October 26th & 27th, 2016

Students,

These next couple of days we will be creating posters that pit Andrew Jackson's presidency against another one of our early presidents.

You will have received a piece of Poster paper which you will fold in half, to create two boxes which you will fill with information regarding Andrew Jackson and the president of your choice. After researching both you will create a miniature report discussing who you think had a greater impact on the office of the President.

PPT Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7YlJVUkVzczJ1LUk/view?usp=sharing

Alternate assignment link for absent students!

REMINDERS:

Test is on October 28th - Review

October 25th, 2016

Students,

Today we managed to get the last PPT for at least a week. we discussed the Market and Transportation revolutions that changed the direction of America's economic development as we move further into the 19th century. Just to reiterate, in my mind these economic changes and developments in the North while neglecting the South, is one of the most crucial events that leads to the Civil War. See below for PPT.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7SDFrZXh0dU51MTQ/view?usp=sharing

REMINDERS:

October 24th, 2016

Students,

This afternoon we split as usual into DC and AP activities.

AP: worked on Thesis construction woo.

DC: turned in their sources and worked on Note Cards

REMINDERS:

This is the week of the make-up work, come get some.

October 21st, 2016

Students,


Today we took our Binder Test hopefully these turn out pretty well! We also finished up our War of 1812 Graphic Organizer, please check out the post from October 18th, 2016 for a copy of the Graphic Organizer and the video.


REMINDER:

The end of your six weeks is October 28th.

October 20th, 2016

Students,


Today we discussed the "era of good feeling" in the wake of the War of 1812. This period was characterized by a sense of positive national feelings that was unfortunately hiding events that brought us quite a bit closer to civil war. But fear not we have our trusty roll of Duct Tape to patch our sinking ship

Power Point Link


REMINDER:

Binder Check Tomorrow

End of the six weeks for you will be October 28th!

October 19th, 2016

Students,

Today we PSAT tested!


Sincerely,

Mr. Womack

October 18th, 2016

Students,

Today we examined the war of 1812. We looked at three different types of sources to fill out a complete set of notes. We examined James Madisons 1812 war message to congress in an attempt to identify the reasons we went to war with Britain at all.

We once again relied upon John Green (I still don't have much of a voice) to examine and explore causes and effects of the war of 1812 on America.

Next we turned to Partners and our good friend Alan Brinkley to fill in the missing details of information.

Being able to address an issue from multiple sources is a great way to create a complete picture of whatever you are creating; be it an AP free response question, or a Dual-Credit research paper. looking a varying sources provides a wide exposure to ideas and view points that construct a more complete view of the topic at hand.

Note Graphic Organizer link


Reminders

Retest is now available please come in to tutorials sometime next week to take a stab at it. I will make this announcement in class on Friday as well.

October 17th, 2016

Students,

Today we divided up the class again.

AP: you wrote your long essays Super fun, see a peer to get prompts / notes for practice.

DC: today you turned in your Sources, and began working on your claims.

PPT link
Deadlines

TOPIC frame link

Sources Link

Possible Sources

Artcyclopedia

BioMedCentral

Digital History

Library of Congress

FindArticles.com

Infomine

Internet history sourcebooks

Internet public library

Project Gutenberg

Research Guide for students (style guide)

US Government Manual

October 14th, 2016

Students,

In my class today we looked at Jeffersonian democracy, and the presidency of Thomas Jefferson in general. We watched John Green and then reviewed what we saw with my information. please take notes on both below for assignment #12 "Jeffersonian Democracy"

Power Point Link

REMINDERS:

Binder Check 10/21

October 12th & 13th, 2016

Students,

Today we split up our day.

AP students: worked on Short Answer Responses for the AP exam. I won't post the full power point but I will post the prompt that we wrote to for those that were absent. Please pen a response to the following question for tomorrow

Answer A, B, and C

a)Identify ONE factor that increased tensions between Great Britain and its North American colonies in the period 1763-1776, and briefly explain how this factor helped lead to the American Revolution

b)Identify a SECOND distinct factor that increased tensions between Great Britain and its North American colonies in the period 1763-1776, and briefly explain how this factor helped lead to the American Revolution

c)Identify a THIRD factor that increased tensions between Great Britain and its North American colonies in the period 1763-1776, and briefly explain how this factor helped lead to the American Revolution

Dual Credit Students: worked on our research paper please see below for a copy of all of the upcoming due dates.

LINK TO DUE DATES

Paper Guideline Power Point

October 11th, 2016

TEST DAY:

As of 2:53 they are better.

October 10th, 2016

Students,

Today we did our last PPT for the unit, Huzzah!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7WV9vdDBXWU1qZGs/view?usp=sharing

Things of note for your test:

Neutrality proclamation
XYZ affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Greenville Treaty Line
Federalist V. Anti Federalist (theme of ppt)

And of course your test is tomorrow,

Link to Review- add Edmund Randolph

October 5th, 2016

Students,

Today was a late start day so we had even less time than anticipated to enjoy the United States Constitution! However, we dove in headfirst to address why we needed to shift from the Articles of Confederation to the US Constitution in 1787 and the process in which we created our central governing document.

PPT LINK

REMINDERS:

Test will be Tuesday October 11th! -REVIEW

October 4th, 2016

Students,

Today we examined the actual Revolutionary War. See below for PPT.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Br2RBwz0R7RGduWVZqQzZxRTA/view?usp=sharing

REMINDERS:

Test will be Tuesday October 11th! -REVIEW

October 3rd, 2016

Students,

Today we examined the United States Declaration of Independence. We read through it privately and identified what we felt was the most important parts and what needed / could have been changed to make it a better document.

Link to Worksheet - Draw a three ringed Venn Diagram on the back

This was a good experience, but things got really exciting when you started comparing the Declaration of Independence to similar documents from Egypt in 1922 and Texas in 1836. You identified common themes between the documents, how the US may or may not have influenced these future bids for independence, and finally (hopefully) connected the beliefs and attitudes of our founding fathers with those of enlightenment thinkers like John Locke.

Link to US Declaration

Link to Egyptian Declaration

Link to Texas Declaration


REMINDERS:

Test October 11th review goes up tomorrow

Binder Check October 21st