Tools for the School Year

Cornell Notes (PowerPoint)

Cornell Notes formatted paper (excel)

Cornell Notes formatted paper – Big lined (excel)

Cornell Notes formatted paper – College Ruled (excel)

Themes in History Presentation (Prezi)

What is History handout (pdf)

What is a Thesis Statement (doc)

Thesis Statements – a How to (pdf)

Media Matters 2011 (doc)

How to Write a Historical Essay (doc)

Quarter 1 – Assignments

Pictures say 1000 words (doc)

North American Native Population and Culture Project 2011 (doc)

• List of Native Tribes – Alphabetical (doc)

Same, yet Different – American Migration Theory (doc)

• Cornell Note pages 16-19 in the American Journey Textbook
• Nova Online: Mystery of the First American Website

How Were Europeans able to Conquer America

• Pre-Columbian American Civilizations (pdf)
  

• Pre-Columbian Europe (pdf)
  

• Ptolemy Map of Known World, ca. 150AD

Discovery, 1492 – 1608

• Motives of Exploration
  

• Primary Source Maps for Exploration of the America’s 1400′s – 1570
  

• Transatlantic Encounters reading (pdf)

• Transatlantic Encounters Questions (doc)
• Flag Diplomacy Video (YouTube)
• Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress by Howard Zinn
• A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomeda Las Casas (a primary source document)
  

English Colonization in the America’s

• England’s Desire for American Colonization
• Jamestown Online Adventure
• Roanoke Island
• Boundaries and Charters of Virginia
• Bounderies and Charters of Virginia Questions
• A Nightmare in Jamestown Video
• The New World – Nightmare in Jamestown Video questions
• John Rolfe and Tobacco Reading
  
• John Rolfe and Tobacco Questions
• Adventure Tales – Plymouth Colony Pilgrims, 1620
• Adventure Tales – Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630
• Massachusetts Bay Colony Questions for Adventure Tales
• Native Americans Resist Colonial Expansion
• King Philips War – London Gazette August 19, 1675
• Massacre at Mystic video

• The Introduction of Cheap Labor in the Colonies

• 1619 – Virginia Seeds of Democracy and Capitalism (Adventure Tales)
• Drawing the Color Line (Howard Zinn)
• Indentured Servitude Packet
  
• Opportunity Cost ~ Incentives ~ Labor Market Notes

Quarter 2 Assignments

• American Colonial Diversity Project
• Bacon’s Rebellion – Americas First Civil War Questions
  
• The Navigation Act of 1651
  
• The Creation of a New America – Chesapeake Society in Crises
• Colonial America, 1676 – Bacon’s Rebellion
• The Navigation Act 1651 – Primary Source Document
  
• The 1621 Thanksgiving – Primary Source
• Slavery and Racism
• Slavery and Racism Outline Information
• Slavery by the Numbers
• Slavery by the Numbers Questions
• The Agricultural South in Colonial Times
• The Agricultural South
• The Commercial North in Colonial Times
• The Commercial North in Colonial Times

Road to Revolution

• France Challenges England Reading
• France Challenges England Questions
• French Invade British Territory, War Looms
• “Join, or Die.” Reading
• General Braddock Defeated
• French and Indian War PP
• Fort Carillon PP
• Pontiac’s Rebellion
• An Intellectual Revolution
  
• Burning Down the House – The Stamp Act of 1765
• A letter from Charles Thomson to Benjamin Franklin, November 26, 1769
• The Bloody Massacre Engraving by Paul Revere
• Bullets and Broadsides
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
• The Insurrection Begins through Primary Documents instructions
• Longfellow Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• Paul Revere Midnight Ride – Personal Account 1775
• Letter from Charles Thomson to George Washington – Building of Army 1775
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, c.1775
  
• Letter to Henry Knox for Ticonderoga Cannons
  
• The Olive Branch Petition
• The Virginia Declaration of Rights
• Moving Towards Independence and the Declaration
• The Revolutionary War: An Overview
• American Indians and the American Revolution Questions
• American Indians and the American Revolution Reading
• The American Revolution – In Summary
• George Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze (1851)
• Benedict Arnold: American Hero Reading
• Benedict Arnold: American Hero Questions
• The Constitutional Convention, 1787 Questions
• James Madison’s Missing Notes
  
• Life without the Bill of Rights
• The Role of the National Government
• Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities
• The First President and the Nations Early Challenges
• The Election of 1796
• The Quasi War with France
• Marine insurance rates and the Quasi War
• Chapter 10 – Growth and Expansion
• The Jacksonian Era
• As Long as Grass Grows and Water Runs Zinn questions
• Indian Removal Zinn Reading
• Nationalism vs Sectionalism
• The Oregon Country
• Independence for Texas
• War with Mexico and the Californian Gold Rush
  

Facebook Tracker: follow along with the discussion If you do not have a Facebook account, this will allow you to follow along without needing an account or log-in.

All Media Matters Due Friday

 Assignments are listed from Old to New (Top to Bottom)