4/28/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Roots of Expansion")
2) 3 groups: Imperialism Role Play (Prep Day) (Present on Tuesday)
a) Read Option info
b) "Considering Your Option" sheet
c) Make group presentation sheet

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 609; 612-613; 616-622 ("An American Empire")
Focus your reading on:  a) Reasons for going to war with Spain  b) William McKinley/USS Maine  c) Filipino "insurrection"/Emilio Aguinaldo

4/27/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Urbanization") and ("City Life")
2) Finish? Late 19th Century Individual Presentations
--Audience continues taking class notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 604-609 ("The Roots of Expansion")
Focus your reading on:  a) Imperialism  b) Alfred T. Mahan's proposals



American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Oral History assignment reminder

2) 1970s Music (Day 2)
--Finish note guide

4/26/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant") and ("The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-1893")
2) Late 19th Century Individual Presentations
--Points for Title Page/Visual, Typed Info, and Presentation
--Audience takes class notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 544-550; 556-563; 566 ("Urbanization") and ("City Life")
Focus your reading on:  "Dumb-bell" tenements

4/25/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Wagon Trains, Railroads, and Ranchers") and ("The Fate of the Indians")
2) Late 19th Century Individual Presentations (Prep Day in lab)
--Present Wednesday and Thursday

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 486-487; 490; 494-495; 518-519; 521; 523 ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant") and ("The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-93")
Focus your reading on:  a) Andrew Carnegie  b) "Gilded Age"/Laissez-faire  c) Social Darwinism  d) Political machines


American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Oral History assignment reminder

2) 1970s Music (Day 1)
--With note guide

4/24/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Race and Politics in the New South")
2) DuBois vs. Washington (Day 2)
--Finish answers to questions
--Graded Discussion

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 460-461; 464-465; 469-474 ("Wagon Trains, Railroads, and Ranchers") and ("The Fate of the Indians")
Focus your reading on:  a) Exodusters  b) Severalty policy  c) Wounded Knee

4/21/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Sharecropping") and ("The Political Crisis of 1877")
2) DuBois vs. Washington (Day 1)
a) Watch short video clip
b) Reading: "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
c) Questions: With paragraph answers
d) Graded Discussion on Monday

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 525-531; 534 ("Race and Politics in the New South")
Focus your reading on:  a) Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)  b) Booker T. Washington's views on segregation (Accommodationist; Atlanta Compromise Address)  c) W.E.B. DuBois' views that disagreed with Washington


American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Oral History assignment reminder

2) 70s TV (Day 3) ("Good Times") and ("Barney Miller")
--Finish note guide

4/20/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 3

2) Homework: Textbook, pages 442-445; 450 ("Sharecropping") and ("The Political Crisis of 1877")
Focus your reading on:  a) Sharecropping  b) Ku Klux Klan  c) Election of 1876/Rutherford B. Hayes

4/18/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Graded Study for Test 3

2) Homework for Thursday: Study for Test 3. Email Mr. Unis outlines and questions.




American Pop Culture:

1970s TV (Day 2) ("M.A.S.H.") and ("All in the Family")
--Continue note guide

4/17/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Double notes ("Presidential Reconstruction") and ("Radical Reconstruction")

Extra Reading covered in the notes:  Textbook, pages 436-441 ("Radical Reconstruction")
Focus terms:  a) Reconstruction Act of 1867  b) Tenure of Office Act/Andrew Johnson's impeachment  c) Election of 1868  d) 15th Amendment

2) Finish Civil War videos
--Discuss/hand in note guides

3) Homework: Study for Thursday's Test 3. Send me outlines and questions!

