Friday, February 12, 2016

Homework #2 - Marking Period 4

Homework #2 - Your homework over the break is the following:

In your text read pages 350 - 365.

On page 354 answer #2 (list your answers - no need to make the web), #3 and #4.

On page 365 answer#1 (scalawag, carpetbagger, sharecropping, tenant farmer) and #2, #3 and #4.

Work is due Monday when we return - for work completed online use the Google Doc attached on the Google Classroom posting of this assignment.

Enjoy the week off!

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Presentation Reminders

If you did not complete a project draft - you MUST submit one by Thursday - you will not be allowed to present, and your grade will suffer without submission of a prior draft.

Presentations will be conducted as follows on Monday, January 11 and Tuesday January 12.

Monday - 1/11 - Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass
Tuesday - 1/12 - Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott

Do not be absent. Make up presentations are not permitted.

Monday, January 4, 2016

Homework: Week of January 4

Welcome back and Happy New Year! There are only a few weeks left in the semester so try to end it strong. Remember, your project drafts are due by the end of today.

Homework for the week is to:
Read pages 224 - 228  in your text book and on page 228 answer:
#1: Second Great Awakening, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism ONLY and question #3

Monday, December 21, 2015

Homework: Week of 12/21

Homework for this week will still be accepted up through Friday - however you are strongly encouraged to submit work by Wednesday.

Read pages 198 - 203 and 214 - 219 in your text book and answer the following:
On page 203: #1 (all)
On page 219 #1 (Tariff of Abominations, Whig, Panic of 1837) and #3

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Homework #2 Extension (PERIOD 4 ONLY)

The following applies to U.S. History - period 4 only - the writing prompt for the week (#10) is to be submitted by Friday via Google Drive ONLY.

Answer the following question:
How has the Unwritten Constitution influenced American history? Does it make our government more efficient or does it go against the ideas of America's founders?

Classwork for 12/15

In class today you will be reading and summarizing one of the following articles:

Causes of the War of 1812
Effects of the War of 1812
The Era of Good Feelings
The Monroe Doctrine
The American System
Causes of the Industrial Revolution in America