WEDNESDAY--FEB. 10

US History
EQ:
How did the economic, political, and social impacts of slavery led to the Civil War?

CW:
discussion: 
abolitionists fight against slavery
William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Anti-Slavery Society
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Mexican-American War of 1846 and the Compromise of 1850
discuss 10:1 RG
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video clips from Many Rivers:
Underground RR
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discuss 10:2  the social and political impacts of the Fugitive Slave Act--1850
video clips from "The Abolitionists":
Uncle Tom's Cabin and its social/political impacts
Anthony Burns' return to slavery
1856
"Many Rivers" Margaret Garner's fateful decision
abolitionist violence against slavery:
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas

HW:
Read 10:4
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What's in the US Constitution?
What legal protections are found in the Bill of Rights?

CW:
discuss:
Beard's analysis of the Constitution
scavenger hunt
handout: checks and balances and the electoral college
electoral college 101
notes: Bill of Rights
Westboro Baptist Church
clip from Constitution USA on Westboro Baptist Church

HW:
Socratic Seminar:
First Amendment readings and questions