Happy Holidays

• I hope that everyone is having a nice winter break. 
• Just a reminder that if your abolition presentation still needs some work, you may want to work on it over the break.
• Presentations begin the second day that we get back.

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• 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 Wednesday

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 
• Discuss: Jonathan Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
• 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
• Read: article on the Biggest Issues in America in 2016
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 8 Section1 
• Discuss: The Role of Religion (then and now)

Unit 5-Summative Assessment

Today's Agenda:

Complete: Unit 5 Summative Assessment
Intro: Unit 6-The Reform Movement

Unit 5 Review-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• We only have an hour today due to the early release.
• Unit 5 Review-finish today
• You may use it on the summative assessment tomorrow

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• Industrialization (1800s)
• View: Crash Course on the Industrial Revolution
• Lowell Mill Girls
• Slavery and Sectionalism
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 4

Unit 5 Exam coming soon (Thursday)

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