U.S.+History


 * __ U.S History

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Wednesday 5-12-10/Friday 5-14-10: Project Workdays We Will be meeting in the Library__** Workday(s) in Library!


 * PROJECTS DUE MONDAY May 17th!!!!**

-Pick Groups and Topics** __Monday 5-10-10: Child Labor Laws and the Progressive Movement__** -College Inventory Survey -CNN Student News -Discuss Child Labor Laws Worksheet
 * __Tuesday 5-11-10: 1920's Project__**
 * -Introduce 1920's Project
 * [[file:1920 newspaper project.doc]]

-Review Credit Mobilier Scandal -Discussion Monopoly -Assignment: Read Chapter 6 section 3 and answer teh questions provided in the reading guide. Due tomorrow __**Wednesday 4-14-10: How did the railroads play a role in American Industrialization?**__ -Image question -Notes: The Railroads
 * __Thursday 4-15-10: How did Big Business emerge in the United States?__**

-**Pass back Immigration and Urbanization Quiz from Before break -Discuss Pinwheel Activity from yesterday -Notes: Industrialization- Get from someone in class! Homework: Read pp.236-240 Reading quiz tomorrow
 * __Tuesday 4-13-10: How did the Industrial Era in the U.S. relate to immigration and urbanization at the turn of the century?__

​**__Monday 4-12-10: How does Industrialization work?__** -Welcome Back -Current Events -Mr. Fortmann's pinwheel activity!!!

__**Friday 3-26-10: How did politics of the Gilded Age Work**__ -Reading Quiz: 7.3 PPT: The Political Machine: media type="custom" key="5732781"

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__**Thursday 3-25-10: "How the other half lives?"**__ -Read excerpt from "How the other Half Lives" and discuss -Photo show of How the other Half Lives -Urbanization PPT -Homework: Read chapter 7 section 3 in book 267-271 reading quiz
 * __Homework If Absent__** complete the questions on the political cartoons Slideshow above and write the paragraph at the end of the show.

__**Wednesday 3-24-10: How did life in cities change as America Urbanized**__ -Review Tuesday's Material -Discussion: Who would want to live in a city and Why? -6 Problems of Urbanization assignment Due Tomorrow

__**Tuesday 3-23-10: How did Americans react to new immigrants?**__ -Check homework and discuss it -Notes: Reactions to new Immigrants

-Activity: Socioeconomics of Immigrants -Assignment: read 254-259 in new blue book and answer reading guide questions DUE TUESDAY!
 * __Monday 3-22-10: How did Americans react to new immigrants?__**

-News -Where are we from Activity -Partner work. Document packet on why immigrants came to America -Discuss
 * __Friday 3-19-10: Who's Coming to America...and why?__**


 * __3-15-10/ 3-18-10 Movie- Far and Away__**


 * __Wednesday: 3-10-10: Quiz Day__**

Review Game
 * __Tuesday: 3-9-10: Review Game__**

-News -Wrap up Cowboys in America and the end of the open range -Study Guide: Quiz on Wednesday
 * __Monday 3-8-10: Study Guide:__**

-Hand in Great Plains Webs and discuss -News -Brainstorm: What do we know about the American Cowboy? -Watch: The Great Train Robbery 1903 -Read 388-391 about the Myth and Truth about the American Cowboy? -Discuss our perceptions with the reality of the American Cowboy.
 * __Friday 3-5-10: What is the truth of the American Cowboy?__**

__**Thursday 3-4-10: How did white settlement change the Great Plains from the American Frontier to America's Breadbasket?**__ -Great Plains Web Assignment Due Friday -Work Day

__**Wednesday 3-3-10: How were whites able to settle the Great Plains?**__ -Great Plains game -Assignment: media type="custom" key="5513745"

__**Tuesday 3-2-10: How did The U.S. Government try to Americanize the Plains Indians?**__ -Discussion of Movie -Notes: Dawes Act -Homework: Read 214-218 in Your textbook. Reading quiz tomorrow on material


 * 2/24-3/1 Movie: Dances With Wolves**

-Read Wounded Knee Article and Answer questions -Discussion of Wounded Knee
 * __Tuesday 2-23-10: How were the Plains Indians defeated?__**

-Current Events: -Slideshow:
 * __Monday 2-22-10: How were the Plains Indians defeated?:__**

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Read Article and Answer questions:

-Discuss Question: What is the best way to get rid of the Plains Indians -Read Red Book p. 381-384 -Notes: The Destruction of the Buffalo/reservation system
 * __Thursday 2-18-10: How was the way of life of the Plains Indians destroyed:__**

__**Tuesday 2-16-10: What are the geographic features of the Great Plains?**__ -Introduce Great Plains unit -Map The Great Plains- See me for map Due Tomorrow!

__**Friday 2-12-10: Quiz Reconstruction**__ You have until 2-19-10 to make up quiz. See Mr. F. for makeup time

Review for quiz Study Tonight!
 * __Thursday 2-11-10: Early Release day__**

__**Wednesday 2-10-10: Review Day:**__ -Reconstruction Study Guide : - Quiz Friday


 * __Tuesday 2-9-10: What is the legacy of Reconstruction?__**

-Slideshow Segregation in the South -Point/Counterpoint on Reconstruction: Read opposing viewpoints and decide which you agree with more. Write a persuasive paragraph with 3 pieces of support either from the articles or from what was learned in class to support your viewpoint. DUE TOMORROW!!!

-Current Events -Discuss Lynching Homework Handout and Collect -Notes: The end of Reconstruction
 * __Monday 2-8-10: How did Reconstruction in the South End?__**

__**Thursday 2-4-10: How did the South change socially during Reconstruction:**__ -Video: Legacy of Hate -Assignment: Read Article Brotherhood of Bigots and answer accompanying questions Due: Tomorrow

-Read Your Book pp184-187 -Get Notes that were taken in class
 * __Wednesday 2-3-10: What Myths surrounded Reconstruction in the south:__**

__**Tuesday 2-2-10: Happy groundhog Day! How did the south react economically after the Civil War.**__ -Review Reconstruction Amendments - Take Alabama Literacy test and Discuss - Read Acutal sharecropping contract and discussion of Sharecropping cycle of poverty.

-Current Events -Check Reconstruction Amendments chart -Go over how each Amendment was undermined by the the South
 * __Monday 2-1-10:__** How did the Reconstruction Amendments improve the lives of African Americans after the Civil War?

__**Thursday 1-28-10"**__ //__"__What were the political effects of Reconstruction after the Civil War"// -10 minutes to finish homework -Notes Reconstruction and the politics of it

-Review -Brief notes on Reconstruction (See Mr. Fortmann for a copy) -Assignment: Reconstruction and its Effects (blue book) **Due Thursday!** media type="custom" key="5240455"
 * __Wednesday 1-27-10:__** //__"__What were the political effects of Reconstruction after the Civil War"//

__**Tuesday 1-26-10:**__ Review Civil War Scenario: Post War Life in the South Explain the 3 types of issues during Reconstruction No Homework!