Honors+U.S.+History


 * Daily Classroom Instruction and Assignments**

Why do we study History? Explain the importance of the deliberate writing in the Declaration of Independence How should votes and representation be distributed amongst the states?
 * = **DATE** ||= **TOPICS-ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS** ||= **VOCABULARY** ||= **HOMEWORK** ||= **ADDITIONAL COMMENTS** ||
 * 1/18 || * Introduction to course
 * Class expectations, grading policy, etc. || None || # Have syllabus signed by Friday
 * 1) Think about 6-word memoir ||   ||
 * 1/19 || * 6-word memoir
 * Primary sources
 * Secondary sources
 * Culture
 * Odd things... || * Primary Source
 * Secondary Source
 * Ethnocentrism
 * Xenophobia
 * Stereotype
 * Racism
 * Assimilation
 * Colony
 * Colonists
 * "13 Colonies"
 * Stamp Act
 * Sugar Act
 * Quartering Act
 * Boston Tea Party
 * Revolution
 * Patriot
 * Loyalist
 * || # Have syllabus signed by tomorrow
 * 1) Read "Core Values of American Constitutional Democracy" ||   ||
 * 1/20 || 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" ||  ||   ||
 * 1/23 || # Why was it important that ALL 13 colonies agree to declare independence?
 * 1) Which colonies are against declaring independence?
 * 2) Describe the pivotal moment that makes independence inevitable. What happens?
 * John Adams Series
 * Continental Congress
 * Continental Army || * Militia ||  || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 1/24 || Who and what ideas helped inspire the ideas behind the Declaration of Independence
 * John Locke handout
 * Review of summer assignment || * unalienable
 * consent of the governed
 * Preamble
 * grievances || Reading and questions on forming AOC || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 1/25 || Explain the importance of the deliberate writing in the Declaration of Independence
 * Summer Assignment
 * Landmark Documents Notes || * Ratify
 * Treaty of Paris
 * Northwest Ordinance
 * Land Ordinance
 * Articles of Confederation
 * Constitution || **Quiz Friday on DOI and Landmark Docs** ||  ||
 * 1/26 || * 20 minute video
 * Great Compromise handout and hand written chart || * Shay's Rebellion
 * 3/5 Compromise
 * New Jersey Plan
 * Virginia Plan
 * Unicameral
 * Bicameral
 * Connecticut Plan
 * Great Compromise || **Quiz tomorrow on DOI and Landmark Docs** || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 1/27 || Navigating the Constitution
 * Constitution scavenger hunt || * Executive
 * Legislative
 * Judicial || **Quiz Monday on the Great Compromise (NJ, VA, CT Plans)** || HR Schedule ||
 * 1/30 || * Quiz on Great Compromise
 * Finish Constitution if needed
 * Preamble || * Preamble
 * Posterity || Finish Constitution chart if not already finished

**TEST NEXT WEEK ON UNIT 1** || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 1/31 || What groups and arguments surrounded the ratification of the Constitution?
 * Bill of Rights
 * Federalists
 * Antifederalists || * Federalists
 * Antifederalists
 * enumerated
 * Amendment || Finish reading and questions on Federalists and Antifederalists. GRADED

**TEST NEXT WEEK ON UNIT 1** || Block 2 Enrichment || What 2 pieces of advice did GW give before leaving office? What were the ideological differences between the two major political parties? How did Tecumseh's plan reflect the concept of Join or Die? Why were settlers motivated to move westward Test Review || * 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
 * 2/1 || What mechanisms did the founders put in place to protect the country from tyranny?
