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Assignment for the rest of June
 * 1) Choose **__one__** topic from the list below, research the topic, and then **__create something to demonstrate your learning__**. Here are a few choices of how you can demonstrate what you learned.


 * Diary Entries (written in 1st person)
 * Comic strip
 * Facebook page (on paper). All of the information should be historically accurate.
 * Tri-fold brochure
 * Booklet
 * Give me another idea


 * __Topics to choose from:__ **
 * American Culture/Arts: pp. 270-273/405-407
 * Industrial Revolution: pp. 346-351
 * Worker's Rights: pp. 352-357
 * Transportation Revolution: pp. 358-363
 * Technological Advances: pp. 364-367
 * Immigration: pp. 400-404
 * Education and Reform: pp. 410-415
 * Women's Rights: pp. 423-428
 * Miners, Ranchers, and Railroads: pp. 546-552
 * Fighting the Native Americans: pp. 553-558
 * 2nd Industrial Revolution: pp. 574-578
 * 1st Millionaires: pp. 579-582
 * New Immigrants: pp. 588-593
 * Rights of Women and Minorities: pp. 622-626

Assignment for June 3rd
 * HW-Write your own Reconstruction Plan on the bottom of your Cornell Notes

Assignment for June 2nd >
 * 1) Assassination of Lincoln
 * 2) Assassination Plot
 * 3) John Wilkes Booth 1
 * 4) John Wilkes Booth 2
 * 1) HW-Finish Lincoln obituary

FINAL EXAM IS FRIDAY, MAY 30th
 * Test will cover Presidents 8-11, Manifest Destiny, War with Mexico (including Texas), slavery, and the Civil War

Assignment for May 29th >
 * 1) Here is the study guide for the final exam:
 * 1) HW-STUDY for the final

Assignment for May 28th >
 * 1) Study your Cornell Notes, questions, and then write a summary.
 * 2) Use this Jeopardy Review to study for Friday's Final Exam
 * 1) HW-Study

Assignment for May 27th
 * 1) Choose 3 battles of the Civil War. Include the 5 W's.
 * 2) HW-Finish battle research

Assignment for May 23rd
 * Here is a video for Civil War Technology
 * This is a good starting point for your research

Assignment for May 22nd >
 * 1) Here is today's assignment; open it in an App that allows you to shade in and label the graphs, as well as type your answers. I would recommend Notability.
 * 1) HW-Study the answers to the questions

Assignment for May 21st
 * 1) After finishing today's notes, here are Election of 1860 questions.
 * 2) HW-Finish questions

Assignment for May 20th >
 * 1) Here is the Dred Scott DBQ:
 * 1) HW-Create one Level 2 or 3 question/statement for each document

Assignment for May 19th
 * HW-Finish your 200 word slavery viewpoint letter

Assignment for May 16th > >
 * 1) Download the historical figures chart.
 * 1) Use the pdf placards to fill in the stance and actions for each figure.

Assignment for May 14th
 * HW-Final Project due tomorrow (Entry 7 is a visual to represent life AFTER slavery)

Assignment for May 13th
 * HW-Finish your song for Entry 6 (10 lines minimum)

Assignment for May 12th
 * 1) Research Nat Turner's Rebellion and Solomon Northup
 * 2) HW-Entry 5 from research

Assignment for May 9th
 * Entry 4 is to choose 2 primary documents from Chapter 4 and explain how they represent "Resistance"

Assignment for May 8th
 * HW-Finish your 100 word entry about life on a plantation

Assignment for May 7th
 * iParty

Assignment for May 6th
 * HW-Part 2 of your "To Be A Slave" Explain Everything (visual with explanation or poem)

Assignment for May 5th
 * 1) Here is the video on the slave ship experience
 * 2) HW-Work on your Explain Everything entitled "To Be A Slave". Make sure you have at least five quotes from the book.

Assignment for May 2nd
 * 1) John Brown Video

Assignment for April 29th- May 1st
 * NO HW due to Common Core testing

Assignment for April 28th >
 * 1) Label the blank map (use Educreations or anything you want)
 * 1) NO HW due to Common Core testing

Assignment for April 25th
 * 1) Here is the link for Compromise Scavenger Hunt.

