Monday, October 29, 2007

Week 12, Syllabus

Mr. Ditzenberger-U.S. History
Lesson: Abolition, Manifest Destiny, and Expansion
Time: Week 12, Oct 29-Nov 2
Unit: Expansion and Conflict
Objectives:
1. Students will analyze the policies of Andrew Jackson and determines whether he should punished by Congress for his choices.
2. Students will review the major concepts, events, and people of the 1st half of the 1800s.
3. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the major concepts, events, and people of the 1st half of the 1800s through a test that will include matching, M/C, T/F, and essay.
4. Students will analyze the ethics of the Manifest Destiny mindset.
Monday
1. Simulation with Mrs. Butron’s Class.
1. Review for test.
Wednesday
Chapter 9, Section 3, Crusade for Abolition.
Thursday
1. Test
2. Homework
Friday
1. Manifest Destiny and the Settlement of Texas.

Grades, Sept 29


Thursday, October 25, 2007

Review Guide for Test 7, 8, 9

Terms and Ideas to study for M/C:
Era after Federalist party collapsed, Monroe Doctrine, Adams-Onis Treaty, Latin American colonies, Irish immigrants, slave life, southern life, German immigrants, Mormons, Second Great Awakening, reform movements, the abolitionist movement,

The following will be included in matching: Adams-Onis Treaty, Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Simon Bolivar, Andrew Jackson, Robert Fulton, William Lloyd Garrison, Missouri Compromise, Henry Clay, Rush-Bagot Agreement, James Monroe, Louis de Onis,

Short Answer: Jackson’s title “the people’s president”, benefit of trains compared to steamboats, “cult of true womanhood”, roles of middle class men and women, differences of Irish and German immigrants, preservation of slave culture, the advent of cotton in the South, discrimination towards A.A. in the South, Harriet Tubman, Shakers, Brook Farm,

Essays:
1. Who was the author of the American System? What were the three problems and solutions that the American System was trying to address?

2. Religion in ante-bellum was very influential and was visible in virtually every aspect of American life. Write an essay that supports the idea that religion was a significant force during this time. Draw on your knowledge of reform movements, utopian communities, and the Great Awakening.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Grades


Sunday, October 7, 2007

Essay Questions-Review for test-Chapter 4, 5, 6


Essay questions
a) Describe the importance of the L.P. to the United States.
b) What influential role did A.H. play in the establishment of the federal gov?
c) What did the Treaty of Ghent provide?

Tuesday, October 2, 2007