 * Branches of the Federal government
 * Checks and Balances
 * Electoral College ||  || **TEST NEXT THURSDAY ON UNIT 1** ||   ||
 * 2/2 || * Electoral College || * winner takes all
 * primary election
 * general election
 * electoral vote
 * popular vote || **TEST NEXT THURSDAY ON UNIT 1** || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 2/3 || NO CLASSES - CAREER DAY ||  || **TEST THURSDAY ON UNIT 1** || EARLY DISMISSAL ||
 * 2/6 || SIMULATION ||  || **TEST THURSDAY ON UNIT 1** || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 2/7 || SIMULATION ||  || **TEST THURSDAY ON UNIT 1** || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 2/8 || * SIMULATION
 * Review for test ||  || **TEST THURSDAY ON UNIT 1** ||   ||
 * 2/9 || **TEST on UNIT 1**
 * **Video clip of Washington's inauguration** || * inauguration || Outline due Monday || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 2/10 || * 20 minute video on Washington's presidency
 * Whiskey Rebellion || * PRECEDENT
 * revenue
 * treason
 * pardon || Outline due Monday || HR ||
 * 2/13 || * Finish Whiskey Rebellion
 * Farewell Address
 * Adams intro video (3 min)
 * Intro Alien and Sedition Acts || * farewell address
 * Alien Act
 * Sedition Act ||  || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 2/14 || * Review Washington's advice
 * Review Alien and Sedition Acts
 * Hamilton Rap
 * Hamilton/Jefferson Chart || * Federalist
 * Democratic-Republican
 * Jeffersonian || Quiz on Hamilton/Jefferson chart on Thursday || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 2/15 || * Finish Hamilton/Jefferson chart
 * Elastic Clause
 * National Bank
 * Jay's Treaty || * Elastic Clause
 * Strict constuctionist
 * Loose constructionist
 * Jay's Treaty
 * Impressments || Quiz on Hamilton/Jefferson chart tomorrow ||  ||
 * 2/16 || * Quiz on Hamilton/Jefferson Chart
 * Election of 1800
 * Louisiana Purchase
 * Lewis and Clark ||  ||   || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 2/17 || * Lewis and Clark ||  || Journal Due Tuesday 2/21 || SCHOOL IS IN SESSION TODAY ||
 * 2/21 || * Review Lewis and Clark
 * Textbook work
 * Tecumseh film || Two Themes:
 * Broken promises
 * Join or Die ||  || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 2/22 || Finish Tecumseh film ||  ||   || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 2/23 || Perspectives
 * Carlisle Indian School
 * Viewpoints on War of 1812 ||  || Test Coming Next Week ||   ||
 * 2/24 || Video and course pack on War of 1812 || * Impressments
 * Embargo Act
 * Ramparts
 * Treaty of Ghent
 * Battle of New Orleans || Unit 2 Test end of next week || EARLY DISMISSAL ||
 * 2/27 || Finish Video and course pack on War of 1812 ||  || Unit 2 Test Thursday (Friday at latest) || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 2/28 || Was Andrew Jackson a Monarchist or a Man of the People?
 * Jackson Packet || * Inaugural Bash
 * Spoils System
 * Indian Removal
 * Trail of Tears
 * Species Circular
 * Tariff
 * Nullification
 * National Bank || **Unit 2 Test Thursday** (friday at latest) || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 2/29 || Finish Jackson packet ||  || **DBQ TOMORROW, TEST FRIDAY** || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 3/1 || * Brief Review
 * DBQ: Andrew Jackson ||  || **UNIT 2 TEST TOMORROW** ||   ||
 * 3/2 || **TEST UNIT TWO** ||  || **STUDY FOR MIDTERM ON WEDNESDAY** || Play Preview day ||
 * 3/5 || MIDTERM REVIEW ||  || **STUDY FOR MIDTERM ON WEDNESDAY** || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 3/6 || MIDTERM REVIEW ||  || **STUDY FOR MIDTERM ON WEDNESDAY** || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 3/7 || **MIDTERM EXAM** ||  ||   || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 3/8 || Research Paper
 * Databases
 * Noodletools ||  || Topic Due Tomorrow ||   ||
 * 3/9 || Research ||  || Topics due today || HR Schedule ||
 * 3/13 || * Turn back tests, midterms, DBQs
 * How to write a thesis statement
 * 6 reasons for expansion || * Homestead Act || Thesis due Friday || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 3/14 || Far and Away ||  ||   || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 3/15 || Far and Away ||  ||   || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 3/16 || Library
 * Thesis and research ||  ||   || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 3/19 || Finish Far and Away
 * Poem: The New Colossus ||  || Reading assessment on Wednesday. (may create outline) || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 3/20 || * Finish Poem
 * Graphing Westward Expansion ||  || Reading assessment on Wednesday. (may create outline) || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 3/21 || * Reading Assessment
 * Hardships and frontier life ||  ||   || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 3/22 || Technology promoting Westward Expansion
 * Steamboat
 * Canals
 * Railroads
 * Cotton Gin ||  ||   || HR Schedule ||
 * 3/23 || Causes for the Texas War for Independence
 * The Alamo ||  || Unit 3 "Quest" next week || Early Dismissal ||
 * 3/26 || Library
 * In-class work on Research Paper ||  || **OUTLINE DUE FRIDAY** || Enrichment Block 1 ||
 * 3/27 || The Alamo || * Mission
 * Sam Houston
