Monday 9/1 Labor Day No School Why do we have a day off on labor day? Click Here   
Tuesday 9/ 2 No School Superintendents in-service day  
Wednesday 9/3 No School Superintendents in-service day  
Thursday 9/4 First Day Celebration! Parents and Students are welcome to come and meet faculty at 7:15

Course Procedures Handout:

Procedures PowerPoint

 Have course outline read and signed by parents for Friday
Friday  9/5

Map of USA

Day 2

Click for Sherman's March PowerPoint.

 
Monday 9/8

Sherman's March PowerPoint.

 

Sherman's March to the Sea reading and questions

Click for Sherman's March to the sea reading.

Tuesday 9/9

In what ways were people affected by the Civil War?

Explain what the Emancipation Proclamation achieved.

Reconstruction Plan Notes

 

Read pg 546-549- answer #1,2,3,4,5 on pg 549
Wednesday 9/10 Reconstruction amendments notes

In what ways did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments exemplify the ideals of Reconstruction?

 
Thursday 9/11 Segregation and Black Codes  th

Click to find vocabulary list:

 

Define Vocabulary 1-13 in your note book

 

 

Friday 9/12 How did life change for African Americans after the civil war?

Plessy Vs. Ferguson

 

 

Current Event due friday 
Monday 9/15 What was it like living under segregation?

Click here for class notes

 

 
Tuesday 9/16 What was it like living under segregation?

Click here for class notes

Jim Crow/Plessy Vs Ferguson reading

Define Vocabulary 1-18 in your notebook

Read Pg 491-495 in text. Answer #s2,5,7

Wednesday 9/17 Explain at least 4 ways Freedman were kept from voting.
KKK Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes Grandfather Clause
 
Thursday 9/19 Reconstruction DBQ Part I Reconstruction Crossword puzzle due Thursday  
 

9/22

How to DBQ

Handout: DBQ

DBQ Essay Due Tuesday
9/23 Begin Great Plains Unit Read. Pg 578-581 answer #'s 1,2,3,4,5 on Pg 581 (all parts)
9/24 Native Americans Dances With Wolves

Notes:

 

Read Pg 584-589- Answer #'s 1,2,3,4,5 (all parts)
9/25 Transcontinental Railroad None
9/26 Miners and Cattlemen

Click for notes:

None
9/29 Manifest Destiny:

Homesteaders and the Homestead Act

Movie Clip: Far and Away

Great Plains Vocabulary
9/30 Great Plains: Sweet or not so sweet?  
10/1 Trail of Tears, Reservations and the Dawes Act

Great Plains Review Guide 

 
10/2 Great Plains Exam  
10/3 Extreme Growth of Railroads

Guided notes handout

 
10/6 Big Business

Growth of Carnegie Steel, Rockefeller Oil

 
10/7

 

Big Business

Corporations and Trusts

Robber barons or Captains of Industry?

 
 10/8

 

Monopolies click for notes.  
10/9 Click for Labor unions and collective Bargaining

Click for Union Notes

 
10/10 Rise of the AFL CIO  
Monday 10/13 No School Columbus day  
10/14 Rise of Cities and Jacob Riis Read pg 620-624 answer #s 1,2,4,5,6
10/15 Factory Notes:

--Triangle Shirtwaist factory

--Imperial Foods Company Reading

--Comparison worksheet

 

 
10/16 Modern Child Labor Images

Discuss Modern Child Labor/Quiz review guide

Modern Day Child Labor Discussion

 
10/17 No School Parent Conferences  
10/20 Review Industry  
10/21 Industry Exam  
10/22 Immigration  
10/23 Parent Conferences  
10/24 Superintendants day  
10/27 Begin Stock Game  
10/28 Stock Game  
10/29 Stock Game  
10/30 Immigration  
10/31 Immigration  
Monday 11/3

 

Urbanization and the life of immigrants Complete Growth of Cities Sheet
Tuesday 11/4 Push Pull Factor Case Studies (click for handout)  
Wednesday 11/5 Immigration Webquest  
Thursday 11/6

