Assignments 2/3-2/6 - Cooperative Groups

Hello, APUSHers:  

Here's a quick breakdown of what we're going to be doing this week. 

1.  We're working in groups, and our goal is to complete two major assessment pieces this week. The listing of groups will be in another post.  

2.  I have graded your take home tests (the 80 question big one).   You will have the opportunity to complete test corrections.  You will hand in your t/c's no later than next MONDAY (2/9).   For each correction, you will earn back .75 of a point, but you must explain why the corrected answer choice was the best answer for that question.  

3.  Please click on the links below.  Print out the docs, and bring them to class on TUESDAY.  

• Manifest Destiny Webquest
• Civil War WebQuest

Here are the links for the slide show 

Manifest Destiny

Civil War

4.  FYI, we will be meeting in the lab Tuesday, Wednesdsay, Thursday and Friday.  Please report directly to the lab for first period.  

5.  DBQ Assignment to be given out THURSDAY! Essay due next Tuesday (2/10)!  

5.  READING:  Please have up to CHAPTER 15 completed by February 9th (Monday) 

FFYI - Next Monday (2/9) will mark 3 months to the AP exam...Keep up with the reading.  We will get there!  

Cooperative Groups Week of 2/2

Please note that groups are NON-NEGOTIABLE.  Please do not ask "can I work with..." or tell me "we don't get along and can't work together because..." These groups will be reorganized after the work is completed.  

Group 1: Maggie, Matt, Gabby, Angelina, Sophia, Zoe, Alex, Heather

Group 2:  Min, Danielle, Josephine, Stephanie, Jessye, Nadine, Marc, Jenna

Group 3:  Michelle, Avi, Joseph, RoseMarie, Adrian, Robin, Edina, Mike D

Group 4:  Donna, Monica, Janet, Raisa, Amanda, Lauren, Chris C, Bianca J

See you all on Tuesday...

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APUSH Regents Week Assignments

Hello, Everyone:

As stated in class today, Regents Week is NOT a vacation week! On the contrary, it is expected that you will use this time to catch up on work that you've neglected, stay on pace, or get ahead.

Anyway, here are the week's assignments. Understand that it is NOT MEANT for you to complete in one day. You should try to a little bit each day, as opposed to waiting until Monday night to do everything!

1. Before you do anything, CLICK HERE. Download the "APUSH Pack." Basically, here are all of the notes that you will need for the entire course. No need to thank me now. You can print it out if you want, but I am going to try and have packets copied and distributed to you on Tuesday.

2. If you haven't done so already, you should have completed up to CHAPTER 14 (The Civil War) in the Review Books. If you're using the RED TEXTBOOK, you should be up to chapter 12.

3. CLICK HERE. You are responsible for listening to (and preferably, taking notes on) Lectures 30-40. Relax, they are short, and actually kind of interesting. FYI, the information discussed in the lectures will be covered on pp. 40-70 of the APUSH packet (relax, they're notes!)

4. Complete the KEY TERMS. There are THREE sets of 20. Again, this is not meant for one day's work.

5. Complete the Multiple Choice Questions at the end of chapters 11, 12, 13, and 14 in your review books. You do not have to copy the questions. You need only copy the correct answer (LETTER and Choice).

That's it! Good Luck. See you next Tuesday!

Vocab Lists

Chapter 12:
"Manifest Destiny"
The Panic of 1837
Prairie schooners
Oregon Trail
Tejanos
Empresario
Santa Anna
Sam Houston
James Russell Lowell
The "Wilmot Proviso"
The California gold rush
Forty-niners
Nat Turner's rebellion
The Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Ostend Manifesto
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision

Chapter 13:
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Appomattox Court House
Monitor and Merrimac
Sherman's March
The Confiscation Acts
Greenbacks
Ex Parte Merryman
The Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
The Freedmen's Bureau
Gettysburg
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
John Wilkes Booth
Copperheads

Chapter 14
Lincoln's "10 percent plan"
Radical Republicans
The Wade-Davis Bill
The Black Codes
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Military Reconstruction Act
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Tenure of Office Act, 1867
Edwin M. Stanton
Hiram Revels
Blanche K. Bruce
"Carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"
Enforcement Acts (1870-1871)
Jay Gould and Jim Fisk
The Resumption Act
Samuel J. Tilden
Compromise of 1877
Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
John Brown's Raid

Tonight's HW - 1-20-09

APUSHers:

Here's tonight's assignment:

1. Listen to Lecture #1.
2. Listen to Lecture #2.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE TAKING NOTES ON THE LECTURES!

3. Complete the vocab terms below:
1. Deism
2. The Romantic Movement
3. Transcendentalism
4. Calvinism
5. Immanuel Kant
6. Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Henry David Thoreau
8. The Second Great Awakening
9. Charles Grandison Finney
10. "The Burned-Over District"
11. Utopian Movements
12. Dorothea Dix
13. Brigham Young
14. Horace Mann
15. Harriet Beecher Stowe
16. The temperance movement
17. Sojourner Truth
18. Lucretia Mott
19. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
20. Susan B. Anthony

Tonight's HW 1/15/09

Directions: Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs addressing the task
below, and a conclusion.

