Monday November 30 - Review of 19th Century America
1. Boring Harangue Regarding Students Lack of Knowledge - Review of Mega Midterm (many ids of
infinite significance yelled at you by a boring old man - but please learn each and every one of
them! Please do not let a moment go by in the classroom when you will not be learning!)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 23 (pages 612-616, 616-621)
Sorry for the negative behavior over the past few days. Please continue with the easy and accurate
maxim that my advice is not good. However, please study well and do well each day.
Tuesday November 24 - The Progressive Presidents
1. Class Discussion - "The Grapes of Wrath" (Inter-chapters, Tom Joad, JIm Casey, Muley Graves,
haunches and real men and soil, the turtle, the bank monster, the cat, etc.)
2. Class Discussion - TR and the Square Deal (Anthracite Coal Strike, Northern Securities Case,
Bureau of Corporations, Hepburn Act, "The Jungle," Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act,
Conservation with Division of Forestry, Preservation with National Parks)
Homework:
1) Read John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" Chapters 1 through 8
2) Read Brinkley 23 (all) (You will have a things learned on the foreign policy at the end of chapter
22 and the lead up to war in chapter 23 - be prepared!)
Monday November 23 - Progressivism at the National Level
1) Things Learned - Week 13 (11-23) (Anthracite Coal Strike, the Square Deal, New Nationalism vs.
New Freedom, Federal Reserve Act)
2) The Grapes of Wrath
3) Class Discussion - Theodore Roosevelt - Raving, racist maniac or dynamic powerful statesman?
4) Lecture - The Progressive Era Presidents (TR, Taft, WW)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 22 (604-610) and 23 (612-616)
Friday November 20 - The Progressive Era
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Progressive Era
Homework:
1) Please read Brinkley 22 (all)
2) Please read Hofstadter (TR) and Hofstadter (Wilson) and takes notes on each to demonstrate that
you have read and understood each.
3) Please read "The Grapes of Wrath" Chapters 1 through 4 (to page 50)
THE STANFORD CARDINAL WILL DESTROY THE CAL WEENIES ON SATURDAY!! !! !! !! !!
Thursday November 19 - The Progressive Era
1. Things Learned (The Social Gospel, Jane Addams, Muckrakers)
2. Class Discussion - America on the World Stage (Did we act imperialistically in China, Panama,
Hawaii, the Philippines, and Cuba?)
3. Powerpoint Lecture - The Progressive Era (The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of the
Progressive Movement)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 22 (all) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
2) Read Hofstadter (TR)
3) Notes #22a - Notes on Hofstadter (TR) - Please read and take extensive notes on the Hofstadter
article on Theodore Roosevelt (due Monday November 23 along with a similar set of notes on
Hofstadter (Wilson))
Wednesday November 18 - America on the World Stage
1. Things Learned (Thomas Nast, Emilio Aguinaldo, The Platt Amendment, The Boxer Rebellion)
2. Class Discussion - American Enters onto the World Stage
3. Powerpoint Lecture - The Spanish - American War
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 21 (all) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
2) Notes #20a - America the Imperial Power?
(For each of the five nations, please state a sophisticated claim answering the question of whether
the United States acted imperialistically in regards to that nation. Support your thesis with abundant
evidence, analyzed well in a beautifully crafted paragraph.)
Tuesday November 17 - The Revolt of the Debtor
1. Class Review - The Gilded Age of Politics
2. Lecture - The Politics of the 1890s
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 20 (all) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
2) Read the three articles on Gould, Nast, and Greeley YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
2) Notes # 20a - American on the International Stage
(Please read the handout on the five different nations. In addition to reading Brinkley you will be
asked to analyzed whether the United States acted in an imperialiastic manner in regards to each of
the 5 countries. Of course, after expressing your viewpoint in each of these paragraph long and
almost page length essays, you will support each with dynamic and demonstrative and great
evidence to support their answers.
DUE THURSDAY - BUT GET DONE SOONER AS YOUR THURSDAY HOMEWORK WILL BE GREAT!!!
Monday November 16 - Midterm Exam
1. Mega Midterm Exam
Homework:
1) Notes # 16a - The American West
2) Read Brinkley 20 (all)
IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO GET YOUR HOMEWORK DOWN. IT WAS ON THE SIDE BOARD. AS PLAIN
AS DAY. WITH THE COMPLAINTS RECEIVED, YOU WILL NOW HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON THAT
PORTION OF BRINKLEY THAT WAS SO CLEARLY ASSIGNED.
