"There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live..."

--John Adams

Monday, January 19, 2015

Hey Gang!  This week is President Research Paper week.  We will have two days in class to do research for your paper.  Friday,  you will have a test on Era of Reform, Manifest Destiny, and Some Epic Fail information.  


Here is your Mini-Study Guide for Friday's Test:

I suggest you are able to explain the image below...
  • What does Manifest Destiny mean?
  • Which president died 30 days into office?
  • What dangers might one face as they moved west?
  • Why did people move west in the1840s?
  • What were the effects of Morse Code?
  • What were the effects of the growth in railroads in the 1840s?
  • What was the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
  • What is temperance?
  • What is abolitionism?
  • What group moved west and/or were effected by Manifest Destiny?

Week of January 19-23

Day 1 – Monday – No School – Martin Luther King, JR. Day

Day 2
In Class: Work on President Research Paper – Students researching their presidents and making note cards
HW:   Watch the Road to Civil War Video Podcast by Tuesday Jan. 27...

Notes:  Test on Friday, January 23 – Era of Reform, Manifest Destiny, and the Epic Fails! – 20 Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources

Day 3
In Class: Work on President Research Paper – Students researching their presidents and making note cards
HW:   Watch the Road to Civil War Video Podcast by Tuesday, Jan. 27..
Notes:  Test on Friday, January 23 – Era of Reform, Manifest Destiny, and the Epic Fails! – 20 Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources

Day 4
In Class: Test!  -- Era of Reform, Manifest Destiny, and the Epic Fails!
HW:   Road to Civil War Video Podcast by Tuesday Jan. 27...
Notes:  Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources


Week of January 26—30


Day 1 -- Research Day for President Research Paper

Day 2
In Class:
The Nation at 1850 and the Road to Civil War – Compromise of 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act…
Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852


Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854


HW:   None
Notes:  20 Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources – James K. Polk, Zach Taylor, Millard Fillmore Presidential Projects due Feb. 2

Day 3
In Class:  Road to Civil War – Kansas-Nebraska Act, Founding of the Republican Party, Bleeding Kansas and how the west tore the nation apart… Dred Scott v. Sandford, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA. 

John Brown

John Brown's Raid in Kansas Pottowatomie Creek 1856

Charles Sumner beaten in Congress - 1856






HW:   None
Notes:  20 Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources – James K. Polk, Zach Taylor, Millard Fillmore Presidential Projects due Feb. 2

Day 4 -- Marist Day