Unit 6-Sectionalism and Reform

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Unit 6 (Prison Reform and Public Education)
• Reminder: Research Papers are due tomorrow(please pass in a hard copy)

Unit 6-Sectionalism and Reform

Today's Agenda:


The rest of the Reform Movements:

• The History of Alcohol use in America
• Temperance (Neal Dow) 

• Rum and Rights in Portland Maine
• What are some common problems associated with alcohol/substance abuse today?
• Prison Reform (Dorothea Dix)
• Prisons in the US
• What are some common problems/issues associated with the criminal justice system today?
• Education (Horace Mann)
• Mass. State Board of Education
• What are some common problems associated with the educational system today?

Unit 6-Sectionalism and Reform

Today's Agenda:

• Analyze: Seneca Falls Convention
• View: The Seneca Falls Convention by PBS
• View: Great Women in American history
• Women's Suffrage Movement
• Women's Suffrage: Primary Documents

Womens rights issues in the U.S.

Women's Rights issues around the world

Unit 6-Sectionalism and Reform

Today's Agenda:

Independent Writing Week 4 (assignment is on Google Classroom)

• Review: Feedback on Outlines
• Research Paper Resources
• Begin: the 1st draft of the paper (paper copy is due by Friday)

Unit 6-Sectionalism and Reform

Today's Agenda:

• 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 6-Sectionalism and Reform

Today's Agenda:

The Abolition Movement

• Read: the article on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Complete: the Packet Comparing Frederick Douglass and Stowe
• View: Slavery and the Abolition Movement

Regular: Take a look at this checklist for the Independent Writing Assignment.

Unit 6-Sectionalism and Reform

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss/Analyze: Jonathan Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
• Discuss: the role of religion (then and now)
• Examine: the Reform Movements of the 19th century

New Unit-Sectionalism and Reform

Today's Agenda:

• Brainstorm/Discuss: Social Problems today
• Read: article on the Biggest World Issues in 2018
• Discuss: The Role of Religion (then and now)
• Discuss: Jonathan Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

Unit 5 Summative Assessment

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: the Unit 5 Summative Assessment
• Time Permitting: Independent Writing on Monday (The Outline)
• Next Unit: Sectionalism and Reform

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

Today's Agenda:

Review: Unit 5 (Summative assessment is tomorrow)

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

Today's Agenda:

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

Tomorrow(Friday) is the Unit 5 Summative Assessment

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

Today's Agenda:

Finish and Discuss: Life at the Lowell Mills

The 3 Great Inventions of the Early Industrial Revolution

1. The Cotton Gin
2. The Spinning Jenny
3. The Steam Engine

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Pageant Chapter 14 "Forging the National Economy"
• Industrial Revolution
• View: Crash Course on the Industrial Revolution
• Lowell Mill Girls
• Life at Lowell Mills Union Activity

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: Answer the Questions for Pageant Chapter 14
• Read this Washington Post article "40 Charts That Explain the World."
• Choose one of the charts that you find interesting and explain why in the comment section below.

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

Today's Agenda:

Research, Research, Research!

We have space reserved in the Library today for doing more research on topics.

• Honors: Please submit the assignment on Google Classroom
• Regular Here is a digital version for you to use.

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: Transcendentalist Quotes
• Compare: the Elections of 1824 and 1828
• Analyze: the Presidency of Andrew Jackson
• Film Questions
• Tomorrow: Library/Technology to research our Independent Writing Projects

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

Today's Agenda:

• Review: the Hudson River Valley Painting (each group will quick share)
• Introduce: Transcendentalism
• Read: Excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

• Quick Write/Brainstorm: What is an American quality?
• Analyzing Art
• Video: Hudson River School at the New York Historical Society
• Evaluate: Hudson River School (Links to the paintings are on pages 6 and 7)
• Write: 4 paragraph analysis of one of the paintings

Unit 5-Nationalism and Economic Growth

Today's agenda:

• Review: Independent Writing Steps 1 and 2 (Topic Choice and Sources)
• What's next? Research/Notes due this Friday
• President James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings?
• Analyze: 1824 Election Results
• View: Presidential elections of 1824/1828

Unit 4-Forging the New Nation

Today's Agenda:

Complete: the Unit 4 Summative Assessment
Intro: Unit 5: Nationalism and Economic Growth

Unit 4-The New Nation

Today's Agenda:

• Continue: The Research Paper Process (Topic Choice and Sources due Wednesday)
• View: The War of 1812
• Pageant Chapter 12 Questions
• American Pageant Chapter 12

Unit 4-The New Nation

Today's Agenda:

We have technology scheduled today to work on the first 2 Steps of our Independent Writing Assignment. The Week #1 assignment is on Google Classroom.

