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U.S. History 2014-15 (Period 3) Assignments

Instructor
Gabriel Aguilar
Term
2024-25
Department
Health & Humanities
Description
 

Welcome to Mr. Aguilar's U.S. History class website.  This site will be used to organize and post class materials

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Thursday- 1/15 - Packet Due tomorrow
1) The Century: 1920s- video questions
 
2) Ch. 12 Sect. 3 worksheet
3) Investigating Causes of the Great Depression Chart & Drawing for Presentation
4) Hoover Packet

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Thursday- 1/15 - Packet Due tomorrow
1) The Century: 1920s- video questions
 
2) Ch. 12 Sect. 3 worksheet
3) Investigating Causes of the Great Depression Chart & Drawing for Presentation
4) Hoover Packet

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Final Exam - Wednesday 12/17 -  Use the study guide we completed in class to prepare for the exam.  40 questions (Multiple Choice)  10 short response questions.
 
Final Homework Packet Due on Wednesday 12/17 - (See the Attachments for the worksheets if you lost the copy I gave you in class)
  1. Ch.7, Section 2 Worksheet / Growth of Industries Chart
  2. Ch. 10, Section 1 Worksheet / U.S. Intervention Chart
  3. Ch. 10, Section 3 Worksheet / Primary Sources
  4. Ch. 10, Section 4 Worksheet / Foreign Diplomacy Metaphor
  5. Spanish American War Primary Source = "AWAKE U.S."
  6. Spanish American War Primary Source = " Why We Fight"
  7. Ch. 11, Sections 2, 3 & 4
  8. WWI Primary Sources / Essay Outline
  9. Group Project Individual Responsibilities Form
 

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Final Exam - Wednesday 12/17 -  Use the study guide we completed in class to prepare for the exam.  40 questions (Multiple Choice)  10 short response questions.
 
Final Homework Packet Due on Wednesday 12/17 - (See the Attachments for the worksheets if you lost the copy I gave you in class)
  1. Ch.7, Section 2 Worksheet / Growth of Industries Chart
  2. Ch. 10, Section 1 Worksheet / U.S. Intervention Chart
  3. Ch. 10, Section 3 Worksheet / Primary Sources
  4. Ch. 10, Section 4 Worksheet / Foreign Diplomacy Metaphor
  5. Spanish American War Primary Source = "AWAKE U.S."
  6. Spanish American War Primary Source = " Why We Fight"
  7. Ch. 11, Sections 2, 3 & 4
  8. WWI Primary Sources / Essay Outline
  9. Group Project Individual Responsibilities Form
 

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Final Exam - Wednesday 12/17 -  Use the study guide we completed in class to prepare for the exam.  40 questions (Multiple Choice)  10 short response questions.
 
Final Homework Packet Due on Wednesday 12/17 - (See the Attachments for the worksheets if you lost the copy I gave you in class)
  1. Ch.7, Section 2 Worksheet / Growth of Industries Chart
  2. Ch. 10, Section 1 Worksheet / U.S. Intervention Chart
  3. Ch. 10, Section 3 Worksheet / Primary Sources
  4. Ch. 10, Section 4 Worksheet / Foreign Diplomacy Metaphor
  5. Spanish American War Primary Source = "AWAKE U.S."
  6. Spanish American War Primary Source = " Why We Fight"
  7. Ch. 11, Sections 2, 3 & 4
  8. WWI Primary Sources / Essay Outline
  9. Group Project Individual Responsibilities Form
 

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FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

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Wednesday, 11/5 - Complete group poster presentations.  Complete the Industrialization Era worksheets for homework.  Stamped tomorrow.
 
TEST FRIDAY!!!! - STUDY GUIDE IS EXTRA CREDIT!!! (Due Tomorrow)
PACKET #3 DUE FRIDAY, with the following assignments:
  1. Lincoln Primary Sources
  2. Analyzing Reconstruction Cartoons worksheet
  3. Black Codes worksheet
  4. Far & Away Qs
  5. Immigration Cartoons Chart
  6. Ch. 7, Sect. 1 worksheet
  7. Immigration Timeline worksheet
  8. Chinese Immigration Primary Sources
  9. Perspectives on Immigration Drawings
  10. Industrial Workers Experience Primary Sources
  11. Carnegie/Rockefeller Biographies worksheet

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Wednesday, 11/5 - Complete group poster presentations.  Complete the Industrialization Era worksheets for homework.  Stamped tomorrow.
 
TEST FRIDAY!!!! - STUDY GUIDE IS EXTRA CREDIT!!! (Due Tomorrow)
PACKET #3 DUE FRIDAY, with the following assignments:
  1. Lincoln Primary Sources
  2. Analyzing Reconstruction Cartoons worksheet
  3. Black Codes worksheet
  4. Far & Away Qs
  5. Immigration Cartoons Chart
  6. Ch. 7, Sect. 1 worksheet
  7. Immigration Timeline worksheet
  8. Chinese Immigration Primary Sources
  9. Perspectives on Immigration Drawings
  10. Industrial Workers Experience Primary Sources
  11. Carnegie/Rockefeller Biographies worksheet

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Wednesday, 11/5 - Complete group poster presentations.  Complete the Industrialization Era worksheets for homework.  Stamped tomorrow.
 
