Winter Break Extra-Credit Assignments

Hello there.

Your extra-credit assignment over break is to choose from the podcasts or articles below and fill out the Extra-Credit Form for each one (up to 6). In order to get the 5 points, you must have answers that are similar in quality to the model. Please email me if you have any questions.

Click here to download form and model

Points Possible: 30 (if you choose 6 of the options and mirror the model I provided in each)

Gilder Lehrman Podcasts
The link isn't working so you need to google "Gilder Lehrman" and click on "Teachers and Students" then scroll down to "Online Resources include:" and click on "Historian's Podcasts"

Antietam
Abraham Lincoln's Team of Rivals
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman
Politics in the Civil War North
The Civil War in American Memory
John Brown
The Significance of Reconstruction after the War

History Now Articles/Lectures
Choose from the following 4 articles (there are video lectures for these articles as well)
Abraham Lincoln and Jacksonian Democracy
Allies for Emancipation?-Black Abolitionists and Abraham Lincoln
Natural Rights, Citizenship Rights, State Rights, and Black Rights: Another Look at Lincoln and Race
Lincoln's Religion

Civil War Quest Study Terms

Study List for Civil War Quest (More than a quiz...not quite a test)
Pre-Civil War
Missouri Compromise
David Walker's Appeal
William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Free Soil Party
Gag Rule
Mexican War
Republican Party
Texas Annexation
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bloody (or Bleeding) Kansas
Dred Scott Decision
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Raid on Harper's Ferry
Election of 1860

Civil War
Strengths and weakness for Confederacy
Strengths and weaknesses of Union
Lincoln's First Inaugural
Ft Sumter
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
George McClellan
Siege strategy
Anaconda Plan
Lincoln's Second Inaugural
Problems faced by North and South during the war (i.e. draft riots, bread riots, etc)
Problems faced by soldiers
Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus

I think that just about does it...yeehaw!

Intercession Homework! Yeah!

Hey everybody. Thanks for your patience. Here is your intercession assignment:

1. Read pages 13-55 in "Freedom's Unfinished Revolution"
2. Answer all of the italicized questions within the reading. (We will discuss it prior to your turning it in on the first day back)
3. The primary source documents are on the black pages-Answer the "Examining the Documents" questions on pages 27, 31, 33, 45, 49, and 52
4. On the bottom of page 54 is an assignment called "Position Paper" read the assignment and write a paper that addresses the questions posed. Be sure to use evidence from the reading but feel free to research additional information.

This assignment should take you a total of 5 hours. If you choose to do it while watching TV or chatting with friends on-line, it might take more time and you will most likely not learn the information enough to pass the quiz on the reading pages when you return.

Enjoy your break!

Check back in a week for an extra-credit assignment for those students who want to get a head start on their second trimester grade!!!

King Phillip's War Podcast-Extra Credit

Hey ya'll,

Click here for the extra-credit podcast. Listen to the entire podcast and answer the questions below. Use specific examples from the podcast to support your answers.

1. According to Jill Lepore, what were the underlying causes of King Phillip's (Metacom's) War/Rebellion?
2. How did the memory of King Phillip's change over time?
3. What did you find most interesting in this podcast? What questions came up for you when thinking about this event?

Your answers are due by Monday/Tuesday September 2-3, 2008

Welcome 2008-2009 AP students!

I'm so excited about this year and the challenges we have ahead. Here are some websites that you might find useful throughout the year.

Study Note Cards

Teacher-Made Power Points for Review

College Board for Students Site

Gilder Lehrman Podcast Site

Lindblom Library

I'm sure I will add others along the way, but these will get you started. Be sure to check here for updates and links for homework assignments.

Review Assignment #3

Homework Assignment: Gather the research to answer your group’s question and create a 5-8 minute power point presentation for the class. Include documents and images that would be relevant in the answer. (i.e. If you were answering a question about women and reform, you would use the Declaration of Sentiments and a Temperance cartoon)

1. To what extent did Reconstruction bring the Southern Negro the equality and freedom that slavery had denied them?


2. It is clear that all the lives that were lost in the American Civil War to insure a 'new birth of freedom' were in vain. By 1880, the South had defeated the weak Northern efforts in behalf of the freedmen, and had re-enslaved the Negro.
Assess the validity of this statement using the documents and your knowledge of U S History.

3. Discuss the "new immigrants" that came into the United States during the period 1890 to 1924. Who were the major groups, what were the changes in American immigration laws that effected them, and to what extent did they reshape American society?

