Lesson on Friday, November 3, 2017

Bell Ringer: Journal 44 - Why did aristocratic republicanism develop in the South, and what were its defining features? (10 min)

Agenda:

1. Consider how much freedom you have today as opposed to what children had in the nineteenth century. Which of the modes of child rearing discussed in the text do you most and least relate to and why? (10 min)

2. Let's debate: The American Revolution was a turning point for African Americans. (The impact of the American Revolution on African Americans) (10 min)

3. Journal 45 - You're a northerner visiting the South or a southerner visiting the north. What aspects of each region's society and culture would a visitor most likely remark upon? (10 min)

4. Exam Alert: Many AP U.S. History essays have dealt with the relationship between slavery and national politics, particularly between slavery and national politics, particularly between 1820 and 1861. Students should begin to consider how the Constitution's provisions for slavery, a result of compromise between North and South, shaped the debates over slavery in the antebellum period. They should be able to account for the increasing difficulty of compromise regarding slavery over time. 

5. Due today: As you read this section on republican motherhood, list elements of how women's lives changed from before the Revolution and how they stayed the same. Develop an overall thesis that captures the extent of continuity and change in women's lives before and after the Revolution. (rest of class) (1HW)

6. Collect Thinking Like a Historian 8 Essay

Home Learning: 

1. American Voices 8 / due Monday, November 6, 2017

* As you read the diary entries in American Voices 8, consider how the women's entries reflect social conditions in the early nineteenth century. How might these entries be different from those written by married women in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries?

2. Journal 46 - What compromise over slavery did Congress make to settle the Missouri crisis? 

3. Journal 47 - What were the main principles of the new republican religious regime? 

4. Chapter 8 Vocabulary Quiz on Monday, November 6, 2017