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?