wednesday, september 30, 2015 general reminders unit 2 exam is tomorrow. review today at 4:00 the...

Wednesday, September 30, 2015General Reminders

Unit 2 Exam is tomorrow. Review today at 4:00 The last day of term 1 grading period is FRIDAY. Play it Safe presentation is FRIDAY. Your Vocabulary test over chapters 1 – 4 will be next MONDAY.

Today’s Objective Consider the following essential questions:

What are the most effective strategies in performing well on a stimulus based multiple choice exam

Today’s Activities Review of Unit 1 exam

Homework: Study the Guide to Critical Thinking – Reasoning by Comparison and Generalization

(pp. 7 – 11) Review for test

Tuesday, September 29, 2015General Reminders

Unit 2 Test (chapters 3 & 4) will be this THURSDAY. The last day of term 1 grading period is FRIDAY. Your Vocabulary test over chapters 1 – 4 will be next MONDAY.

Today’s Objective Consider the following essential question:

To what extent did the First Great Awakening impact the future course of America’s history?

To what extent did the Enlightenment impact the future course of America’s history?

Today’s Activities Argument presentation



Monday, September 28, 2015General Reminders

Unit 2 Test (chapters 3 & 4) will be this THURSDAY. The last day of term 1 grading period is FRIDAY. Your Vocabulary test over chapters 1 – 4 will be next MONDAY.




Today’s Activities Argument preparation



Friday, September 25, 2015General Reminders

We will have our first class debate next MONDAY: Did the Great Awakening or the Enlightenment have a more profound and

lasting impact on social and political developments in America? Be sure to look at documents I have posted on the web page!!!!!




Today’s Activities Individual work day. Too many students away on AVID field trip

Homework: Study the Guide to Critical Thinking – Reasoning: Cause and Effect (pp. 4 – 7) Begin Guide to Critical Thinking Unit 2, Lessons 1 – 6 (complete by FRIDAY) Complete independent research on the Enlightenment and the First Great

Awakening

Thursday, September 24, 2015General Reminders


lasting impact on social and political developments in America? Be sure to look at documents I have posted on the web page!!!!!




Today’s Activities The Great Awakening: Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Video: God in America – George Whitefield and the Great Awakening

Homework: Study the Guide to Critical Thinking – Reasoning: Cause and Effect (pp. 4 – 7) Begin Guide to Critical Thinking Unit 2, Lessons 1 – 6 (complete by FRIDAY) Complete independent research on the Enlightenment and the First Great

Awakening



lasting impact on social and political developments in America? Today’s Objective

Consider the following essential question: To what extent did the First Great Awakening impact the future course of

America’s history? To what extent did the Enlightenment impact the future course of America’s

history?Today’s Activities

Independent work day.Homework:

Study the Guide to Critical Thinking – Reasoning: Cause and Effect (pp. 4 – 7) Begin Guide to Critical Thinking Unit 2, Lessons 1 – 6 (complete by FRIDAY) Begin independent research on the Enlightenment and the First Great Awakening



lasting impact on social and political developments in America? Play It Safe Program will be in this class on Friday, October 2. A parent preview night is scheduled for TODAY, Sept. 22 at the FAAC for parents who

would like to see the presentation in advance.Today’s Objective

Consider the following essential question: What can we learn from the slave codes passed in Virginia from 1662 to 1752?

Today’s Activities Continue Virginia Slave Code document analysis discussion

Homework: Study the Guide to Critical Thinking – Reasoning: Cause and Effect (pp. 4 – 7) Begin Guide to Critical Thinking Unit 2, Lessons 1 – 6 (complete by FRIDAY) Begin independent research on the Enlightenment and the First Great Awakening


You should have read and taken notes on chapter 4 by now. Play It Safe Program will be in this class on Friday, October 2. A parent preview night is scheduled for TOMORROW, Sept. 22 at the FAAC for

parents who would like to see the presentation in advance.Today’s Objective


Today’s Activities Oral questioning over the Critical Thinking assigned pages. Virginia Slave Code document analysis discussion

Homework: Study the Guide to Critical Thinking – Reasoning: Cause and Effect (pp. 4 – 7)


Because of the pep rally schedule, we are postponing the planned lesson until Monday

Play It Safe Program will be in this class on Friday, October 2. A parent preview night is scheduled for next Tuesday, Sept. 22 at the FAAC for

parents who would like to see the presentation in advance.Today’s Objective

Consider the following essential question: Why did the Middle Colonies develop such a diverse economy and society by

the mid 1700s?Today’s Activities

Video and notes: Shaping America Lesson # 5 – “Diversifying British America”Homework:

Read and take notes for Chapter 4. They should be complete by Monday.


