9/30/19

1) Notes ("Toward Independence") ("The Trials of War")
2) Begin discussing Essay Question #2 for test
3) Graded Study for Test 1 (Make outlines; study Focus Terms)

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 175-179; 182; 184-190 ("The Path to Victory") and ("Republicanism Defined and Challenged")
Focus your reading on:  a) American alliance with France  b) Battle of Yorktown  c) Treaty of Paris (1783)  d) Loyalists after the war  e) Established churches after the war

9/27/19

Same as 9/27 entry.

9/26/19

1) Notes ("The Road to War")
2) Go over Essay Question #1 for Test 1. Essay questions and Focus Terms for Unit 1 are posted on Google Classroom.
3) Peer Review for Practice Essays
--Essays and Evaluations passed back to owners at the end. Staple all together with Notes and Outline and hand in.

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 166-170; 170-175 ("Toward Independence") and ("The Trials of War")
Focus your reading on:  a) 2nd Continental Congress  b) Thomas Paine's Common Sense  c) Thomas Jefferson/Declaration of Independence  d) "War of Attrition"/George Washington  e) Battles of Trenton and Princeton  f) Battle of Saratoga/General John Burgoyne  g) Valley Forge  h) Baron von Steuben  i) Funding the Continental Army

9/25/19

Same as 9/24 entry.

9/24/19

1) Notes ("The Growing Confrontation")
2) Finish Practice Essays (Do Essay in class)
--Peer Review next class time

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 150-151; 154-158 ("The Road to War")
Focus your reading on:  a) Tea Act  b) Committees of Correspondence  c) Boston Tea Party  d) Coercive ("Intolerable") Acts  e) 1st Continental Congress  f) Loyalists (Tories)  g) Paul Revere  h) Minutemen  i) Lexington and Concord

9/23/19

Same as 9/20 entry.

9/20/19

1) Notes ("The Imperial Reform Movement") and ("The Dynamics of Rebellion")
2) Hand back "Goldilocks" Essays and discuss
3) Practice Essay on Revolutionary time period
--Graded on Notes, Outline, and Essay
--Use pages 134-145 in your textbook for information
--DO NOT TYPE!
--The question is: "What factors triggered the deterioration in relations between Great Britain and its American colonies between 1763-1766?"
--Notes and Outline should be done today during class; Essay during the next class time; Peer Review the class after that.
4) We will finish any remaining Oral Presentations during the work time today, too.

5) Homework: Textbook, pages 145-150 ("The Growing Confrontation")
Focus your reading on:  a) Townshend Acts  b) Non-importation  c) Daughters of Liberty  d) Boston Massacre