***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 WEEK OF 12/14 Monday- WWI chapter 21.4 HW-Notes 21.4 Tuesday- Review WWI Wednesday- Chapter 21 Test WWI Thursday- Finish Family History Presentations Friday- 1st, 2nd, & 8th Hours-Current Events, 6th & 7th Hours Movie Incentive Happy Winter Break WEEK OF 1/4/2010 Monday- Geography review Tuesday- Current Events Wednesday- Preview Chapter 22, The 1920s Thursday- Begin Chapter 22 The 1920s, HW- Notes 22.1 Friday- 1920 Readings, Main Idea