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 * Daily Classroom Instruction and Assignments**


 * = **DATE** ||= **TOPICS-ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS** ||= **VOCABULARY** ||= **HOMEWORK** ||= **ADDITIONAL COMMENTS** ||
 * 8/29 || * Introduction to course
 * Class expectations, grading policy, etc. || None || # Have syllabus signed by Thursday
 * 1) Think about 6-word memoir ||   ||
 * 8/30 || * Pre-test
 * 6-word memoir || None || # Have syllabus signed by Thursday ||  ||
 * 8/31 || 6-word memoir

Why do we study history?
 * Culture
 * Things we call "weird"

Why were the colonists upset with the King? || * Ethnocentrism
 * Xenophobia
 * Stereotype
 * Racism
 * Assimilation
 * Colony
 * Colonists
 * "13 Colonies"
 * Stamp Act
 * Sugar Act
 * Quartering Act
 * Boston Tea Party
 * Revolution
 * Patriot
 * Loyalist || # Syllabus due tomorrow ||  ||
 * 9/1 || Why were the colonists upset with the King?
 * John Adams Series
 * Boston Massacre
 * Delegates for the Continental Congress
 * "JOIN OR DIE" || * Prosecution
 * Defense
 * Continental Congress
 * "JOIN OR DIE" || Have questions 1 and 2 from class handout completed for class on Tuesday. || No School Friday 9/2 and Monday 9/5 ||
 * 9/6 || # Why was it important that ALL 13 colonies agree to declare independence?
 * 1) How does King George III react to the colonists' requests to negotiate?
 * 2) Name 3 men (last names) you think were the most influential in the efforts to declare independence.
 * John Adams Series
 * Continental Congress
 * Continental Army || * Militia || None || These three questions from class were turned in for a grade.

Block 1 had enrichment - worked on Social Studies Skills Tutor which can be found under the "Links" tab. || Who and what ideas helped inspire the ideas behind the Declaration of Independence Explain the importance of the deliberate writing in the Declaration of Independence Identify the key purpose(s) of the Constitution.
 * 9/7 || What is the significance of the colonies declaring independence from England?
 * John Adams series
 * John Locke handout || * Unalienable
 * "Consent of the governed" ||  ||   ||
 * 9/8 || **NO SCHOOL DUE TO FLOODING** ||  ||   || **SCHOOL NOW IN SESSION 2/17/12** ||
 * 9/9 || * Finish John Locke handout
 * Dec. of Ind packet || * Preamble
 * Grievances || Finish questions on front page of Declaration packet. Will be checked on Monday. ||  ||
 * 9/12 || Why do we study history? To understand how our past has shaped our present and future.
 * Remembering September 11, 2001
 * Review of Declaration of Independence packet ||  || Quiz Thursday on Landmark Documents || Parent's Night on Thursday ||
 * 9/13 || What mistakes and successes were made during the formation of this country?
 * Landmark Documents notes
 * 20 minute video
 * Articles of Confederation || * Ratify
 * Treaty of Paris
 * Northwest Ordinance
 * Land Ordinance
 * Articles of Confederation
 * Constitution || Quiz Thursday on Landmark Documents || Parent's Night on Thursday ||
 * 9/14 || How should votes and representation be distributed amongst the states?
 * Great Compromise handout and hand written chart
 * Preamble to the Constitution || * New Jersey Plan
 * Virginia Plan
 * Unicameral
 * Bicameral
 * Connecticut Plan
 * Great Compromise
 * Preamble
 * Posterity
 * Executive
 * Legislative
 * Judicial || # Quiz tomorrow on Landmark Documents
 * 1) Quiz Friday on the Great Compromise || Parent's Night tomorrow ||
 * 9/15 || Analyze the important compromises involved with passing the Constitution.
 * Review Great Compromise
 * 3/5 Compromise
 * Shay's Rebellion
 * Federalists and Anti-Federalists
 * Bill of Rights || * Federalists
 * Anti-Federalists
 * Amendment || Quiz tomorrow on the Great Compromise || # Parent's Night tonight
 * 1) Quiz today on Landmark Documents ||
 * 9/16 || * Quiz on Great Compromise
 * Finish Bill of Rights handout
 * Intro handout with word bank || * Subpoena || Finish Constitution word bank handout. Due Monday (graded) || # Early dismissal today
 * 1) Quiz on the Great Compromise today ||
 * 9/19 || Navigating the Constitution
 * Review Homework
 * Constitution scavenger hunt || * Clause || None ||  ||
 * 9/20 || Understanding the powers and levels of Government
 * Finish and review scavenger hunt
 * Powers of government chart ||  || None || Enrichment Block 1 today ||
 * 9/21 || How do the branches of government protect each other from gaining too much power?
 * Review powers of the branches
 * Checks and Balances Inspiration Chart || * Veto
 * Impeachment
 * Appointment
 * Appropriate money
 * Cabinet
 * Unconstitutional
 * Judicial Review
 * Presidential Pardon || Checks and Balances handout (graded) || **Benchmark testing today. Students arrive at normal time to Homeroom** ||
 * 9/22 || * HW collected for grade

