4/9/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Harder Times")
2)  Prep Day 2 of project

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 714-718; 722-727 ("Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression") and ("The New Deal Takes Over, 1933-35")
Focus your reading on:  a) Hoover's response to the Depression  b) The nation's feelings toward Hoover  c) Franklin Roosevelt's first "Hundred Days"


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
2)  "The Subjugation of the Native Americans in the West"
a) Reading: "I Will Fight No More Forever"
b)  4 questions:  Work Day
c)  Graded Discussion:  Tomorrow

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

4/8/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Hard Times")
2)  7 groups: Great Depression Project (Prep Day 1 of 2)
--Present Wednesday and Thursday
--Each person needs at least 1.5 pages of meaningful information and 2 visuals when presenting

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 707-711 ("Harder Times")
Focus your reading on:  a) Impact of the Dust Bowl  b) "Okies"


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Presidential Reconstruction") and ("Radical Reconstruction")
2)  Finish video; discuss/hand in 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

4/5/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Coming of the Great Depression")
2)  Video: "1929-36: Stormy Weather"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 699; 701-707 ("Hard Times")
Focus:  Examples of how the Depression affected people who lived through it


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Union Victorious, 1864-65")
2)  Video: "The Geography of Hope"
--Take 2 pages of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 430-433; 435-442 ("Presidential Reconstruction") and ("Radical Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Lincoln's Reconstruction plan  b) Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan  c) Positives and negatives of Radical Reconstruction  d) Impeachment of Johnson

4/4/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Test 9

2)  Homework: Textbook, pages 697-699 ("The Coming of the Great Depression")
Focus your reading on:  Causes of the Great Depression


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Turning Point: 1863")
2)  Finish video; discuss/hand in notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 417-421; 424-426 ("The Union Victorious: 1864-65")
Focus your reading on:  [These correspond to a possible test essay question]:
a) Role of African-American soldiers  b) Ulysses S. Grant's war strategies  c) Shenandoah Campaign  d) William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea"

4/3/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Exclusionism...")
2)  Discuss last possible essay question for Test 9
3) a) ACT registration
    b)  Study/work time if you finish early

4)  Homework:  Study for Test 9



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Towards Total War")
2)  Video:  Ken Burns' "Civil War"
--Take 2 pages of notes

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 413-416 ("The Turning Point: 1863")
Focus your reading on:  a) Emancipation Proclamation  b) Battle of Gettysburg's significance

4/2/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Ku Klux Klan")
2)  1920s Prejudice/Nativism Presentations

3)  Homework:  Paul Bennett reading in Green Reader ("Exclusionism...")
Focus your reading on:  a) Komagata Maru Incident  b) KKK's influence in Canada

BRING STUDY/WORK MATERIALS TO CLASS TOMORROW IN CASE YOU FINISH ACT REGISTRATION EARLY.


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Secession and Military Stalemate")
2)  ACT registration

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

4/1/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  6 groups:  1920s Documents of Prejudice/Nativism
--On own paper, summarize key points
--"Analyzing Sources" sheet
--Work as a group.  Anyone is fair game to answer questions tomorrow during presentations

4) Homework: Robert Moats Miller reading in Green Reader ("The Ku Klux Klan")
Focus your reading on:  The "new" KKK's nativism in the 1920s


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Election of 1856 and Dred Scott")
2)  "Major Players" presentations
--Audience takes notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 398-407 ("Secession and Military Stalemate")
Focus your reading on:  a) Fort Sumter  b) Jefferson Davis  c) Antietam