AMERICAN STUDIES 2014-2015
Assignment Calendar
Due Mon. 3/30: GD Syll #4
Due Fri. 3/27: GD Syllabus #2 & 3
Due Mon. 3/16 (HW for English & History): Read "F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Age of Excess" by Joshua Zeitz.
Actively read/annotate the article.
Due Fri. 3/13: No IDs! Ch. 24 & 25 will be next Friday 3/20. Prepare for debate in-class on Friday for your assigned group by reading the necessary pages in the debate packet. All groups should read p. 21-22. Other readings depend on your assigned group: Option 1: Progressive Internationalists - read p.24-25; Option 2: Reservationists- read p.27-28; Option 3: Irreconcilables - read p.30-31). Write a 1 pg. outline proposal for your position, to be collected. Draw upon historical examples as relevant.
Fri 3/13: TEST: Progressive Era/Imperialism/WWI
Due Tues 3/10:
Read the following World War I docs and complete the questions packet.
#1: Wilson's Appeal for Neutrality
#2: The Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
#3: Woodrow Wilson Address to Congress Leading to A Declaration of War Against Germany
(April 2, 1917)
#4: Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Due Mon. 3/9: Prog/Imp/WWI syllabus #5
Due Fri 3/6: Prog/Imp/WWI syllabus #3 & 4
Due Wed. 3/4: No HW
Due Tues 3/3: Prog/Imp/WWI #2
Due Mon. 3/2: JUNIOR THESIS FINAL DRAFT WOOOOO!
Due Tues. 2/24: Progressives/Imperialism/WWI Syllabus #1
Rough Draft Due Monday January 26
Due Mon. 1/12: Gilded Age #2
Due Wed. 1/7: Gilded Age Syllabus #1
Tues 12/23: JT Detailed Outline
Fri. 12/19: TEST: CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION
Due Mon. 12/15: 100 NC for Junior Thesis
Due Friday 12/12 : "Forever Free"
Questions (answer on front cover) in bullets:
- What is the "Lost Cause"?
- What is the vision of African-Americans presented in Thomas Dixon's The Clansman and D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation?
- Why were so many Af.-Am. lynched between 1882 and 1930?
- Explain the "Sambo" character
Due Mon. 11/24: Civil War Syllabus #2
Due Fri. 11/21: Civil War Syllabus #1
Due Wed. 11/19: JT #3: At least 6 sources on working bib, 50 note cards total.
Monday 11/17: TEST: PRE CIVIL WAR UNIT; Video link for review
Due Wed. 11/12: Pre-Civil War Syll #4 & 5
Due Tues. 11/11: Veterans' Day, No School
Due Mon. 11/10: Nothing (No HW weekend)
Due Fri. 11/7: JT #2 Final Topic/20 NC/Working Bibliography: 1 page summary w/ 3 research questions; at least 3 sources on typed working bib, to be handed in; 20 total note cards
Due Tues. 11/4: Pre-Civil War Syll #3
Due Mon. 11/3: Pre-Civil War Syll #2
Due Fri. 10/31: Pre-Civil War Syll #1
Due Wed. 10/29: Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
Listen to the corresponding audio here; do NOT listen to the 53 min. clip; scroll down, click "Web Extra: What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" and then play the 9:33 clip)
Due Tues 10/28: Junior Thesis Proposals
Due Mon. 10/27: Essay: Feds vs. Antifeds
Due Fri 10/24: none (essay due Monday)
Due Wed. 10/22: Blog post
Due Tues 10/21: questions on antebellum reformers
Due Mon. 10/20: Antebellum Reformers Assgt notes
Due Fri. 10/17: Essay Outline Assgt (click here for model outline)
How to Write a Good History Essay
Mon. 9/29: TEST: Exploration, Colonization & American Revolution
Due Fri. 9/26: No HW (Rosh Hashanah), but start studying for exam!
Due Wed. 9/24: American Rev. Syllabus #4
Due Tues. 9/23: American Rev Syllabus #3
Due Mon. 9/22: American Rev Syllabus #2
Due Mon. 9/9: Fun With Maps
A) Label each state and capital city on the big map handout of the United States you received in class.
B) Locate, mark with a black circle and label the following major cities: Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Baltimore Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Fransisco, Seattle.
