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1

Due: Presidential Quote Project

Class: Review homework and history pre-test; Introduce New unit and study guide on colonization

2

Due: Read the article "1491" and write a list of 10 critical observations about Native Americans.

Class: Review homework; Guns Germs and steel worksheet; Hand out textbook

3

Due: Read ch 1, sec. 1-2 and do related study guide questions

Class: Review homework; Guns Germs and Steel video

4

Due: State capitals and states Test

Class: Brainstorm the American Dream; review homework;

7

Labor Day Vacation

8

Due: Read ch 1, sec. 3-4-5 and do related study guide questions

Class: Discuss Obama's speech; Jamestown Jobs Activity; Discuss features of Jamestown and Spanish colonies

9

Due: Diagram features of French, Dutch and Puritan colonies.

Class: Primary documents of colonies (Slavery in Jamestown; starving time in Jamestown; religious intolerance in Bay Colony; Mayflower Compact); Review homework; 

10

Due: Read Ch. 2, Sec 1-2 and relevant worksheet

Class: Do Pennsylvania primary docs; Choice: Top 10 reasons to live in a colony or historical fiction project- 

11

Due: Read Ch. 2, Sec 3-5

Class: Introduce Revolutionary Era;  The Man Who Wouldn't Be King Worksheet

14

Due: Read excerpt from John Adams on the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.  What was the process of drafting the document?  What changes were made?  Why?

Class: review reading; homework; George Washington PowerPoint; Read and discuss Declaration of Independence

15 Parent Open House

Due: Draft own Declaration

Class: Review worksheet for Ch. 2; Women in Antebellus PowerPoint

16

Due: Research woman activist of 19th Century

Class: Research woman activist;

 

17

Due: 19th Century women activist biography

Class: Political cartoon; Presentation of 19th Century activists; Expansion map of U.S. 

 

18

Due: Causes of Civil War worksheet

Class: Causes of Civil War;  Ken Burns Civil War

 

 

21 1st Quarter progress reports

Due: Read Gettysburg Address and Lincoln on Equality in packet.  Write a paragraph discussing Lincoln's views on slavery;  Reconstruction worksheet

Class: Create a plan for Reconstruction; Read about Lincoln and Congressional plans; assess effectiveness of Reconstruction- Reconstruction Amendments

 

22

Unit 1 test

23

Due: 8/1-2 and packet

Class: Introduce the Gilded Age; Industrialist worksheet

24

Due: 8/3-4 and packet

Class: Due American Spirit primary document questions on industrialism

25

Due: Ch 9, 1,3,4 and packet

Class: Review Study Guide questions

28

Due: Ch. 9/2and packet

Class: Do Populism worksheet; Primary document worksheet on Indian Boarding Schools

29

Class: Review test; Discuss Populism; review populism cartoon worksheet; Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley and worksheet

30

Due: Ch. 11/2-3 and packet

Class: Buffalo Soldier; Review Questions; Andrew Jackson and Removal of Native Americans; Discussion of boarding school experience

 

 

 

Ron Eisenman

Rutland High School

reisenman@rutlandhs.k12.vt.us