1. Topic Choice

2. Sources

Unit 4-Forging the New Nation

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• Finish the Lewis and Clark video and questions
• Complete the map of Westward Expansion
• Intro. the Independent Writing Assignment

Regular:

• Discuss President James Madison and the War of 1812

Unit 4-The New Nation

Today's Agenda:

Honors: Complete the Independent Reading Summary

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

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

Unit 4-The New Nation

Today's Agenda:

• View: the Presidents Documentary
• Electoral Map: 1796 Presidential election and 1800 Election
• Discuss: the Presidency of John Adams(2)
• HBO miniseries on John Adams Episode 6 details his presidency

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's agenda:

• Recap: The 2018 Midterm Election (The New York Times)
• Analyze: Hamilton versus Jefferson (using the musical Hamilton)
• Here is a 10 min. discussion of Hamilton and the Musical
• Complete: Unit 3 Summative test corrections

Unit 4-The New Republic

Today's Agenda:

Opening Question: How do we evaluate leaders? What qualities or characteristics do we look for in our leaders?

• Discuss: President Washington
• Evaluate: George Washington's Mount Vernon website
• Google Doc: Assignment for the Evaluation

Reminder: The 2018 Midterm Election is tomorrow! Look at the sample ballot and polling locations.

Unit 3 Summative Assessment

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: the Summative Assessment
• Intro: Unit 4-Forging the New Nation
• Independent Reading Week 8 (We are done!)

The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: the Other Constitutional Amendments (What did your learn?)
• Time permitting: The Federalists versus the Anti-federalists (Regular started this on Tuesday)
• Unit 3 Review: Summative assessment is tomorrow (Friday)

The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

We have technology today to complete:
The Other Constitutional Amendments

• Thursday: Unit 3 Review
• Friday: Unit 3 Summative assessment

The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• The Bill of Rights
• Federalists versus Anti-federalists
• The other Constitutional Amendments

Reminder: Unit 3 Summative Assessment by the end of this week 

The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• American Pageant Chapter 9
• Read and answer the questions
• Weekly News Quiz

Regular: 

• Finish the Mid-Term Election Evaluation of Candidates
• Weekly News Quiz

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

With the 2018 Midterm Elections two weeks away, let's look at who is running.

Here is a link to the assignment

The Honors class has the assignment in Google Classroom as well.

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: The Constitution Scavenger Hunt
• Review: Articles 1-3 of the Constitution and the Checks and Balances System

The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Review: the Constitutional Convention Website
Complete: the Constitution Scavenger Hunt

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Website: The Constitutional Convention
• Here is a link to the assignment
• Structure of the US Constitution
• Article on NPR: Interpreting the Constitution in the Digital Era

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today' Agenda:

• Video Clip: Shays Rebellion
• Discuss: the Constitutional Convention Powerpoint
• Website: 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:

• Lecture Notes: The Articles of Confederation
• Articles PowerPoint
• Evaluate: The Articles of Confederation
• Map Activity: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• Video Clip: Shays Rebellion

Unit 2-The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

Complete: the Unit 2 Summative Assessment

Intro: Next Unit-The Constitution

Unit 2-The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

Unit 2 Review
America, The Story of Us: Revolution

Unit 2 Summative Assessment is tomorrow

The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

Regular:

• Review the 3 documents of 1776
• Revolutionary War: A Soldiers Perspective

Honors:

• Finish Pageant Chapter 8
• Read and Analyze the 3 documents of 1776

The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

PSAT testing today. Good Luck!

The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

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:

Honors:

• News Quiz of the Week
• Battle Presentations Today

Regular:

• Liberty Episode 2: Blows Must Decide
• Liberty Questions

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• Library/Technology today to finish research/preparing slides
• Tomorrow: Presentations

Regular:

• Presentations today: Battles of the Revolution!

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:


Both classes are using technology today to complete the Battles of the Revolution project.