Friday November 13 - The American West
1. Lecture - The American Indian and US Government Polic
2. Lecture - The Revolt of the Debtor
Homework:
1) Study for Mega Midterm on Monday November 16
2) Notes # 16a - Impact of the United State on the American West (Due Monday Nov 16)
Thursday November 12 - The American West
1. Class Discussion - The American West
2. Film - Red River
3. Class Discussion - Stereotypes and the Telling of History
Homework:
1) WA # 1 - Civil War and Reconstruction DBQ
2) Study for Test # 1 - Mega Midterm (Chapter 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 - Multiple Choice, IDs, and
Essays)
3) Notes # 16a - Impact of the United States on the American West
Wednesday November 11 - Veterans' Day
ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS ARMISTICE DAY - WHICH WAS THE CELEBRATION OF THE END OF WORLD
WAR ONE - WHEN THE ARMISTICE ENDING THE WAR WAS SIGNED ON THE ELEVENTH HOUR OF THE
ELEVENTH DAY OF THE ELEVENTH MONTH IN 1918.
Tuesday November 10 - The Gilded Age of Politics
1. Class Discussion - The Gilded Age of Politics (The Five Ps of the Bearded, the Bland, and the
Boring - or "Some Men are Born to Greatness, Others Achieve Greatness, and Others are Born in
Ohio.")
Homework:
1) Notes # 16a - America's Impact on the West (DUE ON MONDAY SEPTEMBER 16 !! !! !!)
Please analyze the impact that the United States had on the American West in the latter part of the
1800s. State a claim that leads off a paragraph on each of the following items. Be sure to include
lots of information in each of the paragraphs and analyze how that evidence proves that claim. The
items are cows, mining, farming, water, Indians, and the western mythology.
2) WA # 1 - Civil War and Reconstruction DBQ (DUE BY FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13 !! !! !!)
3) STUDY FOR MEGA MIDTERM ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13 - CHAPTERS 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 --
MULTIPLE CHOICE, IDENTIFICATIONS, ESSAYS !! !! !! !! !!
Monday November 9 - The Gilded Age of Politics
1. Lecture - The Gilded Age of Politics (Post-War Disillusionment - The Bloody Shirt - The Tariff -
Monetary Policy - Civil Service Reform - Characteristics of Politics in the Gilded Era)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 16 (432-457)
2) Read Spirit 26a PLEASE READ IT YOU WILL BE QUIZZED ON IT TOMORROW
Friday November 6 - America Moves to the City
1. Film Documentary - The Wave from the Atlantic (Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Jacob Riis, Ashcan
School)
2. Slide Show - The New Immigration
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 19 (all of it!) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
2) WA # 1 - Civil War and Reconstruction DBQ DUE ANYTIME WITH WEEK - FRIDAY IS DEADLINE
3) STUDY FOR MEGA MIDTERM ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13
Thursday November 5 - The Age of Industry
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The American Worker (National Labor Union, The Knights of Labor, The
American Federation of Labor, The International Workers of the World - The Great Railway Strike of
1877, The Haymarket Square Riot, The Homestead Steel Strike, The Pullman Strike - Was the
American Labor Movement Radical or Conservative?)
2. Film Documentary - America Moves to the City
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 18 (all)
2) Read Brinkley 15 (pages 414-416)
3) Read Brinkley 19 (pages 520-527)
4) Read Spirit 24e
WA # 1 (CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION DBQ) IS DUE ON MONDAY NOVEMBER 9
GLORY TONIGHT 6:30 TO 8:30 PM !! !! !! !! !!
Wednesday November 4 - The Age of Industry
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Age of Industry (Technology, Railroads, Steel, Oil, and the Response -
Social Darwinism, Horatio Alger, The Gospel of Wealth)
2. Powerpoint Lecture - The American Worker
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 18 (pages 488-504)
2) Read American Spirit 24c
3) Read American Spirit 25e
4) Read Horatio Alger and Frederick Winslow Taylor
Tuesday November 3 - The Age of Industry
1. Things Learned - (Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Ford, J.
Pierpoint Morgan)
2. Class Discussion - The Forces of Modern Industrial Capitalism
3. Powerpoint Lecture - The Age of Industry (Railroads, Technology, Steel, Oil)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 17 (pages 472-487)
2) Read Degler IX and take notes
3) Read "Was the American Labor Movement Conservative?" and take notes
4) Read short article on the IWW (for fun!)
THE DBQ ON THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION IS DUE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6 ! ! !
GLORY WILL BE SHOWN ON THURSDAY EVENING AT 6:30 PM. PIZZA AND SOFT DRINKS PROVIDED.
ALL WILL ATTEND! ! ! !
Monday November 2 - Reconstruction
1. Class Discussion - The Nature of Reconstruction
Homework;
1) Read Brinkley Chapter 17 (pages 462 - 477)
2) Read Zinn 11 (plus take notes)
3( Read "Was John D. Rockefeller a Robber Baron" (plus take notes)
4) Please complete the short reading regarding Rockefeller (for fun!)