C) Outline in different colors (do not color in completely) the different historical acquisitions that came to constitute the United States; use the EduPlace Interactive Map to help you visualize how we expanded (click on the legend for each area).
D) In the margins of your map sheet, list out which states today belong to the following commonly used "regions" of the US (look these up online or ask someone if you need help):
- New England
- Mid-Atlantic
- Upper South
- Deep South
- Midweast
- Southwest
- West
- Pacific Northwest
Due Fri 9/5: Complete two online "quizzes." Follow the directions on each site and print out your results so I can check them and give you HW credit.
Due Thurs. 9/4: sign syllabus, get materials
Due Wed. 9/3/14: Letter to Mr. Bedar (see class handout)
MLK vs. Malcolm X Essay Assgt
Outline Due: 5/28 Wed.
Essay Due: 6/3 Tues
Due Thurs. 5/22:
Read Malcolm X's "Ballot or the Bullet" speech. Please fill out the corresponding chart here just for Malcolm X; we'll do MLK in class tomorrow. For a much more entertaining rendition of Malcolm X, I'd recommend you listen to his speech - it's much more powerful that way. Here's a great version of it on youtube. Watch from the ~18:00 minute mark to ~35:00.
Tuesday 5/13: TEST 1940s, Cold War, 1950s America
Due Fri 5/9: Syll #6
Due Thurs 5/8: Syll #5
Due Wed. 5/7: Syll #4
Due Tues 5/6: Syll #3
Due Fri 5/2: Syll #2
Due Thurs. 5/1: Civilian bombing reading
Due Wed. 4/30: Syll #1
NEW Unit Syllabus: World War II & the 1950s
TEST: 20s & 30s (Great Depression, New Deal): Tuesday 4/15
Due Fri 4/11: 20s/30s Syllabus #6
Due Thurs 4/10: 20s/30s Syllabus #5
Due Wed. 4/9: 20s/30s Syllabus #4
Due Tues 4/8: 20s/30s Syllabus #3
Due Fri 4/4: 20s/30s Syllabus #2
Due Thurs 4/3: 20s/30s Syllabus #1
NEW UNIT SYLLABUS! 1920s, Great Depression & New Deal
Due Wed 4/2: Read the 3 class handouts on the 1920s. 1) Read article on Air Conditioning in the 1920s (class handout) and answer the questions. 2) Also read "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" and write a 1 paragraph "modern-day" appeal to parents in the same style. 3) Read Age of Sheiks and Shebas - and look through the pictures!
Fri 3.28: TEST: PROGRESSIVE ERA/IMPERIALISM/WORLD WAR I
Due Thursday 3.27 (joint class):
Read "F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Age of Excess" by Joshua Zeitz. Type up a paragraph (to be collected) explaining A) the major changes of the 1920s that Zeitz identifies and B) How he argues that The Great Gatsby is symbolic of 1920s America? (several ways; make this substantive)
**Optional Immigration Assignment**
For Extra Credit, type up 1.5-2 pgs. double spaced on your family immigration story. Try to connect to ideas we've discussed in class:
- assimilation
- push vs. pull factors
- struggles of immigrants
- reasons why people were accepted/denied entry
Due Wed. 3/12: Prog/Imp/WWI syllabus #4
Due Thurs. 2/27: Rest of Gilded Age Syllabus
Due Tues. 1/28: Gilded Age Syllabus #1
Due Thurs. 1/9: Glory reflection
1- 2 pgs. double-spaced (will count as a large HW assgt.). You may structure your response/reflection however you like and within it you should discuss whatever you like, but make sure you somewhere hit on each of the points below:
- How both whites and blacks are represented
- Scenes that you thought were the most powerful and/or most important
- The argument “Glory” makes about the connection between service and citizenship.
- Where the film is and is not accurate (read the James McPherson article in yellow packet
- Which likely imposition of 20th century sensibilities and “Hollywood” dynamics on a 19th century story (and whether or not you liked this - does it matter if it's 100% accurate to tell this story?)
- Why you think the filmmakers chose to call their movie “Glory”
- What you liked/did not like
Fri 12/20: Quiz on Civil War (multiple choice and 1 "triad" from ID terms)
Due Thurs 12/19: JT #4 (see Junior Thesis docs on main website page)
Due Wed. 12/11: Civil War/Reconstruction Syllabus #1
Friday 12/6: TEST: PRE-CIVIL WAR UNITVideo link for review
Due Wed. 12/4: JT #2 due
Due Wed. 11/27: PreCW syllabus #6; after your turkey, read for your Junior Thesis!
