January 7-11 (week 18)

Monday 1/7

– Welcome Back!

– Research paper talk

- Choosing a research paper topic

– HW: Topics due by Monday 1/14

Tuesday1/8 – Wednesday 1/9

- The middle of the War

Thursday 1/10 – Friday 1/11

- The end of the War

January 14-18 (week 19)

Monday 1/14

– The end of the War

– Research paper topic due

- HW: read 22A2-A3, A5, B4 (introduction only), B5, D1, E3, F2

Tuesday 1/15 – Wednesday 1/16

- in-class Reconstruction workshop

– go over Reconstruction workshop answers

- Reconstruction and the New South

– HW: Research bibliography due 1/22-1/23

Thursday 1/17 – Friday 1/18

- Finish Reconstruction

- HW: study for quiz over Civil War and Reconstruction on Monday 1/21

January 21-25 (week 20)

Monday 1/21

– Quiz over Civil War and Reconstruction

- HW: Research bibliography due Monday 1/23

Tuesday 1/22 – Wednesday 1/23

- How to do note cards

- Introduction to the Gilded Age – Politics, Railroads, Robber Barons, and Urban

   America

- Research bibliography due

– HW: 1^st set of 30 note cards due Monday 2/4

Thursday 1/24 – Friday 1/25

- The Gilded Age – Robber Barons and Urban America

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