Quarter 1 : Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction
Quarter 1 - Week 1 - 08/24/20-08/28/20
Introductions/Distribution of Class Syllabus and Laptop Usage Forms
Weekly Theme: The Economics of Slavery
Weekly Reading: Slavery
Weekly PowerPoint: The South and Slavery
Introductions/Distribution of Class Syllabus and Laptop Usage Forms
Weekly Theme: The Economics of Slavery
Weekly Reading: Slavery
Weekly PowerPoint: The South and Slavery
Quarter 1 - Week 2 - 08/31/20-09/04/20
Weekly Theme: Southern Views on Slavery
Weekly Reading: Southern Defense of Slavery
Weekly PowerPoint: Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Class Mini-Presentations on Three Main "Justifications" for Slavery
Quiz 1.1 Study Guide
Quiz 1.1
Weekly Theme: Southern Views on Slavery
Weekly Reading: Southern Defense of Slavery
Weekly PowerPoint: Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Class Mini-Presentations on Three Main "Justifications" for Slavery
Quiz 1.1 Study Guide
Quiz 1.1
Quarter 1 - Week 3 - 09/07/20-09/11/20
Weekly Theme: Northern Views on Slavery
Weekly Reading: Slavery in New Jersey
No Weekly PowerPoint: Class Presentations on Abolitionist Leaders
Abolitionist Leaders Website
Abolitionist Leader Assignment
Weekly Theme: Northern Views on Slavery
Weekly Reading: Slavery in New Jersey
No Weekly PowerPoint: Class Presentations on Abolitionist Leaders
Abolitionist Leaders Website
Abolitionist Leader Assignment
Quarter 1 - Week 4 - 09/14/20-09/18/20
Weekly Theme: The Road to Secession
Weekly Readings: Bleeding Kansas/Charles Sumner (Sections 6-8)
The Martyrdom of John Brown (Sections 2-5)
Weekly PowerPoint: Drifting Toward Disunion
Test 1.1 Study Guide
Test 1.1
Weekly Theme: The Road to Secession
Weekly Readings: Bleeding Kansas/Charles Sumner (Sections 6-8)
The Martyrdom of John Brown (Sections 2-5)
Weekly PowerPoint: Drifting Toward Disunion
Test 1.1 Study Guide
Test 1.1
Quarter 1 - Week 5 - 09/21/20-09/25/20
Weekly Theme: The Republican Party and Lincoln
Weekly Reading: Lincoln's Election (1860)
Weekly PowerPoint: Girding for War-The North and South
Quiz 1.2 Study Guide
Quiz 1.2
Weekly Theme: The Republican Party and Lincoln
Weekly Reading: Lincoln's Election (1860)
Weekly PowerPoint: Girding for War-The North and South
Quiz 1.2 Study Guide
Quiz 1.2
Quarter 1 - Week 6 - 09/28/20-10/02/20
Weekly Theme: Rebel Yells and Northern Offense
Weekly Readings: A Just War? (Pages 1-9)
Lincoln, Slavery, and Freedom
Weekly PowerPoint: The Furnace of Civil War
Civil War Assignment
Test 1.2 Study Guide
Test 1.2
Weekly Theme: Rebel Yells and Northern Offense
Weekly Readings: A Just War? (Pages 1-9)
Lincoln, Slavery, and Freedom
Weekly PowerPoint: The Furnace of Civil War
Civil War Assignment
Test 1.2 Study Guide
Test 1.2
Quarter 1 - Week 7 - 10/05/20-10/09/20
Weekly Theme: Dichotomous Plans of Reconstruction
Weekly Reading: War and Peace in the Post-Civil War South
Weekly PowerPoint: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Quiz 1.3 Study Guide
Quiz 1.3
Weekly Theme: Dichotomous Plans of Reconstruction
Weekly Reading: War and Peace in the Post-Civil War South
Weekly PowerPoint: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Quiz 1.3 Study Guide
Quiz 1.3
Quarter 1 - Week 8 - 10/12/20-10/19/20
Weekly Theme: Southern Resistance to Reconstruction
No Weekly Reading: Literacy Test
Weekly PowerPoint: The Ordeal of Reconstruction (Continued)
Test 1.3 Study Guide
Test 1.3
Weekly Theme: Southern Resistance to Reconstruction
No Weekly Reading: Literacy Test
Weekly PowerPoint: The Ordeal of Reconstruction (Continued)
Test 1.3 Study Guide
Test 1.3
Quarter 2: Corruption, Expansion, and Imperialism
Quarter 2 - Week 1 - 10/19/20-10/23/20
Weekly Theme: The "Spoils" of the Gilded Age
Weekly Reading: The Lost World of Gilded Age Politics
Weekly PowerPoint: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Weekly Theme: The "Spoils" of the Gilded Age
Weekly Reading: The Lost World of Gilded Age Politics
Weekly PowerPoint: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Quarter 2 - Week 2 - 10/26/20-10/30/20
Weekly Theme: Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?
