1/12/15

1)  Notes ("The Great Plains")
2)  Arizona: 1871 Role Play
a)  Hand out Evaluation Form
b)  Audience asks 3 questions total
c)  3 presentations today

3)  Homework: John Tobias reading in Blue Reader ("Canada's Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-85")
Focus your reading on:  a) Cree tribe vs. Canadian government  b) Metis uprising (1885)

1/9/15

1)  Notes ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
2)  Discuss/hand in yesterday's Jim Crow video notes
3)  5 groups: Arizona: 1871 Role Play
a) Study background and Option information
b) Complete "Presenting Your Perspective" sheet
c) Make group presentation sheet

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 458-461; 464-474 ("The Great Plains")
Focus your reading on:  a) Exodusters  b) Wounded Knee


**ALL MISSING WORK, QUIZZES, TESTS AND PAPERS HAVE TO BE TURNED IN BY TUESDAY, 1/20.

1/8/15

1)  Notes ("Radical Reconstruction")
2)  Video: "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 442-445; 448-450 ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Sharecropping  b) Election of 1876/Rutherford B. Hayes

1/7/15

1)  Notes ("Presidential Reconstruction")
2)  Finish sharing about Research Papers

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 436-442 ("Radical Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Positives and negatives of Radical Reconstruction  b) Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

1/6/15

1)  Notes ("The Union Victorious, 1864-65")
2)  Discuss/hand in Civil War video notes
3)  Begin sharing Research Paper findings in class

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 430-433; 435-436 ("Presidential Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Lincoln's Reconstruction plan  b) Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan

1/5/15

1)  Notes ("The Turning Point: 1863)
2)  Finish Civil War video
--Discuss/hand in 2 pages of notes tomorrow

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 417-421; 424-426 ("The Union Victorious, 1864-65")
Focus your reading on: [All part of future possible essay question]:  a) Role of African-American soldiers  b) Ulysses S. Grant's "March to the Sea"  c) Shenandoah Campaign  d) William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea"

**BRING RESEARCH PAPERS TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY FOR SHARING IN CLASS.

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