***Mr. Hale (NIU student teacher) is now instructing all Navigator US history
classes***
WEEK OF 9/14
Monday- US Founding Period, In-class-Poster Activity
Tuesday- Jacksonian Democracy, In-class Activity
Wednesday- Antebellum Period: The Nation Breaking Apart
Thursday- Civil War Review; HM: Event Paragraph.
Friday- Review Quiz: Colonies to Civil War.
Week of 9/22
Monday- Look over quiz and book introduction; begin Reconstruction.
Tuesday- Continue Reconstruction: Cause and Effect Assingment.
Wednesday- Reconstruction Quiz; begin Settling of the West assigment.
Thursday- Impact of Railroads in IL, assignment in class.
Friday- Railroad video smorgasboard, mind-map due Monday.
Week of 9/28-10/3
Monday- Finish Railroad unit, Plains Indian Pre-Test, Video.
Tuesday- Culture of Plains Indians.
Wednesday- Broken Treaties Activity.
Thursday- The Dawes Act; Encounter or Genocide? writing assignment.
Friday- Post-Test; Current Events Activity.
Week of 10/5
Monday- "Myth of the Wild West" Class activity and writing assignment.
Tuesday- 'You Present' Farming in the West.
Wednesday- Begin Unit on the Booming Industry of the late 1800's
Thursday- Continue Unit on the Booming Industry of the late 1800's.
Week of 10/13
Tuesday- Begin "Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?" Unit: Carnegie note-
taking exercise.
Wednesday- Continue Unit; J.P. Morgan.
Thursday- Continue Unit; Rockefeller.
Friday- Acrostic entrepreneur assignment.
Week of 10/19/09
Monday - Urbanization Lesson
Tuesday- Immigration/An American Tail
Wednesday- Compulsory Education
Thursday- Yellow Journalism: Then and Now
Friday- Chapter 18 Quiz
Week of 10/26/2009
Monday- Gilded Age Overview: Political Cartoon Assignment Due Friday
Tuesday- Continue Gilded Age Overview/ Begin Progressive Era Worksheet
Wednesday- Spoils System vs. Civil Service/ Mother Jones Video
Thursday- "The Jungle" Video/ Read aloud/ Discussion Questions
Friday- Finish "The Jungle" Unit, Current Events Posters
Week of 11/2/2009
Monday- Political Parties Unit
Tuesday- Continue Political Parties Unit
Wednesday- Progressive Era Project; Meet in the Computer Lab.
Thursday- Progressive Presidents
Friday- Continue Progressive Presidents/ Preview Next Section
Week of 11/9/2009
Monday- Women's Suffrage: Why the West?
Tuesday- Finish up chapter: Minority Rights Mind Maps
Wednesday- No School: Veteran's Day
Thursday- Review for Test
Friday- Test; Preview Next Chapter
WEEK of 11/3//2009
Monday- Review for chapter 20 test (HW-Review 20 pts.)
Tuesday- TEST Chapter 20 (50 pts.), Current Events Magazine assignment (10Pts)
Wednesday- No SChool
Thursday- No SChool
Friday- No School
WEEK OF 11/30
Monday- Catch-up, Project questions, go over chpt 20 test, Preview WWI, k-w-l
chart of WWI as a class(No HW)
Tuesday- Begin Chpt 21 "WWI", 21.1
Wednesday- continue WWI, (Family Tree draft due 10 pts)
Thursday- WWI map of Europe
