3/31/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Toward Total War")
2) a) Discuss "The Cause" notes
    b) Begin "Valley of the Shadow of Death"
        --Continue note guide

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 413-416 ("The Turning Point: 1863")
Focus your reading on:  a) Emancipation Proclamation  b) Battle of Vicksburg/General Ulysses S. Grant  c) Significance of the Battle of Gettysburg


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 3/30 entry, except your Oral History assignment is due on Tuesday, 4/26.

3/30/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Secession and Military Stalemate")
2) Finish "The Cause" video
--With note guide

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


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) Your 1970s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, April 25.

2) 1970s TV (Day 2)
("M.A.S.H.") and ("Good Times")
--Continue note guide

3/29/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Election of 1856 and Dred Scott")
2) Civil War video: "The Cause"
--With note guide

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 398-407 ("Secession and Military Stalemate")
Focus your reading on:  a) Secession  b) Crittenden Plan  c) Fort Sumter  d) Jefferson Davis  e) First Battle of Bull Run (Manasses)  f) Antietam


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 3/18 entry, except your 1970s Oral History assignment is due on Tuesday, 4/26.

3/18/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 2
2) John Brown assignment
a) Reading: Use pages 232-235 in books provided
b) Answer questions at the top of page 236 (1 sentence answers) and on the screen (paragraph)
c) Graded Discussion

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



American Pop Culture (A day):

1) 1970s Intro Notes
2) Assign 1970s Oral History (due Monday, 4/25)
3) 1970s TV ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
--With note guide

3/17/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 1
2) Group presentations on historians
--I.B. students take notes on historians' views on causes of the Civil War

3) Homework: McPherson reader, pages 153-169 ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 2
Focus your reading on:  a) Election of 1856 (James Buchanan vs. John C. Fremont)  b) Lecompton Constitution


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 3/16 entry.

3/16/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

**Hand out I.B. Unit 3 Topics
1) Notes ("Slavery, Rum, and Romanism")
2) 6 groups: Historiography on the Causes of the Civil War (In Lab)
--Follow directions on sheet and OPVL Guidelines Packet
a) Looking for your historian's viewpoint on the causes
b) Look at his background, plus praise and criticism to help with the Values and Limitations

3) Homework: McPherson reader, pages 145-153 ("The Crime Against Kansas")-Part 1
Focus your reading on:  a) "Bleeding Kansas"  b) John Brown  c) "The Caning of Sumner" (Charles Sumner)


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) 1960s Oral History assignments are due

2) Graded Sharing of Oral History assignments

3/15/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 2

2) Homework: James McPherson reading in reader, pages 117-144 ("Slavery, Rum, and Romanism")
Focus your reading on:  a) Election of 1852  b) Kansas-Nebraska Act/Stephen A. Douglas  c) American ("Know-Nothing") Party


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 3/14 entry, except your 60s Oral History assignment is due this Thursday, 3/17.