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1st Nine Weeks
Week of Monday,
August 10th to Friday, August 14th
Weekly Essay
Topic: What is manifest destiny? What role did this concept play in the
expansion of the western United States?
Reading Assignment: Ch.
1 Sec. 4 [America Purchases Louisiana], Ch. 2 Sec. 5, Ch. 6, & Ch. 7 Sec. 1
[Imperialists Believe in National Superiority] (Westward Expansion)
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Monday: Assign
seats, Pass out & discuss the Class Rules
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Tuesday: Assign
textbooks; Westward Expansion Notes (start A) 1/5; Westward Expansion Study
Guide; Reading assignment (Ch. 1 Sec. 4 [America Purchases Louisiana], Ch. 2
Sec. 5, Ch. 6, & Ch. 7 Sec. 1 [Imperialists Believe in National Superiority])
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Wednesday: Westward
Expansion Notes (finish A) 2/5; Manifest Destiny Worksheet; Westward Expansion
Map
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Thursday: Westward
Expansion Notes (B) 3/5; Transcontinental Railroad & the Decline of the
Buffalo Worksheet
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Friday: Westward
Expansion Notes (C & D) 4/5; Massacre at Wounded Knee Worksheet; Weekly Essay
#1 Due
Week of Monday, August 17th to
Friday, August 21st
Weekly
Essay Topic: What were the Plains Wars, & what things led to this? How did
this conflict end? Discuss major milestones of the Plains Wars.
Reading Assignment: Ch.
1 Sec. 4 [America Purchases Louisiana], Ch. 2 Sec. 5, Ch. 6, & Ch. 7 Sec. 1
[Imperialists Believe in National Superiority] (Westward Expansion); Chapter 3
Section 4, Chapter 6 Section 1 [Black Southerners Gain & Lose], & Chapter 9
Section 1)
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Monday: Westward
Expansion Notes (E) 5/5
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Tuesday: Westward
Expansion Review Game
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Wednesday: Westward
Expansion Test; Westward Expansion Unit Grade; Reading assignment (Ch. 3 Sec.
4, Ch. 6 Sec. 1 [Black Southerners Gain & Lose], & Ch. 9 Sec. 1)
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Thursday: Review
Westward Expansion Test results; Reconstruction of the South Notes (start A)
1/4; Reconstruction of the South Study Guide
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Friday: Reconstruction
of the South Notes (finish A & B) 2/4; Weekly Essay #2 Due
Week of Monday, August 24th to
Friday, August 28th
Weekly
Essay Topic: How did the Reconstruction plans of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew
Johnson, & the Radical Republicans differ? Why was there such friction between
Johnson & the Radical Republicans over the Reconstruction of the South?
Reading Assignment: Chapter
3 Section 4, Chapter 6 Section 1 [Black Southerners Gain & Lose], & Chapter 9
Section 1 (Reconstruction of the South); Chapter 4 (Second Industrial
Revolution)
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Monday: Reconstruction
of the South Notes (C) 3/4; Radical Reconstruction Worksheet
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Tuesday: Reconstruction
of the South Notes (D) 4/4; Legal Equality Versus Social Reality Worksheet
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Wednesday: Reconstruction
of the South Review Game
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Thursday: Reconstruction
of the South Test; Reconstruction of the South Unit Grade; Reading assignment
(Ch. 4)
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Friday: Review
Reconstruction of the South Test results; Second Industrial Revolution Notes
(start A) 1/5; Second Industrial Revolution Study Guide; Weekly Essay #3 Due
Week of Monday, August 31st to
Friday, September 4th
Weekly
Essay Topic: What technological advance developed during the late 1800s or
early 1900s do you feel has had the longest lasting impact on American life.
Support your answer with specific examples.
Reading Assignment: Chapter
3 Section 4, Chapter 6 Section 1 [Black Southerners Gain & Lose], & Chapter 9
Section 1 (Reconstruction of the South); Chapter 4 (Second Industrial
Revolution)
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Monday: Second
Industrial Revolution Notes (finish A) 2/5; Inventions & Innovations Worksheet
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Tuesday: Second
Industrial Revolution Notes (B) 3/5; Second Industrial Revolution Study Guide
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Wednesday: Second
Industrial Revolution Notes (C) 4/5; Knights of Labor & the AFL Worksheet
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Thursday: Second
Industrial Revolution Notes (D) 5/5
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Friday: Homestead
Strike Video; Weekly Essay #4 Due
Week of Monday, September 7th to
Friday, September 11th
Weekly
Essay Topic: How did the belief in Social Darwinism held by many big
business owners conflict with the desires of many labor unions for better
wages, benefits, & working conditions for laborers? Discuss some labor
disputes that took place during this era & how these disputes were ended.
Reading Assignment: Chapter
4 (Second Industrial Revolution); Chapter 5 & Chapter 7 Section 2 & 3
(American Urbanization & the Gilded Age)
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Monday: LABOR
DAY - No School!!!
