1/30/15

1)  Notes ("A Railway in Principle")
2)  a) Reading: "The Great Railway Competition"
     b) Answer questions with paragraph responses
     c) Graded Discussion

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 498-505 ("The World of Work")
Focus your reading on:  a) Characteristics of production line work in the late 1800s  b) Characteristics of women's working conditions

1/29/15

1)  Notes ("The Great Race")-Part 2
2)  Finish video from yesterday; discuss/hand in notes
3)  In-class extra credit opportunity

4)  Homework: D.N. Sprague reading in Green Reader ("A Railway in Principle")
Focus your reading on:  Prime Ministers Alexander Mackenzie vs. John Macdonald--different views on railroad construction.

1/28/15

1)  Notes ("The Great Race")-Part 1
2)  Video: "The Grandest Enterprise Under God" (Day 1 of 2)
--Take 2 pages of notes

3)  Homework: Dee Brown reading in Green Reader ("The Great Race")-Part 2 [Pages 117-135]
Focus your reading on:  What happened when the Union Pacific workers were not paid by the company?

1/27/15

1)  Notes ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant")
2)  4 groups: Primary Source Documents on the Industrial Era
--Explain main points on paper provided for group presentation
--Answer questions at the end of the document
--Include writer's view of the proper role of government vs. big business

3)  Homework: Dee Brown reading in new Green Readers ("The Great Race")-Part 1 [Pages 100-117]
Focus your reading on:  a) 2 railroad companies in the "Great Race"  b) "Hell on Wheels" towns

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1/23/15

1st and 2nd periods only:

1) Test 6

2)  Homework: Textbook, pages 486-491; 494-498 ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant")
Focus your reading on:  Meaning of "Industrial Capitalism Triumphant"

1/22/15

1st and 2nd periods:  1)  Finish "Roots"; discuss/hand in notes
                                  2)  Study period

4th period:  1)  Test 6
2)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 486-491; 494-498 ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant")
Focus your reading on:  a) Meaning on "Industrial Capitalism Triumphant"

1/21/15

1)  Last episode of "Roots"
--Take 1/2 page of notes on attributes of the Reconstruction Era

2)  Tomorrow:  1st and 2nd periods: Study day
4th period:  Test 6

1/20/15

1)  Notes ("The British Migration and Settlement Pattern")-Canada
2)  Finish Native American reading and writing assignment from Friday
--Graded Discussion

3)  Homework: Study/make outlines for Test 6

1/16/15

1)  Notes ("The Frontier and the American Character")
2)  a) Reading: "I Will Fight No More Forever"
     b)  4 questions
     c)  30 minutes to finish and graded discussion on Tuesday

3)  Homework: Study/prepare outlines for Test 6 (which is on next Thursday for 4th period and next Friday for 1st and 2nd periods).

1/15/15

1)  Notes ("Reluctant Conquerors...")
2)  Test 6 prep information:

     1)  In what ways were the following men and events both significant and controversial in the last sixteen months of the Civil War?
a)  African-American troops
b)  Ulysses S. Grant
c)  The Shenandoah Campaign
d)  William Tecumseh Sherman

2)  From a modern historical perspective, what were the major achievements and disappointments of Radical Reconstruction?



3)  Finish yesterday's video; discuss/hand in notes

4)  Homework: Ray Allen Billington reading in Blue Reader ("The Frontier and the American Character")
Focus your reading on:  Frederick Jackson Turner and his "Frontier Thesis"

1/14/15

1)  Notes ("The Far West")
2)  Video: "The Geography of Hope" (Day 1 of 2)
--Take 2 pages of notes

3)  Homework: Thomas Leonard reading in Blue Reader ("Reluctant Conquerors...")
Focus your reading on:  The author's thesis: Why was the U.S. Army "reluctant"?

1/13/15

1)  Notes ("Canada's Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-85")
2)  Finish last 2 role play presentations
--Staple 2 sheets together and hand in
3)  Extra Credit Opportunity (in class)

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 474-482 ("The Far West")
Focus your reading on:  a) Population on the West Coast  b) Chinese immigration to the U.S.

1/12/15

1)  Notes ("The Great Plains")
2)  Arizona: 1871 Role Play
a)  Hand out Evaluation Form
b)  Audience asks 3 questions total
c)  3 presentations today

3)  Homework: John Tobias reading in Blue Reader ("Canada's Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-85")
Focus your reading on:  a) Cree tribe vs. Canadian government  b) Metis uprising (1885)

1/9/15

1)  Notes ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
2)  Discuss/hand in yesterday's Jim Crow video notes
3)  5 groups: Arizona: 1871 Role Play
a) Study background and Option information
b) Complete "Presenting Your Perspective" sheet
c) Make group presentation sheet

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 458-461; 464-474 ("The Great Plains")
Focus your reading on:  a) Exodusters  b) Wounded Knee


**ALL MISSING WORK, QUIZZES, TESTS AND PAPERS HAVE TO BE TURNED IN BY TUESDAY, 1/20.

1/8/15

1)  Notes ("Radical Reconstruction")
2)  Video: "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 442-445; 448-450 ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Sharecropping  b) Election of 1876/Rutherford B. Hayes

1/7/15

1)  Notes ("Presidential Reconstruction")
2)  Finish sharing about Research Papers

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 436-442 ("Radical Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Positives and negatives of Radical Reconstruction  b) Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

1/6/15

1)  Notes ("The Union Victorious, 1864-65")
2)  Discuss/hand in Civil War video notes
3)  Begin sharing Research Paper findings in class

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 430-433; 435-436 ("Presidential Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Lincoln's Reconstruction plan  b) Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan

1/5/15

1)  Notes ("The Turning Point: 1863)
2)  Finish Civil War video
--Discuss/hand in 2 pages of notes tomorrow

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 417-421; 424-426 ("The Union Victorious, 1864-65")
Focus your reading on: [All part of future possible essay question]:  a) Role of African-American soldiers  b) Ulysses S. Grant's "March to the Sea"  c) Shenandoah Campaign  d) William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea"

**BRING RESEARCH PAPERS TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY FOR SHARING IN CLASS.