Friday October 30 - Reconstruction
1. Class Discussion - Reconstruction
Homework:
1) WA # 1 - DBQ - Civil War and Reconstruction (due Wednesday)
2) Read Brinkley 17 (462-472)
SORRY FOR THE CHANGE IN THE DUE DATE FOR THE DBQ - BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE NEED
TO COVER BEFORE YOU CAN WRITE THE ESSAY WELL. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO START AND COMPLETE,
BUT WE WILL COVER BOTH STYLISTIC AND SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES ON MONDAY.
WE WILL FINISH RECONSTRUCTION AT THE START OF THE PERIOD. THEN WE WILL STOP AND DO A
THINGS LEARNED ON THE AGE OF INDUSTRY (CHAPTER 17 PAGE 462-472) AND BEGIN OUR
INVESTIGATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE. THERE WILL BE EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNTS OF READING
THIS COMING WEEK, SO BE PREPARED TO TAKE LOTS OF NOTES ON LOTS OF OUTSIDE READINGS! ! !
I WILL HAVE YOUR GRADES ON MONDAY WITH A NOTE TO YOUR PARENTS REGARDING THOSE
GRADES.
"GLORY" WILL BE SHOWN ON THURSDAY EVENING AT 6 PM TO 8:30 PM. ALL MUST BE THERE! ! ! !
Thursday October 29 - The Civil War
1. Class Discussion - The End of War
2. Class Discussion - Freedmen and the start of Reconstruction
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 15 (all)
Wednesday October 28 - The Civil War
1. Class Discussion - Reconstruction
2. Film Documentary - 1863 - Gettysburg
3. Class Discussion - Gettysburg Address
4. Class Discussion - End of War
Homework:
1)Brinkley 15(All)
2)Notes #15b - Timeline of Reconstruction
Write a timeline of important events during the Reconstruction Era. Place those events
chronologically on a timeline. Write a description including the time and location of the event and its
historical significance.
Tuesday October 27 - The Civil War
1. Class Discussion - The Nature of Total War
2. Film Documentary - 1862 - Lincoln, Antietam, and Emancipation
3. Class Discussion - Lincoln and the Constitution
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 15 (400-409) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
2) Notes # 15a - Reconstruction Proposals
You are a Congressperson in 1865 sitting a subcommittee dealing with the reconstruction of the
nation. Please propose detailed solutions to each of the issues below, recognizing the problems and
complexity of all aspects of the issue. Be specific and creative. (About a half page to a page each.)
- What to do with the Freemen?
- How to reintegrate the southern states into the nation?
- How to rebuild the southern states?
Monday October 26 - Civil War
1. Class Discussion - The Civil War (The Sides, Union Strategy, Wartime Diplomacy)
2. Film Documentary - 1862 and Emancipation (The Battles and Emancipation)
Homework:
1) Brinkley 14 (all)
2) Spirit 21a
3) Hofstadter (Lincoln) read and take notes
4) Notes # 14a - see below
Friday October 23 - Final Exam
1. Test # 4 - Final Exam
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 14 (all)
2) Read Spirit 21c
3) Notes # 14a - The Civil War Homefront
(For the North describe what the impact of war was on Northern society by writing a paragraph each
on its impact on the 1) economy, 2) government, 3) soldiers, 4) women, and 5) political dissent. For
the South describe with the impact of war was on Southern society by writing a paragraph each on
its impact on the 1) economy, 2) government, 3) soldiers, and women.)
4) Read Hofstadter on Lincoln and demonstrate that you have read it by taking at least a page of
notes.
Thursday October 22 - The Civil War
1. Group Work - Who Will Win?
2. Film Documentary - Introduction to Ken Burn's Civil War
Homework:
1) WA # 3 - Term Paper
2) Study for Test # 4 - Final Exam
Wednesday October 21 - The Road to Civil War
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Road to Civil War
2. Group Work - Who Will Win?
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 14
2) Study for Final Exam
3) Write Term Paper
Tuesday October 20 - The Road to Civil War
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Road to Civil War
Homework:
1) WA # 3 - Term Paper
2) WA # 3a, 3b, 3c - Person, Annotated Bibliography, and Thesis and Outline
3) Study for Final Exam (covering all the material of the course so far) on Friday
4) Read Brinkley 4 (all) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT !!!!!
Monday October 19 - The Road to Civil War
1. Lecture - The Road to Civil War
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 14 (first five pages)
2) Study for Final Exam on Friday
3) Research and write term paper
Friday October 16 - Mega Midterm Exam
1. Test # 3 - The Mega Midterm Exam
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 13 (all)
2) Work on WA # 3 - Term Paper (and the other writing assignments - WA # 3a, 3b, 3c)
Thursday October 15 - The Road to Civil War
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Road to Civil War (Manifest Destiny, Presidential Politics, The Mexican
War)
Homework:
1) Study for the Mega Midterm Exam
The test will be multiple choice, ids, and essay. Please study chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 (what
we have covered from that chapter). The ids are obvious (the chapters ids have been available for
weeks online and hard copies), the multiple choice is rigorous but easy if you know your stuff, and
the essays will be from the issues that we have developed in each of the chapters - nothing new, just
know your stuff, and provide lots of evidence to support your thesis.
