on your pink packet
Make sure you're working on your immigration project
Be prepared for the Sweatshop Trial: on 10/7 by writing a 1 to 1 1/2 page opening statement. The individual groups Multinational Corporations, Poor Country Ruling Elite, Poor Country Workers, United States Consumer, System of Profit
Meet in the MAP Annex for both periods on Thursday
Go to new Unit Gilded Age |