December 3-7 (week 16)
Monday 12/3

- The building storm cont: Bleeding Kansas, violence on the Senate floor

- HW: Read 21A3, 21B1-21B2

Tuesday 12/4 – Wednesday 12/5

-- The Dred Scott Decision, John Brown and Harper’s Ferry, secession, and Lincoln’s

   plans

- The beginning of the War

- Study for quiz over chapters 18-19

Thursday 12/6 - Friday 12/7

- quiz over chapters 18-19

- The middle of the War

- HW: Political cartoon: over any topic from chapters 18-19. Due 12/10

December 10-14 (week 17)

Monday 12/10

- The middle of the War

- Cartoon due

Tuesday 12/11 – Wednesday 12/12

- The end of the War

Thursday 12/13 – Friday 12/14 (NO CLASS FRIDAY)

- Video (for Thursday’s class)

EXAM ON SATURDAY AT 9:00!

November 12-16 week 13

Monday 11/12

- Cartoon due

- Manifest Destiny, James K. Polk, and “The Destiny of the Race”

- HW: read 18B1-B2, 18D1, 19A1-A3, 19B1-D2

Tuesday 11/13 - Wednesday 11/14

- Scene from Ken Burns’ Civil War: Disc 1; All Night Forever

- Slavery: The Peculiar Institution

- HW: read 19E3-E4, 19F1-F2

Thursday 11/15 - Friday 11/16

– finish slavery

- Study for Test over Unit 4 on 11/27-11/28

- HAVE A GREAT BREAK!

November 19-23 (week 14)

Thanksgiving Break

November 26-30 (week 15)

Monday 11/26

- Welcome Back!

- The Building Storm: The Wilmot Proviso, popular sovereignty, the Compromise of

   1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and escalating tension

- HW: Read 20E1, 20F1-F2

Tuesday 11/27 – Wednesday 11/28

- Unit 4 Test

- The building Storm: Bleeding Kansas, violence on the Senate floor,

   the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown and Harper’s Ferry, secession, and Lincoln’s

   plans

Thursday 11/29 – Friday 11/30

- The building storm cont.

- HW: study for test over chapters 18-19 on 12/7-12/8

October 22-26 (week 10)

Monday 10/22

- NO CLASS: LONG WEEKEND  

Tuesday 10/23 – Wednesday 10/24

- Jeffersonian Democracy

Thursday 10/25 – Friday 10/26

- Jeffersonian Democracy continued

- The War of 1812 and Nationalism & Sectionalism during the Era of Good Feelings

- HW: Read 13A1-13A3, 13E3, 13G1-G2 (essential for next paper!)

  

October 29 – November 2 (week 11)

Monday 10/29

- The War of 1812 and Nationalism & Sectionalism during the Era of Good Feelings

- HW: Study for test over Unit 3: Chapters 10-12 on 10/30-10/31

Tuesday 10/30 – Wednesday 10/31

- Test over Unit 3: Chapters 10-12

- Sectionalism during the Era of Good Feelings

- Election of 1824, Corrupt Bargain

- HW: read link  "Peoples Choice : Essay on AJ and JQA

- HW: NEW DEMOCRACY ESSAY (due 11/6-11/7)

            Using readings 13A1-A3, 13G2, and the “Presence of Mind” article on my

 SASSAFRAS website, explain how the developing universal, white, male

 suffrage of the 1820s changed government for better or worse. Two

 pages with two supporting quotes, proper citations, and a proper bibliography. It

 must be edited and the rubric signed by the editor if you received a C- or below

 on the last paper.

           

Thursday 11/1 – Friday 11/2

- Jackson in the White House: Webster-Hayne debates, nullification, the Bank crisis

Indian issues, Texas independence, election of 1840, Re-emergence of the two party system, and results of Jackson’s presidency

- HW: read 17B2, 17C1

November 5-9 (week 12)

Monday 11/5

- Jackson in the White House continued

- HW: read 15D4

HW: Jackson political cartoon: Draw a political cartoon that covers one of the major

            events in Jackson’s presidency, ie. Nullification Crisis, War on the B.U.S., Indian

            Removal, relations w/ Calhoon, Clay, Webster, and Van Buren. (due 11/12)

Tuesday 11/6 – Wednesday 11/7

- PAPER DUE!

- Jackson in the White House continued

Thursday 11/8 – Friday 11/9

- Manifest Destiny, James K. Polk, and “The Destiny of the Race”

- HW: read 16A1-16A2, 16A4, 16B1, 16C1-16C4, 16D2, 16E1, and 16E3