9/30/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Hand back tests and collect Day 1 Research Notes.

2)  Notes ("Toward Independence, 1775-76").

3)  4 groups:  "February, 1776 Role Play" (Prep Day).
a)  Read the your group's Option information together.
b)  Complete the "Considering Your Option" sheet.
c)  Create transparencies of your group's viewpoint for presentation on Monday.

4)  Homework:  Thomas Barrow reading in Blue Reader ("The American Revolution as a Colonial War for Independence").
Focus your reading on:  What is the difference between the American Revolution and other world revolutions?

REMINDER:  If you still need appropriate secondary sources, go find some this weekend, because you will be taking notes in class next Wednesday on the final 2 secondary sources.

9/29/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Road to War, 1771-75").

2)  Go over Research Paper Information Sheet 2
--Note-taking Day 1 (25 points)--2 secondary sources.
--Loss of points if unprepared or not working properly using class time.
--Due at the end of the period.

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 166-170 ("Toward Independence, 1775-76").
Focus your reading on:  Thomas Paine's Common Sense

9/28/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Growing Confrontation, 1767-70").

2)  Peer Review of Practice Essays
--Each person evaluates 3 other people.
--When completed, review your evaluations, & staple essay, notes, outline, and evaluations together to hand in.

3)  Hopefully finishing the checking of Research Paper sources today in class.
--Tomorrow is Day 1 of note-taking in class (graded).  Bring 2 secondary sources.

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 150-151; 154-158 ("The Road to War, 1771-75").
Focus your reading on:  a) Tea Act  b) Committees of Correspondence  c) Boston Tea Party  d) Coercive (Intolerable) Acts  e) 1st Continental Congress  f) Loyalists  g) Minutemen  h) Lexington and Concord.

9/27/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765-66").

2)  Finish Practice Essays
--Notes and Outline should already be done.  Essay done today in class.
--Peer Review is tomorrow in class.

3)  Checking of Research Paper Sources continues during work time today.
--Make sure to "flag" sections of 2 secondary sources for Thursday's graded note-taking time.

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 140-145 ("The Growing Confrontation, 1767-70").
Focus your reading on:  a) Townshend Acts  b) Boston Massacre

9/26/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Imperial Reform Movement, 1763-65").

2)  Finish group presentations from last Thursday.

3)  Practice Essay (for Peer Review on Wednesday).
--20 points (15 Essay; 2.5 Outline; 2.5 Notes).
--Use pages 134-145 in your textbook for information.
--Here is the question to write your essay on: "What factors triggered the deterioration in relations between Great Britain and its American colonies between 1763-1766?"
--DO NOT TYPE ESSAY!

4)  During the work time for the essay, I will be checking Research Paper sources (25 points).
--On your own time, start "flagging" the portions of your sources you will be taking notes on.  This graded note-taking will start Thursday.

5)  Homework: Textbook, pages 140-145 ("The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765-66").
Focus your reading on:  a) Sons of Liberty  b) Declaratory Act

9/23/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Test 1


2)  Homework: Textbook, pages 134-140 ("The Imperial Reform Movement, 1763-65").
Focus your reading on:  a) Specific ways that Britain began to reassert her authority over the colonies after the French and Indian War  b) Sugar Act

2 REMINDERS FOR MONDAY:

1) Bring textbooks to class
2) Bring your 6 sources for your Research Paper to be checked

**Textbooks are available in the library now for those who don't have one yet.

9/22/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-65").

2)  Group Oral Report Presentations on Enlightenment and Pietist/Great Awakening Figures
--Points for: 1/2 page typed information; Presentation; Visual


TONIGHT:  Study for Test 1, which is tomorrow.  Essay Question #3 has been eliminated as an option, so study for the first 2 essay questions as well as your "Focus Your Reading" terms for the Short Identification section of the test.  I will answer emails showing me outlines and asking questions until 10:00 p.m.

9/21/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1740-65").

2)  6 groups: Oral Reports on Enlightenment & Pietist/Great Awakening Figures
--Prep day in lab
--Present tomorrow (Points for typed information, oral presentation, and picture).

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 121-130 ("The Mid-Century Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-65").
Focus your reading on:  a) Details on the French and Indian War  b) How the end of it impacted the coming of the Revolution.

9/20/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Middle Atlantic: Towards a New Society, 1720-65").

2)  Finish "Roots"; discuss and hand in notes.


