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Monday

Adv. US History
Focus:
Great Depression

CW:
return old work
return/discuss Unit 9 exam
preview Unit 10 and the class ahead
notes:
Causes of the Great Depression
Hard Times

HW:
Text pp. 707-11; 714
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Honors US History
Focus:
Reconstruction

CW:
notes: The Undoing of Reconstruction:
KKK video clip
Enforcement Acts of 1870-71
scandal/corruption within the Grant Administration
corruption in the South
video clip: Financial Panic of 1873
election of 1876 and violence in the South: Hamburg Massacre; Compromise of 1877
video clip from Many Rivers...
video clip: Civil War becomes "the Lost Cause"

HW:
1. Text pp. 525-31; 534
2. Hellhounds reading (EMAIL ME FOR THIS READING IF ABSENT)

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HONORS STUDENTS

Here are some really helpful links on Reconstruction. Information from these links could be incorporated into essay #1.

Problem of Reconstruction

Presidential Reconstruction vs. Congressional Reconstruction

Sharecropping

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Adv. US History
Focus:


CW:
UNIT 9 EXAM


HW:
Text pp. 697-99; 701-07
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Honors US History
Focus:
Reconstruction

CW:
review notes
video clip from Many Rivers... DVD: the reality of Field Order 15 in South Carolina and the impact of Presidential Reconstruction
notes: Radical/Congressional Reconstruction
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Johnson's impeachment trial
presidential election of 1868
ratification of 14th and 15th Amendments
video clip: the impact of black voting and citizenship (from Many Rivers)
sharecropping simulation

HW:
TEXT pp. 444-45; 448-50

Thursday

Adv. US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
notes: Intolerance in the 1920s: the New Klan
The KKK: a Secret History (18:15-32:00)
The Klan today
essay prep/test review time

HW:
STUDY
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Honors US History
Focus:
Reconstruction

CW:
notes: the plot to kill President Lincoln
discussion: honoring slavery activity
video clip: meeting between Garrison Frazier, General Sherman, Sec. of War Edwin Stanton in Savannah, GA--Dec 1864 (from Reconstruction DVD)
notes: Presidential Reconstruction under President Johnson
video clips: Radical Republicans and black codes

HW:
Text pp. 436-44

Wednesday

Adv. US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
notes:
Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict
nativism document
Scopes Monkey Trial--1925
video clip from History Channel DVD
video: fight over evolution in the classroom continues today: The Revisionaries

HW:
Robert Moats Miller reading from the READER:
Intolerance in the 1920s
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Honors US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
notes: The Union Victorious (1864-65)
battles map
war within the war: Home Guard, Heroes of America, Union Leagues
video clips:
short clips on the Wilderness and Spotsylvania
from Civil War series: Battle of Petersburg, VA: June 1864-April 1865
The Crater clip from Cold Mountain
presidential election of 1864
Ft. Pillow Massacre--April 1864
Andersonville Prison Camp in Georgia
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Sherman's March--Nov-Dec 1864
war ends: April 9, 1865--Appomattox Courthouse, VA

HW:
Text pp. 430-33; 435-36

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Tuesday

Adv. US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
notes/discussion: the Roaring 20s
the New Woman; video clip from Prohibition
1920s slang
1920s handout
Great Migration

HW:
Text pp. 681-92
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Honors US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
notes/discussion: What made the draft so controversial in the North and South?
video clip: NYC draft riots: 1863 (from Civil War series)
video clip: Robert Smalls
video clip: use of black soldiers (from CW series)
video: Glory

HW:
Text pp. 417-21; 424-26

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Monday

Adv. US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
discussion:
How can the state generate support for its laws?
Why did Americans support Prohibition?
video clips: Ken Burns' Prohibition
video clip/discussion: Does prohibition ever work?
war on drugs turns 40

HW:
Text pp. 673-77; 680-81
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Honors US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
notes: 1862-63:
Robert Smalls video clip/contrabands of war
Battle of Gettysburg; video clip: Pickett's Charge
Battle of Vicksburg
notes: the war's impact on soldiers
discuss: Under the Knife
video clips: battlefield medicine
U.S. Sanitary Commission--from Death in the Civil War
CASH unit in Iraq

HW:
READING COMES FROM THE CIVIL WAR PACKET:
THE WAR COMES TO NEW YORK (ON THE 1863 DRAFT RIOTS)

Wednesday

Adv. US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
test prep sheet #9
create a Progressive Era bumpersticker
notes: The Red Scare
notes:
Harding Administration (1921-23)
Coolidge Administration (1923-24; 1924-28)

HW:
Prohibition documents and answer questions
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Honors US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
letter from Sullivan Ballou
video clip from the Civil War series:
First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas--July, 1861
Civil War slang
notes: Union/Confederate preparations for total war
Lincoln's assault on civil liberties (handout)
video/notes: Battle of Antietam--Sept. 17, 1862

HW:
1. Text pp. 413-16
2. Under the Knife reading from the Civil War readings

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Tuesday

Adv. US History
Focus:
WWI

CW:
1919 Boston Molasses Flood/Explosion
video clip: shell shock in WWI vets (from Wartorn DVD)
notes: An Uncertain Peace
Wilson's 14 Points
new countries post WWI 
Treaty of Versailles
primary source analysis: Why was the Treaty of Versailles opposed by members of the Senate?
discussion: Is peace without victory possible?

