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Daily Agenda

9/30/2016

Learning Target:
I can discuss the social, political, and economic challenges facing the new nation, & I can evaluate the government's success in dealing with each.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Create a Trading Card for John Adams.
Notes - The Federalist Era
Reflection Question: Should a state have the right to nullify a federal law? Explain.

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Daily Agenda

9/29/2016

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Learning Target:
I can discuss the social, political, and economic challenges facing the new nation, & I can evaluate the government's success in dealing with each.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Determine whether each of the following is most associated with a strong or a weak national government: 1) 10th Amendment 2) U.S. Constitution 3) Federalists 4) Articles of Confederation 5) Supremacy Clause
Notes - The Federalist Era
Reflection Question: What two things did George Washington warn against in his Farewell Address?

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Daily Agenda

9/28/2016

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Learning Target:
I can discuss the social, political, and economic challenges facing the new nation, & I can evaluate the government's success in dealing with each.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Create Trading Cards for George Washington and Alexander Hamilton.
Notes - The Federalist Era
Reflection Question: How did Hamilton and Jefferson's ideas about the U.S. Constitution differ?

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Daily Agenda

9/27/2016

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Learning Target:
I can discuss the social, political, and economic challenges facing the new nation, & I can evaluate the government's success in dealing with each.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: How did the US Constitution balance the interests of the Northern & Southern states? Explain.
Notes - The Ratification Debate
Notes - The Federalist Era
Reflection Question: Which argument do you support: the Federalist or the Anti-Federalist? Explain?

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Learning Target:
I can summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, and I can evaluate the degree to which they were a reaction to the colonists' experiences with Great Britain.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: What was the significance of each of the following: Lexington & Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Yorktown.
Notes - The Articles of Confederation
Activity- Shays' Rebellion
Reflection Question: How did the colonists' experiences with Great Britain impact the Articles of Confederation?

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Daily Agenda

9/21/2016

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Learning Target:
I can discuss the key military and political turning points of the American Revolution.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Who do you think did the most to help the revolutionary cause? Explain?
Notes - The American Revolution
Reflection Question: Why is the Saratoga Campaign considered to be the turning point in the American Revolution?

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Daily Agenda

9/20/2016

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Learning Target:
I can discuss the key military and political turning points of the American Revolution.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: What were the three parts of the Declaration of Independence?
Video - The Story of Us: Revolution
Reflection Question: WHo do you think did the most to help the revolutionary cause? Explain?

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Daily Agenda

9/19/2016

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Learning Target:
I can discuss the key military and political turning points of the American Revolution.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: What were the British strengths and American weaknesses at the outset of the American Revolution? The American strengths and the British weaknesses?
Notes - The American Revolution
Reflection Question: What were the three parts of the Declaration of Independence?

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Daily Agenda

9/16/2016

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Learning Target:
I can summarize the social, political, and economic factors that drove the American colonies to independence.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: What was the Olive Branch Petition? What was King George III's response?
Video - Crash Course U.S. History (Watch by Friday)
Activity - The Road to the Revolution Video
Reflection Question: Were the colonists justified in declaring independence in July 1776? Explain.

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Daily Agenda

9/15/2016

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Learning Target:
I can summarize the social, political, and economic factors that drove the American colonies to independence.

Today's Agenda:

Background Question: Why are the events at Lexington and Concord often referred as "the shot heard around the world"?
Video - Crash Course U.S. History (Watch by Friday)
Activity - The Road to the Revolution Video
Reflection Question: How long after the Battles of Lexington and Concord did the colonists declare independence?

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