Date
2nd Quarter 2012: Updated 10/31
American Studies Assignments and Due Dates
10/17
PSAT Testing: 7;30-11:30 (most 11th graders will test at the church across the
street)
American Pageant, Chapter 14 Forging the National Economy, (pages 305-324)
American Pageant, Chapter 14 (pages 324-339b) Guiding Questions due tii
Philosophy 101: Philosophy for Dummies - in class activity
Where it began: Plato’s Republic
 Video: Plato’s Republic
 Assign Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave”—journals due 10/23
Due: Grammar Monday: Lesson #3 is due: Parallel Structures
Due: Test 1-14
Notice: AIMS Testing to Exceed/Writing—North Gym
American Pageant, Chapter 15 (pages 340-350)
due/discussion: Journals: “The Allegory of the Cave”
Notice: AIMS Testing to Exceed/Reading—North Gym
American Pageant, Chapter 15 (pages 350-369b) due tii
Lecture/Reading: From the Greeks to the Transcendentalists
Assign: Emerson readings—journals due Friday
Notice: AIMS Testing to Exceed/Reading—North Gym
Brook Farm - Socratic Discussion
Due: Emerson Readings/journals
 Abbreviated Timed Writings/Discussion
 Assign: Thoreau, due 11/2
Due: 3 annotated bibliographies (refutation)
Due: American Pageant Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy pages
370-384
American Pageant Chapter 16 pages 384-395B. Guiding Questions due tii
10/18
10/19
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10/22
10/23
10/24
10/25
10/26
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10/29
10/30
10/31
11/1
11/2
History Focus Test 1-16 and FRQ
Due: American Pageant Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny pages 396-415A—guiding
questions due—tii upload
Assign: Election Activity (prediction, voting, and verification)
Manifest Destiny continued: Class activity
Return research and assign bib page—due Monday or Tuesday
Due: Thoreau journals: Class discussion/Walden
Due: American Pageant Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle pages 416428
Mon
11/5
11/6
11/7
11/8
11/9
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11/12
11/13
11/14
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11/16
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11/19
11/20
Due (if you want a draft reviewed): Bib page
Score and turn in: Thoreau journals
 Class discussion: “Civil Disobedience”
 Assign: Curtis White’s “The Spirit of Disobedience”, due 11/9
Due: Vocabulary Monday: Lesson #3 is due—sentences must be uploaded to tii
for credit
Due: American Pageant Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle pages 428436b Guiding Questions due tii
Election Day
 Voting: Prediction and class voting—homework is verification (due
tomorrow)
Due: Bib page
Due: American Pageant Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion pages 437-453
Due: American Pageant Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion pages 453-461b
NOTE: Guiding Questions due tomorrow, but reading is due today
Due: Guiding questions for Chapter 19—tii upload
Class Activity: Make a book activity on events leading to Civil War – Book will
be due on 11/19 but most work must be done in class today.
Socratic Discussion: Transcendentalism in today’s culture (Curtis White’s essay
“The Spirit of Disobedience”)
Return bib pages (deadline for revisions is 11/21); assign: preliminary outline
and revised position/thesis statement (due 11/21)
No School: Veteran’s Day
Due: Bib page revisions (if needed)
Introducing the Art of Satire
 Purpose, Types and Strategies
 Assign: Mitford’s “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain”
Due: Bib page revisions (if needed)
History Focus MC Test 1-19 and FRQ
American Studies Presents: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Due: Bib page revisions (if needed)
Due: Discussion: Mitford’s “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain”
Due: Bib page revisions (if needed)
Due: American Pageant Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and The South,
pages 462-471
Due: Bib page revisions (if needed)
Due: Civil War book
Due: Grammar Monday: Lesson #4 is due: Pronouns
American Pageant Chapter 20 pages 471-480b Guiding Questions tii
Due: Bib page revisions (if needed)
FRQ peer review assigned, due 11/26
Due: Civil War Activity
11/21
Due: Bib page revisions (last day to turn in revisions)
Due: Aristotelian Outlines
Reading/Satire: “Love is a Fallacy”
 Avoiding fallacies in argument
Assign: one argument and one refutation, due 12/6
11/22- NO SCHOOL: Thanksgiving Break
23
Mon Due: American Pageant Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War, pages 480-487
11/26 FRQ Peer Review due – Activity
11/27 Due: American Pageant Chapter 21, pages 487-497
11/28 Due: American Pageant Chapter 21, pages 497-512b Guiding Questions due tii
11/29 Timed Writing—Satire
11/30 Due: Part I: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mon Due: Vocabulary Monday: Lesson #4 is due—sentences must be uploaded to tii
for credit
12/3
Close Reading: Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address
12/4
Test: The American Presidents (1-18)
Due: American Pageant Chapter 22, The Ordeal of Reconstruction, pages 513-524
12/5
Due: American Pageant Chapter 22, pages 524535b Guiding Questions due tii
12/6
Writing Workshop/last day to turn in optional research:
 Due: one confirmation argument and one refutation argument
12/7
Due: Part II: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mon Due: Grammar Monday: Lesson #5 is due: Direct, Precise, and Active Verbs
12/10 Close Reading Practice: AP English M/C
12/11 1-22 MC History Focus Test + FRQ (self-assessed)
12/12 Due: American Pageant Chapter 23 Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, pages
536-551 Note: You will be responsible for this material on the Final Exam.
12/13 Review Tournament: History Final
12/14 Due: Part III: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mon Review Tournament: History Final
12/17
12/18 Review Tournament: History Final
12/19 Test: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12/20 Semester Final: History M/C