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Daily Agenda

11/30/2016

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Learning Target:
I can discuss the key military and political turning points of the Civil War.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: How did the Union and the Confederacy view the power of the national government?
  2. Notes: The Civil War
  3. Reflection Question: How did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation impact the course of the war?
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Daily Agenda

11/29/2016

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​Learning Target:
I can discuss the key military and political turning points of the Civil War.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Complete the Civil War map.
  2. Notes: The Civil War
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Daily Agenda

11/28/2016

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Learning Target:
I can discuss the key military and political turning points of the Civil War.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Read the excerpts from Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, then answer the questions that follow.
  2. Video: The Story of Us - Civil War
  3. Reflection Question: How did the technological changes of the latter half of the 19th century impact the course of the Civil War?
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Daily Agenda

11/22/2016

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Daily Agenda

11/18/2016

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Learning Target:
I can summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & I can evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Cards for Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln..
  2. ​Notes - On the Brink of War
  3. Reflection Question: To what degree did the Dred Scott Decision, the Raid at Harpers' Ferry, and the Election of 1860 move us closer to war in the 1850s?
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Daily Agenda

11/17/2016

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Learning Target:
I can summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & I can evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for Stephen Douglas.
  2. ​Notes - On the Brink of War
  3. Reflection Question: To what degree did the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act move us closer to war in the 1850s?
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Daily Agenda

11/16/2016

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Learning Target:
I can summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & I can evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Choose 3 images from the painting above, then explain how each illustrates an change that took place the United States as we expanded West.
  2. ​Notes - Manifest Destiny
  3. Video - The Story of Us: Division
  4. Reflection Question: Was the Mexican War justified? Explain your reasoning.
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Daily Agenda

11/15/2016

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Learning Target:
I can evaluate the extent to which the nineteenth century belief in “Manifest Destiny” led to the growing sectional conflict in the United States.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for James K. Polk.
  2. ​Notes - Manifest Destiny
  3. Reflection Question: Why did Northern abolitionists oppose the Mexican War?
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Daily Agenda

11/9/2016

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Learning Target:
I can discuss the economic changes that took place in the United States from 1790-1860, and I can analyze their effects on the nation.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Samuel Slater and Eli Whitney.
  2. Activity - The Market Revolution Handout
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Daily Agenda

11/3/2016

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​Learning Target:
I can discuss the social reform movements that developed in the United States from 1790-1860.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass.
  2. Activity - Antebellum Reformers
  3. Reflection Question: How did radical abolitionists want to end slavery in the United States? Moderates? How did manyNortherners respond to this anti-slavery message?
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