If you did not give me your notes for chapters 1 -3 to check, yesterday, you better do that NOW.

Oral quiz over the critical thinking reading assignment TOMORROW.Today’s Objective


Today’s Activities Virginia Slave Code document analysis

Homework: Read “Guide to Critical Thinking” pages 1 - 4

APUSH Binder OrganizationCover Page - Using a pen or marker, center this information prominently on the page:

Your NameAP U.S. History (APUSH)

Ms. AyalaPeriod ___

2015 – 2016

• Immediately after your cover page, place miscellaneous items, such as Course Information, Reading Schedules, etc.

Then 5 dividers for the fall semester - Clearly label the dividers Period 1 – (1491-1607) – Chapters 1 & 2 Period 2 – (1607-1754) – Chapters 3 & 4 Period 3 – (1754-1800) – Chapters 5 - 8 Period 4 – (1800-1848) – Chapters 9 – 12 Period 5 – (1844-1877) – Chapters 13 - 16


You MUST have your binder ready to organize by NOW.Today’s Objective

Consider the following essential question: Why is organization a valuable skill? What is the difference in argumentation and contradiction?

Today’s Activities Note check – chapters 1 – 3 Binder organization Discussion of critical thinking and argumentation

Homework: Read “Guide to Critical Thinking” pages 1 - 4


You MUST have your binder ready to organize by tomorrow. I will be checking for notes for chapters 1 – 3 this week.


Why did African slavery replace white indentured servitude in the colonies? How did indentured servitude and slavery differ in the colonial period?

Today’s Activities Shaping America Video Lesson #3 – Settling the Southern Colonies Notes as pertain to the essential questions above

Homework: Finish Venn diagram and reading chapter 3


Open House tonight! You MUST have your binder ready to organize. I will be checking for notes for chapters 1 – 3 this week.


Why did African slavery replace white indentured servitude in the colonies? How did indentured servitude and slavery differ in the colonial period?

Today’s Activities Venn diagram – Comparison of Indentured Servitude and African Slavery

Homework: Finish Venn diagram.


TEST TODAY!!!! Get a scan tron sheet and fill in information. For Subject – Unit 1 Be sure you have a binder for this class by next Monday. Bring it!


Although both were settled by the English, why did the New England and Chesapeake regions develop such different societies?

How did contact with the Spanish, French, and English affect Native American societies?

Today’s Activities Multiple choice and short answer exam

Homework: Read and take notes over Chapter 3 in the textbook. All notes will be checked next

week (probably Monday)


Our first test will be FRIDAY over textbook chapters 1 and 2.Today’s Objective

Consider the following essential question: Although both were settled by the English, why did the New England and

Chesapeake regions develop such different societies?Today’s Activities

Collaborative Learning – Mystery Document Challenge Discussion of investigation

Homework: Complete Venn diagram comparing New England and the Chesapeake Study for exam


Your Columbus and Pueblo Revolt interpretation papers are due NOW. Our first test will be FRIDAY over textbook chapters 1 and 2.


Was Bacon’s Rebellion a turning point in early colonial America? Although both were settled by the English, why did the New England and

Chesapeake regions develop such different societies?Today’s Activities

Bacon’s Rebellion – group analysis of evidence Brief teacher explanation of colonial regions Collaborative Learning – Mystery Document Challenge

Homework: Complete Venn diagram comparing New England and the Chesapeake


Our first test will be this FRIDAY over textbook chapters 1 and 2.Today’s Objective

Consider the following essential questions: Why was Puritan society intolerant of non-conformity?

Today’s Activities Teacher lecture and notes: Puritan Theology Video and notes: “God in America – Anne Hutchinson”

Homework: Complete Interpretation activities: “Assessment of Columbus” & “Pueblo Revolt” Complete additional interpretive activities on Puritans in the New England colonies


Our first test will be next Friday over textbook chapters 1 and 2.Today’s Objective

Consider the following essential questions: Why is evaluating sources of information an important skill in historiography?

Today’s Activities Collaborative historiography activity:

Evaluating historical sources– John Smith and Pocahontas Group presentations of evaluation of evidence in the John Smith/Pocahontas

rescue storyHomework:

Read Chapter 2 of the textbook and take notes. Read a section each night and you will be finished by Friday.

Complete Interpretation activities: “Assessment of Columbus” & “Pueblo Revolt” Complete additional interpretive activities on Puritans in the New England colonies


Our first test MIGHT be Tuesday September 8th (the day after Labor Day) over textbook chapters 1 and 2.


