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Today's Agenda

10/31/2017

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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.

Critical Vocabulary: Manifest Destiny, John O'Sullivan, President James K. Polk, Oregon Territory, Treaty of 1818, Oregon Trail, Oregon Treaty of 1846, Stephen F. Austin, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Texas Revolution, Battle of the Alamo, Goliad Campaign, General Sam Houston, Battle of San Jacinto, Election of 1844, James K. Polk, John Slidell, John C. Frémont, General Zachary Taylor, Mexican American War, “Spot Resolutions,” “Civil Disobedience,” Battle of Buena Vista, “Bear Flag Revolt,” General Winfield Scott, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Wilmot Proviso, “Popular Sovereignty,” Lewis Cass

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for James K. Polk.
  2. Individual Learning: Western Expansion Map
  3. Guided Instruction: Manifest Destiny
  4. Individual Learning: Oregon Trail Game
  5. ​Reflection Question: Why did so many people move West during the 1840s?
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Homework: Manifest Destiny
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Tentative Test Date: December 11
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Today's Agenda

10/30/2017

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Learning Target:
I can describe the social changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation. 

Critical Vocabulary: Romantic Movement, Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Second Great Awakening, Charles Grandison Finney, Oberlin College, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Shakers, Oneida Colony, Joseph Smith, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young, Thomas H. Gallaudet, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher, Temperance Movement, American Temperance Union, Neal Dow, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, "Peculiar Institution," American Colonization Society, Republic of Liberia, Nat Turner's Rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass, "Gag Rule," Liberty Party

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Unit 3 Pre-Test
  2. Collaborative Learning: Antebellum Reform Project
  3. ​Reflection Question: Name one social, political, and economic change that took place in the US during the period from 1790-1860.
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Homework: Manifest Destiny
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Tentative Test Date: December 11
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Test Today!

10/27/2017

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Today's Agenda

10/26/2017

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Learning Target:
I can describe the social changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation. 

Critical Vocabulary: Romantic Movement, Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Second Great Awakening, Charles Grandison Finney, Oberlin College, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Shakers, Oneida Colony, Joseph Smith, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young, Thomas H. Gallaudet, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher, Temperance Movement, American Temperance Union, Neal Dow, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, "Peculiar Institution," American Colonization Society, Republic of Liberia, Nat Turner's Rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass, "Gag Rule," Liberty Party,

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Joseph Smith and Horace Mann.
  2. Collaborative Learning: Antebellum Reform Project
  3. ​Reflection Question: Quizziz Review Game
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Homework: Antebellum Reform Movements
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Tentative Test Date: October 27
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Today's Agenda

10/25/2017

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Learning Target:
I can describe the social changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation. 

Critical Vocabulary: Romantic Movement, Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Second Great Awakening, Charles Grandison Finney, Oberlin College, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Shakers, Oneida Colony, Joseph Smith, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young, Thomas H. Gallaudet, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher, Temperance Movement, American Temperance Union, Neal Dow, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, "Peculiar Institution," American Colonization Society, Republic of Liberia, Nat Turner's Rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass, "Gag Rule," Liberty Party,

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
  2. Guided Collaborative Learning: Antebellum Reform Project
  3. ​Reflection Question: What grievances did the Declaration of Sentiments list against men in the United States?
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Homework: Antebellum Reform Movements
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Tentative Test Date: October 27
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Today's Agenda

10/24/2017

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Learning Target:
I can describe the social changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation. 

Critical Vocabulary: Romantic Movement, Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Second Great Awakening, Charles Grandison Finney, Oberlin College, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Shakers, Oneida Colony, Joseph Smith, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young, Thomas H. Gallaudet, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher, Temperance Movement, American Temperance Union, Neal Dow, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, "Peculiar Institution," American Colonization Society, Republic of Liberia, Nat Turner's Rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass, "Gag Rule," Liberty Party,

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass.
  2. Guided Collaborative Learning: Antebellum Reform Project
  3. ​Reflection Question: How did radical abolitionists want to end slavery in the United States? Moderates? How did many Northerners respond to this anti-slavery message?
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Homework: Antebellum Reform Movements
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Tentative Test Date: October 27
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Today's Agenda

10/23/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:

I can describe the social changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation. 

Critical Vocabulary: Romantic Movement, Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Second Great Awakening, Charles Grandison Finney, Oberlin College, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Shakers, Oneida Colony, Joseph Smith, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young, Thomas H. Gallaudet, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher, Temperance Movement, American Temperance Union, Neal Dow, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, "Peculiar Institution," American Colonization Society, Republic of Liberia, Nat Turner's Rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass, "Gag Rule," Liberty Party,

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Charles Finney and Henry David Thoreau
  2. Guided Instruction: Antebellum Reform Movements
  3. Individual Learning: Antebellum Reform Movements Information & Chart
  4. ​Reflection Question: Study Questions (#11-15) 
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Homework: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Antebellum Reform Movements
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Tentative Test Date: October 27
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Today's Agenda

10/20/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:

I can describe the economic changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation. 

Critical Vocabulary: “Black Forties,” Political Machines, “Tammany Hall,” “Know-Nothing” Party, Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Charles Goodyear, Samuel Morse, Elias Howe, Lowell Mills, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Preemption Act of 1830, Homestead Act, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, “National Road,” Robert Fulton, Governor DeWitt Clinton, Erie Canal, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Clipper Ship, Pony Express

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Samuel F. B. Morse, and Cyrus McCormick
  2. Individual Learning: Unit 2 Study Guide
  3. ​Reflection Question: Study Questions (#1-5)
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Homework: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Market Revolution
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Tentative Test Date: October 27
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Today's Agenda

10/19/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:

I can describe the economic changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation. 

Critical Vocabulary: “Black Forties,” Political Machines, “Tammany Hall,” “Know-Nothing” Party, Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Charles Goodyear, Samuel Morse, Elias Howe, Lowell Mills, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Preemption Act of 1830, Homestead Act, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, “National Road,” Robert Fulton, Governor DeWitt Clinton, Erie Canal, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Clipper Ship, Pony Express

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Irish Immigrants Reading Questions
  2. Guided Instruction: The Market Revolution
  3. Collaborative Learning: The Market Revolution Document Study
  4. ​Reflection Question: How did changes in transportation and communication work to unify the American society?
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Homework: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Market Revolution
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Tentative Test Date: October 27
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Today's Agenda

10/18/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:

I can describe the economic changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation. 

Critical Vocabulary: “Black Forties,” Political Machines, “Tammany Hall,” “Know-Nothing” Party, Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Charles Goodyear, Samuel Morse, Elias Howe, Lowell Mills, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Preemption Act of 1830, Homestead Act, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, “National Road,” Robert Fulton, Governor DeWitt Clinton, Erie Canal, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Clipper Ship, Pony Express

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Samuel Slater, "Boss" Tweed, Thomas Nast
  2. Guided Instruction: The Market Revolution
  3. Collaborative Learning: The Market Revolution Document Study
  4. ​Reflection Question: How did the factory system impact the role of women in American society?
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Homework: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Market Revolution
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Tentative Test Date: October 27
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