Assignment for April 24th >
 * 1) Here is the DBQ to annotate:
 * 1) Here is the video on how to use Notability
 * 2) HW-Find out 5 facts about the Missouri Compromise and 5 facts about the Compromise of 1850

Assignment for April 23rd >
 * 1) Here is a link for gold mining techniques
 * 2) 8 Things You May Not Know
 * 3) Watch this video
 * 1) HW-Create an advertisement for a gold rush product

Assignment for April 22nd >
 * 1) After you peer edit your rough drafts, Choose any three documents to analyze from this page. Use ACAPS for each of the documents.
 * 1) HW-Final draft of soldier letter

Assignment for April 21st >
 * 1) After finishing your questions/statements for your Cornell Notes, here is the rubric for the soldier letter:
 * 1) HW-Rough draft due tomorrow (final draft due Wednesday)

Assignment for April 15th-17th >
 * Here is the rubric for your book:
 * HW-Your book is due Friday at the beginning of the period

Assignment for April 14th
 * 1) Here is a tutorial on how to use Creative Book Builder
 * 2) HW-Spend 15-20 minutes on your Texas Book

Assignment for April 11th
 * 1) Research the settlement of Texas
 * 2) Stephen F. Austin
 * 3) Empresarios
 * 4) General Santa Anna
 * 5) Sam Houston
 * 6) Alamo
 * 7) Battle of San Jacinto
 * 8) Begin creating a book about Texas using the app “Creative Book Builder” (DO NOT WORK ON THIS OVER THE WEEKEND-that includes you Tina!)

Assignment for April 10th >
 * 1) Here is the Padlet for PERIOD 4
 * 2) Here is the Padlet for PERIOD 6
 * 3) Here is the Padlet for PERIOD 7
 * 4) HW-AFTER you finish your Cornell Notes, answer these questions:

Assignment for April 9th
 * HW-Research 10 facts about James K. Polk

Assignment for April 8th
 * HW-Write your 200 word reflection on what you learned from the Lewis and Clark projects you heard in class (on LMS)

Assignment for April 7th
 * 1) Turn in your Presidents 8, 9 and 10 Keynote into LMS
 * 2) HW-Lewis and Clark Project due tomorrow (YOU MUST HAVE YOUR TIME LOG!)

Assignment for March 26th > > >
 * HW-Study for tomorrow's quiz on Madison/Monroe/JQA/Jackson. Here are two things to help you study.
 * Your final draft of the Jackson essay is due Friday on LMS.

Assignment for March 25th >
 * 1) Here is the template (again) for writing an essay. Here is your guiding question: "T o what extent did Jackson move the country towards democracy?”
 * 1) HW-Your complete ROUGH draft essay on Jackson is due tomorrow

Assignment for March 24th >
 * 1) Here is the Andrew Jackson DBQ:
 * 1) Read Background essay (pages 4-5)
 * 2) Look at ALL of the documents (ignore page 12)
 * 3) Begin Steps 4a-c from page 3 for EACH document
 * 4) HW-Review documents (Summary judgment #6) Don't forget about the Jackson Justification Chart as well

Assignment for March 21st
 * Here is the link to read the Trail of Tears diary entries

Assignment for March 20th > >
 * 1) Here is the video we watched in class.
 * 2) Read this Andrew Jackson story:
 * 1) Open this Justification Chart:
 * 1) HW-Do HALF of the chart

Assignment for March 19th
 * iParty

Assignment for March 18th
 * 1) Here is the link for the JQA game creation
 * 2) HW-Game due Thursday

Assignment for March 17th >
 * 1) Here is the video we watched in class.
 * 2) Here are the directions for the Monroe Doctrine Editorial Cartoon:
 * 1) HW-Finish cartoon, with explanations

Assignment for March 14th
 * 1) Start here
 * 2) Quick facts and trivia
 * 3) Quick timeline
 * 4) Trivia game
 * 5) Interactive word search

Assignment for March 13th >
 * 1) Here is the visual metaphor assignment:
 * 1) Here is an online quiz if you finish your metaphor early
 * 2) HW-Finish metaphor (make sure you use textual support)

Assignment for March 11-12th HW-Finish Research
 * 1) Battle Research (Location/Key people/Outcome/Significance)
 * 2) U.S.S. Constitution v. H.M.S. Guerriere
 * 3) Battle of Lake Erie
 * 4) Battle of Thames
 * 5) Battle of Horseshoe Bend
 * 6) Attack on Fort McHenry
 * 7) Battle of New Orleans
 * 8) Hartford Convention

Assignment for March 10th <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">HW-Finish Activities
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">War of 1812 Introduction
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read pages 240-245
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create one level 2/3 statement/question for each red section
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write an acrostic on Tecumseh
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write a letter to Congress as a WarHawk

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignment for March 6th >
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW-Study for tomorrow's quiz on Adams/Jefferson/Hamilton

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignment for March 5th >
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is the Lewis and Clark Independent Project:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW-Research your topic

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignment for March 4th >
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is the Lewis and Clark Introduction. You can open the document in Pages, just make sure you name it correctly.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW-Find visuals of 5 of the supplies and explain how they would be useful on the expedition.