PLEASE COMPLETE YOUR AMERICAN LYCEUM ASSIGNMENT NEXT WEEK IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO
ALREADY. REALIZE THEIR IS A FINAL EXAM ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 COVERING ALL OF THE MATERIAL
OF THE COURSE SO FAR. YOUR TERM PAPER IS DUE THE SAME DAY AT THE FIRST MINUTE OF CLASS.
IF IT IS NOT THERE YOU WILL RECEIVE 0 POINTS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT. I AM SORRY THAT I HAVE
NOT RETURNED ASSIGNMENTS TO YOU, BUT THAT WILL HAPPEN SOON! PLEASE BE SURE ABOUT THE
MAP TESTS AND WA # 3A, 3B, AND 3C REGARDING THE TERM PAPER - THOSE ARE ALL EASY POINTS.
STUDY HARD AND DO WELL.
Tuesday October 13 - The Road to Civil War
1. Powerpoint - The Road to Civil War
Homework:
1) Read Chapter 13 (all)
2) Read Spirit 21c
Monday October 12 - The Antebellum South
1. The American Lyceum (all those who did not have the chance to present, who wanted to do so)
2. Class Discussion - The American South and Slavery
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 13 (all)
2) Research Term Paper - due Friday October 23 (the same day as the final exam!)
SORRY FOR THE LACK OF UPDATES ON THE WEBSITE! ! ! WE WILL FINISH THE AMERICAN LYCEUM ON
MONDAY MORNING. THEN WE WILL PROCEED RAPIDLY THROUGH CHAPTER 11 AND OUR
INVESTIGATION OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND SLAVERY. WE WILL DO CHAPTER 13 OF BRINKLEY ON
TUESDAY AND BEGIN THE CIVIL WAR (CHAPTER 14) ON WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL BE A MIDTERM TEST
ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 16 ON CHAPTERS 8 THROUGH 13 AND THEN A FINAL EXAM ON FRIDAY
OCTOBER 23 ON ALL THE MATERIAL OF THE TERM. YOUR TERM PAPERS ARE DUE ON THURSDAY
OCTOBER 22.
Friday October 9 - The American Lyceum
1. Class Presentations - The American Lyceum
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 11 (all)
2) Read Spirit 16a (all)
Thursday October 8 - The Ferment of Reform and Culture
Homework:
1) Prepare for the American Lyceum
Wednesday October 7 - The Ferment of Reform and Culture
1. Class Discussion - Reason vs. Romanticism
2. Powerpoint - The Utopian Societies
Homework:
1) Read Chapter 11 (all)
2) Read Spirit 16a (all)
3) WA # 3c - Thesis and Outline
Tuesday October 6 - The American Economy
1. Class Discussion - The Development of the American Economy (Talent, Technology, or
Transportation - Which Accounted for American Economic Expansion?)
2. Class Discussion - The American Worker - The Industrial Workplace (What changed for the
American worker and was the response to that new workplace)
3, Class Discussion - The American Society - (social stratification, social mobility, urbanization, the
new family, the Cult of Domesticity)
4. Class Discussion - Notes # 12 - The Ferment of Reform and Culture (The Second Great
Awakening, Women and Social Reform)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 11 (all) (although we will not finish it all tomorrow, you will have a Things Learned
on it tomorrow - focus on the South and Southern society and the black response to slavery)
2) Read Spirit 16a (all the docs well - they are extraordinarily important to understand the lives of
black people in the antebellum south)
Monday October 5 - The American Economy
1. Group Work - Talent, Technology, or Transportation - What Accounted for American Economic
Growth?
2. Class Discussion - The identifications of the American economy
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 12 (all) there will be a things learned on it
2) Read 2 poems and the Morman article
Friday October 2 - The American Economy
1. Class Discussion - The American Economy
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 10 and 12 (be prepared for the very difficult and demanding things learned on
Monday on both chapters)
2) WA # 3b - Annotated Bibliography (see below)
3) WA # 5 and # 6 - See below and the specifics on when they are due
SORRY ABOUT TODAY, BUT I WAS EXTRAORDINARILY PLEASED WITH THE MATURE BEHAVIOR OF THE
SAN MARCOS STUDENT BODY THROUGHOUT THE DAY. GREAT JOB!
