Sunday, November 7, 2010

HW week of 11/8

Hello, APUSHers:

Here are your assignments for the week.

MONDAY 11/8. Finish the Guided Reading Questions, and Chapter ID's for Tuesday. If you've already finished, please proceed to Tuesday night's assignments.

Tuesday Night 11/9 - Due Wed. 11/10

1. Please view, and listen to the following Lectures:

2. View, and take notes on all parts of the lectures. The notes should not simply be a rewriting of the lecture. To that end, your notes should be NO LONGER than ONE Handwritten Page per Lesson...YES...I said Handwritten!

3. Complete the Interactive Discussion on the Louisiana Purchase. After completing the discussion, write a thoughtful response to the question below. Your response should be a minimum of 100 words.

Was Jefferson authorized in making the Louisiana Purchase?


Wednesday Night: THE RETURN OF MOVIE NIGHT!!! Get your friends, get some popcorn!

Tonight's Feature...What happens when you and your BFF don't agree? What happens when those decisions affect a nation? See it all tonight on


Turn in your Podcast/Video Form on Friday!

Thursday 11/11 - Due Friday 12th, along with Wednesday's HW

PODCAST NIGHT!

Choose one (1) of the following. GO THE EXTRA MILE, and d0 both. You can use this GEM to take the place of a missing HW assignment (except Chapter readings).

The Louisiana Purchase Talking History's host, Bryan Le Beau, discusses how the reality of the Louisiana Purchase compares to Thomas Jefferson's vision of the United States as a land of cultivators of the earth and of slavery with Roger Kennedy, author of Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery and the Louisiana Purchase. Airdate: December 1, 2003.

Lewis and Clark William Clark called his expedition a "vast . . . enterprise." Two hundred years later, the scholarly investigation of Lewis and Clark is itself a vast undertaking. Talking History's Fred Nielsen is joined by James Ronda, the Barnard Chair professor in western history at the University of Tulsa. Ronda's books include Lewis and Clark among the Indians and Voyages of Discovery: Essays on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Airdate: May 17, 2004.

Friday Night - Due MONDAY 11/15
1. PREVIEW Chapter 12 by reading the Chapter Notes.


2. REVIEW the War of 1812, by listening to the lecture.

Resource: CLICK HERE for the lecture.

3. Read Chapter 12, and complete the Chapter 12 GRQ's and ID's

Resources:
CLICK HERE for the audio version of the textbook

POWER MEDIA!!!
1. Click HERE to set up your account with POWER MEDIA PLUS. You will need this account, as sometimes you will be asked to watch videos for this class at home. DON'T WORRY! IT'S FREE! Enter the following passcode (copy and paste works best) Xqy2BeX79m. Answer only the starred (*) questions. Use our school's address (3465 192nd Street Flushing, NY 11358)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

my link for Tuesday nights lectures doesn't work -Lauren

Anonymous said...

there is no link for the chapter id's and grq's.
-lauren

Anonymous said...

*chapter 12