How does the Constitution, written 200 years before Facebook and texting, apply to the digital world?
 * Reading, questions, and written response (due at the end of class to be graded) ||  ||   || **Benchmark testing today. Students arrive at normal time to Homeroom**

What qualifications must a candidate have to be elected President?
 * Substitute teacher in today.** ||
 * 9/23 || * Reading response from 9/22 turned back to students to re-check their work before turning in for a grade.
 * Board notes
 * Discussion and justification of opinions || * Formal Qualifications
 * Informal Qualifications
 * Natural Born Citizen || //**TEST NEXT WEEK. Date is TBD, most likely Friday.**// || Today all students were given a second chance to review their work from class yesterday before turning it in to be graded. Students were encouraged to ask questions and seek help if needed. ||
 * 9/26 || How is the President elected? What factors effect how candidates campaign in America?
 * School House Rock video clip
 * Packet with maps and formula || * Electoral College
 * "Winner takes all"
 * || Test Friday (at the earliest) || **//ALL MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE TURNED IN BY THE END OF THE UNIT. NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE UNIT ONE EXAM////.//**

Block 3 Enrichment || How a Bill Becomes a Law
 * 9/27 || * Finish Electoral College
 * School House Rock video clip
 * Chart the process
 * Introduce Simulation ||  || Test Friday (at the earliest) || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 9/28 || How a Bill Becomes a Law
 * Chart the process
 * Introduce Simulation || * Committee
 * Veto ||  || Block 1 Enrichment
 * Extra Help
 * Test Review
 * Remediation ||
 * 9/29 || Understand How A Bill Becomes A Law
 * Simulation ||  || **TEST MOVED TO MONDAY 10/3** ||   ||
 * 9/30 || Finish Simulation

Review for Test on Monday ||  || ** TEST MONDAY 10/3 ** || Block 3 Enrichment Congress to Campus event during Block 4 (class will catch up || Did Adams violate the Constitution by signing the Alien & Sedition Acts? Prep Rally (no class block 4) ||
 * Extra Help
 * Test Review
 * Remediation ||
 * 10/3 || **UNIT ONE EXAM** ||  ||   || Block 4 Enrichment
 * Extra Help
 * Test Review
 * Remediation ||
 * 10/4 || George Washington's presidency and personality
 * Video clip and handout || * inauguration
 * precedent
 * inaugural address || None || Block 1 Enrichment
 * 10/5 || # What issues should the President be involved in?
 * 1) Why is enforcing laws important?
 * 2) List and explain the 2 warnings Washington gave in his farewell address
 * Review questions from 10/4
 * Whiskey Rebellion handout
 * Farewell Address handout || * revenue
 * pardon
 * treason
 * farewell address
 * alliance || Block 4 *only* - complete Whiskey Rebellion handout ||  ||
 * 10/6 || * Review Washington
 * Video Clip
 * Causes chart
 * Started A&S assignment #1-4 || * Alien Act
 * Sedition Act ||  || Enrichment Block 3 ||
 * 10/7 || * A&S assignment, opposing view points || * Federalist
 * Democratic-Republican (aka "Jeffersonian") || Finish A&S Assignment - Due Thursday 10/12 || Early Dismissal
 * 10/10 || **NO SCHOOL** - COLUMBUS DAY ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 10/11 || Introduction to research paper
 * Library Tour
 * Using Databases
 * Topic selection and research ||  || A&S Assignment - Due Thursday 10/13 || Meet in the library ||
 * 10/12 || * Topic selection today
 * Continue research ||  || A&S Assignment - Due tomorrow 10/13 || HR Testing Schedule today