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Tuesday: Second
Industrial Revolution Review Game
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Wednesday: Second
Industrial Revolution Test; Second Industrial Revolution Unit Grade; Reading
assignment (Ch.
5 & Ch. 7 Sec. 2 & 3)
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Thursday: Review
Second Industrial Revolution Test; American Urbanization & the Gilded Age
Notes (start A) 1/6; American Urbanization & the Gilded Age Study Guide;
Immigration Worksheet
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Friday: American
Urbanization & the Gilded Age Notes (finish A) 2/6; Pass out Family Tree
Project handouts & discuss what is expected out of the project; Weekly Essay
#5 Due
Week of Monday, September 14th to
Friday, September 18th
Weekly
Essay Topic: What is the difference between a "new" immigrant & an "old"
immigrant? Which type of immigrant was more accepted by most Americans & why?
Reading Assignment: Chapter
5 & Chapter 7 Section 2 & 3 (American Urbanization & the Gilded Age)
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Monday: American
Urbanization & the Gilded Age Notes (B) 3/6
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Tuesday: American
Urbanization & the Gilded Age Notes (C) 4/6; Tammany Hall Worksheet
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Wednesday: Family
Tree Project (in Library)
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Thursday: Family
Tree Project (in Library)
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Friday: Family
Tree Project (in Library); Weekly Essay #6 Due
Week of Monday, September 21st to
Friday, September 25th
Weekly
Essay Topic: How did Charles J. Guiteau’s assassination of President James
A. Garfield in 1881 contribute to the adoption of the Pendleton Civil Service
Act of 1883? What specifically did the Pendleton Act do?
Reading Assignment: Chapter
5 & Chapter 7 Section 2 & 3 (American Urbanization & the Gilded Age)
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Monday: American
Urbanization & the Gilded Age Notes (D) 5/6
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Tuesday: American
Urbanization & the Gilded Age Notes (E) 6/6
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Wednesday: Family
Tree Project (in Library)
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Thursday: Family
Tree Project (in Library); Weekly Essay #7 Due
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Friday: STAFF
DEVELOPMENT – No School for Students!!!
Week of Monday, September 28th to
Friday, October 2nd
Weekly
Essay Topic: What policies did the People’s Party (Populist Party) favor,
and why were these policies favored? Who would be helped the most and the
least by Populist policies? Make sure to discuss the gold v. the silver
standard.
Reading Assignment: Chapter
5 & Chapter 7 Section 2 & 3 (American Urbanization & the Gilded Age); Chapter
9 (Imperialism)
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Monday: American
Urbanization & the Gilded Age Study Guide - define all terms on the study guide
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Tuesday: American
Urbanization & the Gilded Age Review Game
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Wednesday: American
Urbanization & the Gilded Age Test; American Urbanization & the Gilded Age
Unit Grade; Reading assignment (Ch. 9)
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Thursday: Family
Tree Project Report Due; Review American Urbanization & the Gilded Age Test;
Imperialism Notes (A) 1/4; Imperialism Study Guide; Weekly Essay #8 Due
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Friday: Homecoming
Olympics - Free Day!!!
Week of Monday, October 5th to
Friday, October 9th
Weekly
Essay Topic: No Weekly Essay!!!
Reading Assignment: Chapter
9 (Imperialism)
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Monday: Imperialism
Notes (B) 2/4; Spanish-American War Map
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Tuesday: Imperialism
Notes (C) 3/4
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Wednesday: Imperialism
Notes (D) 4/4
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Thursday: Imperialism
Review Game
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Friday: Imperialism
Test; Imperialism Unit Grade; Reading assignment (Ch. 7 Sec. 1 [Women Make
Gains and Suffer Setbacks] & Ch 8)
2nd
Nine Weeks
Week of Monday, October 19th to
Friday, October 23rd
Weekly
Essay Topic: Some people call the Spanish-American War a "Little Splendid
War." Why might this be a fair description of this war?
Reading Assignment: Chapter
7 Section 1 & Chapter 8 (Progressive Era)
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Monday: Imperialism
Review Game 1/2
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Tuesday: Imperialism
Review Game 2/2
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Wednesday: Imperialism
Test; Reading assignment (Ch. 7 Sec. 1 [Women Make Gains and Suffer Setbacks]
& Ch 8)
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Thursday: Review
Imperialism Test results; Progressive Era Notes (A) 1/7; Progressive Era Study
Guide; assign reading for Sinclair’s The Jungle Jigsaw Activity
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Friday: Sinclair’s
The Jungle Jigsaw Activity 1/2; Weekly Essay #1b Due
Week of Monday, October 26th to
Friday, October 30th
Weekly
Essay Topic: Summarize the four The Jungle readings. What
things struck you the most when discussing Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
in class?
