Archives 2007-2008

 

Monday 9/3 Labor Day No School Why do we have a day off on labor day? Click Here   
Tuesday 9/ 4 No School Superintendents in-service day  
Wednesday 9/5 No School Superintendents in-service day  
Thursday 9/6 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  9/7

Map of USA

Map Notes:

Click for Sherman's March PowerPoint.

Sherman's March to the Sea reading and questions

Click for Sherman's March to the sea reading.

 
Monday 9/10

In what ways were people affected by the Civil War?

Explain what the Emancipation Proclamation achieved.

 

Text Books must be covered for Tuesday
Tuesday 9/11 In what ways did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments exemplify the ideals of Reconstruction?

Reconstruction Plan Notes

Reconstruction Amendments Handout

Chapter 18 section 1- read pg 476-481 answer questions 1,2,3,4 all parts.
Wednesday 9/12 Segregation and Black Codes

Click to find vocabulary list:

 

Define Vocabulary 1-13 in your note book

***Quiz*** Thursday on Objectives 1-8 and Vocabulary 1-13 (from lists on this site and binders).

Thursday 9/13 How did life change for African Americans after the civil war?

Plessy Vs. Ferguson

 

Current Event due friday
Friday 9/14 What was it like living under segregation?

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Monday 9/17 What was it like living under segregation?

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Jim Crow/Plessy Vs Ferguson reading

Define Vocabulary 1-18 in your notebook

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

Tuesday 9/18 Explain at least 4 ways Freedman were kept from voting.
KKK Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes Grandfather Clause
 
Wednesday 9/19 Reconstruction DBQ Part I Reconstruction Crossword puzzle due Thursday  
Thursday 9/20 How To DBQ

Reconstruction DBQ

 

Current Event Due Friday

 

Friday  9/21 Exam Review (Test will be Tuesday)

Current Event Discussion

Finished DBQ Essay due Monday
Monday 9/24

 

Review Reconstruction (Click for review guide)

Jeopardy

Study for Reconstruction Exam
Tuesday 9/25 Reconstruction Exam

 

 
Wednesday 9/26 Exam Corrections

Begin Great Plains Unit Click to view notes

 

 
Thursday 9/27 Native Americans Dances With Wolves

Notes:

 

Read Pg 504-506 answer # 1,3,4,5
Friday 9/28 Transcontinental Railroad

 

 
Monday 10/1 Transcontinental Railroad  Read Pg 507-511 answer #s 2,4,5,6

 

Tuesday 10/2

 

Miners and Cattlemen

Click for notes:

 

Complete Great Plains Vocabulary 1-10

 

Wednesday 10/3

 

Manifest Destiny:

Homesteaders and the Homestead Act

Movie Clip: Far and Away

 

Complete Great Plains Vocabulary 11-18

 

Thursday 10/4

 

Trail of Tears, Reservations and the Dawes Act

Great Plains Review Guide

 

Study for Great Plains Exam  
Friday 10/5

 

Great Plains Exam

 

 
Monday 10/8

 

No School! Christopher Columbus holiday.  
Tuesday 10/9 Extreme Growth of Railroads

Guided notes handout

 

Read Pgs532-535 answer #1,2,4,5

 

Wednesday 10/10 Big Business

Growth of Carnegie Steel, Rockefeller Oil

Pittsburgh Steel Worksheet all questions on a separate sheet of paper.
Thursday 10/11

 

Big Business

Corporations and Trusts

Robber barons or Captains of Industry?

Current event due Friday
Friday 10/12

 

Monopolies click for notes.  
Monday 10/15

 

 

Click for Labor unions and collective Bargaining

Click for Union Notes

Read pg 548-553 answer #s 2,3,4,5
Tuesday 10/16 Review for industry exam

Click for review guide;

 

Complete review guide: Define all vocabulary in your note book an answer objectives 1-19 on review guide.

