Due Monday Nov. 1st

Blocks C & E: Reading/notes pp. 146-149, stopping before "The Townshend Acts." Actively read (if you have a printer, print out highlight and use a pen for margin notes, if not, add a section to your notes) Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"


Your week of homework is up on your block specific pages if you want to work ahead!

Due Friday Oct. 29th

Both Blocks: Your papers on the French & Indian War! Should be printed, stapled and 3 hole punched, ready to be handed in at the start of class.

Don't forget- if you use an outside source...Link to MLA Citation Info

REMINDER: Test corrections due to me by noon Saturday. In pen or typed on a separate sheet of paper, to be handed in with your test. Mailbox or L30 desk.

Due Thursday Oct. 28th

Block E: Reading/notes pp. 141-146, stopping before "The Beginning of Colonial Resistance." Work on your essays!

Due Wednesday Oct. 27th

Block C: Reading/notes pp. 141-146, stopping before "The Beginning of Colonial Resistance." Work on your essays!

Block E: Reading/notes pp. 137-141. Then, make sure to take a look at the map on pg. 142. Work on your essays!

Due Tuesday Oct. 26th

Block C: Reading/notes pp. 137-141. Then, make sure to take a look at the map on pg. 142. Start your essay if you haven't yet- you'll thank yourself later in the week! Remember to check your block specific page if you want to work ahead.

Review Guide

To help you study for Monday's test, check out this review guide. Good luck!

Formal Paper Assignment, Due Fri. Oct. 29th

AR Paper #1

Due Friday Oct. 22nd

Blocks C & E:

1. Please read and take notes starting with "Politics in England and America" on pg. 130 through pg. 134.

2. Also, please read this Examiner article on Glenn Beck's attitude towards the institution of slavery, and make sure to listen to the 4 minute audio clip to help you better understand the opinion piece (slavery comes up around 2:30, be patient, it will help to have the context).



3. Using the "comment" function on this post, please answer the following questions in a minimum of two paragraphs (3-5 complete sentences per pgh). It will be graded.

• Based on what you have learned, do you think slavery "started with seemingly innocent ideas?" If so, did it ever lose its innocence? When?
• Do you think that health care reform is reintroducing the institution of slavery to the U.S.? If so, do you see a parallel between the beginning of slavery in the Atlantic slave trade and Beck's idea of slavery today?

*Tomorrow I will introduce an essay to be due next Friday 10/29 and will provide you with a review guide to help you study for your test on Monday.

Due Thursday Oct. 21st

Block E: Please read and take notes on Quakers pp. 101-103 and on the Enlightenment pp. 124-127. Read this bio on Mary Dyer.

Due Wednesday Oct. 20th

Block C: Please read and take notes on Quakers pp. 101-103 and on the Enlightenment pp. 124-127. Read this bio on Mary Dyer.

Block E: Read and take notes from pg. 360 starting with "The Peculiar Institution" through pg. 368 ending before "Free Black Southerners." Make sure to take a look at "Daily Lives" on pp. 368-369.

Announcement: Block Specific Pages

In an effort to help you plan ahead, I will post the week of work coming up on your block specific pages (see links on right hand side of home page). I will continue to post the nightly homework with more in-depth directions on the main page in an effort to remind you what's due next class.

Effective immediately- check it out!

Due Tuesday Oct. 19th

Block C (& E for Wednesday): Read and take notes from pg. 360 starting with "The Peculiar Institution" through pg. 368 ending before "Free Black Southerners." Make sure to take a look at "Daily Lives" on pp. 368-369.

Don't kill yourself with notes- definitely take them, but be brief. I am more concerned with you absorbing it to help with discussion tomorrow. Keep in mind we are dealing with a larger time frame as we study the slave trade and slavery- hence you reading part of Chapter 13.

See you tomorrow!

Due Monday Oct. 18th

To those of you who didn't have your notes from last class, please refer to the earlier post outlining your hw for Friday, and complete them. I will check tomorrow.

In addition, please read and take notes from pg. 121 starting with "Slave Socities in the Eighteenth-Century South" through pg. 124 ending before "Enlightenment and Awakening in America."

Also, please make a map on a regular sheet of paper (8.5" x 11"), using color pencils/crayons/markers- MUST BE IN COLOR- recreating the slave trade map on pg. 69. I am most concerned with the outline of the continents and the arrows delineating what colonial powers exported how many Africans from where and to where (you must included percentages). This will be graded.

An Open Letter to Mercer Knott and Block E

Emergency! I just got emailed these pictures of a baby porcupine and now I'm confused. What's cuter, a baby sea otter or a baby porcupine?! Please comment!

Due Friday Oct. 15th

So this week is a wash...because Wednesday is Saturday's schedule, I see each US block only twice.

Block C
Tuesday Oct. 12th: Teams will present. I will fill you in on the colonies of Delaware and Connecticut. You will complete your 13 colonies visual organizers in the process. I will finish summing up King Philip's War for you (we ran out of time last week).

Block E
Thursday Oct. 14th: Teams Gardiner & Hooper will present (Team McClelland is slated for Friday). You will complete your 13 colonies visual organizers in the process. Time allowing, we will begin discussion of Salem Witch Trials.

Both Blocks
Friday Oct. 15th: Read and take notes on pg. 67 through pg. 73 on Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade. We will be discussing the capture, transport, and enslavement of African peoples as related to the Americas.

Don't forget to FINISH 13 colonies visual organizers- I will grade them Friday!

Welcome Parents! Oct. 9th 2010

Plan for today:
Introduction
Course Overview
Technology in the Classroom
Questions!

Due Wednesday Oct. 6th

Block C: Work on PowerPoint presentations and catch up on any reading/notes you are missing (aka operation "extraction").

Block E: Notes through pg. 99, read "The Trial of Anne Hutchinson" and complete notecards on characters from King Philip's War. See 2 posts below for directions and links.

Resources on MLA Citation

To help you with MLA citation practices, please visit the following sites:

Diana Hacker Outlines MLA.

Purdue OWL (online writing lab) Outlines MLA.

Knight Cite Enter information and it will help create the citation for you.

Due Tuesday Oct. 5th

Read and take notes on pg. 94 beginning with "Communities in Conflict" through the bottom of pg. 99.

Read "The Trial of Anne Hutchinson." Either print out and actively read, or take notes off of your review of the document online. It is about 8 pages- don't knock yourself out, but read until you gain an understanding then skim.

Complete your assignment on King Philip's War started in class Monday.

Due Monday Oct. 4th

Block E:

1. You will finish your quizzes on Monday. Be prepared!

2. With the exception of Team Gan (they already answered theirs), you will be answering the questions you created on Google Doc...with a catch! You will be answering the questions of another team.

Team Knott will answer Team Morelos' questions.
Team Morelos will answer Team Gardiner's questions.
Team Gardiner will answer Team Knott's questions.

All 10 on each doc must be completed by class time Monday. It will help you study!

3. If you have not done so already, please review both Winthrop's and JFK's "City Upon a Hill" speeches.

Block C:

1. If you have not done so already, please review both Winthrop's and JFK's "City Upon a Hill" speeches.

2. Read pg. 99 in NN in preparation for tomorrow's class.