Reading Assignment: Chapter
7 Section 1 & Chapter 8 (Progressive Era)
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Monday: Sinclair's
The Jungle Jigsaw Activity 2/2
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Tuesday: Progressive
Era Notes (finish A & start B) 3/7
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Wednesday: Progressive
Era Notes (continue B) 4/7
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Thursday: Progressive
Era Notes (finish B & start C) 5/7
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Friday: Progressive
Era Notes (finish C & D) 6/7; Weekly Essay #2b Due
Week of Monday, November 2nd to
Friday, November 6th
Weekly
Essay Topic: Which progressive president (T. Roosevelt, Taft, or Wilson)
do you feel best captured what it meant to be a progressive? Support your
position using specific examples.
Reading Assignment: Chapter
7 Section 1 & Chapter 8 (Progressive Era); Chapter 10 (World War I)
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Monday: Progressive
Era Notes (E) 7/7; Controlling the Trusts Worksheet
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Tuesday: Progressive
Era Review Game
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Wednesday: Progressive
Era Test; Progressive Era Unit Grade; Reading assignment (Ch. 10)
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Thursday: Review
Progressive Era Test results; World War I Notes (start A) 1/4; World War I
Study Guide
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Friday: World
War I Notes (finish A & B) 2/4; Weekly Essay #3b Due
Week of Monday, November 9th to
Friday, November 13th
Weekly
Essay Topic: What events caused the United
States
to enter the “Great War” on the side of the Allies? Give specific examples.
Reading Assignment: Chapter
10 (World War I); Chapter 10 Section 4 & Chapter 11 (Roaring '20s)
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Monday: World
War I Europe Map; Lusitania & Zimmermann Note Worksheet
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Tuesday: World
War I Notes (C) 3/4
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Wednesday: World
War I Notes (D) 4/4
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Thursday: World
War I Review Game
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Friday: World
War I Test; World War I Unit Grade; Weekly Essay #4b Due; Reading assignment
(Ch. 10 Sec. 4 & Ch. 11); pass out Heroes of the 1920s Project handouts &
discuss what is expected
Week of Monday, November 16th to
Friday, November 20th
Weekly
Essay Topic: Why did the U.S.
not approve of the League
of Nations & the Treaty
of Versailles? Explain.
Reading Assignment: Chapter
10 Section 4 & Chapter 11 (Roaring '20s)
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Monday: Heroes
of the 1920s Project (in Library)
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Tuesday: Heroes
of the 1920s Project (in Library)
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Wednesday: Heroes
of the 1920s Project (in Library)
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Thursday: Heroes
of the 1920s Project (in Library)
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Friday: Heroes
of the 1920s Project (in Classroom); Weekly Essay #5b Due
Week of Monday, November 23rd to
Friday, November 27th
Weekly
Essay Topic: Why do you think that the person you researched was looked
upon by many people as a hero during the 1920s?
Reading Assignment: Chapter
10 Section 4 & Chapter 11 (Roaring '20s)
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Monday: Heroes
of the 1920s Project Presentations
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Tuesday: Heroes
of the 1920s Project Presentations; Weekly Essay #6b Due
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Wednesday: THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAY - No School!!!
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Thursday:
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - No School!!!
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Friday:
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY - No School!!!
Week of Monday, November 30th to
Friday, December 4th
Weekly
Essay Topic: How did Henry Ford’s development of the assembly line affect
the automobile industry? How did the increased number of automobiles in the U.S.
permanently change modern American culture?
Reading Assignment: Chapter
10 Section 4 & Chapter 11 (Roaring '20s)
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Monday: Review
World War I Test results; Roaring ‘20s Notes (start A) 1/6; Roaring ‘20s Study
Guide; Red Scare Worksheet
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Tuesday: Review
World War I Test results; Roaring ‘20s Notes (finish A) 1/6; Roaring ‘20s
Study Guide; Red Scare Worksheet
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Wednesday: Roaring
‘20s Notes (B) 2/6; Automobile Revolution Worksheet
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Thursday: Roaring
‘20s Notes (C) 3/6; Business of America Worksheet
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Friday: Roaring
‘20s Notes (D) 4/6; Weekly Essay #7b Due
Week of Monday, December 7th to
Friday, December 11th
Weekly
Essay Topic: How did radio change American society during the 1920s. Make
sure to discuss specific examples.
Reading Assignment: Chapter
10 Section 4 & Chapter 11 (Roaring '20s)
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Monday: Scopes
Trial History Channel Video
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Tuesday: Roaring
‘20s Notes (start E) 5/6
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Wednesday: Roaring
‘20s Notes (finish E) 6/6; Jazz Age Worksheet
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Thursday: Roaring
‘20s Review Game
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Friday: Roaring
’20 Test; Roaring ‘20s Test; Weekly Essay #8b Due
Week of Monday, December 14th to
Friday, December 18th
Weekly
Essay Topic: No Weekly Essay
Reading Assignment: No
Reading Assignment
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Monday: Review
for Semester Exam
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Tuesday: Review
for Semester Exam
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Wednesday: Review
for Semester Exam
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Thursday: Review
for Semester Exam
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Friday: Semester
Exam
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