THE AMERICAN LYCEUM WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR NEXT THURSDAY OCTOBER 8 AT 6:30 TO 7:30
FOR PERIOD 4 AND 7:30 TO 8:30 FOR PERIOD 2. SORRY FOR THE DELAY, BUT IT WILL ALLOW US TO
STUDY IN CLASS SEVERAL MORE OF THE HISTORICAL FIGURES FROM WHOM WE WILL HEAR NEXT
THURSDAY EVENING.
HOMEWORK:
1) Read Chapters 10 and 12 in Brinkley. Please read them well and thoroughly. I will be giving oral
pop quizzes throughout the class period on important details in them both. Be prepared. I think we
can power through them and get a lot accomplished. Please be ready.
2) WA # 3b - Annotated Bibliography (Term Paper) DUE ON MONDAY OCTOBER 5! ! ! ! Please be
researching your term paper, noting down important information on your 3 by 5 note cards and
reviewing all your sources. You need at least three non-encyclopedic secondary texts by Monday
and at least 5 primary source documents by then as well.
3) Be prepared for a test next Friday October 9. I know it is different from what is on the daily
schedule and I know it is the day after the American Lyceum, but I think it prudent. I will decide
tomorrow whether we have it then or the following Monday, but be reviewing Chapters 7,8, and 9
(and 10, 11, 12, and 13). Brinkley IDs for those chapters are online at the school website.
4) WA # 5 (Jeffersonian Republican DBQ) and # 6 (Jacksonian Democrat DBQ) will be due as soon as I
get your prior two writing assignments back to you. The earliest will be Monday October 5. If I don't
get both back to you then, only one will be due. If I do get them back to you on Monday, the WA # 5
will be due Wednesday 10/7 and WA # 6 will be due Friday 10/9.
THANKS AGAIN FOR BEING SO GOOD AND FOR BEING GREAT AP US HISTORY STUDENTS! ! ! !
ALL THOSE STUDENTS TRYING OUT FOR MOCK TRIAL - THE SCHEDULED FRIDAY OCTOBER 2
TRYOUTS WILL BE HELD AT THE APPOINTED TIMES. ALL STUDENTS NOT OTHERWISE ABLE TO TRYOUT
WILL BE ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR TRYOUTS TIME FOR MONDAY OCTOBER 5 (WE MIGHT EXTEND SOME
TRYOUT TIMES TO TUESDAY OCTOBER 6, BUT BE PREPARED TO FINALIZE EVERYTHING ON MONDAY.
Wednesday September 30 - Jacksonian Democracy
1) Class Discussion - Jacksonian Democracy
Homework:
1) Read Chapter 10 (all)
2) Read Chapter 12 (pages 314-328)
3) Memorize American Lyceum piece
Tuesday September 29 - Jacksonian Democracy
1. Powerpoint Lecture - Jacksonian Democracy (The issue is whether Jackson foster a stronger
central government or states rights during his tenure as president. Know all of the identifications
and facts from Party Politics, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal, and Bank Crisis. Also understand
the causes of Jacksonian Democracy and be able to identify the larger issues facing the nation
outside of the Jackson Administration)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 10 (all) YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR A THINGS LEARNED
2) WA # 4a - The American Lyceum (Please bring in the piece of writing that you will recite for The
American Lyceum on Thursday evening, with some analysis of how it represents your historical
figure)
3) WA # 3b - Annotated Bibliography (on you term paper historical figure) DUE MONDAY OCTOBER 5
REMEMBER BRINKLEY 12 DUE ON THURSDAY!!!!!
Monday September 28 - Jacksonian Democracy
1. Guest Presentation - Ms. Willbanks
2. Group Work - Jacksonian Democracy
Homework:
1. WA # 4 - The American Lyceum Biography (if you did not turn it in during class, get it to me soon)
2. WA # 3a - Term Paper Critical Biography - Person and Issue
3. Read Brinkley 10 (258-274)
4. Read Hofstadter (Jackson) please take notes on this on a separate paper
Friday September 25 - Jacksonian Democracy
1. Things Learned (Corrupt Bargain, Seminole Wars, Nicholas Biddle, Anti-Masons, Webster-Hayne
Debate, Nullification Crisis, etc)
2. Powerpoint Lecture - American Nationalism (we finish with that time period known as the Era of
Good Feelings knowing that although we possessed great national pride we also had tremendous
internal divisions.)
3. Powerpoint Lecture - Jacksonian Democracy
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 9 (all of it and in its entirety)
2) Read Hofstader (Jackson) (if you have a copy then great. read it! If you have two copies, bring one
in on Mondady early. If you don't have a copy, check the San Marcos website, there will be a copy
there soon. But please read and know it, for you will be in public group answering questions about
Jackson and his policy)
3) WA # 3a - Term Paper Bio - Historical Figure and Issue (You will write your name, the name of the
historical figure that you want to study for your term paper, and finally the issue (make it an issue,
and not a topic!!!!!!!!!) that you will explore in the paper.