 

Wednesday 10/17 Rise of Industry test  
Thursday 10/18

 

Go over industry exams

Begin Age of Invention

Project outline

Project Note Sheet

How to write your bibliography

 
Friday 10/19 No school superintendent conference  
Monday 10/22 Library Research  

 

Tuesday 10/23

 

Library Research Continue work on research papers
Wednesday 10/24

 

Class discussion Age of invention Be prepared to discuss inventors

Research Papers due Monday

Thursday 10/25

 

Half day! Parent Teacher conferences  
Friday 10/26

 

 

Half day! Parent Teacher conferences

 

 
Monday 10/29

 

Rank the importance of the Inventions of the late 1800s/early 1900s

Inventions and Inventors Handout

 

 

Research projects due!!

Tuesday 10/30 Factory Notes:

--Triangle Shirtwaist factory

--Imperial Foods Company Reading

--Comparison worksheet

 

Comparison worksheet due for Wednesday
Wednesday 10/31 Modern Child Labor Images

Discuss Modern Child Labor/Quiz review guide

Modern Day Child Labor Discussion

Study for inventions quiz 
Thursday 11/1

 

Inventions Quiz

Begin Immigration Unit

Current Event Due Friday
Friday 11/2 Immigration Unit  
Monday 11/6

 

Urbanization and the life of immigrants Complete Growth of Cities Sheet
Tuesday 11/7 Push Pull Factor Case Studies (click for handout)  
Wednesday 11/8 Immigration Webquest  
Thursday 11/9

 

Immigration Webquest

 

 
Friday 11/10

 

   
Monday 11/12 No School Veterans Day  
Tuesday 11/13 Veterans Day

History of Veterans Day Notes

 

 
Wednesday 11/14 Growth of Cities and Jacob Riis   
Thursday 11/15 Begin Progressive Era: notes

Gilded age Reading

Notes and reading questions:

Read pg 588-591 answer # 2,3,4,5,7
Friday 11/16 Boss Tweed/Thomas Nast/Muckrakers

Muckrakers Handout

 
Monday 11/19 Muckrakers- Upton Sinclair

Horrors of the Meat Packing Industry:

The Jungle:

 

Read Pg592-596 answer # 1,2,4

 

Tuesday 11/20 Women's Suffrage

Susan B Anthony Handout

 

Progressive vocab definitions due Wednesday 
Wednesday 11/21 No School Thanksgiving vacation

 

 
Thursday 11/22 No School Thanksgiving vacation  
Friday 11/23 No School Thanksgiving vacation  
Monday 11/26 Temperance Movement and Prohibition

Susan B Anthony Handout

Progressive vocab definitions due Tuesday 
Tuesday 11/27 CH 22 section 4

Temperance Movement and Prohibition

Progressive Ideas in Government

Read Pg 603-607 Answer # 2,3,5

 

Wednesday 11/28 CH 22 section 3

Teddy Roosevelt: The progressive President. Conservation and Reform

Class handout

Read Pg 597-602 Answer # 2,3,4

 

Thursday 11/29 CH 22 section 5

Robert Lafollette and the NAACP

 

Study for Progressive Exam
Friday 11/30 Progressive DBQ DBQ essay on progressive era due Monday
Monday 12/5 Review Guide for exam

launch list

 

Review for Progressive exam Tuesday
Tuesday 12/6 Progressive Exam  
Wednesday 12/7 CH 23

 Begin Imperialism unit

 
Thursday 12/8 CH 23 Section 1

Discuss Foreign Policy

Map of Western Hemisphere

Read Pg 616-623  Answer Number 2,3
Friday 12/9 CH 23 section 1

Discuss the acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii

Complete Alaska Worksheet
Monday 12/10 CH 23 section 2

United States land acquisition

 
Tuesday 12/11 CH 23 sections 2/3

Spanish American war

yellow journalism

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

Panama Canal

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

 