Meet in the library || How did the Louisiana Purchase both positively and negatively affect the future of the United States?
 * 10/13 || Controversies of Adams' Presidency
 * Review Alien & Sedition
 * Notes on Jay's Treaty, XYZ Affair, Impressments
 * Election of 1800
 * 12th Amendment || * Jay's Treaty
 * Impressments
 * XYZ Affair
 * 12th Amendment ||  ||   ||
 * 10/14 || Analyze and compare the ideological differences between the two major political parties
 * Hamilton/Jefferson Chart || * Strict Constructionist
 * Loose Constructionist || **Quiz on Hamilton Jefferson Chart on TUESDAY 10/18** ||  ||
 * 10/17 || * How to write a Thesis Statement
 * Review material from 10/13 and 10/14
 * Video clip and discussion || * Napoleon
 * New Orleans Port
 * Westward Expansion || **Quiz on Hamilton Jefferson Chart on TUESDAY 10/18**

** THESIS STATEMENT DUE WEDNESDAY 10/19 ** ||  || What was the importance and what were the goals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition? Class held in Library Film: Tecumseh ||  ||   ||   || What were the risks involved in fighting the War of 1812?
 * 10/18 || * Quiz on Hamilton/Jefferson
 * Video clip and discussion
 * Online simulation ||  || ** THESIS STATEMENT DUE TOMORROW 10/19 ** || Link to simulation: http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/into/index.html ||
 * 10/19 || * Thesis statements collected
 * Lewis and Clark simulation ||  || Lewis and Clark Journals due Friday ||   ||
 * 10/20 || How did the theory of "Join or Die" apply to the Indian peoples in the early 1800's?
 * Tecumseh textbook work ||  || Lewis and Clark Journals due tomorrow ||   ||
 * 10/21 || * Journals collected
 * NoodleTools tutorial
 * One on One thesis review
 * Research ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 10/24 || * Explanation on how to complete the Research Paper Outline
 * 10/25 || Film: Tecumseh || * Confederation ||  ||   ||
 * 10/26 || Was the War of 1812 worth fighting?
 * Viewpoints on the War
 * Review the past
 * Film and handout ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 10/27 || * Study guide for Unit 2 exam distributed
 * Film and guided notes ||  || **UNIT 2 TEST - THURSDAY 11/3/11** || MIDTERM EXAM WILL BE WEEK OF 11/6/11. EXACT DATE IS TBD ||
 * 10/28 || Was the War of 1812 worth fighting?
 * Film and guided notes ||  || **UNIT 2 TEST - THURSDAY 11/3/11** || MIDTERM EXAM WILL BE WEEK OF 11/6/11. EXACT DATE IS TBD ||
 * 10/31 || Was Andrew Jackson a Monarchist or a Champion for Democracy? (Like a King or a man of the people?)
 * Jackson packet with partner || * Inaugural Bash
 * Spoils System
 * Trail of Tears
 * Bank of the U.S.
 * Species Circular
 * Nullification
 * Tariff || **UNIT 2 TEST - THURSDAY 11/3/11**

