Wed 10/26

Today we took the department assessment on the first quarter.

Tuesday 10/25

Students received a study guide for the midterm on Thursday. Also the notebook is due that day as well. Tomorrow we will be taking the department quiz for the 1st quarter.

The notebook order is as follows: Study Guide

•1 Title Page

•2 Quickwrites (4 of them)

•3 Notes

•4 Work(obviously not the ones I have)

•Whiskey Rebellion

•Trail of Tears-paper and questions

•What caused the Civil War

•Dred Scott Decision

•Advantages of North and South

•Gettysburg Address

•13-15th amendment and Reconstruction with book questions

10/24

We continued to talk about the Reconstruction effort and the highs and lows of it. by 1876 the Reconstruction was largely over. Some things had changed and some had stayed the same for Americans.
Reconstruction
At the bottom of the paper students used the book to answer the following 3 questions at the bottom of the share cropping handout. page 188-189

•1. Why did the Reconstruction collapse?

•2. What allowed southern Confederates to take back the power in the South?

•3. How did the election of 1876 end the Reconstruction process in the South? 

10/21

We finished talking about the end of the Civil War. After that we began looking at the Reconstruction amendments and how they were meant to push change following the end of the war in the South.

10/20

In class we talked about the first half of the Civil War up until the Emancipation Proclamation. The war had gone pretty bad for the South. We also talked about the Gettysburg Address and how it gave a purpose to the war.
Gettysburg Address

10/19

In class we looked at the election of 1860 and how Lincoln being elected President was enough for the South to finally succeed from America. They felt their voice was not being heard and so they found it better to leave. Lincoln would have to fight to keep America together.

10/18

Today we looked at John Brown and how his character was very controversial depending on if you were in the North and the South. Some viewed him as a martyr and others as a traitor. We also briefly discussed the Dred Scott decision
John Brown and Dred Scott Reading

10/17

I went over in class the assignment from google from the previous week and explained each one a little more in depth as to how it related to the overall picture.

Thursday/Friday 10/13-10/14

In class students looked at many aspects of america involving and leading to the Civil War. In Google Classroom you need to login in. The assignment is different slightly for each class. If you need your period's login let me know.

Wed 10/12

In class we looked at how the cotton gin got the ball rolling toward America's greater dependency on slavery. We also looked at how some of the smaller earlier compromises like the compromise of 1820 as well as taxation in the south all played a roll on America slowly growing divided.
Go to the Nullification Part

Tuesday 10/12

We did a mock election in class for the upcoming election along with many high schools across California. I briefly talked about the 3 groups that traveled from your journal entries and we watched a clip from America the story of us(from 16:30 through gold rush). It just shows the difficulty of moving and the obstacles many of the people faced.

Monday 10/11

We took some notes in class on Madison and Monroe's presidency, then we briefly talked about manifest destiny and why people moved west. The assignemnt can be found in the power point.
Notes, Quickwrite 1 and Journal Assignment

friday

Reading for Indian Removal Act-Students looked at how the Trail of Tears happened despite the fact the supreme court even ruled in favor of the native Americans keeping their land. (it was a rally day and very short)
reading
Maybe a better version if you present it

Wed/Thursday 10/5 and 10/6

We started the Unit A New Nation to Two Nations. America is beginning but within 70 years we will be divided. The story of how that happens will take place during this unit. I will post the assignment for these two days but we were looking at the Whiskey Rebellion and how it showed America's new Constitution strength. Also the Alien and Sedition Acts and how it tested our new nation's bill of rights.

Whiskey Rebellion

Tuesday 10/4

Today we took our Unit 1 test and turned in our first notebook check for the year. This took up the entire time period today.

Monday 10/3

Today we reviewed any questions anyone had for the test tomorrow. Also we put together the notebook. Here are some key things for the notebook.
-Make sure every paper is stapled in, glued in, or in a 3 ring binder. I should be able to flip through each paper and not just be given a giant stack.
-Everything should be in order. Title Page, Quickwrites, Notes, then the work below.

Order of Notebook

Friday 9/30

Today we finished up Unit 1 our nations founding by looking at last night's homework on the Bill of Rights. I just went through each one and briefly explained it's importance. At the end of class I handed out a study guide for the test which will be on tuesday of next week.

Study Guide for Test