 

Immigration Webquest

 

 
Friday 11/7

 

   
11/10 No School  
11/11 No School- Veteran's day  
11/12 Finish Immigration Webquest Immigration Essay Due Thurs
11/13 Veterans Day

History of Veterans Day Notes

 
11/14 Begin Progressive Era: notes

Gilded age Reading

Notes and reading questions:

 
Tuesday 11/18 Muckrakers- Upton Sinclair

Horrors of the Meat Packing Industry:

The Jungle:

 
Wednesday 11/19 Teddy Roosevelt: The progressive President. Conservation and Reform

Class handout

 

Thursday 11/20 Women's Suffrage

Susan B Anthony Handout

 
Monday 11/17 Boss Tweed/Thomas Nast/Muckrakers

Muckrakers Handout

Read pg644-648 answer #1-8
Friday 11/21 Clarkson Trip

 

 
Monday 11/25 Temperance Movement and Prohibition  
Tuesday 11/26 CH 22 section 4

Temperance Movement and Prohibition

Progressive Ideas in Government 

 
12/1 Robert Lafollette and the NAACP Study for Progressive Exam
12/2 Progressive DBQ DBQ essay on progressive era due Thursday
12/3 Review Guide for exam

launch list

DBQ essay on progressive era due Thursday
12/4 Review for Progressive Exam Progressive Exam Friday
12/5  Begin Imperialism unit  
Monday 12/8 CH 23 Section 1

Discuss Foreign Policy

Map of Western Hemisphere

CH 20 SECTION 1 GUIDED READING
Tuesday 12/9 CH 20 section 1

United States land acquisition

 

Complete Alaska Worksheet
Wednesday 12/10 CH 23 section 2

Discuss the acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii

 
Thursday 12/11 CH 23 sections 2/3

Spanish American war

yellow journalism

Read Pg 624-630 answer # 3,4,5
Fridayday 12/12 CH 23 section 3

Panama Canal

 
Thursday 12/13 Big stick foreign Policy  
Friday 12/14    
Monday 12/17

 

   
Tuesday 12/18 Review for Imperialism Exam

 

Complete Review Guide for tomorrow's exam

 

Wednesday 12/19 Imperialism Exam

 

Current event due Thursday

 

Thursday 12/20 Current Event  
Friday  12/21 No school Christmas Break  
Monday 1/5 America Gets involved Read pg 648-655 answer # 2,3,4,5
Tuesday 1/6 Why did America enter world war 1?

"Over There!"

 
Wednesday 1/7 Women and the war and Intolerance at home

Schenck reading

 

Read pg 656-661 answer # 3,4,5,6 
Thursday 1/8 Ch 23 section 4- Wilson and the plan for peace

Review Guide

World War 1 exam Tommorrow
Friday  1/9
 ww1 exam
 
None
Monday 1/12 Go Over WW1 Exmas Corrections
1/13 Begin Midterm Review  
1/14 Midterm Review  
1/15 Midterm Review  
1/16 Midterm Review  
1/19 No School  
1/20 Midterm Review  
1/21 ELA Listening in the gym  
1/22 ELA in rooms  
1/23 Midterm Review  
1/24 Midterm Review  
1/25 Reconstruction-great plains  
1/26 Industry to progressive  
1/27 Immigration  
1/28 Imperialism to ww1   
1/29 Exams- Math/Lote  
1/30 Exams- Science/History  
2/2 Roaring 20s

return to normalcy

Read Pg738-740- Answer Checkpoints and define Blue Vocab
2/3 Roaring 20s

Economy of the 20s-- Automobile

Teapot dome scandal.

 
2/4 Roaring 20s

Jazz Age/Flappers

 
2/5 Roaring 20s

Why did Prohibition fail?

