Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:

We will complete this unit assessment today and tomorrow.

Today: Work on the unit essay, and review the unit. Both are linked here.

Tomorrow: Take the unit exam, and continue writing the essay. Essays are due when you return from vacation.

Here is the link to the easybib works cited example

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:

Finish: Chapter 9 Section 3
Review the section
View: the Mexican American War
Answer: questions on the video
Next Essay Question: Was the war with Mexico justified?
Essay Brainstorm

The Castillo de Chapultepec

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's agenda:

• Review: Chapter 9 Section 2 
• Read: Texas Independence from Mexico: What is the deal with the Alamo anyway?
• Video clip: the Alamo
• Video clip: Bio on Davy Crockett
• Disney's portrayal of Davy Crockett at the Alamo
• Analyze: the Battle of San Jacinto
• Legend: the Yellow Rose of Texas

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:

Finish: 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America
Review: Answer the open response questions from the film
Chapter Attack: Chapter 9 Section 2

"Remember the Alamo!"

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:

View: 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: the Gold Rush
Define/Answer: Questions and terms for the video

Unit 7-Manifest Destiny

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 9 Section 1
• Read: the Donner Party and the Dangers of traveling west
• Evaluate: an infographic on the Oregon Trail
• Listen: The legacy of the Oregon Trail

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's agenda:

• Finish any remaining slavery presentations
• Take the Unit 6 Exam 
• Intro: Unit 7-Manifest Destiny
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 9 Section 1

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 8 Section 4
View/Analyze: Slavery/Abolition Projects
Unit Exam on Wednesday

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Finish your research/Decide what the final product is going to be.
• Submit a proposal on the comment section of today's blog. What will "we" see? When? Do you need time to present?
• Work on the finished product of the Slavery Project
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 8 Section 4

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Research: last day to do research on the slavery project.
• Make sure you have shared your research with Jolicoeur (mjolicoeur@nhsau57.org) on Easybib
• Here is the Research Rubric
• What will the final product be for your project?

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Saw this article on Slate magazine. May be helpful for someone researching the history/impact of cotton production. Here is the link

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Present the Slavery Project
• Assign topics
• Research: Library today/Room 260 tomorrow

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Review: the Reading Like a Historian Packet, "No Irish Need Apply", and Chapter 8 Section 3
• Analyze: Seneca Falls Convention
• View: Great Women in American history

Womens rights issues in the U.S.

Women's Rights issues around the world

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Give back Chapter 8 Section 2
• View: Famine to Freedom
• Listen/Take notes: "No Irish Need Apply"
• Reading Like A Historian: Were the Irish even considered "white"?
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 8 Section 3

Surreal photographs from the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 8 Section 2
• View: Famine to Freedom
• Contemporary Issues: President Obama on immigration today
• Evaluate: Executive Orders
• Satire: SNL spoofs Obama and Executive Acts

Extra credit: Read this article from Slate about immigration. Leave a comment here on the blog. Do you agree or disagree with the author? Be specific and incorporate a quote.

Unit 6-The Reform Movements

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 8 Section 1
• Analyze: Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 8 Section 2

Unit 5 Assessment

Today's Agenda:

Take the Summative Assessment for Unit 5 (Unit Exam)
Intro: Unit 6-The Reform Movements
Chapter attack: Chapter 8 Section 1

Unit 5-Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 7 Section 4
Chart: the Differences Between the North and South
Read/Analyze: Justifying Slavery
Answer: Questions for Justifying Slavery

This is the end of the unit/Review for the Summative Assessment. We will review the unit tomorrow and have the Unit Exam on Thursday. Review sheet is here.

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 7 Section 3
Discussion: The Industrial Revolution
Evaluate: Rules for the Lowell Girls
Peer Edit: Jackson essays
Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 4

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• Film quiz on Andrew Jackson
• Finish: Chapter 7 section 3 if you need more time
• Library: research and write the essay on the Presidency of Andrew Jackson
• Question: Was Andrew Jackson a good or bad president? Please do not use the words good or bad in your essays. Try to think of better words!

Requirements: Typed, Times New Roman, 12 point font, double spaced, and five full paragraphs. Each paragraph is given a score from 0-10 based on topic sentences, supporting evidence, sentence structure, and grammar.

