Friday 1/29/10

No Starter or Assignment Due to State Drill
Current Events Due (also accepted Tues 2/2/10)

Wednesday 1/27/10

Starter Timeline P. 486-487
1. When did Alfred Nobel invent dynamite?
2. When did Canada complete its Transcontinental Railroad?
3. When did Tsar Nicholas II come to power in Russia?
Read Chapter 14
Do Key Terms
Current Event Due Friday/Tuesday

Monday 1/25/10

Starter P. 486-487
1. Which were the last two states (depicted on the map) to enter the Union?
2. When and where were Custer and his men killed?
Discuss Ch 13 Sec 2-4 DUE 48/48 Pts.
Video: The Simpsons- Last Exit to Springfield
Current Event Friday

Thursday 1/21/10

Starter Chart P. 471
1. What is the difference between vertical and horizontal integration?
2. Which one would be more damaging to a free economy?
Discuss Ch 13 Sec 1 (Ch 13 Due Mon 1/25)
Video: The Transcontinental Railroad
20 Facts Notes + 5 for Extra Credit
No Current Event this week..

Friday 1/15/10

Starter Timeline P. 454-455
1. When did Grant serve as president?
2. When and where was the Transcontinental Railroad completed?
Starters Due 40 Points- 7th Per/35 Points- 8th Per
Read Ch 13 Do Key Terms
Extra Credit Current Event Due

Wednesday 1/13/10

Starter Chart P. 444
1. Who won the most popular votes?
2. Who won the most electoral votes?
3. Who became President?
Video Biography: Robert E. Lee & Study Guide
Discuss Ch 12 - Due
Extra Credit Current Event Due Friday 1/15

Monday 1/11/10

Starter Timeline P. 422-423
1. When did Andrew Johnson serve as president?
2. When was the Ku Klux Klan formed?
3. When did Tsarist Russia sell Alaska to the United States?
Read All Ch 12 & Do All Key Terms in the book
Video: The Civil War (the end of the war)
No Current Event this week, however...
You may do one Current Event for Extra Credit (Due Friday)

Thursday 1/7/10

Starter Timeline P. 422-423
1. In what year did the Civil War end?
2. In what year did Reconstruction end?
3. Discuss Ch 11 Sec 3 & 4 Due
Current Event Due/Discuss
Video: The Civil War (the end of the war)

Tuesday 1/5/10

Starter Timeline P. 378-379
1. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
2. When did Sherman capture Atlanta (and burn it)?
3. When did the Civil War end?
Discuss Ch 11 Sec 1 & 2
Pickett's Charge from Gettysburg
Current Event Thursday 1/7/10