Friday, September 28, 2012

LESSON PLANS FOR OCT. 1-5

AMERICAN HISTORY:
Chapter 8 - Politics, Immigration, & Urban Life 1870-1915
*Benchmark 3 - Indicators 1,2, & 3
Section 1: Gilded Age Politics
Section 2: People On The Move
Section 3: Challenge of the Cities
Section 4: Ideas for Reform

(1) Finish and turn in Ch. 8 Terms & Timeline Monday.
(2) Go over Ch. 7 Test with class Tuesday.
(3) Notes & Lecture including items of local interest including Appeal to Reason and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
(4) Wednesday - 1/2 Day Inservice
(5) Worksheets over text reading assignment

AM. HISTORY 101 (COLLEGE CREDIT):
Chapters 3 & 4:
  • America and the British Empire, 1650–1754
    • Mercantilism; the Dominion of New England
  • Colonial Society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
    • Culture
      • Great Awakening
      • The American Mind
  • Road to Revolution, 1754–1775
    • Anglo-French rivalries and Seven Years' War
    • Imperial reorganization of 1763
      • Stamp Act
      • Declaratory Act
      • Townshend Acts
      • Boston Tea Party
    • Philosophy of the American Revolution
  • The American Revolution, 1775–1783
    • The Continental Congress
    • Declaration of Independence
    • The war
      • French Alliance
      • War and society; Loyalists
      • War economy
    • Articles of Confederation
    • Peace of Paris
    • Creating state governments
      • Political organization
1) Finish Ch. 3 TEST Monday
2) Chapter 4 PowerPoint
3) Lecture
4) Prep. for Ch. 4 TEST
5) Ch. 4 TEST on Thursday & Friday.