Days+1-20

Introductory lecture: The economic transformation of America because of geography Edsitement ||  ||   || [|Edsitement] || * -The geology of the New World. -Native Americans before Colombus Essay writing techniques [|Edsitement] || * First homework essay: AFTER SCHOOL study team discussion of assigned essay ||  ||
 * ~ Day || Topic || Material/ Reading/Homework/Assignments || Assessments ||
 * 1 || Discuss disclosure statement, reading list, vocabualry note cards.
 * 2 || New World Beginnings
 * -Europeans and Africans
 * -The search for a water route to Asia
 * -Colombus and the early explorers
 * -The ecological consequences of Collumbus's discovery.
 * -Spain Builds a New World Empire,
 * -Introduction to slavery
 * -The rise of Mercantilism
 * Review AP Survival Guide, essay direction and transition words, sample rubric || Chapter One quiz-The New World. ||
 * 3 || Spanish Colonization in Americas
 * "The discovery of America resulted from developments in Europe. most notably (a) the Crusades, (b) the Renaissance, (c) the rise of Absolute monarchs ruling national states, and (d)the rise of the New Merchant."
 * 4 || The Planting of English America || * -The Planting of English America
 * The Chesapeake and Southern English Colonies
 * Ties with Caribbean Economies
 * British Mercantilism
 * England on the eve of colonization || Chapter 2 Quiz ||
 * 5 || Settling of Northern Colonies || Group Review of Essay Question ||  ||
 * 6 || American Life in the Seventeenth Century

Salem Witch Trials [|Edsitement]

Digital History [|Government in England and the colonies] || * Self Start: The Mayflower Compact and the social contract theory Quiz 3 || Exam Review || Quiz 4 || Chapter 1-4 The Exam will include both multiple choice and essay questions || Frederick Jackson Turner and the Frontier Thesis || * Colonial society on the eve of the Revolution Read: Thomas Paine's //Common Sense// AFTER SCHOOL GROUP: class review of Exam one || Quiz 5 || AFTER SCHOO GROUP: study teams review and reflection on //Common Sense// ||  || The Road to Revolution 1763-1775 || * Duel for North America Jefferson's notes on the debates over the Declaration 1776 Essay #2: Was the American Revolution Revolutionary? || Quiz 7 || Self Start: Locke Milton readings on beign a tyrant AFTER SCHOOL GROUP: review of chapters 5-8 || Quiz 8 || (There will be a few questions from the material covered in exam #1). The exam will include multiple choice questions and two free response questions. || //Homework:// On line convention assignment for tomorrow || ignment || AFTER SCHOOL GROUPS: completion of on-line Covention assignment. (Teaching AMerica History, Gordon Lloyd) || Quiz 9 || DBQ comparing the policies and politics of Jefferson and Adams DUE NEXT CLASS PERIOD || Quiz 11 ||
 * New England and the Puritan Colonies
 * Religious dissent
 * Colonial politics
 * Conflict with British authority
 * The MIddle Colonies || Essay Due
 * The MIddle Colonies || Essay Due
 * 7 ||  || Group Review of essay one
 * 8 ||  ||   || EXAM ONE
 * 9 || Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
 * Immigration and demographic change
 * The Atlantic Economy
 * The Great Awakening
 * Education and Culture
 * Colonial politics
 * 10 || Duel for North America 1608-1763 || Self Start: Test taking skills
 * 11 || Revolution, WHY?
 * Colonial involvement in British imperial wars
 * The French and Indian War
 * The Proclamation of 1763 || Quiz 6 ||
 * 12 || America Secedes from the Empire Part 1 (1775-1783) || Self start: Jefferson's letter to Richard Henry Lee 1825
 * The Road to Revolution
 * Roots of Revolution and the role of Mercantilism
 * End of Benign Neglect
 * Failure of Diplomacy
 * First Conflicts
 * 13 || America Secedes from the Empire Part 2 (1776-1783) || Essay Due
 * America secedes from the Empire
 * The American Revolution
 * Wartime diplomacy
 * Life on the home front
 * Women and the war
 * The impact of the war on the institution of slavery
 * 14 || EXAM # 2 ||  || EXAM #2 on chapters 5-8
 * 15 || Confederation and the Constitution Part 1 || Self starts: IN class readings from the //Tempest at Dawn//
 * 16 || Confederation and the Constitution Part 2 || Self Start: selected readings from, //The Essential Anti-federalist,// (Allen and Lloyd)
 * Federalist-Anti-federalist debate
 * 17 || Launching the New Ship of State || Self Start: selected readings from //The Founders Constitution,// (Kurland and Lerner)
 * Washington and Adams administrations
 * DBQ on the Fedralist/Anti-Federalist debates
 * The Ratifying Conventions ||  ||
 * 18 || The Triumphs and Travails of the Jefferson Republic Part 1 || Self Start: Washington's Farewell address and it's modern implications
 * Launching the new ship of states
 * Early national politics and economics
 * Diplomacy during the French Revolution
 * The making o the office of the presedency
 * Jefferson/Adams views on the role of government || Quiz 10 ||
 * 19 || The Triumphs and Travails of the Jefferson Republic Part 2 || Self Start: selected Jefferson to Adams and Adams to Jefferson letters at variou times throughout their lives.
 * Triumphs and travails of the Jeffersonian Democracy
 * The Revolution of 1800
 * The Marshall Court and expansion of national power
 * The diplomacy of Jefferson and Madison
 * The Embargo Act
 * The Acceleration of Western Expansion
 * The Jefferson Administration summary and impact
 * 20 || The Second War for Independence and the upsurge of Nationalism (1812-1824) || Self Start: The Monroe Doctrine
 * The Madison Administration
 * The Monroe Administration
 * John Quincy Adams Administration ||  ||