12.20.13 Exploring American History

Option # 1: Current Event Article

• NewsELA 

Option # 2 Check out one (or several) iCivics games 

Argument Wars

Cast Your Vote

Immigration Nation

Represent Me

Responsibility

Court Quest

Executive Command

Law Craft

People's Pie 

Supreme Decision

We the Jury

Option # 3 Brain Pop

Option # 4 CNN Student News

Option # 5 Colonial Williamsburg Kid's Zone 

Option # 6 Mission US

• Link to website 

Option # 7 History Channel (US History video clips)

Option # 8 Constitution Game (test your knowledge)

Option # 9 Constitution Flash Cards (test your knowledge)

Exit Ticket: Complete the exit ticket below: 

12.18.13 Louisiana Territory

Objective: Historians of 2018 will (1) identify the causes and effects of the United States decision to acquire the Louisiana territory; (2) evaluate the United States decision to acquire the Louisiana territory

  

Task 1: Introduction to Unit #5 (Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny) 

Task 2: Use today's reading to complete the classwork.

Task 3: View the following video on the Louisiana Purchase 

Task 4: Map Skills (use the maps below)

Task 5: The Lewis and Clark Expedition 

12.13.13 Monroe Doctrine Political Cartoons

12.6.12 Adam's Foreign Policy

Objective: 

• Historians of 2018 will (1) describe the causes of the War of 1812; (2) identify key events in the war

Task 1: Make a copy of today's class reading 

• Read and annotate

Task 2: War of 1812 (video clip)

• Video # 2 (Crash Course  History)

***Additional War of 1812 resources***
Brain Pop - Tecumseh 
PBS - War of 1812
Fort McHenry - War of 1812
Library of Congress - War of 1812

***Nelson Mandela Resources*** 
Biography Channel
Brain Pop - ApartheidAbove and Beyond Practice: Quizlet 

12.5.13 Jefferson's Foreign Policy Decisions

Objective: 

• Historians of 2018 will evaluate Jefferson's foreign policy decisions 

Task 1: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy. Read the following pages in order to complete your classwork.

Additional reading:
Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates 

America and the Barbary Pirates (Library of Congress)

Above and Beyond Practice: Quizlet 

12.3.13 From Adams to Jefferson

Objective: 

• Historians of 2017 will evaluate the foreign policy decisions of John Adams during the XYZ affiar
• Historians of 2017 will analyze the results of the Election of 1800

  
Task 1: 

North American Territorial Claims in 1796

Task 2: Today's Reading

• Create a copy and rename
• Read and annotate each paragraph 

John Adam's Foreign Policy (XYZ Affair) 

Task 3: Election of 1800 (The Revolution of 1800)

12.2.13 Election of 1796 John Adams's Presidency

Objective: 

• Historians of 2018 will (1) analyze the results of the presidential election of 1796; (2) describe the political conflicts during the presidency of John Adams

Task 1: Election of 1796












Task 2: The Presidency of John Adams. Read the following pages and complete pages 3 of your classwork. You can learn more about the Alien and Sedition Acts at this website. We will discuss our responses to the classwork as a class. 


Homework #16: The Presidency of John Adams 

Above and Beyond Practice: