ASSIGNMENTS:

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Unit 1: Geography & Exploration

Week
​  1-2

Topic

Picture
 Super Heroes &
         The Core Democratic Values -
​    Click here to
(view PowerPoint)  

Week Two = Geography of the U.S.A.    (Regions of the U.S.A) Click 4 min.

Assignment Features

Class Environment & Citizenship !      superhero template
Create a Super Hero  / The (7) Democratic Values 

Map Games link                   ( Rivers of USA clip)
​More Map Games  (click)

Physical Geography of U.S. Click on blue heading

Standards & Objectives 

Core Stnd. #6120-01-02

Week 3

Topic

Pre-Columbian Cultures
of North & South America

What Happened to the Ancient Cultures ?

Assignment Features

Link to video (Wait for up load)  Native Americans    - {Assignment rubric}
Components of Civilization    (List 6 indicators of a highly advanced culture)

View:    Inca/Aztec/Maya             North America :  View​ Iroquois Video 

Stndards & Objectives

Core Stnd. #6120-0301

Week 4-5

   Topic: Age of  Exploration 
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1. Old World / Middle Ages/ Crusades
2. Why do men explore the stars above,
     the earth below, and the ocean floor ?
3. The Colombian Exchange (Global Trade)
Colombian Exchange: (video Clip)
4. Spanish Explorers:  (print Assignment)
5.  The Middle Passage -  (Slave Trade link)
6.  Spice Trade (Video Clip)

 Assignment Features
​Link to video         Feudalism in the Middle Ages
Pg. # 59-62 Book - list 6 inventions /    ( exploration  Template)
Age of Discovery Video (Click to view 20. min.) 
 Use the guide to help answer questions !  (Print Video Guide)
 What are the crusades  (clip)                        The first crusade  (view clip)                 

Middle Ages clip #1                        (middle Ages #2)   Renaissance 
History Chanel: view the plague/roots of crusades
Christopher Columbus Assignment            (Voyages of Columbus Map link)        

Standards & Objectives

Core Stnd. #6120-0202
#6120-0302 - ivestigate political and economic reasons behind exploration.

Week 6

Topic 
1. Mercantilism   (clip) overview 
2. Reformation        (fun) (Clip)
3.  "power-point "  (Reformation)
4.  Spanish Armada (Video Clip)

Assignment Features
Handout                      Handout #2
Mercantilism explained  click to link
Reformation in England (Clip)    click on link  King Henry
Spain vs England  (Why the Armada Attacks England) Video Clip

Standards & Objectives

Week 7

Topic
Slavery in America (View clip)
N.W. Passage - Early Colonization - Charters
Colonial Charters defined.

Assignment Features
Hudson & N.W. passage clip.
Before Jamestown - (work sheet)
Roanoke clip

Standards & Objectives



Week 8

 Topic  
Jamestown  -  (Click &view Clip)
 Plymouth Colony/ Mayflower Compact- ( see clip )_
  Magna Carta (click to see Movie Clip)   
 Pilgrims-Plymouth (Click on Movie)
END OF TERM - UNIT ONE !                                              

Assignment Features
Unit Test Review Notes
 view Jamestown clip 
(answer the  ( ? ) at the top of the movie clips)

Standards & Objectives

Unit 2: Colonization to Revolution


Week 9-10

Topic
Development of the three colonial regions.
Government in the 13 English Colonies   (description)
Property rights - English Bill of Rights
Web Quest :  Colonial Regions
 (Assignment & search sites)
John Peter Zenger Trial (free press !)

Assignment Features 
movie clip - ( north/middle/southern colonies)
 link to -Web Resource Colonial Regions & Government
Power point -Colonial Regions & Government
power point - Life Savors & 13 Colonies
Freedom Flavors (handout)            Assignment (Click Here)
Colonial Postcard (Assignment)
English Bill of Rights ( Document)

Standards & Objectives



Week 11

Topic
Great Awakening - French & Indian War !

Mini Clip about Great Awakening (click here)
Listen to this preacher (Click Here)
This is how they could motivate you in 1740!

Assignment Features
French & Indian War - worksheet
The war that made America (Clip)
Last of Mohicans (End Clip) cool !
Worksheets -  Great Awakening
French & Indian war Explained.  (Click on clip)
why was new taxing introduced to the 13 colonies ?
                   

