Well, Happy Valentine's Day... Hutch has the flu! :(
I'll be out for a few days, but you'll be fine. Today you should have spent some time wrapping up Washington & Adams' administrations. Tomorrow is your first exam. The short answer portion is very straightforward. You will have two sets of two questions. You will need to answer ONE from set one and ONE from set two. Short answer questions have three parts, "a," "b," and "c." Answer all three parts. No thesis or anything crazy, just answer. Your answer sheet has two sides, one side for each question. A good answer to ONE question should come close to filling one side of the answer form. I've attached a pic below (the question in the pic is NOT on your exam so no use saving it ;) I'll have your practice essays back to you Thursday. I'll be back on here, Twitter, and SnapChat over the next couple of days as necessary with more info as you need it. Email or message on Twitter with any questions! I'm confident you will do very well on this first exam! :) H
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We took the Chapter 8 Quiz today, then discussed the Federalist/Antifederalist debate over the ratification of the Constitution through a variety of documents, from political cartoons to essays to speech transcripts. Homework tonight is to read the Republican Motherhood article on the website under Period 3. I have also posted the readings and directions for the next Scored Discussion. This discussion will be next Monday, so plan to work on these readings between now and then. You can find the Scored Discussion reading and Directions under Period 4 on the website. I have posted the binder requirements for Wednesday below. H
Early release today meant we covered a lot of ground quickly. After a brief discussion on Chapter 7, we looked at the Articles of Confederation and what they lacked in comparison to the expected roles of government. We then discussed Shay's rebellion in the light of the Articles government and explored some of the debates around governmental power that were occurring after the Revolution as well as deconstructing the typical textbook representation of this time period. We ended the day with an analysis of slavery in the Constitution and the failure of the Constitutional Convention to fulfill the early rhetoric of the Revolution.
Don't forget to finish your final draft of your practice essay and finish your Chapter 8 notes for Monday! H Our topic for today was the effects of the Revolution on various populations within America. We took both a personal approach to understanding these effects through primary sources from Joseph Plumb Martin exploring class issues, and letters from Abigail Adams and her husband John exploring women's issues at the writing of the Declaration of Revolution. We also used the metaphor of a recipe to conceptualize the various historical events and developments that collectively comprise what we call the American Revolution.
We ended class with a few notes on how to write body paragraphs for essays in this class. Tonight you need to write a rough draft of ONE body paragraph for peer critique tomorrow. Don't forget that chapter 7 is also due tomorrow! H We took the Chapter 6 Quiz today then spent some DocBlock time analyzing and discussing excerpts from Thomas Paine's Common Sense, evaluating how its argument could be used as historical evidence for each of the historian's interpretations discussed yesterday. We also took some time to deconstruct textbook accounts of the battle on Lexington Green and compare these to primary source accounts. I modeled the type of historical analysis historians engage in as they evaluate documents then you had a chance to practice that skill within your groups.
Tonight you need to write a rough draft Introductory paragraph for the essay prompt we have been examining. I will annotate your thesis statements so that you can make revisions tomorrow. Chapter 7 is due Friday! H We walked through our first scored discussion today during class. This first discussion was admittedly over two very dense academic texts, but the twofold goal was to walk you through the process we will use for full scored discussions with extra support and coaching while also exposing you to two differing interpretations of the nature of the American Revolution. Over the next few days as we explore the Revolution, we will be asking you to connect these experiences and understandings to the arguments presented by both Bailyn and Nash. Your first "live" discussion will be in the next unit in two weeks time. We will post the readings and directions at least a week ahead of that so you will have time to read, analyze, and collaborate before the in class portion of the discussion.
Homework tonight: Finish up chapter 6 for tomorrow and post your ROUGH DRAFT thesis statements on the discussion board for your class by midnight tonight! http://www.ghhsapush.com/discussion-boards.html -H We discussed the effects of the French and Indian War today, focusing on the personal level of history which is often lost in the big picture textbook presentation of events. We then talked about thesis statements for historical writing and how the expectations vary from other types of writing. I also shared the essay question below for which you need to have a rough draft written by Wednesday.
At the end of class I assigned each table group to one of two documents. You can find the documents IN ONE FILE under period 3, "Historians debate the Revolution." Half of the class will read the first author, Bernard Bailyn, and the other half will scroll past the Bailyn article to read the selection by Gary B. Nash. You then need to complete the pre-writing assignment linked from "Directions" in the same spot in Period 3 as the documents link. This is due tomorrow and we will be spending the majority of class in discussion over these differing points of view! H Essay Prompt: To what extent and in what ways did European powers develop different patterns of colonization in N. America? Support your answer with specific and relevant historical information from the period 1607 to 1754. We continued our discussion and analysis of Colonial American society today with an exploration of the Great Awakening and it's effects on society. We then tore apart some maps and data to help understand the diversity of colonial society in terms of religion, cultural makeup, and economic activities. We ended with a brief introduction to historical writing as it is differentiated from other types of writing you have learned in other classes.
This weekend you need to finish up your textbook notes for Chapter 5 and you may want to spend a little time reviewing the maps of the 13 English colonies as well in case there is a quiz on that sometime. To help in that endeavor, under Period 2 of the website, you can find a blank colonies map and some directions for completing it as a study tool. Have a great weekend! H Today we started off with a quiz over Chapter 4, followed by an analysis of Colonial American life through the lens of the Salem Witch hysteria. We used this exercise to make explicit links to how historians to do the work of history and how you will be crafting historical argument in this class, including the recognition of counter arguments.
For homework this evening, you need to read the Jonathan Edwards selection "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" posted under period two. The questions which accompany this reading are also posted in period two, right next to the reading selection. H After a brief discussion over last night's homework reading, we did a DocBlock (HAPP analysis) on the selections The Middle Passage, out first secondary source selection for DocBlock. Because it is the first, we discussed the shift you need to make in the Historical Context portion when faced with a secondary source.
The remainder of class was giver over to your first extended analysis of multiple historical documents with the goal of collecting data and information which can be used to answer essential historical questions. The focus of today's activity was runaway slave advertisements from 1743-1770. Tonight, you need to use the information you collected and your recollections of the debriefing questions we discussed in class to craft a ONE to TWO paragraph response to the following question: In what ways and to what degree did runaway slaves impact the social structure of Colonial America? Don't forget, Chapter 4 is also due tomorrow! H |
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