Snow day!  
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 12/31

No School Christmas Break  
Tuesday 1/1 No School Happy New Years!  
Wednesday 1/2 World War 1 Introduction

No Mans Land, Trench foot, poison gas Readings

 

 

Ch 24 section 1 pg 647 #2,3 all parts
Thursday 1/3 Map of World War 1

Causes of WW1 ANIMALZ

Movie: "World War 1 begins"

 

 

Friday  1/4 ww1 life in the trenches web quest

 

 
Monday 1/7 CH 24 section 2

America Gets involved

Read pg 648-655 answer # 2,3,4,5
Tuesday 1/8 Why did America enter world war 1?

"Over There!"

 
Wednesday 1/9 Women and the war and Intolerance at home

Schenck reading

 

Read pg 656-661 answer # 3,4,5,6 
Thursday 1/10 Ch 23 section 4- Wilson and the plan for peace

Review Guide

World War 1 exam Tommorrow
Friday  1/11
 ww1 exam
 
None

1/14

World war 1 test corrections

Test Corrections Due Tuesday

 1/15

Begin Midterm Review Guide

Part 1-3 due Thursday

 1/16

ELA exam-

 work on review packet

 1/17

ELA exam

 work on review packet

 1/18

Field Trip

 work on review packet

Monday 1/19 No School Martin Luther King Day

Click to see his famous speech!

 
Tuesday 1/20 Review for Midterms

 

Reconstruction-great plains

Industry to progressive

Immigration

Imperialism to ww1 

Wednesday 1/21    
Thursday 1/22    
Friday 1/23    
Monday 1/28   Test Corrections
Tuesday 1/29 Roaring 20s Day 1 Read Pg 674-678 answer #1,2 
Wednesday 1/30 Roaring 20s Day 2   
Thursday 1/31 Prosperity of the 1920s

Bull market, Installment Buying

Read Pg 679-686 answer # 2,3,4,7 

 

Friday 2/1 Prohibition and Mass Culture 

stock market game

 
Monday 2/4 Stock Market Game:
 
Tuesday 2/5 New Leisure time activities of the 20s

 

HW. Read Pg. 687-692 answer 2,3,4,5

 

Wednesday 2/6 Troubles of the roaring 20s

 

Complete Roaring 20s review guide 
Thursday 2/7 Roaring 20s review guide

 

 
Friday 2/8 Quiz on Roaring 20s

 

 
Monday 2/11 Review for exam! Roaring 20's exam Tuesday
Tuesday 2/12 Roaring 20's exam  
Wednesday 2/13 Begin Great Depression

Notes

Complete ch 26 section 1 guided reading
Thursday 2/14 Effects of the Depression Chapter 26 Section 1 guided reading

Projects Due Tuesday 

Friday 2/15 No school presidents day vacation  
Monday 2/18 No school Presidents Day  
Tuesday 2/19 Effects of the Depression

Hoovervilles, Unemployment

 

Read Pg 708-714 #2,3

 

Wednesday 2/20

Ch 26 Section 2

FDR and the New Deal

 

Read Pg 708-714 #4,5,6,7

CH 26 section 2 quiz. (Pgs 708-714)

 

Thursday 2/21

Ch 26 section 3

Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup Handout

 

 
Friday 2/22

Great Depression Web Quest

 

 
Monday 2/25

Great Depression Web Quest

 

Web quest essay due Wednesday

 

Tuesday 2/26 Outline Web Quest essay

 

 
Wednesday 2/27

Ch 26 section 3

Court Packing and the Dust Bowl

 

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

 

 
 
Thursday 2/28 Ch 26 section 3

Dust Bowl, Wagner Act

 

Read Pg 720-725 answer #3,4,5,7 

 

Friday 2/29

Ch 26 Section 4

Opposition to the new deal

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

 

Monday 3/3 escapism Web quest essay due Tuesday
Tuesday 3/4 Great Depression Review Complete Depression Review Guide

