“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”  – Lord Chesterfield

 

Weeks 1 & 2

Content area topic: Native Americans

swbat: use new vocabulary, answer comprehension questions, summarize and synthesize information, write questions.

Read Pages 5, 6 , 8, and 9

Daily worksheets

HW:  Worksheets 1 & 2

Test @ EOW, 9/19 – 23

 

Week 3

Content area topic: English settle in North America, pages 43 to 53

swbat: do everything from week 2 + create a data sheet

9/26 How and why did they come?

Read pages 43, 44

study vocubulary list

Vocabulary homework

9/27 First settlements, growth of the colonies

Read pp.45 – 47

Comprehension questions in class and for homework

9/28, 29

3 Areas of the colonies

Students will produce data sheet

HW: Review data sheet, answer comprehension questions

9/30 Test of week’s work

 

Week 4 & 5

10/3 – 10/14

SWBAT:

Skill objectives:

Read for Comprehension

Summarize essential Information

ESSENTIAL CONTENT

Topic: Early Colonies,

Jamestown, Plymouth,

3 regions of the colonies

early government, religion

HW and inclass assignments given daily

Worksheets Ch5 WS, Map worksheet, Ch5voc, Ch5voc_final

Test @ EOW, “Jamestown and Plymouth”

 

October 10 Happy Columbus Day!

 

10/11 –10/14

SWBAT

1) Describe Relevant facts

2) Read for understanding

3) Note-taking skills

4) Use new vocabulary effectively

5) Explain a sequence of events

Topics

French & Indian War

Proclamation of 1763

Affects of Taxation on Colonists

Colonies Rise to Independence

Worksheets: CH7Voc, CH&_F&I_War, CH7_1, Ch7_2

HW: Events leading to War Worksheets, Ch7_3, 7_4

Test 10/22

 

Week of 10/25 – 29

Topic: American Revolution

1774, 1775,1776

SWBAT

Explain sequence of events: Colonists Protest, Colonists Prepare for War

Summarize previous information with new information

 

Daily Homework: Work Sheets: American Revolution, Shot Heard Around the World

Quiz, 10/28

 

10/31 – 11/ 4

Topic: The American revolution

 

SWBAT: Use time line of important events

Know important facts about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson

Memorize and Explain Declaration of Independence

10/31  America’s History pp. 78 – 80
Read, “Second Continental Congress”
HW: Work sheet
11/1  America’s History , pp. 78

Thomas Paine and Bunker Hill
11/1 HW Time line, Early Events of the Revolution

11/2

HW, Read article from America’s History

11/3 HW, answer questions from text

HW Review notes, 10/25 to present

TEST, 10/5

 

11/7 Quarterly Evaluation

 

11/9 HW learn vocabulary, by writing sentences from the list on p. 78

11/10 HW Vocabulary Worksheet

11/11 NO SCHOOL, Veterans Day

 

11/14 – 11 – 18

 

SWBAT discuss and write about these topics: Declaration of Independence, John Adams

In class time line. Study for weekly quiz.

HW Worksheets due day after assigned.

Quiz on 11/18

 

11/21 – 23

Students view and write critique of movie 1776.

 

11/28 – 12/9

C O N S T I T U T I O N W E E K

SWBAT: Explain details and principles of the US Constitution

Memorize and explain the preamble to the Constitution

 

11/28

Read 96, 97,

“The Nation’s New Constitution,” “The Constitutional
Convention”

HW Worksheet, Shay’s Rebellion

 

11/29

Copy and Define vocabulary list

Read p. 98 -99

“Compromises, Principles”

HW: Ch. 9 Vocabulary

 

11/30

T – Outline:  “Six Principles of the
Constitution”

HW: Memorize P R E A M B L E (Quiz, Monday, 12/5)

 

12/01

p. 99, 100

Federalism, Separation of Powers

HW: Follow – up worksheet

 

12/02

Preamble Practice

Practise Quiz: Six Principles… 2

 

 

Week of 12/5 to 12/ 9

 

6 Principles of the Constitution

 

In class Topics

 

1. Memorize Preamble to Constitution
2. Examine details of principles

 

Homework – worksheets, due the day after they are presented.

