12/19/14

1)  Notes ("Toward Total War")
2)  Video: Ken Burns' "Civil War" (Day 1 of 2)
--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

12/18/14

1)  Notes ("Secession and Military Stalemate, 1861-62")
2)  Finish Test 5 (DBQ)--Part 2 (Essay)

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

12/17/14

**Reiterate essay expectations for tomorrow's test (see "An Empire for Slavery" in Blue Reader, pages 78-103).  You'll need at least 2 specific examples of how the North reacted to the Fugitive Slave Act.
1)  Test 5 (DBQ)-Part 1

2)  Homework: Textbook, pages 398-407 ("Secession and Military Stalemate, 1861-62")
Focus your reading on:  a) Fort Sumter  b) Jefferson Davis  c) Antietam

12/16/14

**Political Cartoon Practice
1)  Notes ("The Election of 1856 and Dred Scott")
**Ungraded Unit 5 Quiz and DBQ Test information
2)  Finish Frederick Douglass video
--Discuss/hand in notes

3)  Homework: Do a general overview of the famous figures in your notes (and their views on slavery  and the preservation of the union) for tomorrow's Test 5 (DBQ)

12/15/14

**Political cartoon practice
1)  Notes ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 2
2)  Video: "Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History" (Day 1 of 2)
--Take 2 pages of notes

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

12/12/14

**turnitin.com submission of Research Paper due today.
1)  Notes ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 1
2)  John Brown assignment
a)  Read in books provided, pages 232-235
b)  Answer questions at the top of page 236 and on the screen
c)  Graded Discussion

3)  Homework: James McPherson reading in Blue Reader ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 2 [Pages  153-169]
Focus your reading on:  a) Election of 1856 (Buchanan vs. Fremont)  b) Lecompton Constitution

12/11/14

**Political Cartoon Practice
1)  Notes ("Slavery, Rum, and Romanism")-Part 2
2)  "Major Players in the Pre-Civil War Slavery Debate" presentations
--Audience takes class notes

3)  Homework: James McPherson reading in Blue Reader ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 1 [Pages 145-153]
Focus your reading on:  a) "Bleeding Kansas"  b) John Brown  c) "The Caning of Sumner" (Charles Sumner)