Mrs. Ruland's United States History Class
GT Assignment Log
1st Quarter
Date |
Assignment |
Due |
Points |
| 8/30 | Class: Administrative details | ||
| HW: Email Mrs. Ruland to get username/password, Log-on to Buffalo Phil's History Corral ;
Respond to Welcome Forum Grading Policy signature Summer Picture |
9/2 9/2 9/14 |
2 5 10 |
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| 9/1 | Class: Administrative details Textbooks Cloze Activity |
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| 9/2 | Quiz Procedures for homework: SQ3R, Wikipedia |
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| HW: Ch 5 sect 1 | 9/9 | 3 | |
| 9/3 | Mrs. Ruland's Tutorial on Plagiarism and Paraphrasing |  |
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| HW: Honor Code Pledge signatures Paragraph explaining meaning of Pledge of Allegiance |
9/9 | 10 | |
| 9/8 | Class: Introduce/Explain Special Presentations - Battles, Historical Novels, Supreme Court, Historical Essays |
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| 9/9 | Quiz: Ch 5 sect 1 | 4 | |
| Intro Unit 1: Outline, objectives, Reconstruction Outline Class: Review causes of Civil War and impact of war |
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| HW: Ch 5 sect 2 | 9/11 | 3 | |
| 9/10 | Class: Notes/Discussion: Political Reconstruction; Compare/Contrast Lincoln's and Johnson's Plans | ||
| 9/11 | Quiz: Ch 5 sect 2 | 4 | |
| Class: Notes/Discussion: Political Reconstruction; Compare/Contrast Lincoln's and Johnson's Plans | |||
| HW: Ch 5 sect 3 Reconstruction Map |
9/14 | 3 29 |
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| 9/14 | Collected HW: News Analysis | 20 | |
| Quiz: Ch 5 sect 3 | 4 | ||
| Class: discussion and notes on Congressional Reconstruction, Johnson Impeachment | |||
| HW: Ch 5 sect 4 Election of 1876 Map |
9/16 | 3 28 |
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| 9/15 | Class: Economic and social changes with Reconstruction; sharecropping | ||
| 9/16 | Quiz: Ch 5 sect 4 | 4 | |
| Class: End of Reconstruction - Causes, Successes, Failures; Election of 1876 | |||
| HW: Read documents - bring to class on 9/17 & 9/18 | |||
| 9/17 | Class: small groups work with document packets and discuss the changes in the relative power of the federal and state governments between 1860 and 1877; the changes in the relationship between Congress and the president; and the relative status and rights of the planter class and African Americans in the South. (For the freedmen, the crucial question is whether the civil rights obtained after the war outlasted Reconstruction, especially in the absence of any significant confiscation and redistribution of land.) | ||
| 9/18 | Class: Finish document activity Class: How to write a Thesis |
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| HW: Unit I Content Outline -- Reconstruction HW : Study for test |
9/21 | ||
| 9/21 | Collected Assignments: Unit Outline - Reconstruction | ||
| Test: Reconstruction | 20 | ||
| HW: Ch 6 sect 1 | 9/23 | 3 | |
| 9/22 | Introduce topic: The West Role of Railroad and Homestead Act in settlement |
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| 9/23 | Quiz: Ch 6 sect 1 | 4 | |
| Class Activity - small groups create chart of push-pull factors | 5 | ||
| Class - Activity with documents - the Homestead Act | |||
| HW: Ch 7 sect 1 | 9/25 | 3 | |
| 9/24 | Presentations: Sand Creek; Little Big Horn | ||
| Class - Activity with documents - the Homestead Act - Continued | 10 | ||
| 9/25 | Quiz: Ch 7 sect 1 | 3 | |
| Class Discussion - Identify American policies towards Native Americans Video on White Settlers Paternalism |
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| HW: Ch 7 sect 2 HW: Indian Lands Map |
9/30 | 3 15 |
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| 9/29 | Collected HW: News Analysis | 20 | |
| Presentations: My Antonia; Laughing Boy; Shane; Huck Finn; Tom Sawyer | |||
| 9/30 | Quiz: Ch 7 sect 2 | 5 |
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| Class Activity - Work with Documents | |||
| HW: Ch 7 sect 3 HW: Opening the West Map |
10/2 | 3 33 |
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| 10/1 | Class Discussion/Notes -- Miners, Ranchers, Farmers | ||
| 10/2 | Quiz: Ch 7 sect 3 | 4 | |
| Class Discussion: Legacy of Westward Expansion | |||
| HW: Unit I Content Outline -- Part II HW : Study for test |
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| 10/5 | HW Collected: Content Outline part II | ||