TEST FRIDAY!!!! - STUDY GUIDE IS EXTRA CREDIT!!! (Due Tomorrow)
PACKET #3 DUE FRIDAY, with the following assignments:
  1. Lincoln Primary Sources
  2. Analyzing Reconstruction Cartoons worksheet
  3. Black Codes worksheet
  4. Far & Away Qs
  5. Immigration Cartoons Chart
  6. Ch. 7, Sect. 1 worksheet
  7. Immigration Timeline worksheet
  8. Chinese Immigration Primary Sources
  9. Perspectives on Immigration Drawings
  10. Industrial Workers Experience Primary Sources
  11. Carnegie/Rockefeller Biographies worksheet

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Tuesday, 11/4 - Group poster making and presentations on the Industrialization Era.  Finish presentations tomorrow.

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Monday, 11/3 - Intro Lecture on Industrialization.  Group work on Robber Barons - Andrew Carnegie & John D. Rockefeller.  Completed Worksheet for each individual.
 
 

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Monday, 11/3 - Intro Lecture on Industrialization.  Group work on Robber Barons - Andrew Carnegie & John D. Rockefeller.  Completed Worksheet for each individual.
 
 

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Friday, 10/31 - Debrief Assembly Line activity.  View video on Growth of the Cities.

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Thursday, 10/30 - Finish Assembly Line activity.  Complete Industrial Workers Experience worksheet packet.

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Wednesday, 10/29 - Assembly Line activity.

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Tuesday, 10/28 - Analyzed Primary Source poem "One Hundred More", about anti-Chinese immigration during the 1880's.  Homework: Compare the positive and negative experiences of European and Chinese immigrants during the 1880s-1900s, with classroom appropriate political cartoons for each perspective.
 

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Monday, 10/27 - Analyze Immigration Timeline & Chinese Immigration Cartoons.  Complete Chinese Immigration worksheets for homework. Stamp tomorrow.

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Friday, 10/24 - Complete Ch. 7, Sect. 1 worksheet.  Viewed "An Immigrants Journey" recreation of Polish immigrant's (Janik) experience.

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Friday, 10/24 - Complete Ch. 7, Sect. 1 worksheet.  Viewed "An Immigrants Journey" recreation of Polish immigrant's (Janik) experience.

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Thursday, 10/23 - Finish analyzing Immigration political cartoons.  Complete Immigration Cartoon Analysis Chart.

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Wednesday, 10/22 - Analyzed immigration cartoons in groups, focusing on Sourcing, Contextualizing, Argument Analysis skills. Continue working on this tomorrow. 

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Monday 10/19  & Tuesday 10/20 -  Finish viewing Far & Away.  Complete notes on historical immigration themes recreated in the movie.

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Friday, 1017 - Continued viewing Far & Away & completing viewing form.

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Thursday, 10/16 - Disaster Drill during entire class period.

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Weds. 10/1 - Begin viewing film, Far & Away.  Complete viewing form to record historical recreations of the difficulties faced by European Immigrants in the 1890s.

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Tuesday, 10/14 - Finished Analysis of Thomas Nast's Reconstruction cartoons. 
Complete Black Codes & Share Cropping worksheets for homework... to be stamped tomorrow.

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Monday, 10/13 - Began group analysis of the Reconstruction Era cartoons of Thomas Nast, completing the Analysis Worksheet.  Continue working in class tomorrow to finish.
 
 

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Friday, 10/10 -  Group Work on Gettysburg Address Comic Book.  Due Monday.

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Thursday, 10/9 - Viewed the History Channel clip on Lincoln's Presidency.  See link below (fast forward to minute 23 of the clip to see the part on Lincoln):
 

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Wednesday, 10/8 - Analyzed primary sources - Lincoln's letter to Horace Greely.
Homework - Complete written response to the SAC question - Was Lincoln Racist? using the "Take a Position Response" worksheet... to be stamped on Thursday.

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Tuesday, 10/7 - Continued analyzing Primary Sources for SAC on Lincoln.

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Monday, 10/6 - Class discussion on the concept of Racism, Stereotypes, Prejudice, & Discrimination.  (Poster on Front Wall of Classroom).
 
Began analyzing Primary Sources for Structured Academic Controversy (SAC) on the controversial question: Was Lincoln Racist?.  Continue tomorrow in small groups for class "debate".

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Friday, 10/3 - Benchmark exam taken today.

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Thursday, 10/2 - Study Guide for Benchmark completed in class.  Each Student was assigned 1 key term/ historical event for which they would create a graphic illustration.
 
