American Experience Archives for 2017-2018
9/4- No School - Labor Day
9/5- Syllabus 9/6- Notebook Set Up - Zinn Ch.#1 9/7- Close Reading Skills - Carr's History 9/8- Socratic Seminar skills Foundational Skills! 9/11- When World's Collide 9/12- Montezuma 9/13- Pachacuti 9/14- Battle of Mystic 9/15- When World's Collide seminar Packet for the Week! 9/25- Nat Rights & Common Sense 9/26- The History of US: Revolution 9/27- *Haym Solomon 9/28- Jefferson and Hamilton 9/29- Period 1-3 Assessment Packet for Week! 10/2- Enduring Govt & timeline 10/3- Black Loyalists and Patriots 10/4- Constitutional Pursuit (cont) 10/5- Supreme court- Dred Scott 10/6- Taney - Socratic Seminar 10/9- Articles of Confederation 10/10- Land Laws 10/11- Launching the Ship of State 10/12- Hamilton 10/13- No School for Students 10/16- Jefferson and Hamilton- Podcast assigned 10/17- Shay's Rebellion 10/18- Compromises - Great, 3/5 10/19- Federalists & Anti-Federalists 10/20- Quiz over last two week! 10/23- *Zinn Excerpts - Where the Grass Grows 10/24- P4-6 10/25- *Luther- Standing Bear 10/26- P4-6 10/27- Quiz, Native Culture 10/30- Louisiana Purchase, *Tecumseh 10/31- Heading West, *Sitting Bull 11/1- Westward VQ, *Chief Joseph 11/2- *On Buffalo and Indian 11/3- Quiz and discussion 11/6- "On Buffalo" 11/7- Dawes Act 11/8- "On Use of English" 11/9- Property Values 11/10- No School- Veterans' Day 11/13- The Homestead Act 11/14- *My Antonia 11/5- *Mary Elizabeth Lease 11/16- Agricultural West 11/17- Wizard of Oz? |
11/20- Economics - Wiz of Oz
11/21- Grange - Wiz of Oz 11/22- Wiz of Oz analysis due 11/23- Happy Thanksgiving! 11/24- Enjoy Family! 12/11- Juniors 12/12- are doing 12/13- Business 12/14- Week 12/15- Essay: Was the Civil War Inevitable? 12/18- Work on paper 12/19- Circles 12/20- Essay: Was the Civil War Inevitable? 12/21- Winter 12/22- Break! 1/1- New Year's Day 1/2- Edison: Spark of Genius 1/3- Tesla: Spark of Genius 1/4- Data Analysis 1/5- Socratic Seminar 1/8- The Telephone 1/9- History of Standard Oil 1/10- Carnegie 1/11- Wealth and its Uses 1/12- Social Darwinism 1/15- MLK 1/16- Social Darwinism 1/17- *Boss Tweed 1/18- Wobbly GO 1/19- Centralia Massacre 1/22- 141 Die 1/23- Strikes turn violent 1/24- Crossword 1/25- Sem Exam 1/26- self assessment 1/29-No School - packet for week 1/30- Imperialism - Beveridge, register 1/31- Jose Marti 2/1- Dude to Cowboy 2/2-Spanish-American War 2/5-William Hearst 2/6- White Man's Burden 2/7- A Response 2/8- Anti-Imperialism League 2/9-Rough Riders register 2/12- Zinn - Empire 2/13- Boxer Rebellion 2/14- Canal zone 2/15- Roosevelt Corollary 2/16- No School |
2/19- No School
2/20- Boxer Rebellion 2/21- Building the Panama Canal 2/22- Review - Roosevelt Corollary 2/23- Mexican Revolution 2/26- President Podcast 2/27- Matching 2/28- Mexican Revolution 3/1- Crossword 3/2- Imperialism Exam 3/5- Finish Exam- US enters WWI 3/6- AP Text - Overview WWI 3/7- Shell Shock VQ 3/8- Angel Island and Ellis Island 3/9- No School 3/12- *Eliot Ness 3/13- The Great Migration 3/14- *Ernesto Galarza 3/15- *Charles Lindbergh 3/16- 1920s 3/19- War of Worlds 3/20- *Georgia O'Keeffe 3/21- *Louis Armstrong 3/22- 20's music 3/23- Match 20's Rev Crossword 3/26- Hughes Poem, Civil Rights 3/27- P4-6 3/28- 20's exam 3/29- P4-6 3/30- self-assess 4/9- Photo Analysis 4/10-*Al Smith 4/11-Zinn 4/12-Podcast 4/13-Socratic Seminar 4/16- Zinn (due Friday!) 4/17-*Cesar Chavez 4/18-*Huey Long 4/19-Essay/Zinn 4/20-Socratic Seminar 4/23-Revise Essays 4/24-FDR's critics 4/25-Matching, Intifada 4/26-Culture of 1930s 4/27-Legacy of New Deal |
4/30- Review, Match
5/1-Depression Exam 5/2-*ChurchilI 5/3-*George Patton 5/4-North Africa and Italy 5/7-*Patton 5/8-Alternate voices 5/9-D-Day and 5/10-AP text 5/11-transitioning to the Pacific theatre 5/14-Overview of WWII 5/15-Iwo Jima, Okinawa + Match 5/16-Hiroshima and Nagasaki 5/17-WWII Review 5/18-WWII Exam 5/21- UN and Short History of Russia 5/22- Mao - birth to 17 5/23-Mao (cont) 5/24-Korean 5/25-Cold War at Home 5/28- No School 5/29- Passing the Torch 5/30-Podcasts! Being President 5/31-Houses, Kids, Cars 6/1- Evidence Analysis 6/4- Kennedy Assassination evidence 6/5- Evidence 6/6- LBJ as President 6/7- Vietnam 6/8- Vietnam |