 * Jim Bowie
 * William Travis
 * Davy Crockett
 * Santa Anna || ** OUTLINE DUE FRIDAY ** || Enrichment Block 2 ||
 * 3/28 || The Alamo || * Treaty of Velasco
 * Lone Star State || ** OUTLINE DUE FRIDAY ** ||  ||
 * 3/29 || Mexican American War
 * President Polk
 * Causes
 * Story mapping || * Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
 * Annex || # ** OUTLINE DUE FRIDAY **
 * 1) ** UNIT 3 QUIZ MONDAY ** || Enrichment Block 4 ||
 * 3/30 || * Sum up Mexican American War
 * Review using Socrative ||  || ** UNIT 3 QUIZ MONDAY ** || HR Schedule ||
 * 4/2 || * Unit 3 Quiz
 * Triangular Trade
 * Middle Passage ||  || Read "Why Africa?" || Enrichment Block 1 ||
 * 4/3 || * Finish middle passage
 * internet research and journal writing ||  || Slave journals due tomorrow || Enrichment Block 2 ||
 * 4/4 || * Presentation of slave journals
 * Lifestyle testimony from former slaves ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 4/10 || In-class time to work on rough draft of research paper ||  ||   || Enrichment Block 4 ||
 * 4/11 || * Myths of the Underground Railroad
 * Dred Scott decision || Dred Scott ||  || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 4/12 || Notes - Acts and Compromises || * Mason Dixon Line
 * Missouri Compromise
 * Compromise of 1850
 * Fugitive Slave Act
 * Kansas-Nebraska Act
 * Bleeding Kansas
 * Popular Sovereignty
 * John Brown ||  || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 4/13 || Notes - Acts and Compromises ||  ||   || Block 3 Enrichment ||
 * 4/16 || Library - Research Paper ||  || Acts and Docs Quiz tomorrow || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 4/17 || * Acts and Documents Quiz
 * Lincoln's Election
 * Lincoln's Goals
 * Secession || * Preserve the Union
 * Secession ||  || HR Schedule ||
 * 4/18 || America The Story of Us Video
 * Technology of the Civil War ||  ||   || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 4/19 || * Finish video
 * Railroad, Telegraph, Red Cross ||  ||   || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 4/20 || * Union Naval Blockade
 * Geography of fighting
 * Gettysburg Video ||  ||   || HR Schedule ||
 * 4/25 || Final Day at Gettysburg
 * Pickett's Charge
 * Advantages of the North and South ||  ||   || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 4/26 || End of the Civil War
 * Sherman's March
 * Casualties
 * Destruction
 * Reconstruction || * Sherman's March
 * Total War
 * Scorched Earth
 * Reconstruction ||  || PSSA Schedule ||
 * 4/27 || **FINAL DRAFTS DUE TODAY**
 * Peer Edit ||  ||   || Assembly Schedule ||
 * 4/30 || Reconstruction
 * Group Plans
 * Real Plans
 * Amendments || * Lincoln's Plan
 * Radical Reconstruction
 * Johnson's Plan || **UNIT 4 TEST WEDNESDAY** || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 5/1 || Reconstruction
 * Amendments
 * Life After Slavery
 * Jim Crow Laws
 * Sharecropping
 * Freedman's Bureau
 * KKK
 * Poll tax
 * Grandfather Clause
 * Literacy Test || **UNIT 4 TEST TOMORROW** || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 5/2 || ** Unit 4 Exam ** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 5/3 || Industrial Revolution
 * Robber barons
 * corruption || * Industrial Revolution
 * Robber Barons ||  || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 5/4 || Facebook Project tutorial
 * class time to work on group project || * J.P. Morgan
 * John D. Rockefeller
 * Andrew Carnegie
 * Milton Hershey
 * Philanthropy || ** RESEARCH PAPER DUE MONDAY ** || HR Schedule ||
 * 5/7 || ** RESEARCH PAPER DUE **
 * Turnitin.com
 * Group project work time ||  ||   || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 5/8 || * Groups presented their Facebook Projects
 * Working conditions ||  ||   || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 5/9 || Working Conditions
 * //The Jungle//
 * Unions
 * Start a Student Union project || * Upton Sinclair
 * //The Jungle//
 * Muckrakers
 * Unions ||  ||   ||
 * 5/10 || Finish Student Union project and complete presentations ||  ||   || Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 5/11 || America The Story of Us Video ||  ||   || Early Dismissal ||
 * 5/14 || Child Labor reading, vocabulary and physical/emotional consequences chart ||  ||   || Block 1 Enrichment ||
 * 5/15 || REVIEW Child labor reading, vocab and consequences chart - and review questions from Friday's video ||  ||   || Block 2 Enrichment ||
 * 5/16 - 5/18 || Independent research on a Progressive or Court Case ||  ||   || 5/17 Block 4 Enrichment ||
 * 5/19 || Notes on Progressives and Populists ||  || Unit 5 Test Friday
 * FINAL EXAM JUNE 4TH** ||  ||
 * 5/20 || * Annexation of Hawaii
 * Panama Canal
 * Spanish-American War ||  || Unit 5 Test Friday
 * FINAL EXAM JUNE 4TH** ||  ||
 * 5/21 || Spanish-American War
 * Group assignment and individual speech on whether America was justified in annexing the Philippines ||  || Unit 5 Test Friday
 * FINAL EXAM JUNE 4TH** ||  ||
 * 5/22 || * Finish group assignment and individual speech on whether America was justified in annexing the Philippines
 * Review for Unit 5 Test ||  || Unit 5 Test Friday
 * FINAL EXAM JUNE 4TH** ||  ||
 * 5/23 || * Unit 5 Exam
 * Final Exam Review packets ||  || ** FINAL EXAM JUNE 4TH ** ||   ||