Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:

Work on the Presidential Reviews (8-14)
Here is the Unit 7 Review

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:


View: the Mexican American War
Answer: questions on the video
Next Essay Question: Was the war with Mexico justified?
Essay Brainstorm

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's agenda:

• Review: Chapter 9 Section 3
• Read: Texas Independence from Mexico: What is the deal with the Alamo anyway?
• Video clip: the Alamo
• Video clip: Bio on Davy Crockett
• Disney's portrayal of Davy Crockett at the Alamo
• Analyze: the Battle of San Jacinto
• Legend: the Yellow Rose of Texas

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Westward Expansion Map and Chapter 9 Section 1
• View: 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed the World: the Gold Rush
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 9 Section 2

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's agenda:

• Intro: Unit 7-Manifest Destiny
• Westward Expansion Map
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 9 Section 1

Unit 6-Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Abolition Projects
• Review: Unit 6 Reviewsheet
• Study: Unit 6 Exam is tomorrow

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Present: Abolition projects
• Review: Chapter 8
• Prepare for the next Unit Exam 

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Research: Library time scheduled for today (Abolition Projects)
• Make sure your easybib project is shared with mjolicoeur@nhsau57.org
• Transition: Research to Final Product (Google presentations)

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Present the Slavery Project
• Assign topics
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 8 Section 4
• Research: Library scheduled tomorrow and Monday

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter Attack: Chapter 8 Section 3
• Analyze: Seneca Falls Convention
• View: Great Women in American history

Womens rights issues in the U.S.

Women's Rights issues around the world

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• View: Famine to Freedom
• Contemporary Issues: President Obama on immigration today
• Evaluate: Executive Orders
• Satire: SNL spoofs Obama and Executive Acts

Read this article from Slate about immigration. Leave a comment here on the blog. Do you agree or disagree with the author? Be specific and incorporate a quote.

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's agenda:

• Review: Chapter 8 Section 1 
• Analyze:Walden Quotes and Self Reliance
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 8 Section 2 
• View: Immigration before 1865

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Brainstorm/Discuss: Social Problems today
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 8 Section1 
• Discuss: The Role of Religion (then and now)

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• Read/Analyze: Justifying Slavery
• Answer: Questions for Justifying Slavery
• Sectionalism Venn Diagram (also linked)

• Unit 5 Review

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• Industrialization (1800s)
• Slavery and Sectionalism
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 4

Unit 5 Exam coming soon (Thursday or Friday)

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Answer: Questions on Andrew Jackson
Catch up: Presidential Evaluations: Washington to Jackson (1-7)
Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 3
Video: Andrew Jackson on trial
Website: Andrew Jackson's Hermitage

We will be done this unit, by the end of this week, so here is the Unit Review

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• Evaluating Sources: Political bias
• Analyze: the Presidency of Andrew Jackson
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 2

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's agenda:

Review: Chapter 7 Section 1
Analyze: 1824 Election Results
View: Presidential elections of 1824/1828
Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 2

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's agenda:

• Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 1 (Linked on yesterday's blog)
• Discuss: the Monroe Doctrine and the Missouri Compromise
• Presidential Evaluations: Washington to J Q Adams

Unit 4 Conclusion/Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• Proctor: the Unit 4 Exam
• Quick Write/Brainstorm: What is an American quality?
• Analyzing Art
• Evaluate: Hudson River School (Links to the paintings are on pages 6 and 7)
• Write: 4 paragraph analysis of one of the paintings
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 1

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 6 Section 4
Discuss: The War of 1812
Read: Francis Scott Key writes the National Anthem
Watch: Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem 
Analyze: the Early American Presidents (1-4)

The Unit 4 Exam is on Friday. Here is the review

Unit-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 4
Examine: President Madison and the War of 1812
Review for the Unit Exam (You already have the review)

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 6 Section 3
• Review: the Lewis and Clark expedition
• Discuss: Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

Analyze: the Election of 1800
Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 3
Map Activity: The Louisiana Purchase (Anthem pg.217)

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 2
• Electoral Map: 1796 Presidential election
• Discuss: the Presidency of John Adams
• HBO miniseries on John Adams Episode 6 details his presidency

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 2
Discuss: the Election of 1796/President John Adams

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 6 Section 1
• Discuss: President Washington
• Evaluate: George Washington's Mount Vernon website
• Google Doc: Assignment for the Evaluation

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Intro Next Unit: Forging the New Republic
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 1

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Take: the Unit 3 Summative Assessment
• Finish: NH's Congressional Delegation Analysis
• Intro: Next Unit (4) Forging the New Republic

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Activity:  NH Congressional Analysis
• Here is a link to NH.gov
• Check out: the Bill of Rights Institute

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Discussing the Bill of Rights
• Check out: the Bill of Rights Institute
• Review: the Unit Study Guide

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: the Federal Government/Checks and Balances
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 5 Section 3 (Unlike most chapters, this one only has 3)

Reminder: Unit 3 Exam is next week. Looking like Tuesday, Here is the study guide

