9/30/19

1) Notes ("Toward Independence") ("The Trials of War")
2) Begin discussing Essay Question #2 for test
3) Graded Study for Test 1 (Make outlines; study Focus Terms)

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 175-179; 182; 184-190 ("The Path to Victory") and ("Republicanism Defined and Challenged")
Focus your reading on:  a) American alliance with France  b) Battle of Yorktown  c) Treaty of Paris (1783)  d) Loyalists after the war  e) Established churches after the war

9/27/19

Same as 9/27 entry.

9/26/19

1) Notes ("The Road to War")
2) Go over Essay Question #1 for Test 1. Essay questions and Focus Terms for Unit 1 are posted on Google Classroom.
3) Peer Review for Practice Essays
--Essays and Evaluations passed back to owners at the end. Staple all together with Notes and Outline and hand in.

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 166-170; 170-175 ("Toward Independence") and ("The Trials of War")
Focus your reading on:  a) 2nd Continental Congress  b) Thomas Paine's Common Sense  c) Thomas Jefferson/Declaration of Independence  d) "War of Attrition"/George Washington  e) Battles of Trenton and Princeton  f) Battle of Saratoga/General John Burgoyne  g) Valley Forge  h) Baron von Steuben  i) Funding the Continental Army

9/25/19

Same as 9/24 entry.

9/24/19

1) Notes ("The Growing Confrontation")
2) Finish Practice Essays (Do Essay in class)
--Peer Review next class time

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 150-151; 154-158 ("The Road to War")
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 (Tories)  g) Paul Revere  h) Minutemen  i) Lexington and Concord

9/23/19

Same as 9/20 entry.

9/20/19

1) Notes ("The Imperial Reform Movement") and ("The Dynamics of Rebellion")
2) Hand back "Goldilocks" Essays and discuss
3) Practice Essay on Revolutionary time period
--Graded on Notes, Outline, and Essay
--Use pages 134-145 in your textbook for information
--DO NOT TYPE!
--The question is: "What factors triggered the deterioration in relations between Great Britain and its American colonies between 1763-1766?"
--Notes and Outline should be done today during class; Essay during the next class time; Peer Review the class after that.
4) We will finish any remaining Oral Presentations during the work time today, too.

5) Homework: Textbook, pages 145-150 ("The Growing Confrontation")
Focus your reading on:  a) Townshend Acts  b) Non-importation  c) Daughters of Liberty  d) Boston Massacre

9/19/19

Same as 9/19 entry.

9/18/19

1) Notes ("The Mid-Century Challenge...")
2) Oral Report Presentations
--Graded on Typed Info, Visual, and Oral Presentation

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 134-140; 140-145 ("The Imperial Reform Movement") and ("The Dynamics of Rebellion")
Focus your reading on: a) Specific ways Britain began to reassert its authority over the colonies after the French and Indian War  b) Sugar Act  c) Stamp Act  d) Stamp Act Congress  e) Sons of Liberty  f) Declaratory Act

BRING TEXTBOOKS TO THE NEXT CLASS

9/17/19

Same as 9/16 entry.

9/16/19

1) Notes ("The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1740-65")
2) Assigned pairs: Oral Reports on the Impact of the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment in America
--Prep Day/Join Google Classroom
--Present starting next class
3) Complete PCC registration process (CRN: 48266)

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 121-126 ("The Mid-Century Challenge...")
Focus your reading on:  a) Details on the French and Indian War   b) How the end of the war impacted the coming of the Revolution

9/13/19

Same as Tuesday, 9/10 entry.

9/12/19

Same as 9/11 entry

9/11/19

PCC Day/Register to become a student

9/10/19

1) Notes ("The Imperial Slave Economy")
2) Finish "Goldilocks" Essay (15-20 min), attach a Scoring Guide, and turn in
3) "The Coin Exercise" (non-graded class activity)

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

9/9/19

Same as 9/6 entry.

9/6/19

1) Collect Agreements
2) Hand out Unit 1 I.B. Topic Packet (for I.B. History test-takers only)
3) Notes ("From Mercantilism to Dominion") and ("Salutary Neglect")
4) a) Go over "Writing a History Essay"
    b) "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears" Practice Essay [Your question should be the title of the essay;
         DO NOT TYPE]
    c) 15-20 minutes to finish during next class

5) Homework: Textbook, pages 76-80; 84-89 ("The Imperial Slave Economy")
Focus your reading on:  a) South Atlantic System/Triangular Trade  b) "Middle Passage"  c) Specific effects of the slave trade on England, Africa, the West Indies, and the American colonies

9/5/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 9/4 entry.

9/4/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Info Sheet/Seating Chart
2) Syllabus (Agreement due next class)
3) Textbook checkout
4) Getting acquainted

5) Homework: Textbook, pages 72-73; 95 ("From Mercantilism to Dominion") and ("Salutary Neglect")
Focus your reading on:  a) Mercantilism  b) Navigation Acts   c) Salutary neglect