1. Three Branches of
government

2. Separation of
powers

Assessment – Composition: Explaining the
principles

 

12/12 – 12/23

Theme: Constitution, US Bill of Rights

SWBAT

Discuss facts,, take notes & summarize facts

HW: Vocabulary, Q & A, Reading Review

 

1/3 – 13

Theme: Jefferson’s Presidency, Political Parties

SWBAT

Discuss facts,, take notes & summarize facts

HW: TBA

Test @ end of unit

1/17 – 20

Review For Midterms

 

1/13 – 18

 

Topics:

American Constitution

Washington,
Jefferson, and Adams

Growing
nation, 1783 – 1800

 

Read:

Pages 138
ff., Chapter 10

 

SWBAT:

Identify:
different aspects of each president’s administration

Explain:
Constitutional Foundation

Take notes,
explain and discuss Bill of Rights, Elastic Clause

Identify
important sites on Map

 

HW and In –
class work:

Worksheets
:

Problems of
new government

Vocabulary
Worksheets (3)

Growth of a
Nation

Elastic
Clause

 

Test @ EOW

 

Review for
Exam, if time.

 

 

1/19 – 25

E X A M   W E E K ! Look on schedule for your exam

 

 

1/26 – 2/10

 

Topics:

Lewis and
Clark’s Expedition

Marbury v.
Madison

War of 1812

 

Reading:

Pages 146ff,
America’s History, Chapter 11

Page 80ff,
America’s Story

 

 

SWBAT:

Describe
features of the Louisiana Purchase

Write narrative of important facts about the Louisiana Purchase

Explain
concept of judicial review

–individual
leaders, international affairs

Explain
causes of War of 1812

Describe
persons and events of War of 1812

 

 

Quiz: 2/16

Vocabulary,
Dictation

 

Test: 2/10

Louisiana
Purchase, Marbury v Madison

 

 

 

HW:

Vocabulary
worksheets,

New
vocabulary in sentences

 

Test: 2/17

All
material from chapter 11

 

Third Quarter

Marbury v. Madison and the Supreme Court

Jacksonian Democracy

Week of 3/1

2 woksheets

Vocabulary homework

Read Biography Harriet Tubman

The Transportation Revolution

The Growth and Economics of Slavery

Test 3/11

3/14 – 4/2

Read 203 – 204, 206 – 207

Do writeup, work sheets (4)

Composition due: 3/30

Sectionalism and its problems

 

 

Week of 4/2 – 4/5

Quarterly Test

Video: Underground Railroad, with questionnaire

 

Week of 4/8 – 27

Manifest Destiny

ReadChapter 14,  pages 176 – 184

War with Mexico

 

Fact follow – up workshops, focusing on people and events of this time

SWBAT

Share opinion on historical topics (see below)

Discuss: problems of immigration

Discuss: necessity of war

Assignments:

Week of 4/9Vocabulary woksheets — 1, 2, 3, & 4

Journal writing on each above topic

4/21     Prepare for Debate: Issues of immigration, war and imperialism

4/23     Read pages 177 – 179, ex 1 – 3

4/24questions, 1 – 13

4/25  study time lines (2)

4/30    Test on all material

 

5/1 – 5/ 25

The Growth and Economics of Slavery

The Economies and Culture of the North & South

Underground Railroad

Biography Harriet Tubman

Abolitionist Movement

5/1 – 5/4

Vocabulary, ch 15, p. 192

HW: Worksheet

Test @ EOW

Q& A (1 – 5)  read p. 192 – 194

Outline 3 articles in class from book

work sheets (4)

5/7 – 5/11

Video, Glory

Assignment: Journal Write: Tuesday (8), Thursday(10), Friday(11)

Follow-up:Q & A

 

5/14 – 5/25

 

SWBAT

Read Compromise of 1850, p. 154.

Write – up: Compare and contrast with Compromise of 1820, p.156 – 157.

 

Greate Timeline: Countdown to Civil War (Groups)

Write – up: Vital information

Guided Questions due at end of week

Read p. 194 – 197

Oral Project: Explain one aspect of pre-Civil War Problems

The Civil War

Assessment: test @ EOW

Homework: Vocabulary Checklist, original sentences

Follow – up Homework assignments, 1 – 3

 

 

5/29 - 6/6

Reconstruction and its Consequences

Other Topics:

The American Educational System

Religious Trends that Shaped America

The Women’s Suffrage Movement

 

6/7 – 6/13 - Follow FINAL EXAM Schedule

 

 

 

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