4) WA # 4 - American Lyceum Bio - Please write a one to two page critical biography of the person
whom you have selected from American culture before the Civil War. You may chose the format, as
long as you provide a clear thesis with lots of evidence to support that thesis.
Thursday September 24 - American Nationalism
1. Things Learned - Week Five 9-24 - The Panic of 1819, The Missouri Compromise, The Corrupt
Bargain, The Spoils System)
2. Powerpoint Lecture - American Nationalism (The American System, The Era of Good Feelings, The
Missouri Compromise, The Marshall Court)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 9 (all) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT ON FRIDAY
FOR MONDAY:
1) Critical Biography on your American Lyceum historical individual.
2) Selection of your term paper individual with an issue attached.
FOR TUESDAY:
1) WA # 3 - Jeffersonian Republican DBQ (no more writing assignments until I grade the two that
you have already handed in! ! ! )
Wednesday September 23 - American Nationalism
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The War of 1812
2. Musical Appreciation - Hail Columbia - The New Nation
3. Powerpoint Lecture - American Nationalism
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 8 (all) and Brinkley 9 (232-242) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON THESE
Tuesday September 22 - The Democratic-Republicans and the War of 1812
1. Class Discussion - Thomas Jefferson - Hypocritical Politician or Wise Statesman?
2. Powerpoint Lecture - The War of 1812
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 8 (all) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
2) Read Brinkly 9 (pages 242-246) YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT
Monday September 21 - The Jefferson Era
1. Class Discussion - John Adams and the Development of Political Parties
2. Lecture - Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley Chapter 8 (all) you are liable for a things learned on it tomorrow
Friday September 18 - Mega Midterm Exam
1. Review
2. Test # 2 - Mega Midterm Exam
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 7 (pages 193-213)
2) Read Hofstadter (Jefferson)
3) Read Beginnings (Jefferson)
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A COPY OF EITHER OF THOSE JEFFERSON BIOGRAPHIES, THEY ARE AT THE
SMHS WEBSITE, BUT YOU HAVE TO LOOK UNDER THE PERIOD 2 LOCATION. DOCUMENTS DO NOT
UPLOAD TO PERIOD 4 - SORRY!
Thursday September 17 - The New Nation
1. Lecture - The Washington Administration (president, party, personality, policy, and program)
(Hamilton's Economic Program - Debt, Taxes, and the Bank of the United States - The Democratic-
Republican Response)
2. Class Discussion - Foreign Policy and the Development of Political Parties (The French Revolution,
Citizen Genet, Neutrality Proclamation, Jay's Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty, XYZ Affair, Quasi-War, The
Alien and Sedition Acts, The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions) (know all of these for the test and I
will review them in the first 20 minutes)
Homework:
1) Study for Test # 2 - There will be 5 to 10 Identifications from Chapters 4, 5, 6 (know them all ! ! !)
and then be able to be an articulate historian in responding in essay format (thesis with evidence) to
what caused the American Revolution (ideological, economic, political, or social factors) (primarily
from Chapter 4) and what fostered the development of political parties in the New Nation (primarily
from Chapter 6).
HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21
1) Read Brinkley 7 (pages 193-213)
2) Read Hofstadter (Jefferson)
3) Read Beginnings (Jefferson)
HOMEWORK FOR TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22
1) Read Brinkley 8 (all)
Wednesday September 16 - The Constitution and the New Nation
1. Things Learned
2. Lecture - The Constitution
3. Literary Analysis - Federalist # 10
4. Lecture - The New Nation
Homework:
1. Please read Brinkley 6 (all)
2. Bill of Rights reading on political parties
3. Notes # 6a (Federalists vs. Jeffersonians)
YOU WILL HAVE A MEGA MIDTERM ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18TH ! ! ! ! !
YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL IDENTIFICATIONS FROM CHAPTERS 4, 5, AND 6 ! ! ! !
YOU WILL HAVE TWO SHORT ESSAYS THAT WILL COVER THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION (CHAPTER 4) AND
THE CREATION OF THE NEW NATION (CHAPTER 6)
Tuesday September 15 - The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
1. Things Learned
2. Powerpoint - The Articles of Confederation
3. Lecture - The Constitution
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 6 (all) THINGS LEARNED ON THIS CHAPTER TOMORROW
2) WA # 2 - A Revolution or Not?
HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY
1) Notes # 6a - Federalists vs. Jeffersononians
2) Hofstadter (Jefferson) bio
3) Read Brinkley 7
4) Read Bill of Rights handout on political parties
THERE IS NO CULTURAL SEMINAR THIS WEEK
YOU WILL HAVE A MEGA-MIDTERM ON FRIDAY ON CHAPTERS 4, 5, 6, 7
Monday September 14 - The Revolutionary War
1. Class Discussion - The Course of War (Declaration of Independence, Battles, Treaty of Paris)
2. Literary Analysis - Carl Degler and Secondary Source Texts (causes can be consequences, new
governments in old clothes, and conservatives can be revolutionaries)
Homework;
1. Read Brinkley Chapter 5 (151-157) AND 6 (pages 158-172) THERE WILL BE A THINGS LEARNED
ON THESE TWO PARTS OF BRINKLEY
2. Spirit 10a, 10f
3. Notes # 6a (handout on the Federalists and Jeffersonians) due Wednesday
Friday September 11 - The Revolutionary War
1. Class Discussion - The Course of War
2. Film Documentary - Schoolhouse Rock and the Folklore of America
3. Literary Analysis - The Texts of Revolution
Homework:
1. Read Brinkley 5 (all) and 6 (158-168)
2. Read Spirit 9E
3. Read Degler and Zinn
THE WRITING ASSIGNMENT CAN BE TURNED IN ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 WITH NO PENALTY ! ! !
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE IN BOTH CLASSES ! ! ! ! !
4. WA # 2 - A Revolution, or not?
(Please write a five paragraph essay answering the question of whether you as a historian thinks that
our struggle with Great Britain between 1775 and 1783 was in fact a revolution. In order to answer
the question, please read and review Brinkley, and also chapter 5 from Howard Zinn's "A People's
History of the United States" and chapter 3 from Carl Degler's Out of Our Past. Please demonstrate
knowledge of all three historians' viewpoint in your paper. You must state your opinion in the thesis
- the last sentence of the introduction. Please provide abundant context in that introduction and
raise the issue of whether it was a revolution. You can structure the paper either by spending a
paragraph each on Brinkley, Degler, and Zinn or focus the paragraphs on political, economic, and
social change. The paper must have 5 paragraphs. To include the definition of revolution in the
introduction might also be good.
Thursday September 10 - The Revolutionary War
1. Things Learned
2. Class Discussion -The Course of War
3. Literary Analysis - The Texts of War
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 5 (pages 133-157)
2) Complete Notes # 5a - The Revolutionary War
Wednesday September 9 - The Road to Revolution
1. Class Discussion - British Actions and Colonial Responses - Claim Making and Evidence Providing
Homework:
1) Read Zinn 5
2) Read Degler III
3) Read Spirit 8B
4) Study for quiz on Brinkley!!!!
REMEMBER TO HAVE YOUR PARENTS COME TO BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT !!!!!!!!!
Tuesday September 8 - The Road to Revolution
1. Class Discussion - The French and Indian Wars (Daniel Day-Lewis, The Last of the Mohicans, and
The Proclamation of 1763)
2. Debate - Colonists vs. Loyalists (The Sugar Act, The Quartering Act, The Stamp Act, The
Townsend Acts, The Tea Monopoly, The Boston Massacre, The Intolerable Acts)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 4 (121-125), 5 (126-133)
2) Read Spirit 8B
3) Do Notes #4c (please state a claim that analyzes the responses by colonists to the actions of the
British between 1765 and 1775 - support that claim in one paragraph with abundant factual
evidence)
Friday September 4 - Colonial America
1. Test # 1 - Colonial America
2. Class Discussion - Colonial America in the 1700s (The American Character, The Great Awakening,
The Zenger Trial, Native-American and Colonial Relations, The French and Indian Wars)
3. Skill Development Workshop - The Claim-Evidence Expository Essay and the DBQ
THE RULES OF WRITING ESSAYS AND DBQs IN MR. BURROWS' CLASS
- essay must have an introduction
- introduction must set the context for the essay in the first 3 to 5 sentences (who, what, where,
when, why, etc)
- the second to last sentence of the introductory paragraph must raise the issue (the question of
the prompt)- may write it as a question or a statement
- the last sentence of the intro must be your answer to prompt - must be a claim and will be
called from here on out - the thesis ! ! ! !
- you may organize your paper as you see fit, but you must have at least two body paragraphs
- each body paragraph must start with a claim
- those claims must prove the overall thesis
- those claims must guide the paragraph that they start
- provide abundant evidence proving your claim (and thus the thesis)
- in a DBQ half your evidence comes from outside knowledge (OK) and half from the documents -
be sure to realize this and implement this - half from your brain and half from the docs!