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: (specifically, Chapter 5 Section 2)
• Technology today: Constitution Scavenger Hunt
• Discuss: the Federal Government/Checks and Balances
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 5 Section 3 (Unlike most chapters, this one only has 3)

Reminder: Unit 3 Exam is next week. Looking like Tuesday, Here is the study guide

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Chapter Attack: Chapter 5 Section 2
Discuss: The Constitutional Convention
Structure of the US Constitution
Article on NPR: Interpreting the Constitution in the Digital Era

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 5 Section 1 and Northwest Ordinance Map
• Revisit: the Weaknesses of the Article of Confederation
• Video Clip: Shays Rebellion
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 5 Section 2

Shays Rebellion

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Chapter Attack: Chapter 5 Section 1
Lecture Notes: The Articles of Confederation
Evaluate: The Articles of Confederation
Map Activity: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Take the Unit 2 Exam
• Discuss: the Founding Fathers Papers

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Research: the Founding Fathers (we have the entire Block in the library)
• Write: the Formal paper

• We have technology (the Library) scheduled for Monday. A and B lunches
• D Lunch we will review for the Unit Exam on Tuesday.

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Unit 2 Review
• Founding Fathers Writing Assignment
• Common Writing Mistakes
• Begin Researching Your Person (Where are you going to start?)

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Unit 4 Section 4
• Unit 2 Review: Summative Unit Exam is on Tuesday
• Writing assignment: the Founding Fathers

Optional: the American Revolution, the War Heads South

Unit 2-The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 4 Section 3
• Finish the video linked on yesterday's post
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 4 Section 4 

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Discussion: Strengths and Weaknesses during the Revolution
• Analyze: Geography and the Revolution
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 4 Section 3
• Watch: Liberty Episode 3:The Times that Try Men's Souls

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: the 3 documents of 1776
• Video clip: the Declaration of Independence
• Review: Chapter 4 Section 2

Optional: funny video clip showing how stupid some people are.

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Literary Analysis: the 3 documents of 1776 (the assignment and documents are linked on yesterday's blog)
• Attack: Chapter 4 Section 2
• Optional (If you have time): Check out the Freedom Trail in Boston

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Read: the Smithsonian has a great article on the Battle of Bunker Hill, the most famous and least understood battle of the American Revolution.
• Literary Analysis: The 3 documents of 1776

• Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence
• American Crisis

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 4 Section 1
View: the American Revolution Episode 1 (Finish)
Complete: Episode 1 Questions
Check it out: Cool infographic on the American Revolution

Unit 2-The Road to Revolution

Today's Agenda:

• Finish the Road to Revolution (if you have not done so yet)
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 4 Section 1
• Discuss: The Road to Revolution
• Analyze: Boston, the Heart of the Revolution (The Sons of Liberty, the Tea Party and Massacre)
• View: the American Revolution Episode 1

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Introduce Unit 2-Revolutionary America
• Activity: Road to the Revolution
• Pass back Unit 1 Exam-Explain test corrections
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 4 Section 1

Unit 1 Assessment

Today's Agenda:

• Unit 1 Summative Assessment is today
• After the exam: Intro Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Unit 1 Review

Today's Agenda:

• Finish the French and Indian War
• Central question: How did the British defeat the French?
• Review of the Unit (Linked on yesterday's blog)
• Study: Unit 1 Exam is tomorrow

Colonial America

Today's Agenda

• Discuss: The French and Indian War: the Emergence of George Washington
• Video: The War that Made America
• Map Activity: before and after the French and Indian War
• Unit 1 Review (Anthem Chapters 2 and 3)

Earliest known painting of George Washington
1772 by Charles Peale

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 3 Section 4
• Discuss: the French and Indian War
• Map Activity: before and After the French and Indian War
• Unit 1 Review (Anthem Chapters 2 and 3)

The French and Indian War

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 3 Section 3
Discuss: the European Enlightenment (Look familiar?)
Read: Quotes from Benjamin Franklin (He was the Man!)
Analyze: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
Chapter Attack: Chapter 3 Section 4

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Review Chapter 3 Section 2
Evaluate: the Wheatley Poem
Chapter Attack: Chapter 3 Section 3

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 3 Section 1
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 3 Section 2
• Evaluate: the Wheatley Poem
• View: Slavery in America

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: the Southern Colonies
• Review: Outline Chapter 2
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 3 Section 1

Unit1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter Attack: Chapter 2 Section 4
• Discuss: The Middle Colonies and Religious Toleration
• Watch: the Dutch lose New Netherland to the British

The Fall of New Amsterdam

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 2 Section 3
• Discussion: Native Americans in Colonial America
• Read: 13 interesting facts about the Pequot War
• Video clip: King Philips War
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 2 Section 4 (Don't forget to analyze illustrations)

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Chapter 2 Section 3
• Discuss: Role of Religion in the Northern Colonies
• Analyze: Colonial Problems (Antinomian Controversy/Salem Witch Trials)
• Video clip: Salem Witch Trials

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda: The Northern and Middle Colonies

• Quiz on Tobacco/Smith and Bradford handouts 
• Geography: 13 Colonies
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 2 Section 3
• Virtual Tour: Plymouth plantation