7.+Quarter+2+Assignments

Monday, Nov 8th - Check notes HW; Ida presents her project and then presentations of anthems (due today). War of 1812 recap Play review jeopardy
 * HW: STUDY FOR AMERICAN BELIEFS EXAM on WED!**

Wed, Nov 10th - American Beliefs Exam; Post to wiki week 6 QUESTIONS:
 * HW: Read //The Diaries: Catherine// and do the accompanying questions (for MONDAY)**

Thurs, Nov 11th- NO SCHOOL! Thank a veteran:)

Monday, November 15th Collect/email your reading questions, Art Gallery Go West Questions/discuss HW, Why did people go west?, Manifest Destiny notes
 * HW: Westward Expansion Web Quest (DUE THURSDAY!)**

Wed, Nov 17th - Westward expansion map and chart (on back) **(paper)**
 * HW: map/chart if you don't finish; start studying your 50 states!**

Thurs, Nov 18th - Go over HW chart and Westward expansion note
 * HW: Read the Andrew Jackson packet and answer the accompanying questions/**
 * Study your 50 states and the notes from today for an exam on Dec. 1st! SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT POSTED TO WEEK 6! LAST CALL!**
 * [[file:Andrew Jackson reading.doc]][[file:Andrew Jackson Versus the Cherokee Nation.doc]]<AJ questions**

Monday, Nov 29th - Collect AJ questions; Westward expansion video and review game Review game questions if you wanted to look at them.They are not homework!
 * HW: Study for TEST**!

Wed, Dec 1st - Westward expansion/US map test (short answer and map) **HW: Week 7 discussion question due by the beginning of class on Thursday.**



Thursday, Dec. 2nd - Go over the HW (discussion question week 7). Start our unit on rebellion.

Talk about a possible civil disobedience case here at the high school. Create a rebellion continuum. Place cases on it. Do a checklist. (paper)


 * HW: Read //From Decorated Veteran to Mass Murderer// and answer the questions. Email me your responses before the start of class on Monday.**

Monday, December 6th- Go over McVeigh questions, watch video and then place him on the scale. Terrorism scenarios in groups. Discuss and debrief.


 * HW: Write 5 Things you Know (or think you Know) & 5 Things You want to Know on the American Revolution. Hand in to Mr. Rizzo Wed.**

Wednesday, Dec 8th - Revolutionary War
 * HW: Revolutionary acts worksheet** [[file:revolution rebellion acts wkst.doc]]**Due tomorrow.**

Thursday, Dec 9th - Share the HW; Discussion: Was the American Revolution justified? Go to [|Missouri Compromise Map] Answer the questions on the worksheet provided using the map. Lecture on Causes of the Civil War
 * HW: Read //Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl// and be prepared to discuss on Monday.**

Monday, December 13th -HW reading discussion about [|Slavery]and abolition; Review Kansas-Nebraska Act and John Brown reading and discussion. Quarter two project assigned to be due on January 13th!


 * HW: Read //America's Oddest Election// and answer the questions. The questions should be emailed to me before class starts on Wednesday!** [[file:Election of 1860 reading questions.doc]] [[file:America's Oddest Election reading.pdf]]

Wed, Dec 15th - APARTY with Lincoln's [|letter] and the election of 1860

Thursday, Dec. 17th - CAUSES QUIZ; States rights, the Constitution and economic systems as the final causes; wrap up causes of the Civil War notes and start it.
 * HW: Civil War Scrapbook project**

VACATION:)

Monday, January 3rd - PSAT results from Mrs. Stout; Go to the library to identify sources for your scrapbook (only class time that will be given).
 * HW: Read Chamberlain document and do the questions. (Due Thursday at the beginning of class)**

Wed, January 5th - Compare and contrast the Union and the Confederacy at the beginning of the war
 * HW: Chamberlain reading questions and work on your scrapbook**

Thursday, January 6th - Union strategy for war in groups; Battle overview of the Civil War - conditions and specific battles
 * HW: You should start assembling your scrapbook. Don't forget about your one to two page paper that should be done as well! The project is due a week from today! This is 25 percent of your quarter two grade.**

Monday, January 10th - Guest speaker, Sargent Campbell, presents on the life of a soldier during the Civil War and now.
 * HW: Civil War Project - Don't forget to check the rubric!**

Wed, Jan. 12th - SNOW DAY #1

Thursday, January 13th - Review and battlefield conditions PPT ; week 9 discussion question response; Scrapbook projects due; Civil War Individuals speed dating activity (kind of)
 * HW: The Civil War from a [|Mainer's perspective] - an activity that will provide you with an opportunity to know what Mainers were thinking and doing during the Civil War. Directions: You are to click on no less than seven dates that correspond to a Mainer's experience during the Civil War. It is up to you the seven that you pick and you can use the subject heading to figure out if the entry would be of some interest to you. After you have read at least seven (feel free to read more), you need to write a two-three pages response paper on what life was like for Mainers during the Civil War (//ie what you learned from these entries hopefully)//. It is due on Tuesday (Monday holiday). Please use 12 font and double space your work. Your paper should be emailed as an attachment to me at ecurtis@rsu14.org.**

Monday, January 17th - NO SCHOOL (Martin Luther King Junior Day)
 * HW: 2-3 page paper due tomorrow**

Tuesday - **Maine during the Civil War response papers due!**

Wednesday, January 19th - Review, Civil War wrap up (Appomattox Courthouse and costs, put on rebellion continuum) - MAROON DAY
 * HW: Be thinking of a plan to bring the Confederate states back into the Union and what do we do with all of the former slaves.**

Thursday, January 20th -Split you up in groups for the Congress Simulation (Reconstruction) You may search Reconstruction Plans for ideas (Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and Congress under the Radical Republicans all had one) Study guide given for the Final Exam

Monday, January 24th - **NO CLASS TODAY DUE TO SCHEDULE CHANGE**

Tuesday, January 25th - Review Session for exam; Study guides due for extra points on Final or to replace a low homework grade in quarter 2

=Wednesday, January 26th- Period 5 Final exam 7:30 to 9:00 in room 129!=