3/22/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("A New National Culture")
2)  Test 9 Prep Questions:
a)  What were the major goals of the Progressives in the U.S. and to what extent were they achieved by 1920?
b)  What were Woodrow Wilson's goals at the Paris Peace Conference, and how successful was he in achieving them?
c)  What forms did American and Canadian nativism take in the 1920s?
3)  Video: "1920-29: Boom to Bust"
--Take 1 page of notes

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 681-692 ("Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict")
Focus your reading on:  a) Examples of 1920s nativism  b) The "new" Ku Klux Klan  c) "Birth of a Nation"



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Crime Against Kansas")
2)  Hand out PCC information to register for credit in lab
3)  6 groups: "Major Players in the Pre-Civil War Slavery Debate"
--Prep Day in lab
--Present Monday, 4/1

4)  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

3/21/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Business-Government Partnership of the 1920s")
2)  4 groups: 1920s Primary Source Documents
--Read assigned documents
--Explain main points/answer questions on paper for group presentation

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 673-677; 680-681 ("A New National Culture")
Focus your reading on:  a) Examples of 1920s entertainment  b) Examples of 1920s icons (famous popular culture people)


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Slavery, Rum, and Romanism")
2)  4 groups: Compromise of 1850
--Read assigned documents
--Prepare a sheet for group presentation
--Audience takes class notes

3)  Homework: James McPherson reading in Yellow Reader ("The Crime Against Kansas")
Focus your reading on:  a) "Bleeding Kansas"  b) John Brown  c) "The Caning of Sumner" (Charles Sumner)  d) Election of 1856 (Buchanan vs. Fremont)  e) Lecompton Constitution

3/20/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("An Unsettled Peace, 1919-20")
2)  Woodrow Wilson Documents
--Reading time first
--Answer questions from screen
--Graded Discussion

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 666-670; 672-673 ("The Business-Government Partnership of the 1920s")
Focus your reading on:  a) Warren G. Harding's administration  b) Calvin Coolidge's political beliefs  c) Dawes Plan


Honors U.S. History:

1) Notes ("An Empire for Slavery")
2)  Finish video; discuss/hand in notes

3)  Homework: James McPherson reading in Yellow Reader ("Slavery, Rum, and Romanism")
Focus your reading on:  a) Election of 1852  b) Kansas-Nebraska Act  c) Stephen A. Douglas and popular sovereignty  d) Republican Party created  e) American ("Know-Nothing") Party

3/19/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Canada and the First World War Presentations
--Audience takes class notes

2)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 655; 658-662 ("An Unsettled Peace, 1919-20")
Focus your reading on:  a) Wilson's 14 Points  b) Palmer Raids

Also for homework:  Use sheet handed out today with Course Reference Numbers to register for PCC credit for 2nd Semester!  Only use the numbers for Mr. Unis and Advanced U.S. History that I give you on that sheet.  No other numbers are correct and will mess you up (Honors U.S. History numbers, 1st Semester numbers, Mr. Carlisle numbers).


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Mexico Will Poison Us")-Part 2
2)  Video:  "Empire Upon the Trails"
--Take 2 pages of notes on these topics:  a) Manifest Destiny  b) Mexican-American War  c) Oregon Trail  d) Texas  e) Whitmans  f) Mormons

3)  Homework:  James McPherson reading in Yellow Reader ("An Empire for Slavery")
Focus your reading on:  a) Specific Northern and Southern reactions to the Fugitive Slave Act  b) Role of Cuba  c) Role of Nicaragua/William Walker

3/18/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Discuss/hand in "TR" notes
2)  6 groups:  Canada and the First World War
--Typed bullet-point style notes
--At least 1 relevant visual per topic
--Homework is to get this all ready to present tomorrow


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("From the Halls of Montezuma") and ("Mexico Will Poison Us")-Part 1
2)  Finish Documentary Evidence of Slavery
--Discuss and hand in

3)  Homework: James McPherson reading in Yellow Reader ("Mexico Will Poison Us")-Part 2
[Pages 64-77]
Focus your reading on:  a) California Gold Rush  b) Compromise of 1850  c) Fugitive Slave Act  d) Henry Clay  e) Daniel Webster

3/13/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("War on the Home Front")
2)  Finish "TR" video; discuss/hand in notes

3)  No homework reading


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Manifest Destiny")
2)  Continue "Documentary Evidence of Slavery"

3)  Homework: James McPherson reading in new Yellow Readers ("From the Halls of Montezuma") and ("Mexico Will Poison Us")-Part 1  [Pages 3-5; 47-64]
Focus your reading on:  a) Mexican-American War  b) Wilmot Proviso  c) Free-Soil Movement  d) Election of 1848  e) Popular sovereignty

3/12/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Great War, 1914-18")
2)  Video: "TR"
--Take 2 sided notes:  a) TR's progressive ideas/policies  b) Other TR information

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 647-655 ("War on the Home Front")
Focus your reading on:  Examples of U.S. civilian involvement in WWI


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Abolitionism")
2)  "Documentary Evidence of Slavery"
--Read primary source accounts
--Answer questions (while citing sources) on your own paper

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 368-376 ("Manifest Destiny")
Focus your reading on:  a) Manifest Destiny  b) John Tyler  c) "Fifty-four forty or fight!"