BENCHMARK TOMORROW, Friday 10/3.  STUDY, STUDY, STUDY!!!

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Wednesday, 10/1 - Causes of Civil War Chart & Timeline.  Completed in class as group work.  Essay Outline assigned for Homework.

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Tuesday, 9/30 - Group work on Market Revolution Presentations.  Finished Presentations in Class.

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Monday, 9/30 - Collect Packet #2 with the following assignments:
  1. Essay on Colonial Rebellion
  2. TLO court case
  3. New Nation- Ch.2, Sect. 4
  4. Primary Source: Hamilton vs Jefferson
  5. Louisiana Purchase

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Monday, 9/29 - analyzed Indian Removal Primary Sources.

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Thursday, 9/18 - Complete the Developing American Democracy (Jefferson-Jackson) worksheet.  Complete the Hamilton vs. Jefferson Primary Source Analysis worksheet, using the Hamilton vs. Jefferson readings. To be stamped on Friday.

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Wednesday, 9/17 - Viewed video clips on Washington & Adams. Completed the Ch.2, Section 4 worksheet.
 
Watch Video Clips using the link below:

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Tuesday, 9/16 - Took Quiz 1 on the American Revolution-Dof I, and Bill of Rights.

Collect Packet #1.

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Monday, 9/15 - Continued to review the Bill of Rights, and worked on TLO court case worksheet.
 
QUIZ ON TUESDAY-9/16
 
Packet #1 (listed below) Collected on TUESDAY - 9/16
  1. Comparing North Amer. Colonization chart
  2. Stamp Act - Primary Source Documents
  3. Boston Massacre - Chart
  4. Battle of Lexington- Close Reading (with Sherlock Holmes symbol)
  5. Essay & Essay Outline - Should Colonists rebel against G.B.
  6. Dec of Ind - Attack the Text worksheets
  7. Creating a Government AND Amer. Founding Ideals worksheets
  8. Am. Rev. Comic Strip
  9. Ch. 2, Sect. 3 worksheet
  10. Analyzing Bill of Rights worksheet

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Friday, 9/9 - Worked on Analyzing the Bill of Rights worksheet.

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Thursday, 9/11 - Used Textbooks to complete Ch.2, Section 3 worksheet.  To be stamped tomorrow for homework.

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Wednesday, 9/10 - Used the "Defining America's Founding Ideas" PPT notes to fill in the definitions for 2 worksheets:
1) Defining America’s Founding Ideals
2) Creating the New Government
 
Students completed the worksheets for homework, to be stamped on Thursday.

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Tuesday, 9/8 - Reviewed the answers to the Declaration of Independence worksheet from Monday's assignment.
 
 

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Monday, 9/8 - Worked on the Declaration of Independence worksheet.  To be stamped tomorrow for homework. 
 
Viewed video clip of a dramatic reading of the Dec. of Ind.  by numerous actors.  See the link below:
 
 

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Friday, 9/5 -  Reviewed the instructions for completing the Historical Essay Outline.
Homework: Using the essay your partner wrote last night for homework, complete the Historical Essay Outline, in order to identify which components of the writing process students are already using in completing the writing assignment.  Stamp on Monday.

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Thursday, 9/4 - Focused on completing the 1st writing/ "essay" assignment for the year.  Use the information and documents previously examined in class to respond to the following prompt:
Should the colonists engage in a war for independence from Great Britain?
 
Your response should be a minimum of 1 page, and focus on a "Yes" or "No" answer, supported with details from the information we have covered up to this point.  This assignment will be used to assess your current essay-writing skills, and to determine what adjustments should be made in future writing assignments.
This assignment will be stamped tomorrow.

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Wednesday, 9/3 - Analyzed Primary Sources - Battle of Lexington worksheet w/ question, to be stamped tomorrow.

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Tuesday 9/2 - Used the Amer. Rev. Reading handout to complete the Amer. Rev. Comic Strip Worksheet, which will be stamped tomorrow.

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Friday, 8/29 - Group Presentations of Boston Massacre.
Finish viewing History Channel Video.  (see link to video on Weds. 8/27 assignment below).

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Thursday, 8/28 - Group work - Primary Sources of the Boston Massacre.  Groups present of Friday.

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Weds. 8/27 - Continued to examine tensions leading to the American Revolution.
- Began examination of the Boston Massacre.

This link will take you to the video clips I showed in class, from the History Channel series on the American Revolution:
 
The Revolution: Boston, Bloody Boston

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Tuesday 8/26 - Began reading The Road to the AmerRev handout.
  Complete the Stamp Act primary sources worksheet. Stamp on Weds.

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Monday 8/25 - Completed the Comparing North American Colonization worksheet, using the lecture notes from the Comparing Colonization PPT.
Stamp on Tuesday.
 

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Today we worked on...
  1. Review Course Syllabus - To be signed by Parents and Students for homework. See attachement
  2. "My Cousin Vinny" clip = situational appropriateness