Eric A. Burrows
SanMarcosHighSchool
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Thursday December 17 - The New Deal 1. Class Discussion - The Legacy of the New Deal Homework: 1) Read Brinkley 27 and 28 Wednesday December 16 - The New Deal 1. Film Documentary - FDR and the New Deal Homework: 1) Prepare your Group Interdisciplinary Project topic and individual term paper topics 2) Read Brinkley 27 Tuesday December 15 - The New Deal 1. Film Documentary - FDR and the New Deal Homework; 1) Read Brinkley 26 (all) (We will complete the New Deal and American politics tomorrow in class) 2) Read Brinkley 27 (pages 718-727) 3) Read "The Grapes of Wrath" up to Chapter 21 YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON IT TOMORROW !! !! !! FOCUS ON WHAT HAPPENS TO THE JOAD FAMILY IN CHAPTERS 18 AND 20 !! !! !! 4) Submit Interdisciplinary Group Topics and Individual names and topics. Monday December 14 - Mega Midterm and the Election of 1932 1. Test # 2 - Mega Midterm - The Early Twentieth Century 2. Film Documentary - FDR and the New Deal Homework: 1) Read Brinkley 26 (all) (be prepared for a things learned on it) 2) Complete Notes # 26a - New Deal worksheet on programs of the New Deal) 3) Complete Notes # 28b - Responses to Degler's artoc;e 4) Complete Notes # 25a - Analysis of the impact of the Great Depression 5) "The Grapes of Wrath" through Chapter 21 6) WA # 3a - Group topic and individual term paper Friday December 11 - The Great Depression 1. Slide Show - Causes of Great Depression 2. Class Discussion - The Plight of the Unemployed During Great Depression 3. Lecture - Herbert Hoover and Government Policy (The conservatism - and radicalism - of Hoover in his monetary policy, trade policy, and fiscal policy) Homework: 1) Study for Mega Midterm (see below for subject matter of the exam) 2) Read Brinkley 26 (all) 3) Read Degler XIII 4) Do Notes # 26a New Deal Program Evaluation (Due Tuesday) 5) Do Notes # 26b Responses to Degler (Due Tuesday) MEGA MIDTERM EXAM - MONDAY DECEMBER 14 SECTION ONE - MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION TWO - IDENTIFICATIONS SECTION THREE - ESSAYS SUBJECT MATTER CHAPTER 20 - THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC (Did the United States act imperialistically in the late 1800s?) CHAPTER 21 - THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVISM (From whence did the reform effort arise?) CHAPTER 22 - THE BATTLE FOR NATIONAL REFORM (Who was the true progressive - TR or WW?) CHAPTER 23 - AMERICAN AND THE GREAT WAR (1. What was the cause of World War One? 2. What impact did the war have on American society? 3. Why did the peace fail? 4. What was Wilson's purpose in pursuing his foreign policy vis a vis Europe 1914-1920 - high minded idealism or cynical economic imperialism?) CHAPTER 24 - THE NEW ERA (How did the modernity of American display itself in each of the following areas - Fear (labor, radicalism, foreigners, modernity), Fun (women, prohibition, advertising, sports, film, automobile), Politics (the republican political economy of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover)) CHAPTER 25 - THE GREAT DEPRESSION (1. What accounted for the unprecedented economic growth of the 1920s? 2. What caused the Great Depression and what exacerbating factors were there? 3. What was the nature of the plight of the individual during the Great Depression - please employ "The Grapes of Wrath" in answering) Thursday December 10 - The Great Depression 1. Class Discussion - The Economic Boom of the 1920s (international markets, worker productivity, republican political economy, consumerism, automobile industry, associated industries) 2. Slide Show Lecture - Causes of the Great Depression (overproduction and the exacerbating factors of stock market crash, bank runs, Dust Bowl, federal government policy) Homework: 1) Read Brinkley 26 (all of it) 2) Read "The Grapes of Wrath" through chapter 21 (page 365) 3) Notes 26a - New Deal Programs (due Monday) 4) Notes 26b - Response to Degler Chapter IX (due Monday) MEGA MIDTERM EXAM ON MONDAY DECEMBER 14 (CHAPTERS 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26) Wednesday December 9 - The Roaring Twenties 1. Group Work - Fun (women, prohibition, advertisement and consumerism, film, sports, automobiles) 2. Slide Show Lecture - The Republican Political Economy (Laissez-Faire Plus, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover) Homework: 1) Please read more of the "The Grapes of Wrath" 2) Please read Brinkley 25 (all of it) Tuesday December 8 - The Roaring Twenties 1. Group Work - Fun 2. Class Discussion - Politics Homework: 1) Please read through Chapter 19 of "The Grapes of Wrath" (to page 308) 2) Please read all of Brinkley Chapter 25 YOU WILL HAVE A THINGS LEARNED ON BOTH!! !! !! Monday December 7 - The Roaring Twenties 1. Class Discussion - The Disillusionment of War 2. Slide Show Lecture - Fear and Hate in the 1920s Homework: 1) Read "The Grapes of Wrath" through Chapter 17 (read through to page 258) and we will be reading through Chapter 19 (through to page 308) by Wednesday. We will have a quiz on all that on Wednesday in class. Please read well and enjoy. 2) Read Brinkley Chapter 24 (through to the end - we will focus on Fun - the cultural phenomena of the decade in the first part of the class - and then we will move on to Politics - the Republican leadership in the decade for the second part of class - finally we will deal with the causes of the Great Depression - so you might start with the first pages of Brinkley Chapter 25) 3) Read the CRF Article on "The Teapot Dome Scandal" 4) Notes # 23a - Impact of WWI on the American Homefront (see below) Friday December 4 - The Failed Peace 1. Group Work - Thesis Making and Proof Giving (Who was at fault for the failed peace?) 2. Class Discussion - Propaganda and the Domestic Front Homework: 1) Read Brinkley 23 (621-628) 2) Notes 23a - Over Here - The Homefront of WWI (Please analyze in a paragraph for each topic the impact of the Great War on the homefront of domestic American society. Each topic should be its own paragraph and should start with a sophisticated claim, supported by abundant evidence. 1) Government and the Economy (621), 2) Labor (622), 3) African-Americans (623), 4) Women (623) 5) Dissent (625)) DUE TUESDAY 3) Read Brinkley 23 (632-639) and Brinkley 24 (642-661) CULTURAL SEMINAR THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER 10TH AT 6 PM !! !! !! !! "MATEWAN" Thursday December 3 - The Great War 1. Class Discussion - The Great War Homework: 1) Read Brinkley 23 (pages 628-632) 2) Read three articles (French Mutiny, Woodrow Wilson and Peace, Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations) Wednesday December 2 - The Great War 1. Lecture - Woodrow Wilson and American Neutrality (International Law, British Actions, Unterseebooten, Declaration of War, Build Up to War, The Fourteen Points) 2. Literary Analysis - Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Homework: 1) Read Brinkley 23 (all - please be sure to know everything in the chapter - things learned time) 2) Read Brinkley 24 (640-647) (same thing Tuesday December 1 - Progressive Foreign Policy and The Great War 1. Lecture - Progressive Foreign Policy (TR and the Big Stick, Open Door Note, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Banana Republics - Dollar Diplomacy - Wilson's Moral Intervention and Mexico) 2. Lecture - The Great War (Archduke Ferdinand and Sarejevo - Nationalism, Capitalism, Imperialism, Militarism, The Alliance System - Two Front War - Von Schlieffen Plan - Western Front) Homework: 1) Please read Brinkley 23 (pages 621-628) 2) Please read "The Grapes of Wrath" (chapters 8, 9 ,10 11, 12) this will actually be quizzed and discussed on Thursday, but please start the reading tonight. 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 - 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) 2. Lecture - William Howard Taft and the Three Mistakes (Payne-Aldrich Tariff, Trust Busting, and the Ballenger-Pinchot Dispute) 3. Film Documentary - The Election of 1912 4. Class Discussion - Woodrow Wilson and the Attack on the Triple Wall of Privilege (Underwood Tariff, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Federal Reserve Act) 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) Class Discussion - Theodore Roosevelt - Raving, racist maniac or dynamic powerful statesman? 3) 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 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 Teller Amendment, The Boxer Rebellion, The Open Door Note) 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 AT 6:30 TO 8:30 !! !! !! !! 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. Wednesday October 14 - The Road to Civil War 1. PSAT Test Homework: 1) Read Brinkley 13 (all) 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 the development of 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 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
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