Standards & Objectives

Week 12-13

Topic
Road to Revolutionary war  (Clip)
Complete sum up clip :  ( Click to  view) 5 min
View Engraving of Boston Massacre (view)
Boston Massacre photo analysis (view clip) 5.min

 Assignments Features
Clips   (We the People) 
Boston Massacre  (View Clip)_
Boston Tea-party Reading  ( complete questions)
Tea Party Clip  (View & sum up!)
Sons of Liberty     complete Assignment Questions

Standards & Objectives

Week 14-16

Topic
Rev. War Resource ABC Book 
Revolutionary War   
Due Date : February 5th ABC BOOK
Concord & Lexington:  (clip #1- 3min.) 
Assignment Features 
ABC Book Instructions 
ABC Book Web Sources
Boston Tea Party - ( No more kings)
Committees of Correspondence  (3min)
Concord & Lexington     (6min) Militia    

Standards & Objectives


Week 17
Topic
First Battles & Declaration of Independence

Fun clip "Too Late To Apologize'
Assignment Features 
Bunker Hill video clip: ( Link)
Battle for Boston : (Movie link)
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Standards & Objectives 

Week 18-20

TOPICS 
Power of The Sword & Power of The Pen !  
George Washington - Thomas Paine  - T. Jefferson
Declaration of Ind. Assignment  
 Common Sense :  (click to view)
  Assignment Features
Movie Clip: Thomas Paine -  (Common Sense clip)
Movie Clips: Declaration of Ind.
COMMON SENSE EXPLAINED  (LINK) 
Personal Pledge/ sign the Declaration (Assignment)
Declaration Assignment: ( View Clip)
Sign your Pledge doc.   (click to view & print document)

Standards & Objectives

Week   21

Topic
Turning Points - Saratoga/Valley Forge 
Influential People
Cowpens / Yorktown / WAR ENDS.
Yorktown final battle (clip)

Assignment Features 
Battle for N.Y.   (view clip)         Margaret Corbin (view)
Trenton/Princeton (view clip)
View clips { Saratoga }         (Valley Forge)
Animated battle clip( cowpens )    /_Yorktown clip
Complete handouts !  (cowpens ending clip)
 Cowpens (end clip part II)

Standards & Objectives


Week 22

Topic 
Create a Country  
Review types of Government  

Assignment Features
Create a country instructions Link to outline
Types of Government      (Reference link)
Video Clip -  Governments

Standards & Objectives
  
Week 23-24

Topic
A NEW COUNTRY
 "1st Government"
Americas 1st Plan for Government !
Three original plans for government in the constitutional convention  (clip)           (clip 2)         
​How power is divided in the U.S. Government (clip)

Assignment Features 
(Articles of Confederation - Shay's Rebellion )  
What are the Articles of Confederation (12min.) 
Weakness of the Articles !
Weakness of Articles clip
What is Federalism (Clip)
3) Branches of Gov. (clip)
Government powers (clip #2)
view clip (clip) separate powers
WE THE PEOPLE SONG !! ( View Clip)

Standards & Objectives

Week
25-28

Topic
 U.S. Constitution       
Constitution Test  (Study link)  
Assignment Features
Answers to Class Handouts (view)
Three Branches - (Great mini clip)
Overview of the U.S. Supreme Court (View)
4th Term Begins

Standards & Objectives

Week    
 30-32

 Topic 
10 Amendments 
How a bill becomes a law 

Assignment Features 
View various clips on the 10 Amendments:
Clip #1 (View)      Clip #2  (Disney bill of rights)
How a bill becomes a law (ViewClip)

Standards & Objectives

Week
 33-34

Topic
Political Parties   ( Differing Views)  
MAIL DELIVERY ON SATURDAY (POWER POINT)
SIMULATION ACTIVITY
Political Parties Democrats & Republicans (Clip)
Are you liberal or Conservative (Clip)
What is a tariff (clip)
Assignment Features
Origins of Political System Hamilton vs. Jefferson: see video clip (Political Parties Clip)
Burr - Hamilton Dual (Quick View)
Founding Fathers Fraternity   (Very Funny Clip)
Adams & Jefferson  - Good/Bad/Ugly  (Jefferson)  (xyz affair)  (John Adams)



 
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Standards & Objectives

Week      THE WAR OF 1812                                            Assignment Features:  War of 1812 in 3min. ( view clip)
35-36                                                                   View clip on the war  (Francis Scott Key 1814 click to view)

Week       Westward Expansion / Manifest Destiny
    37         Industrial Revolution clip   (click here to view)                          

                        How inventions change History!  (Click here to view)  4min
                        The Transportation Revolution (Click Here to view)
Sectional differences: ( Clip A)                             Sectionalism  (Clip B)  click to view !


View Clip       ( Manifest Destiny)

  Immigration (movie Clip)  View Clip.

   Mills & Lowell Girls (Clip)
       
    Road to Civil War (10 min clip)

Week 38     Manifest Destiny

 Sectionalism & compromise (Division) clip

Sectionalism power point (link)

 Photo Analysis:  (Clip)

 Week 
38-39       Civil War          Road to Civil War (10 min clip)

View photo Analysis clip and write down 4 major ideas put forward in this time period. 1820 -1880
​Sectional Issues divide America  (Clip)

​Civil War Begins    (Clip)

 Fort Sumter (clip)

Battle of Bull-run (clip)                              Sullivan Ballou letter  (Clip)

 Battle of Antietam (clip)