4. The first two decades of the 20th Century are generally described as the Progressive Period. Using the documents and your knowledge of the time period 1895-1920, discuss the extent to which this period marked a clear social, political, and economic change in American history.

5. What were the social, economic, and political reactions to industrialization and urbanization in American from 1890 to 1920?

6. One of the principle aims of the Progressive Era was to check the advancing power of big business. How successful were they in achieving their goal by 1915?

Review Assignment #1

Click here for the link to the podcast about King Philip's War.

Assignment-What is Professor Lepore's thesis for her talk? What evidence does she provide in support of that thesis? Does she successfully argue her position? Explain.

Study Tips for Midterm

The exam will cover two class periods. You will have an FRQ and DBQ on Monday and an 80 question multiple choice test on Thursday.

Multiple Choice

Go over past tests and quizzes but not for memorization of that exact question. You must know WHY the one answer is right and WHY the others are close, but wrong.

For example:

Which of the following is true of the case of Marbury v. Madison?
a. It established that the Congress had the sole right to formulate national legislation.
This is wrong because the case had to do with appointments of judges
b. It supported Thomas Jefferson in his claim to have "executive review."
This one is the sneakiest one because it has Jefferson, who was president when this case was decided and the word "review," but it is wrong because it isn't about the presidency
c. It backed William Marbury in his request for a bank charter
This is wrong because it is confused Marbury's case with McCulloch v Maryland and the bank issue both were decided by John Marshall (Federalist chief justice)
d. It affirmed the principle of judicial review
This is right because it has to do with defining (expanding really) the job of the Supreme Court
e. It determined the Senate's right to "advise and consent"
This is wrong but I think the test writer is trying to make me think this is right because it is so similar to answer "A" but both are wrong. I hate it when test writers do that. They think they are so sneaky...I'll show them.
______________

I would also try to think of as many connections I can make to the case (i.e. John Marshall, midnight judges, John Adams, Federalists, Democratic-Republicans, T. Jefferson, etc) and I would place the event in a time line.

Essays

The essays require a little different strategy in terms of studying because you need to put "ideas" together. This midterm will only cover the Gilded Age through World War II for the essays (multiple choice is the whole enchilada 1607-1945) which allows you to focus on specific time periods and their overall significance. The essays fall into two categories generally-"compare and contrast" and "change over time"

One way to study for this is to try to think of the names/dates of the time periods, the people who were important, the events that occurred during the time period and the historical significance of the time period (i.e. the period between 1820-1861 is significant because it showed the national crisis created over the issue of slavery).

-Why is the Gilded Age given that name? Is it an accurate description?
-Was the Progressive Era a sign of true "progress"? What arguments can you make for both sides?
-Did the Progressive Era really solve the issues of Gilded Age industrialization?
-If I charted US foreign policy in terms of interventionism vs isolationism throughout this time period, what would that chart look like and what were the major causes of those shifts? (1898-1941)
-Why did we enter each war when we did? What other factors besides the immediate one's (sinking of the Maine, the Zimmerman telegram, Pearl Harbor) were at work?
-How much is the rise of media responsible for the way we view the 1920s today? How many people were actually "roaring" and how many were not?
-How did the choices made in the 1920s help cause the Great Depression? (There is a great article on this in today's New York Times. Click here to link to it.)
-Did the New Deal end the Great Depression? Remember these answers, like most of life's answers, are rarely simple. Be sure to reflect the complexity in your answer.
-How did the home front respond to the challenges of World War II?
-Many people call World War II a "just war." Is this true? What arguments can you make on both sides?

Another way to study for this is to create mind maps to see how many connections you can make between people, events, inventions, and ideas.

Also, use the mass email list to ask questions or create a study group where each member makes a different time line). Doesn't that sound like fun?! Spring Break '08!

Rough Sample of Poster

Here is one I made to give you an idea. Yours should have more text in order to address all of the issues in the rubric.

Sample Poster

Book Club Book and 1920s Powerpoint

Hey everybody.

Some people were asking for the title of the book club book.

Von Drehle, David. "Triangle: The Fire That Changed America." 2003

Also here is the power point that you need to go through to prepare for Monday's quiz (be sure to also read and take notes on Chapter 21)

When trying to open: "right click" and "save"

Power Point


Alternate Power Point

Civil War Times Newspaper

Here is the newspaper ya'll made last semester. It is a good way to read the work of your peers and review at the same time.

Enjoy!

Civil War Times