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Your AP extra credit assignment is to make study cards. By completing all of the cards you will receive 25 extra credit points and prepare yourself for the semester one final exam.
Click here for the list of important terms for your cards.
All flash cards must follow this sample: click here
Email me if you have any questions.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Civil War Newspaper Assignment
Due Dates:
Assigned: November 29, 2007
First Draft Due: December 3, 2007
Final Due Date: December 14, 2007
Assignment:
You and a partner are assigned the task of choosing a more in depth topic from the list below and creating a section of the Civil War Times newspaper. You must choose your partner, the topic you will be focusing on and the medium you will be using (i.e. cartoon, editorial, advertisement, etc)
ALL AVAILABLE TOPICS AND MEDIUMS ARE IN BOLD!
List of Topics:
Draft Riots in the North
Bread Riots in the South
Civil War medicine
First Bull Run
Wilderness Campaign
Siege of Vicksburg
Sherman's march to the sea
Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
Brady's photographs
Sanitation commission
Confederate economy
Appomattox
Fremont’s Proclamation
General US Grant
Gen. George McClellan
General Robert E Lee
Gen. Stonewall Jackson
54th Massachusetts (Film "Glory" is about them)
Juneteenth
Paying for substitutes
Letters from soldiers
Sherman’s Order (40 acres and a mule)
List of Mediums-(Numbers of entries allowed)
Newspaper article (8)
Editorial (biased in favor of one side) (6)
Political cartoon (2)
Advertisement (4)
Advice column (2)
How to reserve a topic and a medium-
One person in the pair needs to post your request for both topic and medium in the comment section just below this entry. IF SOMEONE HAS ALREADY POSTED YOUR TOPIC OR THERE ARE ALREADY THE NUMBER ALLOWABLE MEDIUMS (i.e. 4 advertisements). YOU NEED TO CHOOSE ANOTHER.
In the comment area write and select "anonymous" to send:
Names in group-
Topic-
Medium-
Assigned: November 29, 2007
First Draft Due: December 3, 2007
Final Due Date: December 14, 2007
Assignment:
You and a partner are assigned the task of choosing a more in depth topic from the list below and creating a section of the Civil War Times newspaper. You must choose your partner, the topic you will be focusing on and the medium you will be using (i.e. cartoon, editorial, advertisement, etc)
ALL AVAILABLE TOPICS AND MEDIUMS ARE IN BOLD!
List of Topics:
Draft Riots in the North
Bread Riots in the South
Civil War medicine
First Bull Run
Wilderness Campaign
Siege of Vicksburg
Sherman's march to the sea
Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
Brady's photographs
Sanitation commission
Confederate economy
Appomattox
Fremont’s Proclamation
General US Grant
Gen. George McClellan
General Robert E Lee
Gen. Stonewall Jackson
54th Massachusetts (Film "Glory" is about them)
Juneteenth
Paying for substitutes
Letters from soldiers
Sherman’s Order (40 acres and a mule)
List of Mediums-(Numbers of entries allowed)
Newspaper article (8)
Editorial (biased in favor of one side) (6)
Political cartoon (2)
Advertisement (4)
Advice column (2)
How to reserve a topic and a medium-
One person in the pair needs to post your request for both topic and medium in the comment section just below this entry. IF SOMEONE HAS ALREADY POSTED YOUR TOPIC OR THERE ARE ALREADY THE NUMBER ALLOWABLE MEDIUMS (i.e. 4 advertisements). YOU NEED TO CHOOSE ANOTHER.
In the comment area write and select "anonymous" to send:
Names in group-
Topic-
Medium-
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Review Sheet for Tuesday's Quiz
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent
McCulloch v. Maryland
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Dopest Dad Competition Websites
George Washington
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/gwashington.html
John Adams
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jadams.html
Alexander Hamilton
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_founding_fathers_new_york.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hamilton/filmmore/pt.html
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/tjefferson.html
James Madison
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm4.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jmadison.html
Benjamin Franklin
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/index.html
http://www.english.udel.edu/lemay/franklin/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/gwashington.html
John Adams
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jadams.html
Alexander Hamilton
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_founding_fathers_new_york.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/hamilton/filmmore/pt.html
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/tjefferson.html
James Madison
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm4.html
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jmadison.html
Benjamin Franklin
http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/index.html
http://www.english.udel.edu/lemay/franklin/
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