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CW: Life in America Presentations (Posters Due Today)

HW: Review Today's Presentations & those groups who are presenting tomorrow should prepare & practice

Life in America Project Rubric & Alternative Assignment

CW: Finish Life in America Presentations

CW: Brief Quiz on Life in America Activity

HW: In your textbook, read p.253-256 &on p.256, answer questions 3 & 4 (To receive full credit, you MUST write out each question & answer in complete sentences.) & read following documents in handout: Manifest Destiny & its Legacy: "John L. O'Sullivan Defines Manifest Destiny" and Senator Thomas Hart Benton Justifies White Supremacy" (highlight & take notes in margin)

Life in America Alternative Assignment Due TOMORROW IN CLASS

Life in America Project Rubric & Alternative Assignment

CW: Begin Manifest Destiny (PowerPoint)

CW: Read, highlight, & Discuss Documents in Manifest Destiny & its Legacy Packet: Explore Oregon Country & the Gold Rush

CW: U.S. Territorial Expansion Map Activity (Ongoing) Blank Map, (if absent, use completed map to color Oregon Territory)

Territorial Acquisitions Legend & chronological list of land acquisitions.

HW: In your textbook, read p.261-265 and on p. 265 answer questions 2-4 (To receive full credit, you MUST write out each question & answer in complete sentences.)

Life in America Alternative Assignment Due TODAY IN CLASS

Life in America Project Rubric & Alternative Assignment

CW: End Manifest Destiny (PowerPoint) including Mexican-American War

CW: U.S. Territorial Expansion Map Activity (Ongoing) Blank Map, (if absent, use completed map to color Mexican Cession, Texas Annexation, & Gadsden Purchase)

Territorial Acquisitions Legend & chronological list of land acquisitions.

Explore through documents in Provoking War with Mexico Document Packet

Great Debate: Was the United States justified in going to war with Mexico?

HW: In your textbook, read p.488-490 and on p. 490 answer questions 1-4 (To receive full credit, you MUST write out each question & answer in complete sentences.)

CW: Watch President's DVD Episodes: Polk & Taylor

CW: Westward Expansion & Moving West (PowerPoint)

CW: Participation Evaluation Today. If absent, print out sheet, fill it out, and return it to Mr. Morin on Monday.

HW: In your textbook, read p.491-497 and on p. 497 answer questions 1-5 (To receive full credit, you MUST write out each question & answer in complete sentences.)

CW: The Closing of the West & further removal of Native Americans (PowerPoint) & exploration through primary sources

HW: In the "Great West & the Agricultural Revolution Document Packet, Read, highlight, & take notes on following documents: Chief Joseph's Lament & Charles Schultz Proposes to "Civilize" the Indians

DUE TOMORROW

HW: In your textbook, read p.496-506 and on p. 506 answer questions 1-6 (DUE WEDNESDAY) (To receive full credit, you MUST write out each question & answer in complete sentences.)

Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny Study Guide

CW: Native American Mascots CAPT (In-Class Essay QUIZ) (*Note: If absent, this is HOMEWORK and essay must be completed and is due in class tomorrow)

HW: In your textbook, read p.496-506 and on p. 506 answer questions 1-6 (DUE TOMORROW) (To receive full credit, you MUST write out each question & answer in complete sentences.)

Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny Study Guide

12 ½ Day

CW: Settling & Closing the West: Farming & Mining (PowerPoint)

HW: See Assignment Sheet. Read 2 documents in "Life on the Frontier" Document Packet & write 1 letter.

Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny Study Guide

CW: Settling the West & the Myth of the West (PowerPoint)

HW: Answer Guiding Question in "Life in the West" Activity.

HW: Study for Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion Exam

Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny Study Guide

CW: Watch excerpts from PBS DVD "The Way West"

CW: Exam Review

HW: Study for Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion Exam (MONDAY)

Westward Expansion & Manifest Destiny Study Guide

CW: Start Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion Exam

HW: Slavery & Abolitionism Assignment *Read p. 318-325, answer questions (1-5) (handout) and read (highlight & take notes) assigned documents in the South & the Slavery Controversy document packet (Document assignment written in Handout)

CW: Finish Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion Exam

CW: Slavery & the Abolitionist Movement

CW: Continue Slavery & Abolitionism Assignment

HW: In textbook, read p.355-364

CW: Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & "Bleeding Kansas."

*Notes Handout with maps

HW: In your textbook, read p. 364-373.

Review: Slavery Compromises (PowerPoint) & the 1850s: Road to Secession (PowerPoint)

CW: Dred Scott v. Sanford (handouts), Lecompton Constitution, John Brown's Raid.

CW: Watch President's DVD Episodes: Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, & Buchanan

CW: Participation Evaluation Today. If absent, print out sheet, fill it out, and return it to Mr. Morin on Friday.

HW: In Lincoln-Douglas Debates Document Packet, read, highlight, & take notes on the following documents: Stephen Douglas Opposes Black Citizenship, Abraham Lincoln Denies Black Equality, & Lincoln Disowns Brown. Answer corresponding questions 1-4 in margins (in packet)