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Reminders/Study Guide

1/28/2015

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Remember that both the article and Chapter 17 should be done by tomorrow in preparation of our review of Reconstruction/Westward Expansion.  I've included the study guide below.
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Frederick Jackson Turner/DBQ Work

1/27/2015

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Today, class time was spent discussing Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis and students got to work on next week's DBQ, spending 20 minutes practicing the process of blind document analysis.  I've included a link below that has the visual in Document 5 in more detail.

Remember, the article is to be read by Thursday and we will discuss it in class.
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Type 2 Over Reconstruction/Heartland Video

1/22/2015

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Today, we had a Type 2 over the nature of the New South after Reconstruction.  Afterwards, we started the Heartland episode from the America: The Story of Us series.  The reading assignments for Monday are as follows:

1st/2nd Period - 489-500
5th Period - 481-492



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Ch. 14/15 Test & Reading Homework

1/14/2015

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Class time today was spent taking the Chapter 14/15 test.  Students had the remaining time to begin tonight's reading homework which is as follows:

1st/2nd Period - 455-461
5th Period - 451-457


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Gettysburg Address/Sectional Conflict Review

1/13/2015

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Today we read/discussed the Gettysburg Address and review the sectional conflict of the 1850s.  For the review, I used a PowerPoint that we first looked at a couple of weeks ago.  It is included below.

The test structure for tomorrow is as follows:

  • 13 Stimulus Based Multiple Choice questions (4 options)
  • 27 traditional multiple choice questions (5 options)
  • 1 short answer question


Get a good night of studying in and stay warm!






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Civil War Review

1/12/2015

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Today in class we discussed the Civil War using the questions included below.  Also included is the study guide for the Chapter 14/15 test which has been moved from Tuesday to Wednesday due to the snow days.
chapter_15_study_questions.pdf
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chapter_14__15_review.pdf
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January Strikes Again

1/8/2015

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Wow, a double snow day, and maybe headed towards a triple.  We don't have the luxury though of pushing our schedule back.  So add the next five pages of Chapter 15 to your assigned readings.  And if we have tomorrow off, have the chapter finished by Monday.  Stay warm and stay safe!



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Lincoln vs. South Carolina

1/6/2015

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Class time was spent today analyzing the different views on the Union and secession by reading/discussing both South Carolina's justification for secession and Lincoln's first inaugural.

Reading homework for tonight is as follows:

1st/2nd Period - 429-435
5th Period - 426-432


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Back to Work

1/5/2015

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Today's class was spent reviewing Chapter 14.  The questions used are included below.  The reading assignments for tonight are as follows:

1st/2nd Period - 423-4296
5th Period - 419-426



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