Thursday/Friday 12/14/17-12/15/17

We will complete two rounds of peer grade and then you will have time to write your reflections and access study materials.

Agenda (PPT)

DBQ Review
     Self Assessment
     Peer Review
     Reflection
Share: Study Materials

Homework: Study for the Final!

Tuesday/Wednesday 12/12/17-12/13/17

Hope that today still feels like a test and that you try your best to succeed. This process should be low in stress but high in the learning take-a-ways.


Agenda (PPT)

Submit Unit Pack
Test: Unit 6 DBQ
DBQ Review
     Self Assessment
     Peer Review
     Reflection

Homework: Study for the Final!

UPDATED Unit 6 Coversheet

Link

Monday 12/11/17

Today we will finish the unit by analyzing primary source documents. Through this analysis we can also discuss the connection to the DBQ document analysis that you will all be practicing again on Tuesday.


Agenda (PPT)

Quick HIPP: Unit 6

Homework: Unit Pack Assembly 

I need to add the HIPP to the unit pack check list. 

Unit 6 Cover Sheet

Cover Sheet

Thursday/Friday 12/7/17-12/8/17

Today's quiz will focus on all of the ills of early industrial society, as well as the social reforms that were starting to help.

Additionally we will dive back into a primary source reading today with the purpose of deconstructing an argument.


Agenda (PPT)

Quiz: CH 19
Warm Up #3

Prompt: The Gilded Age

List and describe 3 or more important people, events, or organizations from the video.

Primary Source Reading: Jane Addams
CL: #2

Prompt: DBQ Concerns

What are thoughts, questions, or concerns you still have about the DBQ test next week?

Homework: Outside Reading Project

Tuesday/Wednesday 12/5/17-12/6/17

Today in class we will be talking about late 19th century society and also reading The Jungle.  Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.

Objective:

1. Read and discuss The Jungle and describe the conditions of the meat-packing industry in the time period

Agenda:

1. Warm-Up #2
2. Discuss Late 1800s Society
   1. Quick Notes
3. Primary Source Reading: The Jungle

Homework:

1. Chapter 19 Quiz on Block Two
2. Outside Reading Project due next week to Google Classroom!

Monday 12/4/17

Today in class we are only worrying about the Chapter 18 quiz!   Don't forget about your Second Research Paper due tonight to Turnitin.com!  Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.

Objective:

1. Demonstrate content knowledge on the changing American society in the late 1800s with an emphasis on culture and consumerism

Agenda:

1. Chapter 18 Quiz

Homework:

1. Second Research Paper due tonight!
2. Outside Reading project due Friday!

Thursday/Friday 11/30/17-12/1/17

•View: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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•Homework: Outside Essay Due on Monday. CH 18 Quiz on Monday… plus Outside Reading Project due soon!

Tuesday/Wednesday 11/2817-11/29/17

By the end of today you will have created a nice argumentative paragraph defending one of the 5 major points Turner made.



Agenda (PPT)

Quiz: CH 17
Discussion/Activity: Frederick Jackson Turner

• Lady that hates FJT
• List of support and refutation

Closure: #1

Prompt: Frontier Thesis

What is your final conclusion regarding the Frontier Thesis?  Do you think it is relevant today?  Why?

Homework: Continue with nightly readings, Opt out permission slip for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Monday 11/27/17

Welcome back from our long weekend!  Today in class we will be discussing the concept of the frontier and an important 19th century American historian, Frederick Jackson Turner.  This is a bit of an historiography lesson as well as a history lesson.  The concept of the frontier is important for the late 19th century and the impact of its "closing" is equally significant to the landscape of modern America!  Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.

