Week 11, Syllabus

Mr. Ditzenberger-U.S. History
Lesson: Slavery, Renewal, and New Communities
Time: Week 11, Oct 22-Oct 26
Unit: The Beginnings of a Country
Objectives:
1. Students will evaluate Andrew Jackson’s role as president by analyzing the indictments against him through the A.P. U.S. class.
2. Students will be able to list and compare the characteristics of each region of American during the 1st half of the 19th C.
3. Students will analyze the lives of slaves through the medium of the African American spiritual.
4. Students will create their own spiritual.
5. Students will list the main characteristics and figures in the reform movements of the 1st half of the 19th century.
Monday
1. Turn in Homework.
2. Simulation with Mrs. Butron’s Class.
1. Maps
2. Chapter 8, Section 1 Lecture.

Wednesday
Spirituals, and the Underground Railroad. Write your own song in your group. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/singers/sfeature/songs_swing_qt.html)
Homework-Read section 3. Quiz over section 3 tomorrow (quiz taken largely from Define and Explain and Identify and Explain on page 279).
Thursday
1. Quiz.
2. Chapter 9, Section 1. Religious Zeal and New Communities.
3. Homework: Read Section 2. Evaluate the Reform movements mentioned in section 2 by completing #3 on page 296.
Friday
1. No Class. Half day. Parent-Teacher Conferences.