Grading
     The quarterly grade in United States History will be calculated by a cumulative point system.  All assignments will be assigned a numerical point value, and students will accumulate points during the term, based on the quality of their work. Notebooks and 3-ring binders are required, and will be checked periodically. A student’s participation in all class activities will also factor into his/her grade. Students and parents are encouraged to contact me whenever there is a question about class or homework, or if I can answer any question for you.

Instructional Methods
       There will be a variety of methods utilized in this course, including lecture and note taking, role playing and debate, cooperative group work and historical simulations. Powerpoint and video presentations will also be assigned. This year, you will also be required to work on-line frequently. The home page for the course,  http://home.comcast.net/~kmj53/ev.html , will contain your syllabus, assignments, historical readings and important links.  Students are encouraged to check the site daily, and email me at esj4176@aol.com whenever you have a question.  Finally, students are encouraged to actively participate in all class activities, especially class discussion. This is a key component of  our class, and will further your understanding of the material greatly.

Materials
        The primary text for the course is The Americans  from McDougal Littell. Students will also use a variety of other sources, many of which I have linked to my website. There will also be some readings and videotapes.

  Updated December 5th, 2009
                                                                                                                      Mrs. Eveline Johnson

 
 
 

American Studies II Honors
Syllabus for 2009-2010
Mrs. Eveline Johnson

Week of September 1st          "Introduction to Course and Summer Reading Exam"

• Welcome !!!! Introduction to the course.  Information on textbooks, policies, web page.  Student questionnaires. Textbooks distributed.
• Summer Reading Exam on Friday
  
•  Sections1 and 2 of Chapter 12, "Reconstruction" for Tuesday - challenges of reconstruction:  plans and personalities

Week of September 7th           "Chapter 12 ~ Reconstruction and Its Effects"

• Monday, September  - Labor Day
•  Lincoln and the week  of April 9th, 1865 - Section 1and 2 of Ch 12 due 9/8
  
• Society and conditions in the post-war south -
  
• Plans for Reconstruction. Section 3 and all vocab due by Friday, 9/11
  

 Week of September 14th               "Chapter 12 ~ Reconstruction and Its Effects"

• All periods - Library research on Reconstruction - Monday
  
• Present findings on research in class - Tuesday -Reconstruction...Success or Failure???
•  Wednesday and Thursday- Analysis of Reconstruction- PBS
  
• Quest on Reconstruction. Study Guides for Ch 13...Section 1 of Ch 13 due Tuesday
  

Week of September 21st            "Chapter 13 ~Changes on the Western Frontier"

• Introduction to Chapter 13. Section 1 due Tuesday. Packets on the American West due Thursday.
• Common Planning Period on Wednesday 
  
• Ch 13 Section 2 due on Wednesday.
  
• Settling the Great Plains - Quiz on Friday
  

Week of  September 28th              "Chapter 13 ~Changes on the Western Frontier"

• Yom Kippur on Monday- No School
•  Tuesday -  Hand out  debate assignment. Due next Tuesday, 10/6
  
• "I Will Fight No More Forever"  ~ a  study of the Nez  Perce and Chief Joseph
  
• Packets on Chapter 13 due Friday
  

Week of October 5th              "Chapter 13 ~Changes on the Western Frontier"

• Monday, the 5th - Library research for debate on America's Indian policies in settling the West
  
• Term 1 progress reports for ALL STUDENTS - Tuesday
  
• Tuesday and Wednesday - Debate on America's Settlement of the West

Week of October 12th              "Chapter 14 ~ A New Industrial Age"

• Columbus Day observed –– No School on Monday
• Packets on Chapter 14 due Wednesday
  
• Labor Unions and workers' grievances
• Slides  and discussion of America during industrialization
  
• Saturday 17th - PSAT test day at OAHS

 Week of October 19th             "Chapter 14 ~ A New Industrial Age"

•  Jacob Riis "How the Other Half Lives"  chapter summaries and artwork
  
• Richardson, Olmstead and the art and architecture of the late 1800s
• PBS  New York Video "Shadow and Sunshine" by Ric Burns -View Thursday and Friday

Week of October 26th              "Chapter 15 ~ Immigrants and Urbanization"

• Packets - Labor Unions  - Chapter 15
  
• Debate on the Proper Role of Government
  
• Friday - End of Term 1  -  Assign projects on Daily Life
  

Week of November 2nd           "Chapter 15 ~ Immigrants and Urbanization"

• The New Immigrants- Ellis Island film
  
• Tuesday, November 4th - Election Day.
  