Recommended:

1. Create a google doc so that you can share it with me. This eliminates printing issues and late papers.
2. Pick 3 things that Jackson did as president and decide if they were positive or negative.
3. The answer to the question, whatever you decide is your thesis, and should be the last sentence of your intro paragraph.
4. Write strong topic sentences for your 3 body paragraphs that relate back to your thesis. These should be the first sentences of paragraphs 2, 3, and 4.
5. Rewrite your thesis statement. This sentence should be the first line of your conclusion.
6. Always consider tone and word choice-this essay should be formal and academic
7. Always cite your sources using MLA format. 
8. Avoid contractions, personal pronouns, and writing in first person.

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

Finish the video on President Jackson
Discuss: the questions on Jackson
Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 3

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

Analyze: the presidency of Andrew Jackson
Revisit:  the essay questions for this unit
Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 3

You will have library time on Friday to research/write the essay.

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• Review last night's reading: Nature
• Review: Chapter 7 Section 2
• Discussion: the election of 1824 and 1828
• Analyze: the Presidency of Andrew Jackson

Unit 5-From Nationalism to Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• Review: The Hudson River School (What is the Big Picture?)
• Read/Analyze: Emerson Quotes
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 2
• HWK: Read Chapter 1 of Emerson's Nature. Here is the assignment.

The Oxbow
Thomas Cole

Unit 5-From Nationalism and Sectionalism

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 7 Section 1
• Quick Write/Brainstorm: What is an American quality?
• Analyzing Art
• Evaluate: Hudson River School

Current Event: Recapping the 2014 midterm elections. Here is an interesting artice from Slate.com about NH

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Unit 4 Summative Assessment (Exam)
• Preview: Unit 5-Nationalism and Sectionalism
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 7 Section 1

Today is election day! Check out this website on the differences between Republicans and Democrats

“A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch),” New Hampshire, by Thomas Cole, 1839. 

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Presidential Evaluations: Washington and Adams should be completed
• Optional: War of 1812 film
• Review: Unit 4 Exam is tomorrow 
• Presidential Evaluations: Jefferson and Madison need to be completed.

Check out this story on Brittany Maynard. Question to consider: Should people be allowed to end their own life? 

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 6 Section 4
Discuss: The War of 1812
Read: Francis Scott Key writes the National Anthem
Watch: Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem 
Analyze: the Early American Presidents (1-4)

Francis Scott Key looking out at the flag flying over Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, MD

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

Analyze: Jefferson's Re-election (1804)
Read: President Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 4 (Important section that details the War of 1812)

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 6 Section 3
• Film: Lewis and Clark: The Great Journey West (42 min.)
• Discuss: What was the most difficult obstacle that Lewis and Clark faced on their journey?
• Infographic: Most Americans Support Military Action against ISIS
• Video clip: Syria Explained

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Hand back Unit 3 Essays-General Writing Issues
• Recap: the Presidency of John Adams
• Analyze: the Election of 1800
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 section 3
• Map Activity: The Louisiana Purchase (Anthem pg.217)

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

Review Chapter 6 Section 2
Electoral Map: 1796 Presidential election
Discuss: the Presidency of John Adams
HBO miniseries on John Adams Episode 6 details his presidency

Unit 4-Forging the New Republic

Today's Agenda:

• Evaluate: George Washington's Mount Vernon website
• Google Doc: Assignment for the Evaluation
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 2

Unit 4 Forging the New Republic

Today's agenda:

• Review: Chapter 6 Section 1
• Unit Overview: What to expect
• Power Point: Washington as the First President

Unit 3 Conclusion

Today's Agenda:

• Unit 3 (The Constitution) Exam
• Introduce the next Unit (4-Forging the New Republic)
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 6 Section 1

Unit 3 The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

The Unit 3 Essays are due.
Review the Chapter 5 packet
Review for the Summative Assessment (Unit Exam) tomorrow

HWK: Study for the test!

Unit 3 The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Review: The Constitutional Amendments
• Computer Lab: Research and Write the Unit 3 essay
• "Which Branch of the Federal Government is the most powerful?"

Finish the Chapter 5 review packet for Monday as well.

Unit 3 The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Debrief: The NH Supreme Court: on the Road visit
• Yesterday's Discussion of the Federal Governement took longer than anticipated. We need to still do the Constitutional Amendments Activity from yesterday. That needs to be finished for tomorrow.
• Start thinking about the Unit 3 Essay question: Which branch of the federal government is the most powerful?  

Unit 3 The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Debrief: The NH Attorney General/Deputy Attorney General
Review: The Federal Government: 3 Branches of Government
Activity: Amendments to the Constitution

Reminder: Tomorrow the NH Supreme Court is visiting SHS. No bags, cell phones, food/drink will be permitted. So, travel light and be good!

