Wednesday, October 2, 2019

10/2/19

1) Notes ("Path to Victory") and ("Republicanism Defined and Challenged")
2) Completely cover Essay Question #2 for test
3) Graded Study #2 for test

4) Homework: Study for Test 1

Monday, September 30, 2019

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

Thursday, September 26, 2019

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

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

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