• Projects on Daily Life, Culture and the Arts assigned. Use documents and outside research.
  

Week of November 9th        "Chapter 16 ~ Life at the Turn of the 20th Century"

•   Wednesday, the 11th -Veteran’s Day observed – No School; Band  & Color Guard at Veterans Day Parade
•   Library research Tuesday and Thursday.
•    Handouts and Powerpoint or movies due  Thursday, November 19th
  

Week of November 16th          "Chapter 16 ~ Life at the Turn of the 20th Century"

•  Continue research
  
•  Presentations:   Wednesday - Test grade for Chapter  16
• Assign Heritage Projects.  Interviews due by Monday, December 7th
  

Week of November 23rd              "Chapter 17 ~The Progressive Era"

• Begin Progressive Era.  Sections one and two due by Monday, November 24th.
  
• Monday 23rd-  Parent Teacher Conference Night 6:00-8:30 p.m.;  Homecoming Week
• Go over interview questions
  
• Wednesday the 25th- Early Release Day for Thanksgiving .... periods 1-4
• Thursday 26th -Thanksgiving;  football game vs. Sharon 10:00 a.m.

 Week of November 30th              "Chapter 17 ~The Progressive Era"

• Begin series on Theodore Roosevelt - Origins of Progressivism
• The Progressive Presidents - Domestic policy
• Wednesday, the 3rd- Human Rights Day
• Saturday and Sunday - Winter Festival at Rockery

 Week of December 7th               "Chapter 18 - America Claims an Empire"

• Interviews due  Monday, December 7th
• Guest speaker on Jury System- Mr. Michael Ryan of the Jury Commission- Tuesday
  
• Overview of American Foreign Policy to 1890s
  
• Finish the Progressive Presidents- Quiz on Sections 4 and 5 of Ch 17 on Friday
  
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Week of December 14th                 "Chapter 18 - America Claims an Empire"

• Continue on Foreign Policy to World War I
  
• Heritage Presentations  Begin on Thursday
  
• Assign Packet and Chapter on  World War I
  

Week of December 21st            "Chapter 19 -World War One"

• Heritage Presentations continue
  
• Christmas - December 25th

Week of January 4th, 2010                     "Chapter 19 -World War One  to The 1920s"

• Assign Chapter study guide and packet on the 1920s
  
• Video on "The Roaring Twenties"
• Give out midyear review packets.
  

Week of January 11th                  "Chapter 20- The 1920s"

•  Go over the 1920s
  
• Midyear Review Packets to be worked on in class
  

Week of January18th                  Mid Year Exams

• Monday 18 Martin Luther King day – No school
• Wednesday 20 Mid-year exams begin periods 1-5, double 7
• Thursday 21 Mid-year exams 1 and 2
  
• Friday 22 Mid-year exams 3 and 4 

Week of January 25th                  "Crash, Depression and the New Deal"

•  Monday-  Mid-year exams 5 and 6.
• Tuesday-  Hand back exams and go over grades for Term 2
  
• Packet on the Causes of the Crash
•  Crash,  Depression and New Deal

Week of February 1st           "Crash, Depression and the New Deal"

• Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Election of 1932
• Gramma Eveline and Easton in the 1930s
• FDR film
• Life in the U.S during the New Deal
  
• Friday 4 TEMPO Dessert Show at OAHS 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Week of February 8th                     "American Life in a Decade of Crisis at Home and Abroad"

• Rise of Fascism and background to World War II
• Watch Schindler's List by February 24th
• Read and do notes on World War II
• February Vacation from February 12th-22nd
  

 Week of February 22nd              "Rise of Fascism- the Road to World War II"