** OUTLINES DUE FRIDAY 11/4/11 ** || Enrichment Block 1 ||
 * 11/1 || Library - work on Outlines ||  || **UNIT 2 TEST - THURSDAY 11/3/11**

** OUTLINES DUE FRIDAY 11/4/11 ** ||  ||
 * 11/2 || Study session and class review for exam tomorrow ||  || **UNIT 2 TEST - THURSDAY 11/3/11**

** OUTLINES DUE FRIDAY 11/4/11 ** || Block 3 Enrichment ||
 * 11/3 || Unit Two Test
 * Remaining time given to work on Midterm Review Packet ||  || ** OUTLINES DUE FRIDAY 11/4/11 ** ||   ||
 * 11/4 || Full block to work on Midterm Review Packet ||  || **MIDTERM THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10TH** || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 11/7 || **NO SCHOOL** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/8 || Computer Lab 318

Students could either:
 * Continue to work on Midterm Review Packet
 * Use online review materials (5 different activities) on our class wikipage ||  || **MIDTERM THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10TH** || Link to online review materials:

http://quizlet.com/4869558/us-history-midterm-flash-cards/ || What were some motivations to move and expand the country west? Reading
 * 11/9 || * Q&A on USI content for midterm exam
 * Review vocabulary assessment
 * Practice test questions assessment ||  || **MIDTERM TOMORROW NOVEMBER 10TH** || Block 3 Enrichment ||
 * 11/10 || **MIDTERM EXAM TODAY** ||  ||   || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 11/11 || * Return Midterm Grades and review questions
 * Discuss outlines and rough drafts
 * Notes on Westward Expansion || * Manifest Destiny
 * Gold Rush
 * Transcontinental Railroad || Rough Drafts due 11/29 || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 11/14 || Library
 * work on Rough Drafts due 11/29 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 11/15 || Far and Away ||  ||   || Block 3 Enrichment ||
 * 11/16 || Far and Away ||  ||   || Early Dismissal (graduation projects) ||
 * 11/17 || Far and Away
 * Assessment due ||  ||   || Early Dismissal (graduation projects) ||
 * 11/18 || Poetry
 * New Collossus poem
 * Effects of the Cotton Gin || * "wretched refuse"
 * "golden door" || Cotton Gin questions due Monday || Early Dismissal (inservice) ||
 * 11/21 || Library
 * work on Rough Drafts due 11/29 ||  || **ROUGH DRAFTS DUE 11/29** || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 11/22 || How did the invention of the Cotton Gin contribute to westward expansion?

What positive and negative consequences came from the invention of the Cotton Gin?
 * Review handout
 * Discussion and video on The Alamo || * Eli Whitney
 * Cotton Gin || **ROUGH DRAFTS DUE 11/29** || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 11/23 || Why was the Alamo a poor defensive position?
 * Film: The Alamo
 * Questionnaire || * Sam Houston
 * Santa Anna
 * Jim Bowie
 * William Travis || **ROUGH DRAFTS DUE 11/29** ||  ||
 * 11/29 || **ROUGH DRAFTS DUE**
 * Peer editing ||  ||   || Students not prepared for class with a completed Rough Draft will miss the opportunity to peer edit, and instead will work individually to finish their rough draft.

Block 3 Enrichment || How did the Texas War for Independence lead to the Mexican-American War? Instruction and class time for citations on Final Draft ||  || **Quiz Tomorrow on Unit 3** || Block 3 Enrichment ||
 * 11/30 || Why was the Alamo a poor defensive position?
 * Film: The Alamo
 * Questionnaire ||  ||   || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 12/1 || * Finish Film
 * Reading
 * Graphic Organizer - cause and effect mapping || * Treaty of Velasco
 * Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
 * Neuces River
 * Rio Grande River || **Quiz next week on Unit 3** || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 12/2 || How did the Texas War for Independence lead to the Mexican-American War?
 * Graphic Organizer - cause and effect mapping
 * Block 4 reading on Military Lessons and Leadership ||  || **Quiz Tuesday on Unit 3** ||   ||
 * 12/5 || Impact of technology and westward expansion
 * Buffalo
 * Railroad
 * Erie Canal
 * 12/6 || **Quiz on Unit 3**

