ARCHIVES 2006/2007

Monday 9/4 Labor Day No School

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Tuesday 9/5 No School Superintendents in-service day
Wednesday 9/6 First Day Celebration! Parents and Students are welcome to come and meet faculty at 7:15

Homework: Have course outline read and signed by parents for Thursday

Thursday 9/7  

Homework: Current Event Due Friday.

****Textbooks must also be covered for Friday****

 

Friday 9/8

 

 

extra credit 1

Weekly Calendar

Daily Topics:

Homework:
Monday 9/11

 

Explain what the Emancipation Proclamation achieved.

#1. In what ways were people affected by the Civil War?

 

Sherman's March to the Sea reading and questions

 

 

 

Tuesday 9/12 The different Reconstruction Plans

Click to find notes:

Chapter 18 section 1- read pg 476-481 answer questions 1,2,3,4 all parts.

Quiz Wednesday on Objectives 1-8 and Vocabulary 1-7 (from lists on this site and binders).

Wednesday 9/13 #2. In what ways did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments exemplify the ideals of Reconstruction?

NOTES:

 
Thursday 9/14

 

#3. How did life change for African Americans after the civil war?

#4. Describe the Freedman's Bureau.

Current Event due friday
Friday 9/15

 

#5. What was it like living under segregation?

****Civil War Re-Enactment Day at LP Quinn***

 

 
Click here for the extra credit question of week 2. 

Week 3

Weekly Calendar

Daily Topics:

Homework:
Monday 9/18

 

#5. What was it like living under segregation?

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Jim Crow/Plessy Vs Ferguson reading

Define Vocabulary 1-18 in your notebook

Notebook Quiz Tuesday

Tuesday 9/19 #6. Explain at least 4 ways Freedman were kept from voting.
KKK Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes Grandfather Clause
Read Pg 491-495 in text. Answer #s2,5,7
Wednesday 9/20 #6. Explain at least 4 ways Freedman were kept from voting.
KKK Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes Grandfather Clause

Carpetbaggers/Scalawags

Reconstruction Crossword puzzle due Thursday
Thursday 9/21

 

How To DBQ Current Event Due Friday
Friday 9/22

 

Reconstruction DBQ  
Weekly Calendar

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Homework:
Monday 9/25

 

Further DBQ Explanation

Review Reconstruction (Click for review guide)

Study for reconstruction exam
Tuesday 9/26 Reconstruction Exam Reconstruction DBQ Due Wednesday
Wednesday 9/27 Exam Corrections

Begin Great Plains Unit Click to view notes

 
Thursday 9/28

 

Native Americans and the Buffalo  
Friday 9/29

 

Transcontinental Railroad  

extra credit page

Monday 10/2

 

Transcontinental Railroad Movie, Click for guide-

 

Read Pg 507-511 answer #s 2,4,5,6
Tuesday 10/3 Miners and Cattlemen

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Complete Great Plains Vocabulary 1-10
Wednesday 10/4 Manifest Destiny:

Homesteaders and the Homestead Act

Movie Clip: Far and Away

Complete Great Plains Vocabulary 11-18
Thursday 10/5

 

Sioux wars, Reservations and the Dawes Act

Great Plains Review Guide

Study for Great Plains Exam
Friday 10/6

 

Great Plains Exam  

Extra credit 4 family tree

Weekly Calendar

Daily Topics:

Homework:
Monday 10/9

 

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

Guided notes handout

 

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

 

Wednesday 10/11 Big Business

Growth of Carnegie Steel, Rockefeller Oil

Pittsburgh Steel Worksheet all questions on a separate sheet of paper.
Thursday 10/12

 

Big Business

Corporations and Trusts

Robber barons or Captains of Industry?

Current event due friday
Friday 10/13

 

Monopolies click for notes.  
Weekly Calendar

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Homework:
Monday 10/16

 

****Parents: Be sure to sign up to meet with teachers on Thursday****

Click for Labor unions and collective Bargaining

Click for Union Notes

Read pg 548-553 answer #s 2,3,4,5
Tuesday 10/17 Review for industry exam

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

 

Wednesday 10/18 Rise of Industry test  
Thursday 10/19

 

Half day of school

Parent Teacher conferences

 
Friday 10/20

 

No school superintendents day  
Weekly Calendar

Daily Topics:

Homework:
Monday 10/23

 

****Parents: Be sure to sign up and meet with teachers on Friday October 27. We look forward to meeting all parents!!****

Go over industry exams

Preview research projects

 
Tuesday 10/24 Library Research Begin writing research papers

 

Wednesday 10/25 Library Research Continue work on research papers
Thursday 10/26

 

Class discussion Age of invention Be prepared to discuss inventors

Research Papers due Monday

Friday 10/27

 

Half day! Parent Teacher conferences  
Weekly Calendar

Daily Topics:

Homework:
Monday 10/30

 

Factory Notes:

--Triangle Shirtwaist factory

--Imperial Foods Company Reading

--Comparison worksheet

 

Comparison worksheet due for Tuesday
Tuesday 10/31 Rank the importance of the Inventions of the late 1800s/early 1900s

Inventions and Inventors Handout

Research projects due!!
Wednesday 11/1 Modern Child Labor Images

Discuss Modern Child Labor/Quiz review guide

Modern Day Child Labor Discussion

Study for inventions quiz 
Thursday 11/2

 

Inventions Quiz

Begin Immigration Unit

Current Event Due Friday
Friday 11/3

 

Immigration Unit  
Weekly Calendar

Daily Topics:

Homework:
Monday 11/6

 

Urbanization and the life of immigrants Read Pg 558-565 answer # 3,4,5,6
Tuesday 11/7 Growth of Cities and Jacob Riis  
Wednesday 11/8 Push Pull Factor Case Studies (click for handout)

DBQ on immigration from 2006 state exam  .

 
Thursday 11/9

 

Veterans Day

History of Veterans Day Notes

 
Friday 11/10

 

No School- Celebrate Veterans Day  
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 11/27 Begin Progressive Era: notes

Gilded age Reading

Notes and reading questions:

Read pg 588-591 answer # 2,3,4,5,7
Tuesday 11/28 Boss Tweed/Thomas Nast/Muckrakers

Muckrakers Handout

Read Pg592-596 answer # 1,2,4

 

Wednesday 11/29 Muckrakers- Upton Sinclair

Horrors of the Meat Packing Industry:

The Jungle:

 

Progressive vocab definitions due Thursday
Thursday 11/30 Women's Suffrage

Susan B Anthony Handout

 

 
Friday 12/1 Progressive DBQ  
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 12/4 CH 22 section 4

Temperance Movement and Prohibition

Progressive Ideas in Government

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

 

Tuesday 12/5 CH 22 section 3

Teddy Roosevelt: The progressive President. Conservation and Reform

Class handout

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

 

Wednesday 12/6 CH 22 section 5

Robert Lafollette and the NAACP

Review Guide for exam

 

Study for Progressive Exam
Thursday 12/7 Progressive Era Exam Current Event Due Friday
Friday 12/8 CH 23

 Begin Imperialism unit

 
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 12/11 CH 23 Section 1

Discuss Foreign Policy

Map of Western Hemisphere

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

Discuss the acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii

Complete Alaska Worksheet
Wednesday 12/13 CH 23 section 2

Spanish American War

yellow journalism

 
Thursday 12/14 CH 23 sections 2/3

Spanish American war

 
Friday 12/15 CH 23 section 3

Panama Canal

 
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 1/2  

 

 
Tuesday 1/3 World War 1 Introduction

No Mans Land, Trench foot, poison gas Readings

 

 

Ch 24 section 1 pg 647 #2,3 all parts
Wednesday 1/4 Map of World War 1

Causes of WW1 ANIMALZ

Movie: "World War 1 begins"

 

 

 

Thursday 1/5 Causes of WW1 ANIMALZ

America Gets involved..

 
Friday 1/6    
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 1/8 CH 24 section 2

Why did America enter world war 1?

 

 
Tuesday 1/9 Ch 24 section 2

America on the home front

 
Wednesday 1/10 Ch 24 section 3- Winning the war. Read pg 656-661 answer # 3,4,5,6

 

Thursday 1/11 The war promoted intolerance

Schenck reading

 
Friday 1/12 Ch 23 section 4- Wilson and the plan for peace
Read pg 662-665 answer # 1,2,3,4
 
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 1/15 No School Martin Luther King Day

Click to see his famous speech!

 
Tuesday 1/16 State English Exam  
Wednesday 1/17 State English Exam

Middle School Field Trip

 
Thursday 1/18 Review for Midterms Work on Review packet
Friday 1/19 Review for Midterms Reconstruction-great plains

Industry to progressive

Immigration

Imperialism to ww1

Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 1/22 Last day for review for midterm exam Social studies review guide due Thursday
Tuesday 1/23 Language Midterm examinations  
Wednesday 1/24 Science Midterm examinations  
Thursday 1/25 Math and Social Studies midterm examinations  
Friday 1/26    
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 1/29 Go Over Midterm Test Corrections
Tuesday 1/30 What does the flag mean to you?

Ragged Ol' Flag handout

 
Wednesday 1/31 Begin Roaring 20's Unit

Politics of the 1920s

Read Pg 674-678 answer #1,2
Thursday 2/1 Prosperity of the 1920s

Bull market, Installment Buying

Read Pg 679-686 answer # 2,3,4,7 

 

Friday 2/2 Prohibition and Mass Culture   
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 2/5 New Leisure time activities of the 20s
HW. Read Pg. 687-692 answer 2,3,4,5
Tuesday 2/6 Troubles of the roaring 20s

Roaring 20s review guide

Complete Roaring 20s review guide
Wednesday 2/7 Quiz on Roaring 20s  
Thursday 2/8 Begin Library Project  
Friday 2/9 Library Project  
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 2/12 Library Research Projects Due Thursday
Tuesday 2/13 Library Research Projects Due Thursday
Wednesday 2/14 Begin Great Depression Chapter 26 Section 1 guided reading

Projects Due Thursday

Thursday 2/15 Great Depression  
Friday 2/16 No School  
Monday 2/19 No school Presidents Day  
Tuesday 2/20 Begin Great Depression Chapter 26 Section 1 guided reading

Projects Due Tuesday

Wednesday 2/21 Effects of the Depression

Hoovervilles, Unemployment

Read Pg 708-714 #2,3
Thursday 2/22

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)

Friday 2/23

Ch 26 section 3

Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup Handout

 
Monday 2/26

Ch 26 section 3

Court Packing and the Dust Bowl
Read Pg 715-719 answer # 1,2,4,5
Tuesday 2/27 Ch 26 section 3

Dust Bowl, Wagner Act

Read Pg 720-725 answer #3,4,5,7
Wednesday 2/28

Ch 26 Section 4

Opposition to the new deal

Escapism in popular culture   
Pg 726- Define 1-5, Explore 1-5
 
 
Thursday 3/1

Great Depression Web Quest

 
 

 

Friday 3/2

Great Depression Web Quest

 
  
Monday 3/5 Outline Web Quest essay Web quest essay due Tuesday
Tuesday 3/6 Great Depression Review Complete Depression Review Guide

Study for Depression Exam

Wednesday 3/7 Great Depression Exam  
Thursday 3/8

Begin World War 2

Ch 27

 

 
Friday 3/9

World War 2

Origins of War/Alliances

 

 
Monday 3/12

Begin World War 2-

Rise of dictators

CH 27 section 1 Guided Reading
Finish section 1 quiz
Tuesday 3/13

Causes of World War 2

Guided Notes

Ch 27 section 2

 

Read Pg 734-739 answer #2,3
Wednesday 3/14

US Involvement

Ch 27 section 2

 

 
Thursday 3/15

Alliances

US Involvement

Ch 27 section 2

 

 
Friday 3/16

The home front –

Ch 27 section 3

 

 
Monday 3/19 Outbreak of war-

Day of Infamy Speech(audio)

Day of Infamy Speech (text)

Guided Notes

Pg. 739 #4,5,6,7,8
Tuesday 3/20 Map of Europe

USA On the Home front

Guided Notes sheet

Read Pg740-745 answer # 2,3,4
Wednesday 3/21 D-day  
Thursday 3/22 Battles of ww2

Guided Notes

 
Friday 3/23 Shadow day  
Monday 3/26 No School  
Tuesday 3/27 Pacific Front and the Holocaust
Read Pg.751-755 answer #2,3,4,5,6
 
Wednesday 3/28 Nuclear Bombs  
Thursday 3/29 Review  
Friday 3/30 Exam  
Monday 4/16 No School Snow Day  
Tuesday 4/17

Complete WW2 Web quest

Outline for essay

 

Finish Part 1 Web quest

Outline essay due  
Wednesday 4/18

Go over ww2 exams                                        

Impact of World War 2

Ch 28 section 1

 

Cold War Guided reading
Thursday 4/19

Ch 28 Section 1

What is Communism?

Cold war alliances

Berlin Airlift- East/west Germany

 

CH 28 section 1 quiz handout
Friday 3/20

Ch 28 section 2

Containment

Korean War

 

 
Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 4/23 Space Race read pg 770-775 2,3,4,5
Tuesday 4/24 McCarthyism Read Pg 780-785- answer #2,3
Wednesday 4/25 Vietnam Cold War Review Guide
Thursday 4/26 Exam Cold War Cold war Review Guide
Friday 4/27 Begin 1950s
Read Pgs 796-802
Answer # 1,2
 
 
 
Monday 4/30

Ch 29 Section 1

Booming Post war World

Growth of Suburbs, GI Bill, Booming Post war economy

 

 
Tuesday 5/1

Ch 29 Section 2

Begin Civil Rights

Brown Vs. Board

MLK

 

 
Wednesday 5/2

Ch 29 Section 2

Civil Rights Begins

Emmett Till

 

 
Thursday 5/3

Ch 29 Section 3

Vietnam War, JFK assassination

 

 
Friday 5/4

Ch 29 Section 4

Freedom riders, Civil Rights Act, NOW

 

 
Monday 5/8

Begin Review for State exam

All Units from the Big 8 Review Books

 

Unit 1 Global Heritage prior to 1500

 

 
Tuesday 5/9

Unit 2  European Exploration

 

 
Wednesday 5/10

Unit 3 A nation is created

 

 
Thursday 5/11

Unit 3 A nation is created

 

 
Friday 5/12

Unit 4 Experiments in Govt

 

 
Monday 5/14

Unit 4- Experiments in government review

Grade 7 vocab 1-30 due

 

Unit 5 vocab list

Quiz on unit 4 
Tuesday 5/13

Unit 5: Life in the New Nation

 

Study for Quiz on unit 5

Grade 7 Vocab 30-50

 
Wednesday 5/14

Unit 6 Division and Reunion

 

Study for Quiz on unit 6

 
Thursday 5/15

Unit 6 Division and Reunion

 

Grade 7 vocab 50-75

 
Friday 5/16

Unit 7 Reconstruction and Industrialization

 

 
Monday 5/21 Begin Review Grade 8

Civil War

Reconstruction

 
Tuesday 5/22 Review Grade 8

Industrialization

 
Wednesday 5/23 Review Grade 8

Imperialism

 

 
Thursday 5/24 Review Grade 8

World War I

 
Friday 5/25 Review Grade 8

Roaring 20s

 

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Weekly Calendar Daily Topics Homework
Monday 5/28 No School Memorial Day  
Tuesday 5/29 Review World War 1, Roaring 20s, great depression  
Wednesday 5/30    
Thursday 5/31 Last Vocab Review  
Friday 6/1 last Vocab quiz