•   Packet on Rise of Fascism and  International Politics in the 1930s
  
•  Schindler's List  Quiz on  February 23rd
  

 Week of March 1st                      "Waging Global War 1939-1945"

• Term 3 progress reports
• Chapter 6 in review texts due March 2:  The Constitution
• World War II - use timelines and Century film on the war
• All Eastern Conference/Festival
•  Musical this weekend
• Chapter 28 notes due by Friday, March 4th

 Week of March 8th                         "Cold War America 1945-1952"

• Review Chapter 7, the Age of Jefferson - due on Monday, March 8th
• Test on Chapters 25, 26, 27- B-Day
• Truman and the Politics of Containment

 Week of March 15th                          "America at Midcentury~ The Eisenhower Years"

• Eisenhower and the struggle against Communism
• Civil Rights and the Warren Court
• "Eyes on the Prize"
• Chapter 29 due on Friday

Week of March 22nd                         "1950s ~ Consensus and Conservatism"

• The Century series on the 1950s
• DBQ on the Cold War
• Chapter 30 due on Thursday, The Turbulent 60s
• Term Paper Assignment Given- Topics and Controlling Purpose due by April 5th
  

Week of March 29th                            "The New Frontier and the Great Society"

• Portfolio Week - History Day on Wednesday
• Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
• The Struggle for Equality Continues
• Chapter 31 due on Thursday, April 1st
  
• April 2nd, Good Friday - No School
  

Week of April 5th                                            "Vietnam"

•  Library- Term Papers
  
• Monday the 5th - Grades Due
• Tuesday 6th MCAS Grade 10 ELA Composition, sessions 1 & 2
• Thursday 8th - Report Cards

Week of April 12th                            "The Nixon Years: 1968-1974"

• The Century Series on the 1960s
• The Election of 1968 and Richard M. Nixon
• The Meaning of Watergate
• Wednesday The14th -    ACIS TRIP TO GREECE DEPARTS
• Friday, 16th April vacation begins at the close of school
• April 24th - Passover
  
 

Week of April 26th

•  Monday 26th - School reopens from April vacation
• Saturday, April 30th - SAT I & II OAHS site
• Sunday  May 2nd - Easton door to door Scholarship drive

Week of May 3rd

• Continue Work on Term Papers- All Papers due this week....by Friday, May 7th at the latest.
  
• Teacher Appreciation Week
• Sunday, May 9th - Mother's Day

Week of May 10th

•  Monday 10-21 MCAS Grade 10 High School Retests
• Tuesday 11 MCAS ELA Language & Literature, sessions 1 & 2 (retest); Chemistry AP exam
•  Wednesday 12 MCAS ELA Language & Literature, session 3 (retest); Last day for seniors and first day of final exams, English & Foreign Language
•  Thursday 13 MCAS Mathematics, session 1 of 2 (retest); Senior final exams, English & Foreign Language;
•  Friday 14 MCAS math session 2 of 2 (retest); Senior final exams, Social Studies & Science;  Term 4 progress reports

Week of May 17th

•  Monday 16 MCAS makeup; 
• Senior final exams begin
•  Student Council officer elections;  TEMPO Awards Night.

 Week of May 24th

•  Tuesday 24 Senior final exams
•  Wednesday 25 senior final exams
• Senior Grades due in office by 7:30 on Friday

Week of May 31st

• Monday 31st - Memorial Day; OAHS Band & Color Guard march in Memorial Day Parade
•  Wednesday 2nd - Student Council election. Class Night
•  Thursday - Graduation Rehearsal
• Sunday the 6th - Graduation 2:00 p.m.;  Safe Grad Night 11:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. OAHS gym and A-wing.

Week of June 7th

• Year Presentations- Final Projects
  
• Friday 11th - Final exams 1-5 double 7

 Week of June 14th

•  Monday 14th- Final exams 2 & 3.
•  Tuesday 15th- Final exams 3 & 4; Fourth annual Faculty/Staff Cookout in Courtyard beginning at 11:30 a.m.
•  Wednesday 16th- Final exams 5 & 6; Last day for students * Pending snow/emergency days
•  Thursday 17th- Last day for teachers * Pending snow/emergency days