| Test: Westward Movement | 25 | ||
| Introduce Unit 1 Project and Grading Rubric | 10/26 | 100 | |
| HW: Ch 6 sect 2 | 10/7 | 3 | |
| 10/6 | Media Center to work on Project | ||
| 10/7 | Quiz: Ch 6 sect 2 | 4 | |
| Discuss/Notes Industrialization, Natural Resources, Railroads, Assembly Lines | |||
| HW: Ch 6 sect 3&4 | 10/9 | 6 | |
| 10/8 | Discuss/Notes Verticle and Horizontal integration; monopolies, holding companies and trusts; Social Darwinism; Gospel of Wealth | ||
| 10/9 | Quiz: Ch 6 sect 3&4 | 11 | |
| Class Discussion: Laissez-faire, democratic socialism, communism as 3 different economic/political systems. Industrial conditions and lack of protection | |||
| HW: Ch 8 sect 2 | 10/12 | 3 | |
| 10/12 | Collected HW: News Analysis | 20 | |
| Quiz: Ch 8 sect 2 | 6 | ||
| Class Activity: groups research Great Railway Strike of 1877, Homestead Strike of 1892, and Pullman Strike of 1894. Include outcome of each strike | |||
| HW: Ch 8 sect 3 HW: Take home essay test on Industrial Era HW: Content Outline part III |
10/19 | 3 32 23 |
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| 10/13 | Class: Socialism, anarchism and labor unions as an attempt to solve problems of workers; Labor and Government reaction | ||
| Class: Effects of Industrialization; conditions for workers; poems about child labor, industrial accidents | |||
| 10/14 | PSAT - No Class | ||
| 10/15 | Presentations: Wizard of Oz; Munn v. IL; Wabash v. IL | ||
| Class: Urbanization; Jacob Riis; Legislation | |||
| 10/19 | Collected: Take Home Essay (must also be submitted to Turnitin.com) | ||
| Quiz: Ch 8 sect 3 | |||
| Class Activity: Robber Baron or Captain of Industry | |||
| HW: Ch 8 sect 1&4 | 10/21 | 6 | |
| 10/20 | Class: Immigration to the US; conditions and hardships immigrants face; Nativism | ||
| 10/21 | Quiz: Ch 8 sect 1 & 4 | 5 | |
| Class Discussion: Thomas Nast and Boss Tweed | |||
| HW: Ch 7 sect 4 and Ch 9 sect 1 HW: Read Farmers' Plight and identify problems farmers were facing |
10/23 | 6 | |
| 10/22 | Presentations: US v EC Knight; In re Debs; Plessy v Ferguson; US v Wong Kim Ark; Lochner v NY | ||
| Use play money to demonstrate the changing value of money in relationship to amount in circulation. | |||
| 10/23 | Quiz: Ch 7 sect 4 and Ch 9 sect 1 | 17 | |
| Class Activity: Review Omaha platform and note whether each major plank attempted to create a new political and economic order, or whether it sought to recreate a pre-industrial order. | |||
| HW: Ch 9 sect 2&3 | 10/26 | 6 | |
| 10/26 | Due: Unit 1 Project - must also be submitted to turnitin.com | ||
| Collected HW: News Analysis | 20 | ||
| Quiz: Ch 9 sect 2 &3 | 13 | ||
| Unit 1 Project Presentations | |||
| HW: Ch 9 sect 4 | 10/28 | 3 | |
| 10/27 | Discussion: Wizard of Oz as allegory; disscuss the issues revolving around the Populist Party; Cross of Gold speech and the end of the Populists. | ||
| 10/28 | Quiz: Ch 9 sect 4 | 5 | |
| Class: Reasons for Reform and areas needing reform Class: Impact of reform on Education; McGuffy readers; Booker T Washington and WEB du Bois. |
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| HW: Ch 11 sect 1 & 2 | 10/30 | 6 | |
| 10/29 | Presentations: The Pit; The Jungle; CT Yankee in King Arthur's Court | ||
| Discuss political backlash after Reconstruction and effect on African Americans; how have laws helped or hindered? | |||
| 10/30 | Due: 1st Quarter Bonus | ||
| Quiz: Ch 11 sect 1 & 2 | 9 | ||
| In groups students create notes supporting statement "Although much had changed in women's lives by the turn of the century, much had stayed the same." Look at political, social, and economic contributions of women to American society at this time. | |||
| HW: Ch 11 sect 3 & 4 | 6 | 11/2 | |
| 11/2 | Quiz: Ch 11 sect 3 & 4 | 13 | |
| Discuss the theme of reform and various parts to the progressive movement | |||
| Groups: Create cause and effect chart; list events that served as stimuli to reforms and legislation that resulted. | |||
| HW Study and Content Outline Part IV | 11/5 | ||
| 11/3 | Discuss the progressive accomplishments
of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson Discuss Wilson and his racism |
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| 11/4 | Populist and Progressive test | 60 | |
| HW: Ch 10 sect 1 | 11/9 | 3 | |
| 11/5 | HW Collected: Content Outline | 19 | |
| Unit 1 Test | 100 |
Last updated October 16, 2009
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