What factors made Africa vulnerable to the slave trade?
 * Triangular Trade
 * Reading
 * Brainstorm Map || * Triangular Trade ||  || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 12/7 || What factors made Africa vulnerable to the slave trade?
 * Triangular Trade
 * Reading
 * Brainstorm Map

Describe the experience of a captured slave being transported from Africa to the Americas. ||  ||   || Block 1 Enrichment || Deciding the fate of free territory Why Lincoln is fighting the South Northern and Southern Advantages Reconstruction of the South
 * 12/8 || Middle Passage ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 12/9 || * Work on computers to research experience of || * Middle Passage || Journal Entry due Monday || HR Day ||
 * 12/12 || * Journal Entry Activity
 * Slave Narratives ||  || FINAL DRAFTS DUE WEDNESDAY || Block 3 Enrichment ||
 * 12/13 || * Myths of the Underground Railroad || * Abolitionist || Quiz Friday 12/16
 * Slavery
 * UGRR
 * Acts and Docs || Benchmark Testing Day ||
 * 12/14 || * Notes on Acts and Documents || * Mason-Dixon Line
 * Missouri Compromise
 * Compromise of 1850
 * Fugitive Slave Act
 * Kansas-Nebraska Act
 * Bleeding Kansas
 * Popular Sovereignty || Quiz Friday 12/16
 * Slavery
 * UGRR
 * Acts and Docs || Benchmarking Testing Day ||
 * 12/15 || Expansion of Slavery
 * Political Cartoon
 * Dred Scott
 * Letter from Lincoln ||  ||   || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 12/16 || * Quiz
 * Submit papers on turnitin.com
 * Review letter from Lincoln || * Preserve the Union ||  || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 12/19 || Start of Civil War
 * Election of Lincoln
 * Technology
 * Strategy
 * Story of Us video clip || * Secede
 * Blockade || **Quiz on rest of Unit 4 Friday** ||  ||
 * 12/20 || Northern and Southern Advantages
 * Technology
 * Story of Us video clip
 * Notes on physical and economic destruction || * Reconstruction
 * Telegraph || **Quiz on Civil War and Reconstruction Friday** || Block 3 Enrichment ||
 * 12/21 || Reconstruction
 * Amendments
 * Programs and people that help and hurt the south and freed slaves || * 13th Amendment
 * 14th Amendment
 * 15th Amendment
 * Freedman's Bureau
 * Carpetbaggers
 * Jim Crow Laws
 * Literacy Test
 * Poll Tax
 * Grandfather Clause
 * Segregation
 * KKK || **Quiz on Civil War and Reconstruction FRIDAY** || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 12/22 ||  ||   || **Quiz on Civil War and Reconstruction TOMORROW** || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 12/23 || * Quiz
 * Sherman's Christmas present to Lincoln reading
 * Handout and explanation of Final Exam Review Packets ||  || Page 1 and 2 of required packet due 1/2/12

Page 3 and 4 of required packet due 1/9/12 || Early Dismissal || What problems existed during the industrial period?
 * 1/2/12 || * Check HW
 * Definitions and discussions
 * Political Cartoon
 * Upton Sinclair readings || * Industrialization
 * Robber Baron
 * Muckraker
 * //"The Jungle"// || Page 3 and 4 of required packet due 1/9/12

**FINAL EXAM 1/12/12** ||  ||
 * 1/3 || * Workplace problems
 * Unions
 * Factory Fire || * Unions || Page 3 and 4 of required packet due 1/9/12