4/13/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Union Victorious, 1864-65")
2) Test 3 essay questions:

1) Discuss how the following 3 things contributed to the final breakdown between the North and South, leading to secession and the Civil War:
a) Dred Scott Supreme Court decision
b) Lecompton Constitution
c) John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

2) In what ways were the following things both significant and controversial in the last sixteen months of the Civil War?
a) The use of African-American troops
b) Ulysses S. Grant's actions
c) William Tecumseh Sherman's actions

3) Watch "War Is All Hell"
-Finish note guide

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 430-433; 435-436 ("Presidential Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on: a) Lincoln's Reconstruction plan  b) "Radical" Republicans  c) Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan  d) Black Codes  e) Freedmen's Bureau Bill  f) 14th Amendment


American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Intro Notes

2) Hand out 1970s Oral History assignment (due Tuesday, May 9)

3) 1970s TV (Day 1) ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
--With note guide

4/12/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Turning Point: 1863")
2) a) Finish "Valley of the Shadow of Death". Discuss?
    b) Begin "War Is All Hell"  ?
        --Continue note guide

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 417-421; 424-426 ("The Union Victorious: 1864-65")
Focus your reading on:  a) Role of African-American soldiers  b) Ulysses S. Grant's war strategies (Total War)  c) Shenandoah Campaign  d) Election of 1864  e) William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea"  f) Appomattox Court House

4/11/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Toward Total War")
2) a) Finish "The Cause"; discuss notes
b) Begin "Valley of the Shadow of Death" and continue note guide

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 413-416 ("The Turning Point: 1863")
Focus your reading on:  a) Emancipation Proclamation  b) Battle of Vicksburg/General Ulysses S. Grant  c) Significance of the Battle of Gettysburg


American Pop Culture:

Test 1

4/10/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Secession and Military Stalemate")
2) Continue Civil War video series: Finish "The Cause"
--Continue note guide

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 407-413 ("Toward Total War")
Focus your reading on:  a) How the Union and Lincoln prepared for war  b) How the Confederacy and Jefferson Davis prepared for war

4/7/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Election of 1856 and Dred Scott")
2) Videos: "The Civil War" (Episode: "The Cause")
--With note guide

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 398-407 ("Secession and Military Stalemate")
Focus your reading on:  a) Secession  b) Crittenden Plan  c) Fort Sumter  d) Jefferson Davis  e) First Battle of Bull Run (Manasses)  f) Antietam


American Pop Culture:

1) Hand out Test 1 review sheet and notecard
--Discuss test format and expectations

2) Graded Study/Preparation for Test 1

4/6/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 2
2) John Brown
a) Reading: Use pages 232-235 in books provided
b) Answer questions on top of page 236 and on screen
c) Graded Discussion

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 390-394 ("The Election of 1856 and Dred Scott")
Focus your reading on:  a) Dred Scott  b) Lincoln-Douglas Debates  c) Election of 1860

4/5/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 1
2) Group presentations on historians
--I.B. History test-takers should take notes on historians' views on the causes of the Civil War

3) Homework: Pre-Civil War Reader, pages 153-169 ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 2
Focus your reading on:  a) Election of 1856 (James Buchanan vs. John C. Fremont)  b) Lecompton Constitution



American Pop Culture:

1) 1960s Oral History assignment due
2) Graded Sharing of Oral Histories

4/4/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Slavery, Rum, and Romanism")
2) 6 groups: Historiography on the Causes of the Civil War (Mobile Lab)
--Follow directions on the sheet
--Historian's viewpoint on causes; background info/praise/criticism that can help with Values and Limitations

3) Homework: Pre-Civil War Reader, pages 145-153 ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 1
Focus your reading on:  a) "Bleeding Kansas"  b) John Brown  c) "The Caning of Sumner" (Charles Sumner)

4/3/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 2

2) Homework: Pre-Civil War Reader, pages 117-144 ("Slavery, Rum, and Romanism")
Focus your reading on:  a) Election of 1852  b) Kansas-Nebraska Act/Stephen A. Douglas  c) American ("Know-Nothing") Party



American Pop Culture:

1) 1960s Oral History assignment reminder (due next class on Wednesday)

2) Finish 1960s Movie ("Easy Rider")
--With note guide