Weekly Reading: Robber Baron Turned Robin Hood
Weekly PowerPoint: Industry Comes of Age
Quiz 2.1 Study Guide
Quiz 2.1
Weekly Theme: Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?
Weekly Reading: Robber Baron Turned Robin Hood
Weekly PowerPoint: Industry Comes of Age
Quiz 2.1 Study Guide
Quiz 2.1
Quarter 2 - Week 3 - 11/02/20-11/06/20
Weekly Theme: Labor Unions and Protest
Weekly Reading: Paternalism and the Pullman Strike
Weekly PowerPoint: No Weekly PowerPoint
2nd Industrial Revolution Project (Test 2.1) - Due Friday, Nov. 6th
Weekly Theme: Labor Unions and Protest
Weekly Reading: Paternalism and the Pullman Strike
Weekly PowerPoint: No Weekly PowerPoint
2nd Industrial Revolution Project (Test 2.1) - Due Friday, Nov. 6th
Quarter 2 - Week 4 - 11/09/20-11/13/20
Weekly Theme: Urbanization and Civil Rights
Weekly Reading: W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington: Approaches to Developing Citizenship
Weekly PowerPoint: America Moves to the City
Projects Due: November 6th - Mini-Presentations
Weekly Theme: Urbanization and Civil Rights
Weekly Reading: W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington: Approaches to Developing Citizenship
Weekly PowerPoint: America Moves to the City
Projects Due: November 6th - Mini-Presentations
Quarter 2 - Week 5 - 11/16/20-11/20/20
Weekly Theme: The Wild Wild West
Weekly Reading: Wounded Knee and the Prospect of Pluralism
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Quiz 2.2 Study Guide
Quiz 2.2
Weekly Theme: The Wild Wild West
Weekly Reading: Wounded Knee and the Prospect of Pluralism
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Quiz 2.2 Study Guide
Quiz 2.2
Quarter 2 - Week 6 - 11/30/20-12/04/20
Weekly Theme: Silver or Gold? Economic Turmoil
Weekly Reading: The Election of 1896 (Read through page 145)
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution (continued)
Test 2.2 Study Guide
Test 2.2
Weekly Theme: Silver or Gold? Economic Turmoil
Weekly Reading: The Election of 1896 (Read through page 145)
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution (continued)
Test 2.2 Study Guide
Test 2.2
Quarter 2 - Week 7 - 12/07/20-12/11/20
Weekly Theme: Remember the Maine!
Weekly Reading: Breaking the News: Telegraphy and Yellow Journalism in the Spanish-American War
Weekly PowerPoint: Empire and Expansion
Quiz 2.3 Study Guide
Quiz 2.3
Weekly Theme: Remember the Maine!
Weekly Reading: Breaking the News: Telegraphy and Yellow Journalism in the Spanish-American War
Weekly PowerPoint: Empire and Expansion
Quiz 2.3 Study Guide
Quiz 2.3
Quarter 2 - Week 8 - 12/14/20-12/18/20
Weekly Theme: Global Spheres of Influence
Weekly Reading: American Triumph: Explaining the Canal Project
Weekly PowerPoint: Empire and Expansion (continued)
Test 2.3 Study Guide
Test 2.3
Semester Exam Study Guide
Weekly Theme: Global Spheres of Influence
Weekly Reading: American Triumph: Explaining the Canal Project
Weekly PowerPoint: Empire and Expansion (continued)
Test 2.3 Study Guide
Test 2.3
Semester Exam Study Guide
Quarter 3: Problems at Home and Conflict Abroad
Quarter 3 - Week 1 - 01/04/21-01/08/21
Weekly Theme: Roosevelt's Progressivism
Weekly Reading: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Weekly PowerPoint: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
American Imperialism Review Assignment
Muckrakers Assignment
History of the Americas Document Activities:
page 132 #1-5, page 138-139 #1-3 and page 139 #1-3.
History IA Topic Ideas/Research Questions
Weekly Theme: Roosevelt's Progressivism
Weekly Reading: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Weekly PowerPoint: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
American Imperialism Review Assignment
Muckrakers Assignment
History of the Americas Document Activities:
page 132 #1-5, page 138-139 #1-3 and page 139 #1-3.
