Westside High School Lesson Plan
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Kindred
AP U.S. History
Monday
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Dates:
Period 6: 1865-1898
Jan. 5 – Jan. 9, 2015
*TEACHER WORK DAY*
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Tuesday
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What are we learning?
Daily Objective: I can analyze and evaluate how the West “opened” for further settlement
through connection to eastern political, financial, and transportation systems.
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Learning Activities:
1. Distribute course outline and reading schedule
2. Video Analysis: The New South
3. Cooperative Learning: Costs and Benefits of the Homestead Act
4. Quick Write: “Was free land worth the cost?”
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Assessment Methods: Quick Write, Small group/class discussion over Homestead Act.
Checks for Understanding: Use Quick Write with peer edit.
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Materials: Homestead interviews, video, handouts
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Follow Up/HW: Follow Reading Schedule for Ch. 16 in Brinkley
Wed/Thur
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Daily Objective: I can analyze Westward migration, and how new systems of farming and
transportation and economic instability led to political and popular conflicts.
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Learning Activities:
1. Class Discussion: Chapter 16
2. Writing Skills: Sample Scoring
3. Quick Write Revisions
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Assessment Methods: Quick Write Revisions
Checks for Understanding: Randomize responses
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Materials: Powerpoint, writing samples
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Follow Up/HW: Follow Reading Schedule for Ch. 16 in Brinkley
Friday
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Daily Objective: I can analyze Government agencies and conservationist organizations which
contended with corporate interests about the extension of public control over natural
resources, including land and water.
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Learning Activities:
1. APUSH MCQ Practice: Period 6
2. Document Analysis: Native Americans and the West
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Assessment Methods: MCQ Responses
Checks for Understanding: Cooperative learning: Document Analysis
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Materials: MCQ Practice, documents
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: Follow Reading Schedule for Ch. 16 in Brinkley
Quiz on Tuesday 1/13 over Ch. 16
Assessment on Friday 1/16