Are John Smith’s accounts of events at the Jamestown, Virginia settlement reliable? Was he really rescued by Pocahontas?

Today’s Activities Collaborative historiography activity:

Interpreting historical evidence – John Smith and PocahontasHomework:


Complete Interpretation activities: “Assessment of Columbus” & “Pueblo Revolt”


Our first test will be Tuesday September 8th (the day after Labor Day) over textbook chapters 1 and 2.


Are John Smith’s accounts of events at the Jamestown, Virginia settlement reliable? What really happened during the “starving time” at Jamestown?

Today’s Activities Historical evidence of the “starving time” in Jamestown. Discussion

Homework: Read Chapter 2 of the textbook and take notes. Read a section each night and you

will be finished by Friday. Complete Interpretation activities: “Assessment of Columbus” & “Pueblo Revolt”


Sign the list at my desk if you never received an AP contract. Return signed AP contract ASAP Our first test will be Tuesday September 8th (the day after Labor Day) over textbook

chapters 1 and 2.Today’s Objective

Consider the following essential questions: How did the arrival of Europeans on the American continent affect native

populations? How did the native populations in the Southwest respond to the Spanish

Catholic priests’ efforts to Christianize them? Was the response appropriate?Today’s Activities

Video: God in America: Pope’s RebellionHomework:


Monday, August 31, 2015General Reminders

Turn in your essays to the black bin. No late work will be accepted. Return signed AP contract ASAP Our first test will be Tuesday September 8th (the day after Labor Day) over textbook

chapters 1 and 2.Today’s Objective

Consider the following essential questions: How did the arrival of Europeans on the American continent affect native

populations? Whose account (Dinesh D’Souza or Howard Zinn) of the first European

encounter with the native people of America do you find to be more reliable? Today’s Activities

Class discussion of D’Souza and ZinnHomework:


Friday, August 28, 2015General Reminders

Please bring assigned supplies and check your name off the orange list at my desk. Return signed AP contract ASAP


To what extent does Dinesh D’Souza present a valid argument concerning America in his documentary film, America, Imagine the World be Without Her?

Today’s Activities Consider D’Souza’s responses to the 5 indictments against America, and analyze

the validity and effectiveness of one or two of his arguments in a short paper of no more than 2 typed pages

Homework: Read Chapter 1 of Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the United States

Thursday, August 27, 2015General Reminders

Please bring assigned supplies and check your name off the orange list at my desk.Today’s Objective

Respond to the following essential questions: Are you proud to be an American? If so, why? Are you ever ashamed of America? If so, why?

Today’s Activities Video: America, Imagine the World be Without Her Take notes, recording D’Souza’s list of 5 indictments against America and his

response to eachHomework:

Read Chapter 1 in textbook and take notes in a spiral or composition book

Wednesday, August 26, 2015General Reminders

Please bring assigned supplies and check your name off the orange list at my desk.Today’s Objective


Today’s Activities Video: America, Imagine the World Without Her Take notes, recording D’Souza’s list of 5 indictments against America and his

response to eachHomework:

Read Chapter 1 in textbook and take notes in a spiral or composition book

Tuesday, August 25, 2015General Reminders

Please bring assigned supplies and check your name off orange list at my desk.Today’s Objective


Today’s Activities Receive textbooks Enroll in Remind 101 Discussion of the above essential questions in small groups and whole group.

Homework: Read Chapter 1 in textbook and take notes in a spiral or composition book

Monday, August 24, 2015Today’s Activities

Issue textbooks Homework:

Read pages 6 - 19 Discuss introductory topics as time permits:

Course overview – Academic Honesty AP Contracts Supplies Remind 101 G mail address General course expectations

Binder for APUSH (exclusively) Reading quizzes Make up work Late work Test retakes Extra credit

E Mail CommunicationUse the following e mail address to communicate with me about APUSH. If you have a question about an assignment or would like to turn in a written assignment electronically, this is the best account to use.

[email protected]

Send a message to this address with your name and period number in the subject line, and I will add you to contacts for this account.

mailto:[email protected]

Remind 101 Directions Enter this number into your cell phone:

81010 Then enter the following message for your class:

1st period - @b1e 2nd period - @50d9d 3rd period – @5c06cb 5th period – @111ec 6th period – @22b96

I will be able to text you important reminders for class. Our cell numbers will remain hidden to each other for privacy.

Please sign in and be seated. We will begin in a few minutes.

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