Norstad, Shelly / U.S. History 2018-2019

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Past Due Assignments

Bring your 3-ring binder and all handouts from class.
Date Due: 08/27/2018
You should be through at least part A. of the first reading assignment. Be prepared to discuss it!
Date Due: 08/29/2018
U.S. History syllabus
Date Due: 08/30/2018
Finish the "Emerging America" reading and complete the Textbook Reading sheet A-F.
Date Due: 08/31/2018
Make a Venn diagram (what's the same/what's different) for Hamilton and Jefferson
Date Due: 08/31/2018
Check your calendar.Find out when you are likely to be absent through Dec.!
Date Due: 09/05/2018
The OUT sheet is due Friday as is your completion of the reading. See directions!
Date Due: 09/07/2018
Begin your next reading: Economic and Social Changes Lead to Expansion. See directions.
Date Due: 09/07/2018
Read pp 85-89;92-93;94-103 per your handout.
Date Due: 09/10/2018
Keep reading about the Civil War and issues leading up to it.
Date Due: 09/12/2018
Finish analyzing the three documents about the Mexican-American War. Create your chicken foot thesis
Date Due: 09/12/2018
OUT sheet #3 is due Friday. Keep improving! Finish reading!
Date Due: 09/14/2018
Complete the reading on your calendar: Why Reconstruction Matters
Date Due: 09/18/2018
Complete OUT sheet #4. Unit test 9/26!
Date Due: 09/21/2018
NO more late work accepted for R1. Transfers to class must complete missed work by F 9/28.
Date Due: 09/24/2018
Wednesday test on the review unit. Be ready with a notecard and pencil with eraser!
Date Due: 09/26/2018
See the descriptor a few assignments earlier for the take home portion of the test!
Date Due: 09/26/2018
See directions for take home portion of the review unit test
Date Due: 09/26/2018
Prepare the notecard given out in class. You must have your name. Notes must be handwritten!
Date Due: 09/26/2018
Review Unit test scheduled for W Sept. 26!
Date Due: 09/26/2018
Read the NYT UpFront article 9/18/2017. Annotate by marking key ideas and vocab. See directions!
Date Due: 10/01/2018
OUT #5. Read module 4, lessons 1&2 about immigration and industrialization.Read the new OUTcarefully
Date Due: 10/08/2018
Read module 3, lessons 2&3, The Age of the RR; Big Business. Notes ?
Date Due: 10/10/2018
Read module 3, lesson 4 "The Rise of the Labor Movement" Complete OUT 6. See directions!
Date Due: 10/15/2018
OUT 6 is due for module 3, lessons 2,3,4. Choose a group to research. See directions!
Date Due: 10/15/2018
If you were absent Friday, see directions for makeup work.
Date Due: 10/15/2018
Finish annotating child labor article;make progress on the immigration/migration topic.Directions!
Date Due: 10/17/2018
Read the directions for this three part assignment due Friday
Date Due: 10/19/2018
Sources card and 5 note cards. See directions!
Date Due: 10/22/2018
at least 5 more notecards. Research should be done by Wed. class. Meet 601! Bring labor article.
Date Due: 10/24/2018
Finish research cards and organize into some kind of outline.In library. See directions!
Date Due: 10/26/2018
4th period only: Watch last 12 min of "CITIES" online. Finish notes! See directions.
Date Due: 10/26/2018
Complete typed double spaced draft of report due, hand edited!
Date Due: 10/26/2018
Revise your paper;1.5 spacing, error- free. Attach edited draft underneath. Due at start of class!
Date Due: 10/31/2018
Annotation for Friday's seminar, " The Labor Question".Follow the key's 5 parts. Define capitalism!
Date Due: 11/02/2018
Mulitple choice test Monday on the Gilded Age!
Date Due: 11/05/2018
Prepare your handwritten notecard for Monday's test on the Gilded Age
Date Due: 11/05/2018
Module 5, lesson 1. Section summary notes per instructions in class & assessment 1&3.
Date Due: 11/07/2018
If you missed Monday, you MUST take the test at tutorial or no points.
Date Due: 11/07/2018
Finish research & notecard for quilt square. Make rough draft drawing.
Date Due: 11/09/2018
Finish annotating the reading for this Friday's seminar per rubric!
Date Due: 11/16/2018
Read; take section summary notes on your section of Module 6. Bring book to class!
Date Due: 11/28/2018
Read Lesson 3,"The War at Home" of Module 7and Supreme Court case Schenck v. U. S. See directions.
Date Due: 11/30/2018
Read the directions to learn about the start of eugenics in America and where it can lead.
Date Due: 12/03/2018
For each lesson of Module 8,1920s,record 2 interesting facts & an image.
Date Due: 12/05/2018
Absent on Friday? Watch The Century, Boom to Bust online and take notes.
Date Due: 12/07/2018
Read the list of prompts to understand what they ask. Bring that plus mod. 8 notes to class!
Date Due: 12/12/2018
Read all of module 8 about the 1920s and take carefully labeled and organized notes.
Date Due: 12/12/2018
Organize and clearly label your notes. Review key terms in the textbook for the final exam!
Date Due: 12/14/2018
Prepare for the final by reviewing the textbook modules assigned since August. Spend 20 min/day!
Date Due: 12/17/2018
Read module 9, The Great Depression. You are responsible for learning this material.
Date Due: 01/14/2019
Begin Module 10, The New Deal. If you miss Friday's class you must make up work. See directions!
Date Due: 01/18/2019
Finish reading and learning the material in Module 10. Test Monday!
Date Due: 01/25/2019
Prepare your notecard and study the article,San Francisco Faces the Great Depression. Bring a pencil
Date Due: 01/28/2019
If you missed this in class, find the Jan 28 NYT UpFront article, Who Owns Oklahoma?" online & read
Date Due: 01/28/2019
Module 11, lessons 1& 2 . See directions!
Date Due: 01/30/2019
Read mod 11.3. Notes strongly recommended but not required. Understanding and retention IS required
Date Due: 02/01/2019
Finish learning content of module 11 by this Friday! Test next week!
Date Due: 02/06/2019
Test on WWII Homefront is Wed. 2/13.
Date Due: 02/08/2019
Finish reading and learning the material in all of Mod. 11, WWII!
Date Due: 02/08/2019
Read the article on Port Chicago. Finish your sentences justifying your five options;see directions
Date Due: 02/11/2019
WWII unit test
Date Due: 02/13/2019
Make your own field trip. See descriptor!
Date Due: 02/27/2019
No homework for Friday. WWII field trip project due Wed. Feb 27
Date Due: 02/27/2019
Be sure to have read and understood lessons 1& 2 of the Cold War. See directions for the rest!
Date Due: 03/01/2019
Read lessons 3& 4 in the Cold War module. Extra credit opportunity Saturday!
Date Due: 03/01/2019
Study lesson 5 in the Cold War module, "Mounting Tensions in the Sixties." Test next week!
Date Due: 03/06/2019
Bring textbook all this week! Study Module 12. Skip lesson 6.
Date Due: 03/06/2019
For F finish watching last 20-30 min of 'The Best Years" or watch in tutorial 3/6.
Date Due: 03/08/2019
Study for unit test Wed. on the Cold War. Lessons 1-5. 4x6 notecard!
Date Due: 03/11/2019
Finish writing your complete sentence responses to the political cartoon and photo. Meet in library!
Date Due: 03/15/2019
DRESS WARMLY FOR THE LIBRARY! NO HEAT
Date Due: 03/15/2019
Look at Homeaccess. Turn in any missing work!
Date Due: 03/20/2019
By Friday, contact someone to interview (see descriptor) and read mod. 13, lessons 1-3
Date Due: 03/22/2019
Read 13.4 and 14.1. Conduct your interview, due Wed 3/27.!
Date Due: 03/25/2019
Unit Test Postwar Boom Wed. 3/27. no makeups
Date Due: 03/25/2019
In your textbook, read the background and analysis of these U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Date Due: 03/29/2019
Read Module15, lessons 1-3 for next Fri. Notes are best!
Date Due: 04/05/2019
Use your notes about Civil Rights plus your problem-solving brain to complete the puzzle from class!
Date Due: 04/05/2019
Read Lesson 4 of module 15 plus p. 754-755 court case. Notes are necessary!
Date Due: 04/17/2019
Review everything on Civil Rights. Write an outline or create a diagram.See directions!
Date Due: 04/19/2019
Finish reading and annotating the 8 Civil Rights documents. What are the arguments made in each?
Date Due: 04/22/2019
Read March 3, 2019 NYT article, Latinos were Lynched in West. See directions!
Date Due: 04/24/2019
Reread and annotate both the handout on Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers Ten Point Program.
Date Due: 04/24/2019
Quick research: who is Ruby Bridges and why is she historically significant?
Date Due: 04/24/2019
Review notes Mod. 15, lessons 1-4 (not 5!). See directions! Ask about grape boycott!
Date Due: 04/29/2019
Skim module 16, The Vietnam War. Turn in 3 intelligent questions for our guest speakers.
Date Due: 05/01/2019
Thoroughly study module 16, The Vietnam War and take strong notes to help you learn!
Date Due: 05/08/2019
TEST F May 10: Civil Rights & The Vietnam Eras
Date Due: 05/10/2019
Fill out a 3x5 notecard (Use a bigger one if you want!) See directions.
Date Due: 05/10/2019
If you were absent: Read and be prepared to discuss the articles. See directions.
Date Due: 05/13/2019
Read Module 15, lesson 5, " Women Fight for Equality." Take notes on the chart we started in class.
Date Due: 05/15/2019
IF YOU MISS WED CLASS. SEE DIRECTIONS!
Date Due: 05/15/2019
If you missed class Friday, see directions!
Date Due: 05/17/2019
Read module 15, lesson 6. See directions about the notes!
Date Due: 05/20/2019
If you missed Monday, ask someone about the oral history assignment.
Date Due: 05/20/2019
Missed class Wed 5/22? See what you need to make up.
Date Due: 05/22/2019
Read module 14, lessons 3&4, "Culture and Counterculture; Environmental Activism"
Date Due: 05/22/2019
Study Mod. 17; talk with an adult about memories of AIDS crisis. Type a paragraph!
Date Due: 05/29/2019
Read article,"Repeal planned for transgender protections. See directions!"
Date Due: 05/31/2019
Start reading module 17, Transitions and Conservativism. You need this info for the final exam!
Date Due: 05/31/2019
oral history, women's movement. Add the 90s to the descriptor!
Date Due: 06/03/2019
Typed oral history taken from recorded interview due!
Date Due: 06/03/2019
Review all the key terms & names for modules 9-17. Be able to define & explain significance.
Date Due: 06/05/2019

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