**FINAL EXAM 1/12/12** || Block 3 Enrichment ||
 * 1/4 || How did the problems of the early 20th century give birth to the progressive era?
 * profiles on progressives || * Ida B. Wells
 * Booker T. Washington
 * WEB DuBois
 * Susan B. Anthony
 * Plessy vs. Ferguson || Page 3 and 4 of required packet due 1/9/12

**Quiz Tuesday on Unit 5**

**FINAL EXAM 1/12/12** || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 1/5 || How did the problems of the early 20th century give birth to the progressive era?
 * profiles on progressives

How did the production of steel revolutionize manufacturing and cities in America?
 * Carnegie
 * Skyscapers || * Gilded Age || Page 3 and 4 of required packet due 1/9/12

**Quiz Tuesday on Unit 5**

**FINAL EXAM 1/12/12** || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 1/6 || Review Progressive packets || * Sufferage
 * Chinese Exclusion Act
 * Segregation
 * Lynching
 * N.A.A.C.P. || Page 3 and 4 of required packet due 1/9/12

**Quiz Tuesday on Unit 5**

**FINAL EXAM 1/12/12** ||  ||
 * 1/9 || How did the U.S. transition from an isolationist nation to an imperialist nation?
 * Notes and discussion
 * Spanish-American War
 * Hawaii || * Imperialism
 * Isolationism
 * Annexation
 * Teddy Roosevelt || **Quiz Tomorrow on Unit 5**

**FINAL EXAM 1/12/12 & Extra Credit packet due.** || Block 3 Enrichment || Review for Final Exam ||  || **FINAL EXAM 1/12/12 & Extra Credit packet due** || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 1/10 || Quiz on Unit 5
 * 1/11 || Review for Final Exam ||  || **FINAL EXAM 1/12/12 & Extra Credit packet due** || Full Schedule today ||
 * 1/12 || **FINAL EXAM**

-Extra Credit due today ||  ||   || Full Schedule today || Course recommendations ||  ||   || HR at 2:35 to get schedules for Spring || __**Enrichment Fall 2011**__
 * 1/13 || Review of answers on Final Exam
 * = **WEEK** ||= **DATES** ||= **ACTIVITY** ||
 * = 1 || 9/6, 9/8, 9/9 || Skills Tutor
 * Found under "links" tab ||
 * = 2 || 9/13, 9/15, 9/19 || Skills Tutor
 * Analyzing and Interpreting Special Purpose Maps
 * Analyzing Graphic Data
 * Analyzing Images ||
 * = 3 || 9/20, 9/26, 9/27 || Assessment on analyzing maps, data, and images ||
 * = 4 || 9/28, 9/30, 10/3 || Study for exam, extra help and remediation ||
 * = 5 || 10/4, 10/6, 10/10 || George Washington Teeth and Dentistry - Reading Comprehension ||
 * = 6 || 10/13, 10/17, 10/18 || Math Activity - Practicing midpoint and distance formulas ||
 * = 7 || 10/19, 10/21, 10/24 || Reading assessment on GPS devices and privacy ||
 * = 8 || 10/25, 10/27, 10/28 || Tecumseh Speech - Practice point of view and tone ||
 * = 9 || 10/31, 11/2, 11/3 || Extra help, study for exam, work on outline due 11/4/11 ||
 * = 10 || 11/4, 11/9, 11/10 || Midterm review and remediation ||
 * = 11 || 11/11, 11/15, 11/21 || Graphing Westward Expansion ||
 * = 12 || 11/22, 11/29, 11/30 || Computer cart available to work on Research Paper. (Block 3 poem) ||
 * = 13 || 12/1, 12/5, 12/6 || Math Activity - Algebra ||
 * = 14 || 12/7, 12/12, 12/15 || Scatter Plot - Slave Population in America ||
 * = 15 || 12/16, 12/20, 12/21 || Three Level Guide - Life of a Soldier in the Civil War ||
 * = 16 || 12/22, 12/2, 12/3 || Final Exam Review ||
 * = 17 || 12/4, 12/6, 12/9 || Final Exam Review ||