History IA Topic Ideas/Research Questions
Quarter 3 - Week 2 - 01/11/21-01/15/21
Weekly Theme: Wilsonian Progressivism
Weekly Reading: Women During Progressivism (pages 1-22)
Weekly PowerPoint: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
History IA Topic Ideas/Research Questions
Quiz 3.1 Study Guide
Quiz 3.1
Weekly Theme: Wilsonian Progressivism
Weekly Reading: Women During Progressivism (pages 1-22)
Weekly PowerPoint: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
History IA Topic Ideas/Research Questions
Quiz 3.1 Study Guide
Quiz 3.1
Quarter 3 - Week 3 - 01/18/21-01/22/21
Weekly Theme: Causes of World War I
Weekly Reading: Steps to War
Weekly PowerPoint: The War to End War
History IA Topic Ideas/Research Questions Due
Weekly Theme: Causes of World War I
Weekly Reading: Steps to War
Weekly PowerPoint: The War to End War
History IA Topic Ideas/Research Questions Due
Quarter 3 - Week 4 - 01/25/21-01/29/21
Weekly Theme: The War to End War
Weekly Reading: Interlude Between War and Peace
Weekly PowerPoint: The War to End War (continued)
Test 3.1 Study Guide
Test 3.1
History of the Americas Document Activities :
page 148 #1-5, page 159 #1-5, page 164 #1-4, page 180 #1-3 plus define Amendments 13-19
Weekly Theme: The War to End War
Weekly Reading: Interlude Between War and Peace
Weekly PowerPoint: The War to End War (continued)
Test 3.1 Study Guide
Test 3.1
History of the Americas Document Activities :
page 148 #1-5, page 159 #1-5, page 164 #1-4, page 180 #1-3 plus define Amendments 13-19
Quarter 3 - Week 5 - 02/01/21-02/05/21
Weekly Theme: Wrapping Up WWI
Weekly Reading: History of the Americas pages 160-180 (will be on next quiz)
Weekly PowerPoint: No Weekly PowerPoint
All Quiet on the Western Front Viewing Guide
Weekly Theme: Wrapping Up WWI
Weekly Reading: History of the Americas pages 160-180 (will be on next quiz)
Weekly PowerPoint: No Weekly PowerPoint
All Quiet on the Western Front Viewing Guide
Quarter 3 - Week 6 - 02/08/21-02/12/21
Weekly Theme: Gangsters and Flappers
Weekly Reading: Prohibition Experiment of the 1920s
Weekly PowerPoint: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
History IA Mini-Outlines Due
Weekly Theme: Gangsters and Flappers
Weekly Reading: Prohibition Experiment of the 1920s
Weekly PowerPoint: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
History IA Mini-Outlines Due
Quarter 3 - Week 7 - 02/15/21-02/19/21
Weekly Theme: The Laissez-Faire Presidents
Weekly Reading: Warren Harding Article
Warren Harding Article Questions
Weekly PowerPoint: American Life in the Roaring Twenties (continued)
Quiz 3.2 Study Guide
Quiz 3.2
Weekly Theme: The Laissez-Faire Presidents
Weekly Reading: Warren Harding Article
Warren Harding Article Questions
Weekly PowerPoint: American Life in the Roaring Twenties (continued)
Quiz 3.2 Study Guide
Quiz 3.2
Quarter 3 - Week 8 - 02/22/21-02/26/21
Weekly Theme: Boom to Bust
Weekly Reading: Herbert Hoover and the 1929 Stock Market Crash
Weekly PowerPoint: The Politics of Boom and Bust
Test 3.2 Study Guide
Test 3.2
Weekly Theme: Boom to Bust
Weekly Reading: Herbert Hoover and the 1929 Stock Market Crash
Weekly PowerPoint: The Politics of Boom and Bust
Test 3.2 Study Guide
Test 3.2
Quarter 3 - Week 9 - 03/01/21-03/05/21
Weekly Theme: Relief, Recovery, Reform
Weekly Reading: The Bonus Army
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Quiz 3.3 Study Guide
Quiz 3.3
Weekly Theme: Relief, Recovery, Reform
Weekly Reading: The Bonus Army
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Quiz 3.3 Study Guide
Quiz 3.3
Quarter 3 - Week 10 - 03/08/21-03/12/21
Weekly Theme: New Deal Alphabet Soup
Weekly Reading: Dreamers With Shovels
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great Depression and the New Deal (continued)
Test 3.3 Study Guide
Test 3.3
Optional Extra Credit Assignment
Weekly Theme: New Deal Alphabet Soup
Weekly Reading: Dreamers With Shovels
Weekly PowerPoint: The Great Depression and the New Deal (continued)
Test 3.3 Study Guide
Test 3.3
Optional Extra Credit Assignment
Quarter 4: WWII, Civil Rights, and a Post-Cold War Era
Quarter 4 - Week 1 - 03/22/21-03/26/21
Weekly Theme: A Move to Global War
Weekly Reading: Provocation and Angst: FDR, Japan, Pearl Harbor, and the Entry into War in the Pacific
Weekly PowerPoint: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
Find 5 primary/secondary sources related to your IA topic. Make sure they are in Chicago-formatted citations.
Weekly Theme: A Move to Global War
Weekly Reading: Provocation and Angst: FDR, Japan, Pearl Harbor, and the Entry into War in the Pacific
Weekly PowerPoint: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
Find 5 primary/secondary sources related to your IA topic. Make sure they are in Chicago-formatted citations.
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Quarter 4 - Week 5 - 04/19/21-04/23/21
Quarter 4 - Week 6 - 04/26/21-04/30/21
Quarter 4 - Week 7 - 05/03/21-05/07/21
Quarter 4 - Week 8 - 05/10/21-05/14/21
Quarter 4 - Week 9 - 05/17/21-05/21/21
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