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Lesson Plan 11.25.14

Group Essay

Was John Brown a "misguided fanatic"?

Homework
Read

• American Pageant - pages 394-398
• AMSCO - pages 248-254

Lesson Plan 11.24.14

John Brown and the Rising National Tensions

Discussion

• Terms/Events

Documents

• John Brown's Speech/Frederick Douglass/Lydia Marie Child

Guiding Questions

Homework

Read

• Impending Crisis Lecture (23:53)
• American Pageant - pages 390-393
• AMSCO - pages 247-248

Lesson Plan 11.21.14

Unit 5 Expansion Quiz

Homework
Read

• American Pageant - pages 348-368
• AMSCO - pages 247-261

Terms for Unit 5 Union in Peril/Civil War - due December 5

Lesson Plan 11.20.14 Substitute Teacher

Watch the following videos and take Cornell Notes - due Friday before the quiz

"Old Immigration" and Nativism (5:39)
The Compromise of 1850 (9:45)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (4:23)
"Bleeding Kansas" and the Kansas-Nebraska Act  (7:07)

Study for Quiz tomorrow.

Homework

• American Pageant - Review Chapter 15
• AMSCO - Review Chapter 12

Terms are due tomorrow

Lesson Plan 11.19.14 Early Release

Group Presentations -
All electronic presentations will be posted in the Google Classroom.

Homework
Read

• American Pageant - pages 383-388

Online Lecture: Westward Expansion

*I will have a substitute tomorrow so bring your ear buds

Election of 1844 Elf Yourself Video

Calhoun, Van Buren, Polk and Clay
by Rachel, Taylor, Thomas, Jasmine, Karina, and Zahra

Lesson Plans 11.18.14

Lecture
Mexican War 1846-1848

Review Unit 4 Test

Finalize Presentations for Tomorrow

Homework
Read

• American Pageant - pages 377-383
• AMSCO - pages 236-239

Lesson Plan 11.17.14

Group Presentations  on Wednesday
Required

• Visual Aid
• 7 minutes or less
• Total group participation
• Leader is the speaker

Jimmy Fallon

Lesson Plan 11.14.14

Unit 4 Test

Homework
Read

• American Pageant - pages 287-297
• AMSCO - pages 229-239

Terms - Unit 5 Expansion

Lesson Plan 11.13.14

Continued from previous lesson

Document Based Question
Era of Good Feelings

• Source/Annotate Documents
• Create an outline for a 5 paragraph essay (found in your Classroom) 
• Write essay
• Peer edit essay in class
• Create final draft

Homework
Read

• November 13 - Thursday
• American Pageant - pages 276-285
• AMSCO - Review Period 4
• Study! Unit 4 Test tomorrow!

Lesson Plans 11.10.14

Substitute

Document Based Question
Era of Good Feelings

• Source/Annotate Documents
• Create an outline for a 5 paragraph essay (found in your Classroom) 

Homework
Read

• American Pageant - pages 262-265
• AMSCO - pages 192-197
• November 11 - Tuesday
• American Pageant - pages 265-271
• AMSCO - pages 197-199
• Online Lecture: American Society & Economy Transformed
• take notes

Lesson Plans 11.7.14

Lecture
Andrew Jackson

Homework
Read 

• American Pageant - pages 256-262
• AMSCO - pages 191-199

Lesson Plans 11.6.14

Lecture:
Monroe's Presidency

• Era of Good Feelings
• American System
• Westward Expansion
• Rush-Bagot Agreement
• Adams-Onis Treaty
• Panic of 1819
• Monroe Doctrine
• Self-Defense Doctrine
• Sectional Differences
• Missouri Compromise

Homework
Read
American Pageant, pages 247-253
AMSCO, pages 153-155

Lesson Plans 11.5.14 Early Release

Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Video (9:09 minutes)
• Interactive Map 
• Interactive Map Analysis

Homework

• Complete Map Analysis by tomorrow
• Read

• American Pageant - pages 253-255
• AMSCO - pages 158-164

Organizing Your Time and Study Tips Workshop

Study Tips

Organizing Your Time

Lesson Plans 11.4.14

Lecture:
"The Era of Good Feelings" & "The American System" slides 1-11

"The Electoral College"

Homework
Read

• American Pageant - pages 244-247
• AMSCO - pages 155-157

Lesson Plans 11.3.14

Essential Question

Should the United States have gone to war in 1812?

Vocabulary

• Maritime
• Interposition
• Impressment
• Commerce
• Embargo
• Agrarian

Primary Source Analysis

• War of 1812 primary sources
• War of 1812 Source Analysis/Assignment

Closure

• Discussion
• Strongest/weakest arguments for war
• Opinion
• What was the true motivation for war?
• What would the Federalists say about the result of the war?
• Knowing what you know now, would you still be in favor or against going to war in 1812?
• Imagine we never went to war.  What would the United States be like today?