Assignment for March 3rd >
 * 1) Here is the DBQ for the Hamilton/Jefferson documents. (Ignore the rubric on the last page)
 * 1) Answer the questions and paste your answers on LMS.
 * 2) HW-Final draft of essay from last week

Assignment for February 27th >
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using your thesis and concrete details, write a rough draft essay, on the following prompt: “Which of the four historical figures had the greatest impact on the development of our country?”
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cornell Notes:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW-Finish essay

Assignment for February 26th >
 * 1) Open this document in Pages, and write down who you think said it (Hamilton or Jefferson) and cite evidence from the text to support your response.
 * 1) Write 5 open-ended questions for each of the following: (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton)
 * 2) HW-Finish questions

Assignment for February 24th-25th >
 * HW-Brochure due Wednesday. Here is what the layout should look like:

Assignment for February 20th
 * HW-Research the Swamp Fox for the brochure contest

Assignment for February 18th-19th >
 * 1) Here is the brochure contest for when you finish your commercial:
 * 1) HW-Commercial is due Thursday at the beginning of the period

Assignment for February 13th >
 * Here is the rubric for the commercial:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Assignment for February 12th
 * 1) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">HW-Your storyboard will be graded tomorrow in class

Assignment for February 11th > >
 * 1) Commercial example: Hamilton Campaign Ad
 * 2) Commercial Fallacies:
 * 1) Once you COMPLETE your research, here is the storyboard. Since this is a pdf file that you cannot type on, you can make your storyboard on any App you want.:
 * 1) HW-Work on storyboard

Assignment for February 10th >
 * 1) Here is the graphic organizer for the commercial on Hamilton or Jefferson:
 * 1) Start here for your commercial research.
 * 2) HW-Research for your commercial

Assignment for February 7th
 * 1) What is one difference between the Federalists and Democratic-Republican parties?
 * 2) What was the value of the //bribe// in 1798? What would its value be today? (Use the following website [])
 * 3) Which American political party wanted to declare war on France after the //XYZ Affair//? Why?
 * 4) If you were an American in 1789, how would you feel about the Alien and Sedition Acts? Why?
 * 5) How does the //Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions// affect the federal government?
 * 6) John Adams Discussion
 * 7) Choose 3 quotes
 * 8) Write one paragraph for each quote
 * 9) Reply to at least two others

Assignment for February 5th-6th >
 * 1) Here are the directions for the Squiggle Art.
 * 1) HW-Final draft is due FRIDAY

Assignment for February 4th
 * 1) HW-Finish your John Adams Search (5 Biography Facts/5 Presidency Facts/3 Interesting or Unusual Facts)

Assignment for February 3rd
 * HW-Study for quiz on Washington

Assignment for January 31st
 * Here is the link for after the Socratic Seminar

Assignment for January 30th >
 * 1) Here is the DBQ
 * 1) Washington's Farewell Address:
 * Read themes of the Address
 * Read abstract and key points
 * 1) HW-Come up with five Level 2/3 questions for tomorrow’s Socratic Seminar

Assignment for January 28th
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After you set up your Preceden account, here is a brief example for your Washington Timeline covering 5 of the events from your Cornell Notes from pages 205-209. (French Revolution, Neutrality Proclamation, Jay's Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty, Conflict with Native Americans, Whiskey Rebellion)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In order to put images into the events, click on "Edit events" and paste the URL of the image with exclamation points at the beginning and end of the URL.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW-Finish Timeline

Assignment for January 27th
 * 1) Read and take Cornell Notes from pages 196-199
 * 2) Create new titles, headings, and subheadings for each section
 * 3) Create 5 Level 2/3 questions/statements (total) from the reading
 * 4) Create an acrostic for Washington
 * 5) Make a visual representation from one area of the reading
 * 6) HW-Finish Textbook Strategies for George Washington