Here are the Honors Battle Assignments

Unit 2-The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• Review: Road to Revolution
• Organize: Battles of the Revolution

Regular:

• Review: American Anthem Chapter 4
• Begin: Battles of the Revolution

Unit 2-The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• Read and Answer Questions: Pageant Chapter 7
• Discuss: Retakes/Test Corrections
• Finish: Road to Revolution (due tomorrow)

Regular:

• Finish: American Anthem Chapter 4
• View: Liberty: the American Revolution Episode 1
• Episode 1 Questions

Unit 2-The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

Regular:

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

Honors:

• New Quiz of the Week
• Opening Activity: Road to the Revolution  (We have technology scheduled for today)

Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:


Regular: Finish the Road to Revolution


Honors:

• View: The War that Made America
• Answer the questions
• Discuss: the French and Indian War
• Map Activity

Unit 1 Summative/Unit 2-The American Revolution

Today's Agenda:

Honors: Unit 1 Summative Assessment

Regular: The American Revolution

• Opening Activity: Road to the Revolution  (We have technology scheduled for today)

Unit 1-Summative Assessment

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• Hand back Pageant Chapter 5 Questions
• Review the Unit
• Answer any questions

Regular:

• Look at the Summative Assessment from yesterday
• Do Test Corrections
• Intro. the next Unit (The American Revolution)

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Regular:

Finish: the Conclusion of the French and Indian War
Review: Unit 1 (Summative Assessment on Monday)

Honors:

Discuss: Religion in Colonial America
Read: Antinomian Controversy
Analyze: The Second Great Awakening and  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
Today: What role does organized religion play in our lives?

Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• Review Pageant Chapter 4 (Give back scan-trons)
• Finish: Slavery and Racism in America

Regular:

• Analyze: Foundation of US Government
• Intro: The War that Made America

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Pageant Chapter 4
Powerpoint: Chapter 4

• Discuss: Slavery in America
• Analyze: Foundation of US Government

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Evaluate: The Economies of Colonial America
• Discuss: Slavery in America
• Analyze: Foundation of US Government

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• Finish the 13 Colonies Presentations
• Finish Pageant Chapter 3 Questions

Regular:

• Finish Anthem Chapter 3 Review
• View: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Film Questions

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• Finish 13 Colonies Presentations
• Finish Pageant Chapter 3 Questions

Regular: 

• Finish Anthem Chapter 3 Review
• Unit 1 Vocab Activity (Mad Lib)

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Begin: the Original 13 Colonies Project Presentations

• Regular: Compete the Anthem Chapter 3 Review

• Honors:Continue working on the Pageant Chapter 3 Questions

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Regular:

• 13 Colonies Final Project (We have technology today to complete)
• When finished, complete Anthem Chapter 3

Honors:

• Technology today to compete the 13 Colonies Advertisements
• If completed, begin reading/answering questions for Pageant Chapter 3
• Here is the Chapter 3 Powerpoint
• If you have not started, begin reading your book 

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Library/Technology today

Regular:

• Finish the research of your colony (Cite your sources)

Honors:

• Finish research/Create the advertisement for your colony
• Independent Reading: Weekly Updates

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Library/Technology to Complete the 13 Colonies Project
• Prepare presentations for tomorrow

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Research day today:

• Regular: 13 Colonies Research
• Honors: For Sale: The Original 13 Colonies Project
• Reminder for Honors: Please fill out the google form in the Independent Reading Assignment

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Geography of the 13 Colonies

• Primary Source Reading: Smith and Bradford Describe the Colonies
• Economics Chart: Tobacco in the Colonies
• Video (3min.) Life in Jamestown
• Crash Course "The Natives and the English"

Honors: 

• Review: Pageant Chapter 2 Powerpoint
• Organize: Unit 1-Real Estate Project
• 13 Colonies Sign Up List

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Honors:

• Finish reading Pageant Chapter 2
• When finished, you may go to the library to research/find independent reading (Assignment is on Google Classroom)

Regular:

• Finish Anthem Chapter 2 Review Packet
• 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
• Regular: American Anthem Chapter 2
• Honors: American Pageant Chapter 2
• Contemporary Issue: Columbus Day is out in Seattle public schools

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

Welcome Back!

Today's Agenda:

Friday News Wrap-up:

• The Legacy of John McCain
• Joe Biden's Eulogy Highlights

While you Were Away:

• Summer 2018 News Quiz

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 linked the documents that you will receive in class today just in case you lose them.

Regular: The Course Expectation Sheet
Regular: Course Syllabus

Honors: The Course Expectation Sheet
Honors: Course Syllabus
Honors: Please check out the google classroom as well. You have already been invited through your nhsau57.org account. There is a google form that you need to fill out.

Both: Course Syllabus Sign off Sheet

By Tuesday (Monday is Labor Day), the Course Syllabus Sign off Sheet needs to be returned.

Unit-New Hampshire

Today's Agenda:

• Finish Test Corrections for Unit 7
• Why live in NH?
• Discuss/Review: NH History/Geography/Fun Facts