11/30/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Slave South: An Interpretation")

2)  Continue watching "Roots"
--Take 1/2 page of notes


3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 352-358 ("Abolitionism")
Focus your reading on:  a) American Colonization Society  b) Nat Turner

11/29/11

Today's agenda:

1) Notes ("The Proslavery Argument Revisited")

2)  Continue watching "Roots"
--Take 1/2 page of notes


3)  Homework:  Eugene Genovese reading in Blue Reader ("The Slave South: An Interpretation)
Focus your reading on:
CONTRAST: a) Southern economic system vs. typical capitalist economic system
b)  Rich Southerner's goals vs. rich Northerner's goals

11/28/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("A Troublesome Property")

2)  Continue the movie "Roots"
--1/2 page of notes per day

3)  Homework:  Ralph Morrow reading in Blue Reader ("The Proslavery Argument Revisited")
Focus your reading on:  Which group of people did Southern slaveholders try the hardest to convince that slavery was a good thing?

11/18/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Part D of Research Paper due

2)  Notes ("The Black Slave Driver")

3)  Continue watching "Roots"
--1/2 page of notes each day


4)  Homework:  Kenneth Stampp reading in Blue Reader ("A Troublesome Property")
Focus your reading on:  Why did slaveowners consider slaves a "troublesome property"?

HAVING A WHOLE WEEK OFF FOR THANKSGIVING IS THE LAST GOOD CHANCE TO GET CAUGHT UP IF YOU ARE BEHIND ON YOUR RESEARCH PAPER.  IN MOST CASES, IF YOU ARE STILL BEHIND AFTER THAT, I WILL ASSUME YOUR GRADE IN THE CLASS IS NOT A PRIORITY TO YOU.

11/17/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes--not connected to a homework reading ("The Slave South: A Distinctive Society")

2)  Movie: "Roots"
--Take notes on specific aspects and characteristics of slaves, slavery, and slaveowners that you see portrayed.
--6 days @ 1/2 page per day = 3 pages of notes


3)  Homework:  Randall Miller reading in Blue Reader ("The Black Slave Driver")
Focus your reading on:  Characteristics of the black slave drivers

11/16/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Women's Movement")

2)  Continue working on Part D of Research Paper in lab.
--Due Friday
--Follow the Information Sheet instructions and the Sample Paper model faithfully in order to get full credit

3) No homework reading.  Work on Part D.

11/15/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Individualism")

2)  Part D (Analysis) of Research Paper done in lab (Day 1 of 2)
--Go over Research Paper Information Sheet 5 first, along with Sample Paper
--Due Friday

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 358-359; 362-364 ("The Women's Rights Movement")
Focus your reading on:  Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin