Bell Ringer: Review Learning Curve 4
Agenda:
1. Electronic AP Exam, 20 question portion. Use a scantron to complete your exam.
2. DBQ portion of exam
Home Learning: Begin reading Chapter 5
Friday, September 29, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Lesson on Thursday, September 28, 2017
Bell Ringer: Review Journal 22
Agenda:
1. Complete Learning Curve 4
Home Learning: Study for tomorrow's exam.
Agenda:
1. Complete Learning Curve 4
Home Learning: Study for tomorrow's exam.
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Lesson on Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Bell Ringer: Review V3.1 Free Press
Agenda:
1. The debate over Inoculations against smallpox during the 1721 epidemic in Boston.
Nationalhumanitiescenter.org/
2. "The Real First World War and the Making of America"
americanheritage.com/content/real-first-world-war-and-making-america
3. Benjamin Franklin's "Join or Die" illustration, meant to gain support for the Albany Plan of Union, is widely considered the first political cartoon in American history.
loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g05315/
4. Map 4.4 (page 136) and Map 4.5 (page 139)
5. Exam Alert: The Seven Years' War and its impact on the relationship between England and its colonies have been the subject of several AP essay items. The 2004 DBQ asked students: "In what ways did the French and Indian War alter the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies?"
Home Learning: Journal 24 - How did the Seven Years' War reshape Britain's empire in North America and affect native peoples?
Review all of your Learning Curves for tomorrow's test.
Agenda:
1. The debate over Inoculations against smallpox during the 1721 epidemic in Boston.
Nationalhumanitiescenter.org/
2. "The Real First World War and the Making of America"
americanheritage.com/content/real-first-world-war-and-making-america
3. Benjamin Franklin's "Join or Die" illustration, meant to gain support for the Albany Plan of Union, is widely considered the first political cartoon in American history.
loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g05315/
4. Map 4.4 (page 136) and Map 4.5 (page 139)
5. Exam Alert: The Seven Years' War and its impact on the relationship between England and its colonies have been the subject of several AP essay items. The 2004 DBQ asked students: "In what ways did the French and Indian War alter the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies?"
Home Learning: Journal 24 - How did the Seven Years' War reshape Britain's empire in North America and affect native peoples?
Review all of your Learning Curves for tomorrow's test.
Lesson on Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Bell Ringer: Review American Voices
Agenda:
1. Review Map 4.2
2. Tip: Compare the level of religious diversity shown on map 4.3. What are reasons for both the relative diversity of the Middle colonies and the overall growth in religious diversity for British North America as a whole.
3. John Peter Zenger on History of US / V3.1
law2.umkc.edu/faculty/
Home Learning: Complete V3.1
Agenda:
1. Review Map 4.2
2. Tip: Compare the level of religious diversity shown on map 4.3. What are reasons for both the relative diversity of the Middle colonies and the overall growth in religious diversity for British North America as a whole.
3. John Peter Zenger on History of US / V3.1
law2.umkc.edu/faculty/
Home Learning: Complete V3.1
Monday, September 25, 2017
Lesson on Monday, September 25, 2017
Bell Ringer: Review journals 22 and 23.
Agenda:
1. Grade Journals 11-20
2. Episode 1 of the PBS series “New York: A Documentary Film” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV6A8fQ04
Home Learning: "American Voices" on page 130-131 / Questions 1-4. / Read pages 132-143
Agenda:
1. Grade Journals 11-20
2. Episode 1 of the PBS series “New York: A Documentary Film” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV6A8fQ04
Home Learning: "American Voices" on page 130-131 / Questions 1-4. / Read pages 132-143
Friday, September 22, 2017
Lesson on Friday, September 22, 2017
Bell ringer: Journal 21 - what ideas, institutions, and responsibilities shaped New England farm women’s lives?
Agenda:
Agenda:
1. Have students read a longer excerpt from Benjamin Wadsworth’s The Well Ordered Family (constitution.org/primarysources/marriage.html). How does Wadsworth define the responsibilities of husband and wife? How do these responsibilities differ from those of husbands and wives today?
2. Identify Causes: What factors threatened the freeholder ideal in mid century New England, and what strategies did farming families use to preserve this ideal?
3. What social tensions did the freehold ideal cause?
4. How were the challenges posed by population growth similar to and different from those posed by today’s population growth?
Thinking Like a Historian 4
5. Discuss thesis formulated for this section. Write on the board and discuss.
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Episode 1 of the PBS series “New York: A Documentary Film” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV6A8fQ04
Home Learning: Read pages 122-132 / Stop at "Religious Upheaval in the North / Journal 22 - What attracted German and Scots-Irish migrants to Pennsylvania in such large numbers? / Journal 23 - What conditions and ideas lay behind the emergence of the Enlightenment in America? / Journals 11-20 will be graded on Monday, September 25, 2017.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Lesson on Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Bell Ringer: Journal 20 - What is Salutary Neglect and how did that lay the foundation for the American Independence Movement?
Agenda:
1. Bell Ringer (10 min) / Journals 11-20 will be graded
2. Discuss mercantilism, salutary neglect and the rise of Colonial assemblies
3. Complete Learning Curve 3. Due at the end of class.
Home Learning: Begin reading chapter 4, pages 114-122 (stop at "Cultural Diversity") / Complete Thinking Like a Historian 4. Due on Friday, September 22, 2017
Agenda:
1. Bell Ringer (10 min) / Journals 11-20 will be graded
2. Discuss mercantilism, salutary neglect and the rise of Colonial assemblies
3. Complete Learning Curve 3. Due at the end of class.
Home Learning: Begin reading chapter 4, pages 114-122 (stop at "Cultural Diversity") / Complete Thinking Like a Historian 4. Due on Friday, September 22, 2017
Lesson on Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Bell Ringer: Journal 18 - Using page 95 - Assuming that Carretta is correct, and Equine was not born in Africa, why do you think he composed this fictitious narrative of his childhood instead of describing his own childhood in slavery?
Agenda:
1. Bell Ringer (10 min)
2. Discuss Journal 18
3. Review "Thinking Like a Historian 3" and collect
4. View the following sources regarding the "Middle Passage" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p277.html
5. Create a 3-Column Graphic Organizer. Use this to compare the nature of slavery in the Caribbean, the Chesapeake, and South Carolina. This will be worth one classwork grade.
Home Learning: Read pages 102-111 / note: (in reference to p. 103 "the Northern Maritime Economy) There was a loophole in the Navigation Acts that allowed colonial ships to transport goods within the British Empire. This resulted in the construction of a large colonial merchant fleet, which strengthened the colonial economy and became a factor during the Revolutionary era.
Journal 19 - What explains the increasing political autonomy of the colonies in the eighteenth century?
Agenda:
1. Bell Ringer (10 min)
2. Discuss Journal 18
3. Review "Thinking Like a Historian 3" and collect
4. View the following sources regarding the "Middle Passage" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p277.html
5. Create a 3-Column Graphic Organizer. Use this to compare the nature of slavery in the Caribbean, the Chesapeake, and South Carolina. This will be worth one classwork grade.
Home Learning: Read pages 102-111 / note: (in reference to p. 103 "the Northern Maritime Economy) There was a loophole in the Navigation Acts that allowed colonial ships to transport goods within the British Empire. This resulted in the construction of a large colonial merchant fleet, which strengthened the colonial economy and became a factor during the Revolutionary era.
Journal 19 - What explains the increasing political autonomy of the colonies in the eighteenth century?
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Lesson on Monday, September 18, 2017
Bell Ringer: Review Journal 15. Your answer should include something along the lines of: The Glorious Revolution had an effect on the colonies because it caused the Colonists to rise up against the New England government. This led England's new monarchs (William & Mary) to restore the old colonies, except Massachusetts which merged with Plymouth. Massachusetts was forced to amend some of its Puritan legislative restrictions. Relations between the colonies and England improved.
Agenda:
1. Journal 16 - What were some of the governmental changes that the Glorious Revolution brought to England?
2. How was England's power structure changing as a result of the Glorious Revolution? (tied to Journal 16)
3. Provide examples of how conflicts in Europe spread to North America as the French, Dutch, and British jostled for empire.
4. How and why did Tribalization occur?
5. The National Humanities Center has documents related to the European Competition for North America that offer perspectives on native involvement in imperial wars. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/american/text1/europeancompetition.pdf
Use the link to explore documents about audience, purpose, point of view, and the limitations of sources.
6. Exam Alert: On the 2011 AP U.S. History exam, students were asked to analyze the origins and development of slavery in the North American colonies. Describe economics and social reasons why Atlantic slavery emerged.
7. Journal 17 - How did the South Atlantic System affect the British economy?
Home Learning: Read pages 95-102 (stop at 'The Rise of the Southern Gentry') / Complete Thinking Like a Historian Chapter 3 (remember you are to read the question under "Putting It All Together" and formulate a BRIEF thesis with three BRIEF supporting details, pages 98 and 99. Use the sources to back your supporting details).
Agenda:
1. Journal 16 - What were some of the governmental changes that the Glorious Revolution brought to England?
2. How was England's power structure changing as a result of the Glorious Revolution? (tied to Journal 16)
3. Provide examples of how conflicts in Europe spread to North America as the French, Dutch, and British jostled for empire.
4. How and why did Tribalization occur?
5. The National Humanities Center has documents related to the European Competition for North America that offer perspectives on native involvement in imperial wars. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/american/text1/europeancompetition.pdf
Use the link to explore documents about audience, purpose, point of view, and the limitations of sources.
6. Exam Alert: On the 2011 AP U.S. History exam, students were asked to analyze the origins and development of slavery in the North American colonies. Describe economics and social reasons why Atlantic slavery emerged.
7. Journal 17 - How did the South Atlantic System affect the British economy?
Home Learning: Read pages 95-102 (stop at 'The Rise of the Southern Gentry') / Complete Thinking Like a Historian Chapter 3 (remember you are to read the question under "Putting It All Together" and formulate a BRIEF thesis with three BRIEF supporting details, pages 98 and 99. Use the sources to back your supporting details).
I HAVE POWER!
Hey class! I have power and wifi again. I hope everyone is safe. I am going to post assignments so that you guys can start reading and we will not fall behind as a class. I'm sure you're all bored because everything is closed! I hope you all have power and are comfortable to at least read and catch up. I'll be posting the first assignment tonight.
Irma WILL NOT STOP US! - O
Irma WILL NOT STOP US! - O
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Lesson on Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Bell Ringer: Journal 13 - How did the ambitions of Charles II and James II remake English North America?
Agenda:
1. Bell Ringer (10 min)
2. Founding of the British colonies: hippocampus.org
3. Discuss examples of how colonies along the southernmost Atlantic coast used slave labor to develop economies based on staple crops.
4. Exam Alert: material in Chapter 3 has been the topic of questions on the AP U.S. History exam four different times between 2002 and 2012.
5. What does the image suggest about the Atlantic World and its impact on the development of colonial societies in North America?
6. Journal 14 - Identify examples of how colonial resistance hindered British efforts to create an effective centralized imperial system.
Home Learning: Read pages 86-94 / Journal 15 - How did the Glorious Revolution affect relations between England and its colonies?
Agenda:
1. Bell Ringer (10 min)
2. Founding of the British colonies: hippocampus.org
3. Discuss examples of how colonies along the southernmost Atlantic coast used slave labor to develop economies based on staple crops.
4. Exam Alert: material in Chapter 3 has been the topic of questions on the AP U.S. History exam four different times between 2002 and 2012.
5. What does the image suggest about the Atlantic World and its impact on the development of colonial societies in North America?
6. Journal 14 - Identify examples of how colonial resistance hindered British efforts to create an effective centralized imperial system.
Home Learning: Read pages 86-94 / Journal 15 - How did the Glorious Revolution affect relations between England and its colonies?
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Lesson on Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Bell Ringer: Journal 11 - How did New Englanders' religious ideas influence their relations with neighboring Native American peoples?
Agenda:
1. Bell Ringer (10 min)
2. Learning Curve 2
3. Thinking Like a Historian 2
4. Journal 12 - In what ways was Bacon's Rebellion symptomatic of social tensions in the colony of Virginia?
Home Learning: Read Part 2 into Chapter 3 p.p.76-85
Agenda:
1. Bell Ringer (10 min)
2. Learning Curve 2
3. Thinking Like a Historian 2
4. Journal 12 - In what ways was Bacon's Rebellion symptomatic of social tensions in the colony of Virginia?
Home Learning: Read Part 2 into Chapter 3 p.p.76-85
Friday, September 1, 2017
Lesson on Friday, September 1, 2017
Bell Ringer: Review Journal 9
Agenda:
Agenda:
1.
Bell Ringer (10 min)
2.
Analyze map 2.5 on page 59
3.
The Mayflower Compact
Avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp (trace its influence
on later documents such as the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut)
4.
Exam Alert: The 2008 AP U.S. History
exam asked students to analyze actions by both American Indians and Europeans
in two of the following regions during the 1600s: New England, Chesapeake,
Spanish SW, and New York and New France.
5.
Pilgrims in Plymouth > reasons for
greater success / aka Separatists / Mayflower Compact
6.
Puritans
7.
Exam Alert: The 2010 AP U.S. History
DBQ asked students to consider how Puritan ideas and values influenced the
political economic, and social development of the New England colonies.
8.
Joint-stock company, Roger Williams
and toleration and freedom of religion,
9.
Journal 10 –
What made New England different from New France and New Netherland?
Home Learning:
Finish reading chapter 2
Learning Curve 2
Thinking Like a Historian 2
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