HW:
TEXT:
READ: 660-62
SKIM: 666-70; 672-73
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Honors US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
return old work
return/discuss Unit 2 exam
preview Unit 3
map of secession
reading/discussion: What was the Civil War about? (Davis, Lincoln, and Douglass)
antebellum sectionalism: myth or reality?
handout: resources of the North and South; Anaconda Plan
notes: Secession -------->War
video clip: First Battle of Bull Run

HW:
Text pp. 401-07

Monday

Adv. US History
Focus:
WWI

CW:
discussion:
What kind of sacrifices should be required of citizens when their country is at war?
notes: War on the Homefront
1919 Boston Molasses Explosion
examine WWI propaganda
Over There
primary source investigation: Were critics of WWI anti-American?
Schenck vs. US
examples of wartime intolerance against Germans
Spanish Flu--1918 (if time)

HW:
Text pp. 655; 658-660
PAY ATTENTION WILSON'S PEACE PLAN, THE 14 POINTS, AND THE DEBATE ABOUT THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES
Read from an Unsettled Peace to Labor Strife
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Honors US History
Focus:

CW:
Unit 2 exam
IF ABSENT, MAKE UP WILL TAKE PLACE IN MY ROOM STARTING AT 0715. FAILURE TO ARRIVE WILL RESULT IN A LOSS OF POINTS ON THE EXAM

HW:
TEXT PP. 398-401

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Adv. US History
Focus:
Progressive Era------->WWI

CW:
Progressive Era wrap up and review:
complete Progressive Era graphic organizer
handout: major accomplishments of the Progressive Era
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discussion:
history of U.S. involvement in war up to WWI
central question: Why did the U.S. go to war?
notes: The Great War (1914-18)
readings: Moral diplomacy vs. Real Politik
video: Armenian genocide and real politik (take notes on Armenian genocide)
primary/secondary source analysis: Why did the U.S. enter WWI?

HW:
Text pp. 647-55
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Honors US History
Focus:
Disunion

CW:
notes/discussion:
K-N Act and the creation of the Republican Party (1854)
rise of Lincoln: Senate campaign of 1858
video clips:
John Brown meets with Frederick Douglas
Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, VA (1859)
Lincoln elected president in 1860
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HW:
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Thursday

Adv. US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
notes: Progressivism and Nat'l Politics:
Lewis Hine and the fight to end child labor: photographic analysis
TR's presidency (1901-08) "The Square Deal"; The Jungle; consumer protection
food safety and labeling today:
new food labels
pink slime
Colbert on pink slime
President Taft (1908-12)
New Nationalism vs. New Freedom: the presidential election of 1912
create a Progressive Era bumpersticker (if time)

HW:
 Text pp. 638-47
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Honors US History
Focus:
Disunion

CW:
If a Tree Falls: understanding the motives behind violent direct action
John Brown graded discussion

HW:
Text pp. 391-94

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Wednesday

Adv. US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
notes: Feminism as a Radical Ideology
Powerpoint: History of the fight for Women's Suffrage (from Stanford site)
Women's suffrage parade before Wilson's inauguration 
primary source analysis: Why were Men and Women Opposed to Suffrage?
anti-suffrage propaganda
notes: Interview with Alice Paul
video clips from Iron Jawed Angels

HW:
Text pp. 591-600
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Honor US History
Focus:
Jacksonian Era

CW:
review notes
notes: Disunion Part I:
Northern/Southern reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act (FSA)
video clips:
FSA; Underground RR, Margaret Garner--from Many Rivers to Cross 
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Anthony Burns--The Abolitionists
notes: Disunion Part II:
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854; Caning of Senator Charles Sumner and "Bleeding Kansas" (1856)
Dred Scott decision (1857)
video clips: from The Abolitionists--John Brown and Dred Scott decision

HW:
Graded discussion reading and questions
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Tuesday

Adv. US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
Comstock Law (take notes on this)
reading: Margaret Sanger and the fight for birth control
view excerpts from Family Limitation by Margaret Sanger
Controversies over birth control today:
video clips:
Affordable Care Act's women's health coverage
Sandra Fluke's testimony
Rush Limbaugh's remarks on Ms. Fluke's testimony
Foster Fries remarks
Obama's remarks on contraceptive services
Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case
Remarks on rape and a woman's right to choose:
Todd Akin: "legitimate rape"
Richard Mourdock
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review the history of women's rights up to the Progressive Era
discussion: what does it mean to be a feminist?
notes: Feminism as a Radical Ideology

HW:
Alice Paul interview from the reader
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Honors US History
Focus:
Jacksonian Era

CW:
BFP #1
PCC registration info
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notes: Manifest Destiny: Donner Party; Mormons in Utah;
presidential election of 1844: Polk vs. Clay
video clip: Frederick Douglas in Rochester, NY: The North Start and meeting with John Brown
(from The Abolitionists)
notes: Mexican-American War (1846-47)
video clip: from The Abolitionists
notes: California statehood debate----->Compromise of 1850

HW:
Text pp. 385-91
PAY ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:
Fugitive Slave Act (part of the Comp. of 1850)
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854------->"Bleeding Kansas"
Dred Scott decision of 1857
THIS READING WILL HELP WITH ESSAY QUESTION #4

Monday

Adv. US History
Focus:
The Progressive Era

CW:
return old work
return/discuss Unit 8 exam
preview Unit 9
notes: An Era of Reform

HW:
O'Neil reading from the READER: Feminism as a Radical Ideology
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Honors US History
Focus:
The Jacksonian Era

CW:
review notes
read/discuss: The Universal Law of Slavery
notes: The Abolitionist Movement
video: The Abolitionists
discussion: honoring/remembering slavery activity

HW:
Text pp. 372-79
Begin at Push to the Pacific and end reading at a Divisive Victory

HISTORY STUDENTS