Unit 3 The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Today we are being visited by the NH Attorney General, so report to the Auditorium right away. 
• The NH Supreme Court: On the Road is coming on Thursday of this week. 
• The two case summaries were linked on Friday's blog.

Also, here is a link to the NH Supreme Court

NH Supreme Court Justices 

Unit 3 The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 5 Section 3
Finish and Fill out the Federal Job Applications
Here are the summaries for the NH Supreme Court Cases

• Case #1
• Case #2

There is no school on Monday. Enjoy the long weekend!

Good News!

I made a mistake calculating the test corrections. So, they are correct now and most people's exam grade improved. Check it out on Infinite Campus.

Unit 3 The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Chapter Attack: Chapter 5 Section 3
Activity: Federal Job Applications
Finish both for tomorrow!

Unit 3 The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Checks and Balances
• Activity: Federal Job Applications
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 5 Section 3

Unit 3 The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 5 Section 2
Video Clip: Shays Rebellion
Discussion: The Constitutional Convention (1787)

• The Delegation
• The Problems/Compromises
• The Structure

Activity: Checks and Balances

Unit 3 The Constiturion

Today's Agenda:

Review: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (Map)
Chapter Attack: Chapter 5 Section 2
Unit 2 Test Corrections-due Monday

Shays Rebellion
1787

Unit 3-The Constitution

Today's Agenda:

Review-Chapter 5 Section 1
Lecture Notes: The Articles of Confederation
Evaluate: The Articles of Confederation
Map Activity: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Unit 2 Exam is today
When Completed: Introduce Unit 3-The Constitution
Chapter Attack: Chapter 5 Section 1

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: The Founding Fathers
• Go over: The Revolutionary War handouts
• Review: the Unit 2 Exam is tomorrow (Wednesday Oct 1)

Homework: Study for the exam!

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 4 Section 4
The Founding Fathers: The writing assignment was linked on yesterday's blog.
Computer Lab (Room 260): Research and write the 3 paragraphs on your founding father
Unit 2 Exam is Wednesday...Study!

 

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Chapter Attack: Chapter 4 Section 4
Writing Prompt: The Founding Fathers
Unit assessment: Tuesday of next week
Use Quizlet

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 4 Section 3
• Return: Colonial letters (Improve your Writing)
• Discussion: Strengths and Weaknesses during the Revolution
• Video Clip: The War Heads South

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: 1776-Literary Analysis
• Map Activity: Battles of the American Revolution (Anthem pg. 129)
• Chapter attack: Chapter 4 Section 3

Washington Crossing the Delaware River

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Review Chapter 4 Section 2
Literary Analysis on 1776-documents are linked on Friday's Blog

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Finish the video clip: American Revolution Part 1
Chapter Attack: Chapter 4 Section 2
Literary Analysis: the 3 Major Documents of 1776

• Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence
• American Crisis

1776

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Review Chapter 4 Section 1
Propaganda/Interpreting the Visual Record: The Boston Massacre
Video clip: The American Revolution Part 1

The Boston Massacre

Unit 2 Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Finish Steps to Revolution Visual
Pass back Unit 1 Exam-Explain test corrections
Chapter Attack: Chapter 4 Section 1

Unit 1 Assessment

Today's Agenda:

• Summative Assessment: Colonial Letters are due today
• Unit 1 (Chapters 2 and 3) Unit Exam is today
• Introduce Unit 2-Revolutionary America
• Activity: Steps to the Revolution

Boston Tea Party
1773

Unit 1 Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

We are scheduled to be in the library again today to complete our Colonial letters. They are due tomorrow (the 16th).

Unit 1 Exam is scheduled for tomorrow.

Use technology to study: Quizlet

Unit 1 Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Today we are in the library researching/writing our colonial letters. The summative assessment is linked on yesterday's blog post. The letters are due on Tuesday the 16th.

Map of North America around 1754

Unit 1 Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review Chapter 3 Section 4 
• Discussion: The French and Indian War
• Video: The War that Made America
• Map Activity: Before and After the French and Indian War

Summative Assessment: Colonial Letter

Young George Washington
1752

Unit 1 Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 3 Section 3
Second Great Awakening: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Questions
Chapter Attack: Chapter 3 Section 4 = Last one for this unit!

Unit 1 Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 3 Section 2 and the Phillis Wheatley Poem
Slavery in the 13 Colonies
Chapter Attack: Chapter 3 Section 3

Slavery in Colonial America

Unit 1 Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Quiz: Chapter 3 Section 1
• Video clip: Mercantilism in the 13 colonies
• Discussion: Colonial Governments
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 3 Section 2
• Homework: Evaluate the Wheatley Poem

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