Study for Depression Exam

Wednesday 3/5 Great Depression Exam  
Thursday 3/6

Begin World War 2

Ch 27

 

 
Friday 3/7

World War 2

Origins of War/Alliances

 

 
Monday 3/11

Begin World War 2-

Rise of dictators

CH 27 section 1 Guided Reading
Finish section 1 quiz
Tuesday 3/12

Causes of World War 2

Guided Notes

Ch 27 section 2

 

Read Pg 734-739 answer #2,3
Wednesday 3/13

US Involvement

Ch 27 section 2

 

 
Thursday 3/14

Alliances

US Involvement

Ch 27 section 2

 

 
Friday 3/15

The home front –

Ch 27 section 3

 

 
Monday 3/17

Begin World War 2-

Rise of dictators

CH 27 section 1 Guided Reading
Finish section 1 quiz
Tuesday 3/18

Causes of World War 2

Guided Notes

Ch 27 section 2

 

Read Pg 734-739 answer #2,3
Wednesday 3/19

US Involvement

Ch 27 section 2

 

 
Thursday 3/20

Alliances

US Involvement

Ch 27 section 2

 

 
Friday 3/21 Outbreak of war-

Guided Notes

 
Monday 3/24 USA On the Home front

Guided Notes sheet

Day of Infamy Speech(audio)

Day of Infamy Speech (text)

Pg. 739 #4,5,6,7,8
Tuesday 3/25 Battles of ww2

Guided Notes  

 
Wednesday 3/26 D-Day/operation overlord  
Thursday 3/27 Pacific Front and the Holocaust 
Read Pg740-745 answer # 2,3,4

 

 
Friday 3/28 Flags of Our Fathers Clips and discussion Read Pg.751-755 answer #2,3,4,5,6  
Monday 4/14 WW2 Web quest

Finish Part 1 Web quest

Tuesday 4/15 WW2 Web quest ww2 Essay Due Wednesday
Wednesday 4/16 Review Day:

Handout

ww2 Exam
Thursday 4/17

Go over ww2 exams                                        

Impact of World War 2

Ch 28 section 1

Cold War Guided reading
Friday 4/18

Ch 28 Section 1

What is Communism?

Cold war alliances

Berlin Airlift- East/west Germany
CH 28 section 1 quiz handout 
Monday 4/21

Ch 28 section 2

Containment

Korean War
 
Tuesday 4/22 Space Race read pg 770-775 2,3,4,5
Wednesday 4/23 McCarthyism Read Pg 780-785- answer #2,3
Thursday 4/24 Vietnam Cold War Review Guide
Friday 4/25 Exam Cold War  
Monday 4/28 Review Cold War Study for cold war exam
Tuesday 4/29 Cold War Exam  
Wednesday 4/30 Begin 1950s
Read Pgs 796-802
Answer # 1,2
 
Thursday 5/1

Ch 29 Section 1

Booming Post war World

Growth of Suburbs, GI Bill, Booming Post war economy
 
Friday 5/2

Ch 29 Section 2

Begin Civil Rights

Brown Vs. Board

MLK
 
Monday 5/5

Ch 29 Section 2

Civil Rights Begins

Eyes on the Prize

 

Study For Science Exam
Tuesday 5/6 Continue:

Eyes on the Prize

Study for Science Exam
Wednesday 5/7  

Ch 29 Section 3

Results of the Civil Rights Movement

 
Thursday 5/8 Begin Civil Rights DBQ  
Friday 5/9 Civil Rights DBQ  
Monday 5/12

Begin Review for State exam

All Units from the Big 8 Review Books

Unit 1 Global Heritage prior to 1500

Study Unit 1 objectives for quiz tomorrow
Tuesday 5/13

Unit 2  European Exploration

 
Wednesday 5/14

Unit 3 A nation is created

 
Thursday 5/15

Unit 3 A nation is created

 
Friday 5/16

Unit 4 Experiments in Govt