3)  Read article on historian Joseph Ellis
a)  Write a paragraph response to 1 question on the sheet.
b)  Graded Discussion


4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 112-115; 118-121 ("The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1740-65").
Focus your reading on: a) Enlightenment  b) John Locke  c) Deists  d) Great Awakening/Pietism  e) George Whitefield.

9/19/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Hand back and discuss Goldilocks essays; also touch base on library research.  Source check is next Monday, 9/26.

2)  Notes ("The New Politics of Empire").

3)  Test 1 Prep Sheet handed out and discussed (Test 1 is on Friday).


4)  Finish "Roots", continuing with the notes taken on Friday.

5)  Homework: Textbook, pages 105-112 ("The Middle Atlantic: Towards a New Society, 1720-65").
Focus your reading on:  Reasons for Scots-Irish and German immigration to Pennsylvania.

9/16/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Imperial Slave Economy").

2)  Movie: "Roots"
--2-sided notes:  a) Specific examples of how the movie portrays Africans (attitudes, actions, beliefs).
b) Same type of examples for whites.

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 93-98 ("The New Politics of Empire").
Focus your reading on:  Salutary neglect

REMEMBER:  You need to have at least 4 books by historians and 2 primary sources by Monday, 9/26.

9/15/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Politics of Empire, 1660-1713").

2) a) Go over "Writing a History Essay"
b)  "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears" Practice Essay
--Your question should be the title of the essay.
--PLEASE DO NOT TYPE THE ESSAY!
c)  Due in class--attach Scoring Guide before turning in.

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 76-80; 84-93 ("The Imperial Slave Economy").
Focus your reading on:  a) South Atlantic System  b)  The "Middle Passage"  c) Specific effects of the slave trade on England, Africa, the West Indies, and the American colonies.

9/14/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Indians' 'New World'").

2) a)  Pick Research Paper topics
b) Hand out Research Paper Information Sheet 1
c)  Sources Check due on Monday, 9/26.
d)  Go to lab to familiarize with topics and ask questions

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 70-76 ("The Politics of Empire, 1660-1713").
Focus your reading on:  a) Quakers  b) Navigation Acts

9/13/11

Today's agenda:  2nd Period Extension Schedule for going over Student Handbooks

1)  A visit from Mr. Teschner about I.B.

2)  Notes ("Puritan New England")

3)  Finish the John Smith Historical Investigation and Case Study


4)  Explain Research Paper
--Hand out Overview Sheet, Sample Paper, and Topic List.
--Topics picked tomorrow.

5)  Homework: Textbook, pages 61-66 ("The Indians' 'New World'").
Focus your reading on:  Conflict between the Puritans and the Pequots

9/12/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("First English Model: Tobacco and Settlers").

2)  Historical Investigation and Case Study: "John Smith: History or Hoax?"
--With several handouts.  They will be stapled together at the end and turned in.

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 56-61 ("Puritan New England").
Focus your reading on: a) Characteristics of the Puritans  b) Why they came to America  c) The Puritans and witchcraft  d) Anne Hutchinson

9/9/11

Today's agenda:  (Welcome Back Assembly Schedule)

1)  Notes ("Imperial Conflicts and Rival Colonial Models").

2)  "10 Major Events that Shaped the U.S."
--List the 10 events that you think were the most important in U.S. history in rank order.
--Group list made in class on a transparency and shared.


3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 48-56 ("First English Model: Tobacco and Settlers").
Focus your reading on:  a) Jamestown  b) Obstacles to the colonization of Virginia  c) Indentured servants
d) Nathaniel Bacon/Bacon's Rebellion  e) Navigation Acts

9/8/11

Today's agenda:  (Shortened schedule 3rd period due to Class Meetings)

1)  Collect agreements


2)  Notes: "Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress"

3)  "The Coin Exercise" (non-graded activity)

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 40-41; 44-48 ("Imperial Conflicts and Rival Colonial Models").
Focus your reading on:  Differences between New Spain, New France, and New Netherland.

BRING TEXTBOOKS TO CLASS TOMORROW!

9/7/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Information sheet/Seating chart

2)  Discuss Syllabus
--Agreement due tomorrow.

3)  Textbook and Blue Reader checkout

4)  Getting acquainted

5)  Homework:  Howard Zinn reading in Blue Reader ("Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress").
Focus your reading on:  a) Zinn's main point or "thesis"  b)  How the natives were treated

Test 1 will be on Friday, September 23.