Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Homework due 2/24 for A day

 Video notes for 7.3.I & Concept Map for 7.3.I  (terms can be found in chapters 27/28 of textbook)

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Homework 2/21 and 2/23 for B Day

2/21: Video notes for 7.3.I & Concept Map for 7.3.I  (terms can be found in chapters 27/28 of textbook)

2/23: POA #10 - TR   Product: Outline

4A Homework - Due 2/22

TR POA                         Product: Outline

Progressives Handout - Match 'em up!! (all 3 Presidents should be completed 

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

HW: 2/15(A) and 2/16(B)

Watch Key Concept Video 7.1  from 0:00-0:57 and 3:37-7:46

Product: Video Notes


Vocabulary  - 7.1.II (see concept map)

Terms can be found in chapter 28 and 29 of the textbook

Friday, February 10, 2017

2/13 (A) & 2/14 (B) Class

Come to class with:

  1. Both essay outlines 
  2. Strange Career of Jim Crow: Capitulation to Racism outline 
  3. Having read the 3 documents by Washington, Tarbell, DuBois  (do not have to answer questions!!)
  4. skimmed or looked over W.E.B. DuBois Infographic


In class we will:
  1. Write the essay for Period 6 (30 minutes) 
  2. Introduce essay prompt for African Americans in the late 19th-Early 20th Centuries 
  3. Hand out assigned roles 
  4. Start Activity 



Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Black History Month Exhibit

link to some ideas

remember this is optional - minor assessment - 1/2 major assessment (depending on the assignment)

Due Date: no later than 2/21

Monday, February 6, 2017

Turner v. Robbins Individual Writing Assignment

Support one of the interpretations using the primary sources from your group (as well as your knowledge of outside information) as evidence for your argument.


1-2 paragraphs: remember the appropriate structure to writing a coherent paragraph

Essay #2

Analyze the ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age (1865-1900)

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Chapter 26 Terms (to do) and terms you should know

Chapter 26 Terms to DO (remember: WWWW and Why it's important) and connect to Curriculum Framework


  1. 100th Meridian
  2. Reservation System
  3. Sand Creek Massacre
  4. Battle of Little Bighorn
  5. Battle of Wounded Knee
  6. Dawes Severalty Act
  7. Homestead Act
  8. Frederick Jackson Turner
  9. Mechanization of farming
  10. Deflation
  11. Granger laws
  12. Populist Party
  13. Pullman Strike
  14. Election of 1896
  15. Cross of Gold speech

Terms to be familiar with: (a good idea would be to try and include them when appropriate for your identifications)

Ft. Laramie Treaty
George Custer
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
Buffalo
Helen Hunt Jackson
“Ghost Dance”
Carlisle Indian School
“Fifty-Niners”
Comstock Lode
Boomtowns
Silver Senators
Long Drive
Abilene, Kansas
Cowboy
Sodbusters
Bonanza Farms
Sooners
Combine
Barbed wire
Dry farming
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Promontory Point
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
1890 Census
“safety valve” theory
Exoduster
Bozeman Trail
49ers
Frederick Remington