9/24

Students worked on a google classroom assignment. THere were a series of video clips and links to investigate the underground railroad, mexican american war, kansas nebraska act, and dred scott incident. Students will have 15 minutes tomorrow to work on it in class.

9/23

Today students turned in their work from thursday on Manifest Destiny. We then began to look at the road to the Civil War. This unit titled the "breakup" revolves around it. We started by looking at the Cotton Gin and how it led to an explosion for slavery. We watched a short clip. Then we looked at the Missouri Compromise and Nullification Crisis. Each event causes small problems that will carry us towards division. The Nullification Crisis questions should be completed.
Quickwrite 2 was also done.

uWhat do you think made people suddenly start taking a bigger issue with slavery? Do you think it was gradual or a single event? Think of something else that society has changed their minds on over time, how did things change?

9/18-9/20

We began our new unit The Breakup and Makeup that leads to America's Shape Up. I wasn't at school on Thursday but on Wed and Friday we went over the notes attached. We did quickwrite 1 on wed. On thursday the other assignment on the attachment was done. We looked at 6 early Presidents of America, as well as the idea of Manifest Destiny as America spread across the continent.

Notes, Assignment and Quickwrite

9/17

We formatted our Along the Chap papers today. Everyone should now be done on the project.

9/16 Monday

We took our Unit 1 test today

9/13

We finished the Along the Chaparral Project. Just about everyone was done. Any formatting will be done next tuesday. We also will have our unit test on Monday.

9/12

We went back over the work from last week. We reviewed the framework of the Constitution. I quickly went over why the anti-federalists opposed the Constitution. Lastly why the Bill of Rights was put in place and quickly some of the things it covered.

The order for the notebook:

Reminders: Must be Stapled or Glued. DON’T TURN PAPERS SIDEWAYS OR FOLD THEM!!! DON’T GLUE DOWN PAPERS THAT HAVE A BACK ON THEM!!! Each paper should have its own page

1. Title Page-Your name, Period, Unit 1 and A Dream is Born on it

2. Quickwrites-There were 4, look back on the class website if you missed any. They should all be in this I spot. Before all the notes. 

3. Notes-Things we took in class. If you need any I didn’t put on website just ask. 

4. Work:

1. City Upon a Hill/The Early Years

2. Your snowballs handout

3. Declaration of Independence

4. State Convention paper/with the issues

5. Constitution handout’s-Bill of Rights

6. Whiskey Rebellion paper

9/9-9/11

We worked on the Along the Chaparral Project each day. It should be finished by now. All that is left is editing.

Tuesday through Friday 9/3-9/6

Tuesday 9/3-We continued to work on our Along the Chaparral Project
Wednesday 9/4-I was out this day but the students finished up looking at the issues of the Constitution, they then looked at what the results of the Constitution were.
Thursday 9/5-I began to go over parts of the Constitution and why there were issues. What was decided on and how it was resolved. We still have a little big more to go. 
Friday 9/6-We continued to work on our Along the Chaparral Project

Tuesday through Friday

8/27-We finished looking at thesis statements and students turned in their packets with snowballs 6-9. We then looked at what the Declaration of Independence said and how it tied back into the Enlightenment era. Short handout was given

Quickwrite 3 that went with video clip: •Why do you think there wasn’t a lot more energy or excitement? What do you think was going through their heads? How did the people react differently that were not in Independence Hall?  
8/28-Students took their quiz. At the very end of class I spoke briefly on the difficulty and length of the American Revolution in trying to earn our freedom.
8/29-I gave a quick summary of America after the American Revolution. The Articles of the Confederation were week, and prohibited America from really doing anything as a new nation. Shay's rebellion showed that the flaws of the nation needed to be strengthened. We then paired students with a state from 1787 and they began to look at the main arguments of the convention through the eyes of their state. What and why would a state have thought the way it did.
8/30-We began our along the chaparral project, and began looking at somebody buried in Riverside National Cemetary. We will continue this on tuesday next week.

Have a good 3 day break!