Assimilation Assignment

Assimilation Assignment

Task:

1.     Read through the two readings on assimilation. Underline and annotate important things.

2.     Log onto the Google Form emailed to your Lindbergh Gmail account and answer the questions

DUE: MONDAY—11/4/13

**NOTE: Reading Two, “A Short History of the Indians of the U.S.” is stapled incorrectly.

Native American Unit Schedule and Resource List

10/21--Introduction to Native Americans: KWL, French and Indian War Review

10/22--Colonial Conflicts

10/23--Work on Unit Projects

10/24--Trail of Tears

10/25--Westward Expansion and the Sand Creek Massacre

10/28--Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

10/29--Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

10/30--Library day; Assimilation Discussion Board

10/31--Counseling Day

11/1--NO SCHOOL

11/4--Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee discussion; QUIZ

11/5--Code talking in WWII

11/6--American Indian Movement and Current Preservation

11/7--Presentations

11/8--Presentations/Review

11/11--TEST

Due Dates:
-KWL check points: 10/29, 11/8
-Unit Project: 11/7
-Assimilation Discussion board: 11/4
-Quiz: 11/4
-TEST: 11/11
-STUDY GUIDE: 11/11

Book page resource list
Colonial Conflicts: 85-89, 126
Indian Removal Act: 252
Trail of Tears: 252
Westward Expansion: 301, 496-504
American Indian Movement: 1031

Native American Unit KWL

 Second and Fourth hour did a great job coming up with the K (know) and W (want to know) columns for their Native American Unit KWL. They are hard at work each day filling up the L (learned) column with all of the new things they are learning.

Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears Assignment

DUE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013

1. Watch the video at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJUIaHQjD8&feature=youtu.be

2. Answer the five questions at the beginning of the video. Bring your answers to class. We will be discussing the questions and then you will be turning in the questions.

3. Enjoy!

Directions for the New Deal Video Lecture

Before class on Thursday you will:
1. Watch the lecture on the New Deal
2. Watch the short video over the criticisms of the New Deal
3. Take notes over the videos
4. Prepare to evaluate the successes and the failures of the New Deal

In class on Thursday you will:
1. Write a five-paragraph essay evaluating the successes and the failures of the New Deal.

Schedule for the rest of the Quarter

Here is the schedule for the rest of the quarter. Please note that this is subject to change. 

10/1: Review the boom and the bust cycle; Causes of the Great Depression

HOMEWORK: New Deal video lecture: 
New Deal criticisms video 


10/2: Franklin Roosevelt

10/3: New Deal in-class essay

HOMEWORK: Document Analysis

10/4: Life during the Great Depression

10/7: Legacy of the New Deal; Review for test

DUE: Document Analysis

10/8: UNIT 1B TEST 

10/9: WWII Economy

10/10: The 1950's

10/11: The 1960's
HOMECOMING

10/14: 1970's and Reaganomics

10/15: Today's Economy

10/16: Review

10/17: UNIT 1C TEST 

10/18: Practice EOC
EARLY RELEASE; END OF QUARTER

9.23.13 Economic Policies of the Progressive Presidents

Essential Questions: How did the Progressive Era increase the regulatory power of the federal government? Task: Fill out graphic organizer of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson's economic policies. Read an excerpt from "The Jungle."