Weekly Syllabus

Week of Monday, November 26 through Friday, November 30

Welcome back! Congratulations on your successes in the Fall Trimester. This trimester is an odd one, as we have 19 days of class (weather permitting) before you go away for 17 days of vacation. Basically most of your midterm grade will be earned prior to Christmas break. 

We will spend the time leading up to the vacation on the events and circumstances leading up to and surrounding the Civil War, which occurred in the United States from 1861-1865. We will be spending a lot of time learning about the role of slavery in the Civil War. Beginning Nov. 27th, and ending sometime in February you will be required to learn all you can to be able to write a 5 page essay in which you prove (or disprove) the following thesis: "Slavery was the cause of the Civil War".  More instructions will follow in class.

This week we will read parts of Chapters 10 and 11, learning about how the South and the North were different from each other in the early and mid 1800's.

Now that the beginning part of the year is done, I will be challenging you more with the reading, writing and research assignments. Please feel free to conference with me whenever you feel the need. I suggest that those of you who earned Fall grades below a C make an appointment with me this week. If you scored a D or an F on the Fall term exam, you are required to see me this week.

I will try to give you ample time to read the material, but you should expect more homework from me in the Winter. With one major paper (described above) and other shorter assignments you should plan to read the syllabus every weekend and plan out your history studying in advance.

Finally, you will need to acquire a copy of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.  It should be available at the school bookstore.  Please make this happen by the end of this week.

Monday, November 26, 2012 (40 minutes)

Topic: Recap of what we've learned so far. Review of the Fall Exam. Introduction to the plan for the Winter Term.

Homework: Read AP&AN, pp.247-252 (Southern Expansion...)

 

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 (45 minutes)

Topic: Review of the reading.

Homework: Read AP&AN pp. 252-257.  Skip p. 253.

 

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 (40 minutes)

Quiz: On the reading.

Topic: Review of the reading.

Homework: Read in  AP&AN the left hand side of page 279; p. 285 (Factories...)-288 (Consumption and Commercialization).

 

Thursday, November 29, 2012 (50 minutes)

Topic: Review of the reading. We will have a short quiz today. 

Homework: Read AP&AN pp.293 (The Growth of Cities)-299 (Urban Culture)

 

Friday, November 30, 2012 (45 minutes)

Topic: Review of the reading.

Homework: Read AP&AN pp. 314 (Abolitionism)-319 (Jacksonianism and Party Politics).