Theme: Constitutional Principles

United States Supreme Court cases have dealt with a variety of important
issues that have affected American society.

Task:
Select THREE Supreme Court cases that you researched today in class.

For each case selected:
• Discuss the historical circumstances of the case
• Explain the Court’s decision in the case
• Discuss the impact of the decision on American society

You may use any example from your study of United States history.

Supreme Court Quest 1/14/09 Assignment

Hello, APUSHers:

Your mission: analyze the significant decisions of the Supreme Court from 1803-1840.

The task:

1. CLICK HERE. DOWNLOAD THE WORKSHEET. COPY THE FORMAT of the Worksheet into your looseleaf.

2. You are responsible for analyzing the following Supreme Court cases. For each case you must identify:

• The year the case took place
  
• Name of the Chief Justice presiding over the court at the time.
  
• The facts of the case: What happened? Who was involved? What were the important issues in this case?
  
• The Court's Decision: How did the court rule?
  
• The lasting IMPACT of the decision. Why was it so important?
  

3. Here are the cases:
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Cohens v. Virginia
Gibbons v. Ogden
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia
Dartmouth College v. Woodward

Tonight's HW - 1/13/09

DBQ - Indian Removal

1. CLICK HERE FOR THE DOCS. If necessary, please print them.

2. Answer all of the questions related to the documents. You may type, or print them. Make sure that your answers are in-depth, and of some substance. One word answers will not be accepted.

Download and Print! Get Extra Credit!

Super-Duper APUSH REVIEW.

Print it. Put it in your binder. It's that simple!

Also...CLICK HERE. If you know all of this stuff, then you DESERVE a 5!

Tonight's HW - Analyze a

CLICK HERE to view the cartoon "King Andrew the First" .

Carefully analyze the cartoon. Then, answer the questions that follow.

1. What reasons might explain why Jackson has been labeled "King Andrew the First?"
2. Why is Jackson holding a veto in his hand?
3. Why do you think the cartoonist portrayed Jackson stepping on the Constitution?
4. Do you think this cartoon is an accurate "picture" of Jackson?
5. Based on what we've discussed so far, what information would support the cartoonist's views? Which information opposes the cartoonist's view?

Today's Notes, and Take-Home Quiz

Hello, APUSHers:
In case you missed anything:


THE TAKE HOME QUIZ. Click the link to access the quiz. Print it out, and complete it. Don't forget the easter egg hidden in the test. Find it, and you will get bonus points!

Check the previous links for more info, lectures, etc.

CLICK HERE FOR AN EXCITING VIDEO ON THE AGE OF JACKSON!

Good Luck!

Tonight's HW 1/7/09

Hello, APUSHers:

Here's tonight's HW:

1. REVIEW Chapter 10 in the APUSH review book.
2. Complete the Chapter 10 Top 20. Assignment is worth 10 points. 15 points, for handwritten work, and terms completed in YOUR OWN WORDS.
1. The "Corrupt Bargain"
2. The Spoils System
3. The National-Republicans
4. The Democratic-Republicans
5. The Tarrif of Abominations
6. "The South Carolina Exposition"
7. Webster-Hayne debate
8. The Tariff of 1828
9. Clay's Compromise
10. The Force Bill
11. Speculation
12. The Bank of the United States
13. Specie
14. "Wildcat" banks
15. Nicholas Biddle
16. Whigs
17. The Indian Removal Act
18. The Bureau of Indian Affairs
19. The Trail of Tears
20. Davy Crockett

CLICK HERE FOR MORE HELP. Lessons 26-29.

Take Good Notes - GET PAID!!!

SELL YOUR NOTES! MAKE MAD CHEDDAR! I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP! CLICK HERE

APUSH HW 1/5/09

Welcome Back APUSHers:

Tonight's HW:
1. VIEW the Lecture for Lesson 22. Click on the link for the lesson.
2. View the Lecture for Lesson 23. Click on the link for the lesson.
3. Take notes while you're watching the lectures. If you can't keep up with the lecture, you can always stop and rewind. You can also print the text (click on the "printable version" of each section); don't worry, they're really short!
4. Complete the Chapter 8 Top 20 ON LOOSELEAF: A few key terms from this chapter have been provided for you here, and you should identify other key terms from the chapter that are important. For each term, note the definition as well as the term's historical significance. In other words, for each term you need to: 1) Define what it means in YOUR OWN WORDS 2) Explain why it's important. EXTRA CREDIT IF YOU HAND-WRITE THE ASSIGNMENT!!!

1. The "Era of Good Feelings"
2. Panic of 1819
3. The Missouri Compromise
4. Henry Clay's American System
5. Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817
6. Adams-Onis Treaty
7. McCulloch v. Maryland
8. Gibbons v. Ogden
9. The Monroe Doctrine
10. Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike
11. The nativist movement
12. Samuel Slater
13. Eli Whitney
14. The Industrial Revolution
15. Francis Cabot Lowell
16. Cyrus McCormick
17. Cumberland Road / National Road
18. Robert Fulton
19. Samuel Morse
20. The "black belt"