Due Tuesday 11/26: Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
Listen to the corresponding audio here; do NOT listen to the 53 min. clip; scroll down, click "Web Extra: What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" and then play the 9:33 clip)
Due Wed. 11/13: JT#1 (3 typed topic proposals)
Due Tuesday 11/12: Map Assignment
Big maps handed out in class
Due Wed. 11/6: Prelude to Civil War Syllabus #1
Prelude to Civil War Syllabus
ESSAY MATERIALS:
- Essay Assgt.
- Outline & Modern Examples
Due Friday 11/8: FINAL DRAFT of Feds/Antifeds essay!
Due Monday 11/4: Completed Detailed Outline for Feds/Antifeds essay
- Should contain all the evidence you'll use in the essay, including quotes
Due Friday 11/1: Most of outline complete, except modern-day example
GO TO THE JUNIOR/SENIOR HALLOWEEN DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT 11/1!
7:30-10:30
All junior tix sold benefit YOUR class and help toward prom - the class officers are working to make this a fun night! Wear a costume, eat some candy and have a good time while supporting your class!
Wednesday 10/30: TEST: CONSTITUTION
Due Tuesday 10/29: Bill of Rights Scenarios (blue handout from class)
Due Thurs. 10/17: (We DO have class, as it turns out...)
Due Mon. 3/30: GD Syll #4
Due Fri. 3/27: GD Syllabus #2 & 3
Due Mon. 3/16 (HW for English & History): Read "F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Age of Excess" by Joshua Zeitz.
Actively read/annotate the article.
Due Fri. 3/13: No IDs! Ch. 24 & 25 will be next Friday 3/20. Prepare for debate in-class on Friday for your assigned group by reading the necessary pages in the debate packet. All groups should read p. 21-22. Other readings depend on your assigned group: Option 1: Progressive Internationalists - read p.24-25; Option 2: Reservationists- read p.27-28; Option 3: Irreconcilables - read p.30-31). Write a 1 pg. outline proposal for your position, to be collected. Draw upon historical examples as relevant.
Fri 3/13: TEST: Progressive Era/Imperialism/WWI
Due Tues 3/10:
Read the following World War I docs and complete the questions packet.
#1: Wilson's Appeal for Neutrality
#2: The Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
#3: Woodrow Wilson Address to Congress Leading to A Declaration of War Against Germany
(April 2, 1917)
#4: Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Due Mon. 3/9: Prog/Imp/WWI syllabus #5
Due Fri 3/6: Prog/Imp/WWI syllabus #3 & 4
Due Wed. 3/4: No HW
Due Tues 3/3: Prog/Imp/WWI #2
Due Mon. 3/2: JUNIOR THESIS FINAL DRAFT WOOOOO!
Due Tues. 2/24: Progressives/Imperialism/WWI Syllabus #1
Rough Draft Due Monday January 26
Due Mon. 1/12: Gilded Age #2
Due Wed. 1/7: Gilded Age Syllabus #1
Tues 12/23: JT Detailed Outline
Fri. 12/19: TEST: CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION
Due Mon. 12/15: 100 NC for Junior Thesis
Due Friday 12/12 : "Forever Free"
Questions (answer on front cover) in bullets:
- What is the "Lost Cause"?
- What is the vision of African-Americans presented in Thomas Dixon's The Clansman and D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation?
- Why were so many Af.-Am. lynched between 1882 and 1930?
- Explain the "Sambo" character
Due Mon. 11/24: Civil War Syllabus #2
Due Fri. 11/21: Civil War Syllabus #1
Due Wed. 11/19: JT #3: At least 6 sources on working bib, 50 note cards total.
