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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; |
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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 |
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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.
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18 Due: Causes of Civil War
worksheet Class: Causes of Civil War; Ken Burns
Civil War |
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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 |
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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 |
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