Summative Assessment for 1st Unit
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5 Paragraph Essay
o MUST BE TYPED!!! 1 inch margins, 12 point font, Times New Roman, double spaced
Answer the question: “What from our country’s first 150 years are you grateful for?”
o You need to connect something that happened back then, to something in your life today. What in your
life today would be different if those things had not happened back then? What do you appreciate about
your life today that wouldn’t have been possible without events back then?
Your goal is to show me that you learned something from this unit!! If you don’t include specific facts and details
you will get a bad grade!
Summative grades are the basis of your final grade. They count for the most!
Study Guide and Review
Vocab words (posted on my website)
Topics we covered, activities we did, and (pages in the textbook.)
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Events leading up to Independence; cause and effect arrows for 6 events; (pg. 46-51)
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Enlightenment ideas used by the Founding Fathers; Enlightenment Thinker and Founding Father quote card
mix up; (pg. 52-53)
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Declaration of Independence; grievance in Declaration and Americans Who Risked Everything reading and
questions; (pg. 54-57)
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Articles of the Confederation grid and Constitution middle ground (pg. 66-69)
Constitution; enduring questions silent discussion and paragraph; (pg. 71)
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The growing nation and events that will lead to Civil War; chart on events leading to Civil War; (pg.112-117,
122, 133-137, 156-160)
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Differences between the North and the South; T-chart notes and grid (pg. 156-7,169)
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Major battles and generals of the Civil War; general and battle match up with timeline; (pg. 168-181)
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Experience of the Civil War; primary sources reading and dialogue journal (pg. 173-4)
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Effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction; notes; (pg. 181-189)