Week of: November 10-14, 2014
Weekly Learning Targets
Teacher: Kindred
Team: APUSH
I can describe how regional economic specialization, especially the demands of cultivating southern
cotton, shaped settlement patterns and the national and international economy.
I can analyze how the economic changes caused by the market revolution had significant effects on
migration patterns, gender and family relations, and the distribution of political power.
I can describe how various American groups and individuals initiated, championed, and/or resisted
the expansion of territory and/or government powers.
Monday
I can explain why larger numbers of Americans began struggling with how to match democratic
political ideals to political institutions and social realities.
Activities:
1. Do Now- Explain the impact of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin on the Southern Economy
2. Video Analysis: Southern White Society- Students will analyze a brief video clip that
illustrates the divisions in southern white society before the Civil War
3. Cooperative Learning: Cotton, Slavery and the Old South- Students will read an article and
answer the following question “How did the continuing dominance of agriculture and the
slave system affect southern social, political and economic life?”
4. Document Analysis: John C. Calhoun Speech- Students will evaluate Calhoun’s defense of
the institution of slavery as a “positive good”
Materials: Articles, video
Follow Up/HW: ASSESSMENT #8 ON FRIDAY / CHAPTER 11/12 QUIZ ON BLOCK DAY
Wed/Thur
Tuesday
Activities
1. Do Now- Why did the majority of white southerners continue to defend the institution of
slavery?
2. Writing Skills: Thesis Statement Development- Students will review components of a thesis
statement and practice composing a thesis in groups.
Materials: Sample prompts
Follow Up/HW: ASSESSMENT #8 ON FRIDAY / CHAPTER 11/12 QUIZ ON BLOCK DAY
Activities:
1. Do Now- What is the purpose of a thesis statement?
2. Cooperative Learning: Antebellum Reforms- In groups, students will be assigned a specific
antebellum reform to research. Then, groups will present their information to the class.
3. Chapter 11/12 Quiz- Students will complete a 15 multiple-choice question quiz over Chapters
11 and 12.
Materials: Articles
Follow Up/HW: ASSESSMENT #8 ON FRIDAY / CHAPTER 11/12 QUIZ ON BLOCK DAY
Friday
Activities:
1. Assessment #8: Thesis Statement and One Chunk
Materials: Assessment
Follow Up/HW: Begin reading Chapter 13