Monday 11/17: TEST: PRE CIVIL WAR UNIT; Video link for review
Due Wed. 11/12: Pre-Civil War Syll #4 & 5
Due Tues. 11/11: Veterans' Day, No School
Due Mon. 11/10: Nothing (No HW weekend)
Due Fri. 11/7: JT #2 Final Topic/20 NC/Working Bibliography: 1 page summary w/ 3 research questions; at least 3 sources on typed working bib, to be handed in; 20 total note cards
Due Tues. 11/4: Pre-Civil War Syll #3
Due Mon. 11/3: Pre-Civil War Syll #2
Due Fri. 10/31: Pre-Civil War Syll #1
Due Wed. 10/29: Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
Listen to the corresponding audio here; do NOT listen to the 53 min. clip; scroll down, click "Web Extra: What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" and then play the 9:33 clip)
Due Tues 10/28: Junior Thesis Proposals
Due Mon. 10/27: Essay: Feds vs. Antifeds
Due Fri 10/24: none (essay due Monday)
Due Wed. 10/22: Blog post
Due Tues 10/21: questions on antebellum reformers
Due Mon. 10/20: Antebellum Reformers Assgt notes
Due Fri. 10/17: Essay Outline Assgt (click here for model outline)
How to Write a Good History Essay
Mon. 9/29: TEST: Exploration, Colonization & American Revolution
Due Fri. 9/26: No HW (Rosh Hashanah), but start studying for exam!
Due Wed. 9/24: American Rev. Syllabus #4
Due Tues. 9/23: American Rev Syllabus #3
Due Mon. 9/22: American Rev Syllabus #2
Due Mon. 9/9: Fun With Maps
A) Label each state and capital city on the big map handout of the United States you received in class.
B) Locate, mark with a black circle and label the following major cities: Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Baltimore Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Fransisco, Seattle.
C) Outline in different colors (do not color in completely) the different historical acquisitions that came to constitute the United States; use the EduPlace Interactive Map to help you visualize how we expanded (click on the legend for each area).
D) In the margins of your map sheet, list out which states today belong to the following commonly used "regions" of the US (look these up online or ask someone if you need help):
- New England
- Mid-Atlantic
- Upper South
- Deep South
- Midweast
- Southwest
- West
- Pacific Northwest
Due Fri 9/5: Complete two online "quizzes." Follow the directions on each site and print out your results so I can check them and give you HW credit.
- 1) The Citizenship Quiz - randomly generates 20 questions out of the possible 100 questions (real test-takers need to get correct 6 of 10 questions on an oral exam, randomly selected from the list of 100). Don't fret if this doesn't go well - you'll know these cold by the end of the year!
- 2) Are you Liberal or Conservative? Are your views more in line with the Republicans or Democrats? After answering the 12 questions, click the printer icon on the last page where you can see where you fit on the "political spectrum." (as a very short survey, and a simple line political spectrum, this is only SO telling, but it'll give you an idea...). There is no "right" or "wrong" here, but it'll give you a sense of how you'll approach our material.
Due Thurs. 9/4: sign syllabus, get materials
Due Wed. 9/3/14: Letter to Mr. Bedar (see class handout)
MLK vs. Malcolm X Essay Assgt
Outline Due: 5/28 Wed.
Essay Due: 6/3 Tues
- "Dr. King's Righteous Fury," NYT 4/15/2013
- "How MLK Became an Angry Black Man" CNN 4/16/2013
- "Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Should be Remembered as Equals" IBI Times 1/16/2012
- "Unfinished Dialogue"
Due Thurs. 5/22:
Read Malcolm X's "Ballot or the Bullet" speech. Please fill out the corresponding chart here just for Malcolm X; we'll do MLK in class tomorrow. For a much more entertaining rendition of Malcolm X, I'd recommend you listen to his speech - it's much more powerful that way. Here's a great version of it on youtube. Watch from the ~18:00 minute mark to ~35:00.
Tuesday 5/13: TEST 1940s, Cold War, 1950s America
Due Fri 5/9: Syll #6
Due Thurs 5/8: Syll #5
Due Wed. 5/7: Syll #4
Due Tues 5/6: Syll #3
Due Fri 5/2: Syll #2
Due Thurs. 5/1: Civilian bombing reading
Due Wed. 4/30: Syll #1
NEW Unit Syllabus: World War II & the 1950s
TEST: 20s & 30s (Great Depression, New Deal): Tuesday 4/15
Due Fri 4/11: 20s/30s Syllabus #6
Due Thurs 4/10: 20s/30s Syllabus #5
Due Wed. 4/9: 20s/30s Syllabus #4
Due Tues 4/8: 20s/30s Syllabus #3
Due Fri 4/4: 20s/30s Syllabus #2
Due Thurs 4/3: 20s/30s Syllabus #1
NEW UNIT SYLLABUS! 1920s, Great Depression & New Deal
Due Wed 4/2: Read the 3 class handouts on the 1920s. 1) Read article on Air Conditioning in the 1920s (class handout) and answer the questions. 2) Also read "A Flapper's Appeal to Parents" and write a 1 paragraph "modern-day" appeal to parents in the same style. 3) Read Age of Sheiks and Shebas - and look through the pictures!