- all evidence in any given paragraph should prove only the claim that starts the paragraph
- don't waste time on the concluding paragraph - I won't read it anyway - anything brilliant
please put up in the actual essay
- use all the docs
- don't quote the docs (short phrases if any quotation at all)
- find the key idea in each doc and use it as proof
- cite the doc by name
- each doc should lead you to outside knowledge
4. Class Discussion - "The Last of the Mohicans" (or why Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline Stowe are
the best actors of all time)
Homework:
1) WA # 1 - Colonial DBQ
2) Please read Brinkley Chapter 4 (read up to page 121)
3) Notes # 4a -Please fill out the worksheet on the actions of the British between 1763 and 1775
4) Notes # 4b - Please write out three or so arguments on each of the actions listed in # 4a. You
have been assigned a side, either loyalist or patriot, and you must develop arguments supporting
your view of these actions. You will be called upon to debate in class on each of the actions, so be
prepared!
Thursday September 3 - Colonial America
1. Powerpoint Lecture - Democracy in America
2. Group Work - The People of America
Homework:
1) Come to the Cultural Seminar - "The Last of the Mohicans" - 6 pm in D-4
2) Study for Test # 2 - Colonial America (you are responsible for all of the identifications in our
study so far, and you are expected to articulate a sophisticated claim in response to one of several
issues already outlined for the class.
Wednesday September 2 - Colonial America
1. Powerpoint Lecture - Religion in Colonial America
2. Textual Analysis - Carl Degler and the Puritanical Puritans
3. Powerpoint Lecture - Colonial Democracy
Homework:
1) Please read Beginnings (Franklin) up to the picture
2) Please read the handout article on Jonathan Edwards
3) Please read the handout labeled "The Emerging Spirit of American Independence"
4) Please read Brinkley Chapter 4 (100-107)
REMEMBER ! ! ! ! TEST # 1 ON COLONIAL AMERICA (IDS AND ESSAY QUESTION) FIRST THING IN CLASS
ON FRIDAY ! ! ! ! !
REMEMBER ! ! ! ! ! CULTURAL SEMINAR ON THURSDAY EVENING AT 6 PM SHARP - "THE LAST OF THE
MOHICANS - PIZZA AND SOFT DRINKS PROVIDED
Tuesday September 1 - Colonial America
1. Powerpoint Lecture - The Colonial Economy (land, labor, lust - consumption, mercantilism, the
Atlantic Trading System, Triangular Trade, colonial snapshots)
2. Class Discussion - The Egalitarian Nature of America
3. Powerpoint Lecture - Religion in the Colonies (protestant reformation, martin luther, john calvin,
predestination, stuart kings, separatists, puritans, mass bay colony)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 3 (78-83, 90-98)
2) Read Degler II (2, 3)
3) Read Spirit 5B
4) Pick up and begin reading biography of Benjamin Franklin from "Beginnings" that will be due on
Thursday
Monday August 31 - The Chesapeake Bay Colonies
1) Class Discussion - How to Read Degler and Still Be Happy (Slavery or Racism - Which Was First?)
2) Powerpoint Lecture - Colonial Economics (The Atlantic Trading System, Triangular Trade,
Mercantilism)
Homework:
1) Please read Brinkley 3 (64-71, 74-77) (in addition to the prior sections on Puritan New England)
2) Please review Degler II (4, 5, 7)
3) Please read Spirit 5A
4) Find words in anything that Mr. Burrows does not know
5) Find items of cultural significance that Mr. Burrows does not know
Friday August 28 - The Chesapeake Bay Colonies
1. Map Quiz # 1 - 50 States and 15 Geographic Features
2. Powerpoint Lecture - Colonial Economy (Land, Labor or Lust - Colonial Economic Development -
Racism or Slavery, Which Came First?)
Homework:
1) Read Brinkley 3 (59-63)
2) Read Degler II
Thursday August 27 - The Chesapeake Bay Colonies
1. Class Discussion - The Clash of Cultures
2. Powerpoint Lecture - Colonial Economy
Homework:
1) Study for map test
2) Read Brinkley Chapter 2 (40-52) and 3 (86-89)
3) Read Degler I (Carl Degler "Out of Our Past" Chapter I)
Wednesday August 26 - The Clash of Cultures
1. Slide Show - 15 Most Important Geographic Features of America
2. Class Discussion - How to Read a Text
Homework:
1) Please read Brinkley Chapter 2 (32-40) and Chapter 3 (71-75,78-83)
Don't Forget Your Three Ring Binder and Your Spiral Bound Notebook by Friday!!!!!
Tuesday August 25
1. Student Presentations - Ten Most Important Events of United States History (what? so what? claim
evidence)
2. Group Work - The Geography of a Nation (Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Great
Lakes,
Chesapeake Bay, Hudson River, Mississippi River, Ohio River, Missouri River, Great Plains, Cape Cod,
Appalachian Mountains, The Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada)
Homework:
1) Review Brinkley Chapter 1
2) Read The American Spirit Chapter 1A and 1B
Monday August 24 - Introduction
1. Class Discussion - Why United States History?
2. Textbook Checkout
3. Musical Introduction - What is America?
Homework:
1) Map # 1 - Ten Most Important Events in United States History