US Weekly (shift schedule according to Block Days (A, B, C)
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
9/1
Labor Day
9/2
9/3
First day of school - -Intro cards
9th grade only
-Syllabus and
Course Overview
-10 words that
describe America
9/8
-Constitutional
Convention Notes
9/9
9/10
-Finish
Constitution Jigsaw
- Activity: Exploring -Bill of Rights
the Constitution
-Begin Amendment
-HW: Constitution Research
News Article
Friday
9/4
-Textbook check –
out
9/5
-US History Intro
Journal
-Activity: American
Identity
PowerPoint
-Citizenship test
9/11
9/12
-Amendment
Presentations
-“Tinker Test”
-Discussion
-Finish
Amendment
Research
-Quiz study guide
18
19
-Old West notes
15
16
-Federalism
-Constitutional
Foundations Quiz
-Due: textbook
pages. 202-208
-Manifest Destiny:
3 question levels
-Culture of the
Plains Indians
-Manifest Destiny
stations
-Document
Exploration: The
Dawes Act
-Checks and
Balances
17
Thursday
-Due: Constitution
News Article
-DBQ: How “wild”
was the Old West?
(Assembly)
22
-Finish DBQ
-Thesis & Evidence
23
24 –Early Release
Document
Exploration:
Populist Party
25
1-6
26
Review
-Westward
Expansion Quiz
-HW: textbook
pages. 219-223
9/29
9/30
10/1
10/2
10/3
Westward
Expansion Quiz
(1,2,6)
Due: Westward
Expansion Project
(2)
Carnegie DBQ
(1,3,6)
Due: textbook
reading pages 426430
Project Work Time
Industrial
Revolution Intro
Men Who Built
America:
Innovations
Due: Gospel of
Wealth
Due: Gospel of
Wealth
Labor Unions
Carnegie DBQ
(3)
Due: Westward
Expansion Project
Begin Labor Strikes
Research
Assignment
Industrial
Revolution Intro
10/6
10/7 A
Finish Labor Strikes (1,2,6)
Research
Assignment
Labor Strikes
Museum Walk
Immigration –
textbook
Jacob Riis Photo
Analysis
Men Who Built
America:
Innovations
10/8 B
10/9 C
10/10
(2)
(1,3,6)
No School
Triangle Factory
Fire
Triangle Factory
Fire
Homework:
Socratic Seminar
Questions
Homework:
Socratic Seminar
Questions
(3)
Labor Strikes
Museum Walk
Immigration –
textbook
Jacob Riis Photo
Analysis
10/13
10/14 A
Due: Socratic
(1,2,6)
Seminar Questions
Science and Urban
Political Machines Life
Activity: Gilded
Age Political
Cartoons
10/15
10/16 B
10/17 C
PSAT
(2)
Mass Culture
Pep Assembly
(1,3,6)
Origins of the
Progressive Era
Education and
Culture
(3)
Science and Urban
Life
Segregation:
Literacy Test
Mass Culture
Origins of the
Progressive Era
Education and
Culture
Segregation:
Literacy Test
10/20
10/21 A
10/22 B
10/23 C
10/24
Women’s Suffrage
(1,2,6)
(2)
(1,3,6)
HW: textbook
reading 505-511
The Election of
1912
Review
Review
(3)
Test: Industrial
Revolution,
Immigration, and
the Progressive
Era
The Election of
1912
HW: textbook
reading chpt. 18
Wilson’s New
Freedom
Wilson’s New
Freedom
10/27
10/28 A
10/29 Modified B
10/30 -1-6
10/31
Factors influencing
imperialism
(1,2,6)
(3)
No school for
students
Cuba
Cuba
Philippines:
White Man’s
Burden
Spanish American
War
Spanish American
War
Yellow Journalism
activity
Yellow Journalism
activity
11/4 A
11/5 B
11/6 C
(1,2,6)
(2)
(1,3,6)
Imperialism
Editorial
Introduction
Beginning of the
Beginning of the
Work Day:
War: Trench
War: Trench
Imperialism
Warfare simulation Warfare simulation Editorials
Causes of WWI
American
Neutrality
American
Neutrality
(3)
Wilson’s War
Resolution
Activity:
Imperialism
Cartoons
Hawaii
HW: pages 530534
11/3
Panama Canal:
“Big Stick
Diplomacy”
Wilson & Latin
America
DBQ
11/7
Assassination
Imperialism
Editorial
Introduction
Causes of WWI
11/10
11/11
Peer-editing
No School
Assassination
11/12 A
(1,2,6)
WWI Documentary
Propaganda
Assignment
Due: Imperialism
Editorial
11/13 B
11/14 C
(2)
(1,3,6)
The war at
home/Dissent
The war at
home/Dissent
Schneck v. US
Schneck v. US
Hand out study
guide
HW: Textbook
pages 577-581
(3)
Hand out study
guide
HW: Textbook
pages 577-581
WWI Documentary
Propaganda
Assignment
Due: Imperialism
Editorial
11/17
11/18
11/19
11/20
11/21
End of the war
(1,2,6)
(2) Imperialism
and WWI Test
(1,3,6)
1920;s Politics &
Business
Treaty of Versailles
Review
Due: Textbook
pages 577-581
Sacco and Vanzetti
Imperialism and
WWI Test
(3)
Sacco and Vanzetti
Review
11/24
11/25
11/26
11/27
11/28
12/1
12/2
12/3
12/4
12/5
Roaring 1920’s
intro
(1,2,6)
Activity: Social
Issues of the
1920’s
(2)
Women in the
1920’s
(1,3,6)
Women in the
1920’s
1920’s Party
Education
Education
No School all week
Begin Celebrity
Mini-Research
project
HW: Pages 612617
Prohibition
Due: Pages 612617
(3)
Activity: Social
Issues of the
1920’s
Prohibition
Due: Pages 612617
Due: Celebrity
Mini- Research
Project
12/8
12/9
12/10 Modified B
12/11
White Supremacy:
Resurgence of the
KKK
(1,2,6)
(3)
(1-6)
“Whites in Harlem” “Whites in Harlem” 1920’s Quiz
(1-6)
Causes of the
Great Depression
Analysis
Assignment
Introduce Harlem
Renaissance
Collage
Introduce Harlem
Renaissance
Collage
Due: HW:
Textbook pages
630-635
Due: HW:
Textbook pages
630-635
12/15
12/16 A
12/17 B
12/18 C
12/19
Due: Harlem
Renaissance
Collage
(1,2,6)
(2)
(1,3,6)
No School for
Students
Causes of the
Great Depression
Analysis
Assignment Day 2
Stations Activity:
Life During the
Great Depression
Stations Activity:
Life During the
Great Depression
Political Response:
Hoover vs.
Roosevelt
Political Response:
Hoover vs.
Roosevelt
Winter Break HW:
Pages 664-676
Winter Break HW:
Pages 664-676
HW: Textbook
pages 630-635
Presentations
Causes of the
Great Depression
Analysis
Assignment Day 2
Harlem
Renaissance
Collage: Work
Time
12/12 1-6
(3)
Causes of the
Great Depression
Analysis
Assignment Day 2
1/5
New Deal 1 &2
Due: Pages 664676
1/6 A
B
C