Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit-Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

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

Womens rights issues in the U.S.

Women's Rights issues around the world

Unit-Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• View: Famine to Freedom
• Analyze: Immigration today
• 5 facts about illegal immigration today

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-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-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit 5 Exam coming soon (Wednesday or Thursday)

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

Quick Write: What was the most difficult aspect of Andrew Jackson's Presidency?
Review: Andrew Jackson's Presidency
Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 3
Video: Andrew Jackson on trial
Website: Andrew Jackson's Hermitage

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:

• 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

Second Quarter essay

Today's Agenda:


Choose one of the writing prompts to write your essays.

Research: we are in the library tomorrow and on Wednesday, and you need to find at least 3 sources for your essay. Please find good academic information before you begin writing.

Here are the prompts if you lose the assignment or did not receive one.


Research Paper Resources

• How to cite sources using MLA: Owl Purdue Writing Lab
• Project Overview
• In-Text Citations
• Full Exemplar of a Research Paper
• Final Draft Rubric

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)

Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• View: election of 1808
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 4
• Examine: President Madison and the War of 1812

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

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

Analyze: the Election of 1800
Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 3
President Thomas Jefferson (3)
Examine: Monticello.org
View: Lewis and Clark The Great Journey West

Map Activity: The Louisiana Purchase (Anthem pg.217)

Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 2
• View: the Presidents Documentary
• 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:

• Intro Next Unit: Forging the New Republic
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 1
• Discuss: President Washington
• Evaluate: George Washington's Mount Vernon website
• Google Doc: Assignment for the Evaluation

Unit-The Constitution (Wrap up and Review)

Today's Agenda:

• Review: the Bill of Rights Activity
• Review: NH Congressional Delegation
• Discuss: Republican and Democrats (What is the difference?)
• Review: the Unit Handout

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: the Constitution
• Discuss: Ratifying the Original Constitution
• Analyze: The Bill of Rights (Then and Now)

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Chapter 5 section 3
• Review: The Constitution (Linked is a great summary)
• Analyze: Constitutional Debate

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: (specifically, Chapter 5 Section 2)
• Technology today: Constitution Scavenger Hunt
• Here is a link to the Constitution
• 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
• Video Clip: Shays Rebellion
• 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:

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 Assessment/Intro. Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Unit 2 Summative Assessment
Intro: Unit 3-The Constitution

Unit 2-The Revolution

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 4 Section 4
Review: Unit 2
View: Liberty: The World Turned Upside Down

Monday: Unit 2 Summative Assessment

Unit 2-The Revolution

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Unit 4 Section 4
• Research: the Founding Fathers
• Unit 2 Review: Summative Assessment is next week

Optional: the American Revolution, the War Heads South

Unit 2-The Revolution

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-The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

Finish: the Boston Massacre (Primary Accounts)
Review: Attack: Chapter 4 Section 2
Check it out: Cool infographic on the American Revolution

• Read: the Smithsonian has a great article on the Battle of Bunker Hill, the most famous and least understood battle of the American Revolution. After reading the article, write a response in the comment section below. Comments should be one full paragraph about something that you learned or found interesting about the Battle of Bunker Hill. 

• Literary Analysis: The 3 documents of 1776: 

• Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence
• American Crisis

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter Attack: Chapter 4 Section 1
• Analyze: Boston, the Heart of the Revolution (The Sons of Liberty, the Tea Party and Boston Massacre)
• View: Liberty: the American Revolution Episode 1

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Slavery Paragraphs

• 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-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 3 Section 4
• Discuss: the French and Indian War
• 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)

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

Unit 1-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

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:

• Review: Chapter 2 Section 3
• Discussion: Native Americans in Colonial America
• Read: 13 interesting facts about the Pequot War
• Video clip: King Philips War

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 

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 2 Section 2 
• Primary Source Reading: Smith and Bradford Describe the Colonies
• Economics Chart: Tobacco in the Colonies
• Video (3min.) Life in Jamestown

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Discussion: America prior to European Exploration and Christopher Columbus
• Howard Zinn video clip on de las Casas
• Introduce the American Anthem textbook and the Chapter Attack
• Chapter Attack-Chapter 2 Section 1
• Contemporary Issue: Columbus Day is out in Seattle public schools

Bring in the signed course expectation sheets if you have not yet.

Unit 1 Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Lets have some fun!

• US Citizenship and Immigrations Services (Can you pass the exam to be a citizen?)
• History Questions Every Patriot Should be able to Answer

Welcome to American Studies 1

Welcome! Today's agenda is really simple. We will get to know each other a little better, and talk about what American Studies I is going to look like. I have hyper linked the documents that you will receive in class today just in case you lose them.

The Course Expectation Sheet

Course Syllabus

Course Syllabus Sign off Sheet

By Monday, the Course Syllabus Sign off Sheet needs to be returned.

NH Voicethread

Here is the link to join the class group.

https://voicethread.com/groups/subscribe/655194/8317828f8/

Add your Voicethread to the group

Unit-NH

Today's Agenda:

Continue: NH Voicethreads (Using technology)
By the end of today you should have 20 slides done

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:

Complete: the Unit 7 Summative Assessment

Begin the NH Voicethread Project

• Introduce the NH Voicethread project 
• Research: Library
• Link to the voicethread group https://voicethread.com/join-org/63984?type=1  

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

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:


Finish: Abolition/Slavery Projects
Time Permitting; 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America-the Gold Rush (video)

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:

• Begin/Present: Abolition/Slavery Projects
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 9 Section 2

Welcome Back!

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Unit 6 Summative Assessments
• Work on Corrections
• Reminder: Tomorrow is sophomore career day so we will not meet.
• Thursday: Abolition Presentations begin 
• Intro: Unit 7-Manifest Destiny
• Westward Expansion Map
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 9 Section 1



American Progress 1872
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