Read Pg 741-745 Checkpoints and blue vocab
2/6 Roaring 20s

Fads/Culture

 
2/9 Roaring 20s
Read pg 752-755
Define Blue vocab
Answer 4 checkpoints
2/10 Roaring 20s

Intolerance

 
2/11 Stock market Game  
2/12 Stock Market Game  
2/13 No School- Presidents day weekend  
2/14 No School- Presidents day weekend  
2/16 No School Presidents Day weekend  
2/17

 

Review for Roaring 20s exam Study for Roaring 20s exam
2/18

 

Roaring 20s exam  
2/19

 

Go over Exam-

Begin Great Depression

Notes

 
2/20

 

Begin Great Depression

Effects of the great depression

 
Monday 2/23 Great Depression

Hooverville's, confidence

Complete Section 2 guided reading
Tuesday 2/24

Ch 26 section 3

Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup Handout

 

 

 

Wednesday 2/25

Ch 26 section 3

Court Packing and the Dust Bowl

 

 
Thursday 2/26

Great Depression Web Quest

 

 

 
Friday 2/27 Great Depression Web Quest  
Monday 3/2

 

Outline Web Quest essay

Web quest essay due Wednesday

 

Tuesday 3/3  

 

 
Wednesday 3/4  
Read Pg 715-719 answer # 1,2,4,5

 

 
 
Thursday 3/5 Ch 26 section 3

Dust Bowl, Wagner Act

 

Read Pg 720-725 answer #3,4,5,7 

 

Friday 3/6

Ch 26 Section 4

Opposition to the new deal

Escapism in popular culture    
Pg 726- Define 1-5, Explore 1-5

 

Monday 3/9 escapism Web quest essay due Tuesday
Tuesday 3/10 Great Depression Review Complete Depression Review Guide

Study for Depression Exam

Wednesday 3/11 Great Depression Exam  
Thursday 3/12 Begin ww2  
Friday 3/13 ww2  
3/16 ww2  
3/17 ww2  
3/18 ww2  
3/19 ww2  
3/20 Shadow day  
Calendar

Daily Topics:

Homework:
4/20 What is Communism?

Cold war alliances

Berlin Airlift- East/west Germany  
Cold War Guided reading
4/21

Containment

Korean War
 
4/22 Begin 1950sBooming Post war World

Growth of Suburbs, GI Bill, Booming Post war economy

 
4/23 Space Race, McCarthyism  
4/24 Vietnam

 

 
4/27    
4/28

Exam Cold War

 

Cold War Review Guide
4/29

Begin Civil Rights

Brown Vs. Board, MLK

 

 
4/30

Civil Rights Begins

Emmett Till

 

 
5/1 JFK assassination  
5/4 Civil Rights Act, NOW  
5/5 Civil Rights  
5/6 Eyes on the Prize  
5/7 NYS Science Exam  
 5/8

Begin Review for State exam

All Units from the Big 8 Review Books

Unit 1 Global Heritage prior to 1500

 

 
5/11    Quiz on Unit 1 Tuesday
5/12

Unit 2  European Exploration

 

Quiz on Unit 2 Wednesday
5/13

Unit 3 A nation is created

 

 
5/14

Unit 4- Experiments in government review

Grade 7 vocab 1-30 due

 

Unit 5 vocab list

Quiz on unit 4 

 

5/15 Unit 5: Life in the New Nation

Study for Quiz on unit 5

Grade 7 Vocab 30-50 

5/18 Unit 6 Division and Reunion

 

Study for Quiz on unit 6

Grade 7 vocab 50-75

5/19 Unit 7 Reconstruction and Industrialization

 

 
5/20 Begin Review Grade 8

Civil War

Reconstruction

 
5/21 Review Grade 8

Industrialization

 
5/22 Memorial Day Vacation  
5/25 Memorial Day Vacation  
5/26 Review Grade 8

Imperialism

 
5/27 Review Grade 8

World War I

 

 
5/28 Review Grade 8

Roaring 20s 

 

 
5/29 Review World War 1, Roaring 20s, great depression

 

 
6/1 Last Vocab Review    
6/2 State Exam Day 1  
6/3 State Exam Day 2