Objective:

1. Analyze Turner's Frontier Thesis through review of guided questioning and group discussion.

Agenda:

1. Warm-Up #1
   Prompt: The Frontier
   What is the concept of “The Frontier”? 
2. Discussion/Activity: Frederick Jackson Turner
   1. EdPuzzle Activity 
   1. Questions
      1.What is the frontier? In your description provide 2 or more examples of the frontier at different points in time throughout U.S. History.
      2.Why does Fredrick Jackson Turner believe the 1890 census is "proof positive" of the end of the American Frontier?
      3.On page 2 of the reading excerpt, what is something that Turner believes that the Frontier provided to Americans?
      4.On page 5, Turner makes mention of the relationship between the Frontier and the U.S. legislative branch. What is this relationship that he describes?
      5.Page 6 describes the impacts of the Frontier on the eastern U.S. and Old World Europe. Describe 2 or more of the impacts that the Frontier had on society according to Turner.
       
      What to do?
      1.Discuss the answers to the questions in table groups (5 min)
      1.Make sure you are referencing information from the text!!!
      2.Share out responses as a whole class (5 min)
      3.In your groups can you look through the excerpt and find ALL 5 of Turner’s arguments about the Frontier? (5 min)

What were Turner’s FIVE main arguments in his Frontier Thesis?

1.The existence of the frontier led to the formation of a “composite nationality”

2.The development of the frontier led to a decreasing dependence on England

3.The existence of a frontier motivated Americans to quickly develop their country

4.The frontier experience caused Americans to be more democratic than members of other societies

5.The existence of the frontier served as a “safety valve” for the discontents of society

What do you think about Turner’s main arguments?

Homework:

1. Chapter 17 Quiz block ONE!!
2. Second Research Paper due December 4!
3. Outside Reading Project due December 15!

Thanksgiving Week 11/20-11/22

Agenda (PPT)

Turn in Unit Pack
Unit 5 Test: DBQ
Preview: Unit 6 Assignment Sheet


Homework: CH 16 Quiz (Wednesday)

Unit Five Cover Sheet

Cover Sheet

Thursday/Friday 11/16/17-11/17/17

Agenda (PPT)

Warm Up: #5
Review: Emancipation Proclamation (stamp)
Review: DBQ Writing
Finish: SAC Reconstruction
     Organize Evidence
     Discuss
     Reach Consensus
Closure: #5

Homework: Unit Pack (Check for the checklist soon!)

Tuesday/Wednesday 11/14/17-11/15/17

Today we will engage with primary sources!

Yes, these all help describe the process of Reconstruction in the South. We will take our time and answer the questions for each document as a whole class.

On Block 2 we will organize this information as evidence to help us better wrestle with and discuss our guiding questions:

1. Were African Americans free during Reconstruction?  In what ways?
2. What does it mean to be free?
3. Based on these documents, was Reconstruction a success or failure?

Agenda (PPT)

Warm Up: #4
Start: SAC Reconstruction  (you will be given a copy of this during class)
     Read and Discuss: Reconstruction Documents
          All Documents / Original Documents (primary sources un-altered)
     Research: Outside Evidence

Homework: Emancipation Proclamation Assignment (see last slide and blog post for details)

Homework Assignment:

1. Read the documents
2. Summarize the documents in your own works (3-5 sentences for each reading)
3. Determine the purpose(s) of the Emancipation Proclamation and the intentions of Lincoln regarding abolition based on the documents
1. In your unit pack you will submit a paper that has 3 summaries and the answer to that last question!
4. I will stamp these on block 2, so please do it!!!

Wednesday/Thursday 11/8/17-11/9/17

Today in class we will be analyzing our Unit 5 Documents and then we will be participating in a Socratic discussion.  These are great fun as I get to watch you all be active participants in a discussion regarding the Civil War. Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.

Objectives:

1. Determine, through Socratic Discussion, the primary cause of the Civil War
2. Analyze documents using HIPP analysis

Agenda:

1. Socratic Discussion: Cause of the Civil War
2. Closure #4

Homework:

1. Chapter 15 Quiz on Monday
2. Second Annotated Bibliography due Monday before midnight.
1. Turnitin.com AND Google Classroom