Fri 3.28: TEST: PROGRESSIVE ERA/IMPERIALISM/WORLD WAR I
Due Thursday 3.27 (joint class):
Read "F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Age of Excess" by Joshua Zeitz. Type up a paragraph (to be collected) explaining A) the major changes of the 1920s that Zeitz identifies and B) How he argues that The Great Gatsby is symbolic of 1920s America? (several ways; make this substantive)
**Optional Immigration Assignment**
For Extra Credit, type up 1.5-2 pgs. double spaced on your family immigration story. Try to connect to ideas we've discussed in class:
- assimilation
- push vs. pull factors
- struggles of immigrants
- reasons why people were accepted/denied entry
Due Wed. 3/12: Prog/Imp/WWI syllabus #4
Due Thurs. 2/27: Rest of Gilded Age Syllabus
Due Tues. 1/28: Gilded Age Syllabus #1
Due Thurs. 1/9: Glory reflection
1- 2 pgs. double-spaced (will count as a large HW assgt.). You may structure your response/reflection however you like and within it you should discuss whatever you like, but make sure you somewhere hit on each of the points below:
- How both whites and blacks are represented
- Scenes that you thought were the most powerful and/or most important
- The argument “Glory” makes about the connection between service and citizenship.
- Where the film is and is not accurate (read the James McPherson article in yellow packet
- Which likely imposition of 20th century sensibilities and “Hollywood” dynamics on a 19th century story (and whether or not you liked this - does it matter if it's 100% accurate to tell this story?)
- Why you think the filmmakers chose to call their movie “Glory”
- What you liked/did not like
Fri 12/20: Quiz on Civil War (multiple choice and 1 "triad" from ID terms)
Due Thurs 12/19: JT #4 (see Junior Thesis docs on main website page)
Due Wed. 12/11: Civil War/Reconstruction Syllabus #1
Friday 12/6: TEST: PRE-CIVIL WAR UNITVideo link for review
Due Wed. 12/4: JT #2 due
Due Wed. 11/27: PreCW syllabus #6; after your turkey, read for your Junior Thesis!
Due Tuesday 11/26: Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
Listen to the corresponding audio here; do NOT listen to the 53 min. clip; scroll down, click "Web Extra: What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" and then play the 9:33 clip)
Due Wed. 11/13: JT#1 (3 typed topic proposals)
Due Tuesday 11/12: Map Assignment
Big maps handed out in class
Due Wed. 11/6: Prelude to Civil War Syllabus #1
Prelude to Civil War Syllabus
ESSAY MATERIALS:
- Essay Assgt.
- Outline & Modern Examples
Due Friday 11/8: FINAL DRAFT of Feds/Antifeds essay!
Due Monday 11/4: Completed Detailed Outline for Feds/Antifeds essay
- Should contain all the evidence you'll use in the essay, including quotes
Due Friday 11/1: Most of outline complete, except modern-day example
GO TO THE JUNIOR/SENIOR HALLOWEEN DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT 11/1!
7:30-10:30
All junior tix sold benefit YOUR class and help toward prom - the class officers are working to make this a fun night! Wear a costume, eat some candy and have a good time while supporting your class!
Wednesday 10/30: TEST: CONSTITUTION
Due Tuesday 10/29: Bill of Rights Scenarios (blue handout from class)
Due Thurs. 10/17: (We DO have class, as it turns out...)
- Const. #4 if not already done (didn't have time to check today)
- Thomas Mann Electoral College & House of Reps article, "Your Vote for President May Not Count" (access the readings below as 2 separate pages)
- Watch electoral college video below, "The Trouble with the Electoral College"
- Write a detailed paragraph response (1/2-3/4 page, preferably typed) to both the readings and the video
Due Mon 10/21: Read "The Court and Democracy" and answer the corresponding questions (both files below) to be handed in
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