Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Agenda 9/27/11

1. Essay Exam Unit 1 Review
You should be able to log in to Classmarker and view your essay responses now. Use the same log in and password I gave you for the test (see forum)
2. HW: Read Wikipedia topics: States Rights, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska, Dredd Scott, Election of 1860
Exam Unit 2 Friday
***The NEW UNIT 2 OBJECTIVE sheet is on the website***

Monday, September 26, 2011

Agenda 9/26/11

1. Bell Task: Using the reading, discuss some of the primary causes of the Civil War.
How would you classify them. Economic, Political, Socio-cultural.
2. Discussion: Causes of the Civil War
3. HW: Exam Civil War: Thursday
Read through: Kansas-Nebraska Act

Vocab Terms:

Missouri Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen A. Douglas
Popular Sovereignty
Wilmot Proviso
Nullification Crisis
Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
Slave Codes
Abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Republican Party
Free Soil Party
Dredd Scott vs. Sanford
John Brown and Harper’s Ferry

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Agenda 9/22/11

1. Bell Task: Describe how Manifest Destiny contributed to rising tensions over slavery.
2. Film: Ken Burns: Civil War
3. HW: Read through Wiki: Free-labor vs.Pro-slavery arguments

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Agenda 9/20/11

1. Bell Task: What are the causes of the Civil War?
2. Film: Ken Burns Civil War Disc 1: The Causes
3. HW: Read Wikipedia link on Website: Through Southern Culture

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Agenda 9/13/11

1. Bell Task: What are the principles of Jacksonian Democracy?
2. Discussion War of 1812 and Jackson
3. HW: Exam Unit Thursday
Complete Objectives will be on Website Today

Monday, September 12, 2011

Agenda 9/12/11

1. Bell Task: Discuss some of the foreign policy issues that the young nation had to deal with early on.
2. Discussion Unit: Washington and Adams Administration
3. Read through the following topics in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_%281789%E2%80%931849%29

Read through the section titled Banking

Go to class forum for Objective Questions for Unit 1

Exam Unit 1 Friday 9/16

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Agenda 9/6/11

1. Washington's Farewell Address: Relevance to Today
2. IB History Writing Overview: Paper 1
3. HW: Click the link below and read through the following topics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_%281789%E2%80%931849%29

Introduction (Read this overview but continue down further to the other topics below)
Washington Administration
Adams Administration
The Emergence of Political Parties
Thomas Jefferson


Check the class page for Unit 1 Objectives. My goal is to have them up by Thursday. (Due on Unit 1 Exam Day which is still TBD)

Friday, September 2, 2011

Agenda 9/2/11

1. Bell Task: Read Outline of Washington's Farewell Address
Analyze the modern relevance of Washington's Address. (Use paragraph format).
2. Founding Fathers Presentations
3. HW: Post your paragraph on the class forum.