Quarter 1 Assignments

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September 1
 Day One photos
Course syllabus review
Student information survey

Signed syllabus: Due ASAP
Get 3-Ring binder for class: Due ASAP
September 7
 Columbus carousel, slideshow, and notes
Columbus notes and paintings.ppt

Columbus background notesheet.doc
September 8
 Continue Columbus slideshow notes
Read children's story about Columbus: Follow the Dream
Howard Zinn reading on Columbus
Columbus reflection.doc

Columbus Day reflection: Due Monday, September 12
September 12
 Collect Columbus Day reflections
Introduction to the unit
Two current event news clips:
Arizona immigration law
Alabama immigration law
Unit vocabulary:
immigration terms.ppt

Slideshow note sheet:
immigration terms.doc

Immigration opinion activity:
Immigration Opinion check.doc
September 14
 Immigration Facts and Statistics:
Immigration Facts and Statistics blank.doc

Immigration Facts and Statistics filled in.doc
September 15
 Immigration: How do we choose who to let in?
Current immigration policy reading and questions:
Immigration Policy Today.doc

Quiz study guide: Prepare for quiz on Monday
Immigration today quiz study guid.doc
September 19
 Quiz today - you can use the study guide you prepared
Early immigration slideshow and notes
Early Immigration .ppt
Early Immigrants notesheet empty.doc
September 21
 Indentured Servant contract
Continue Early Immigration notes
Middle Passage reading
September 22
 Fajita Grill current event: Video clip
Middle Passage reading (link above)
Finish Early Immigrant notes
Begin "Massacre at Mystic" video
September 26
 Finish "Massacre at Mystic" video
Video follow up discussion and questions:
Pequot War video notes and questions.doc

Assign Early Immigrant Journal Project:
Early Immigration Journal assignment.doc


Life in Early American colonies resources:
Daily Life
Life in the 13 American Colonies
PBS "Liberty: Daily Life in the Colonies"
Life in Plymouth Colony
Women in the New England Colonies
First-hand account of the Mayflower voyage
Life on a Virginia plantation
Daily life of a slave
Passage to America
Colonial House "Myth-Conceptions" quiz
September 28
 Continue working on Early Immigrant Journal project
Due dates: Wednesday, October 5 (at the beginning of class)
September 29
 Continue working on Early Immigrant Journal project
Due dates: Wednesday, October 5 (at the beginning of class)
October 3
 Continue working on Early Immigrant Journal project
Due dates: Wednesday, October 5 (at the beginning of class)
October 5
 Early Immigrant Journal Project due today
Tidy up loose ends
October 6
 Immigration in the mid-1800's: Reasons #4 and #5
Immigration reasons 4 and 5.doc

Irish immigration:
The Irish Potato Famine.doc

German immigration:
Immigration and the German Revolution.doc

Watch selected scenes from "Gangs of New York"
October 13
 Nativism term and quote
"Gangs of New York" questions and discussion
Gangs of New York response slip.doc

Work on quiz study for QUIZ ON MONDAY:
Early immigration quiz study guideB.doc
October 17
 Early immigration quiz
Ellis Island slideshow and notes:
Ellis Island Lecture Notes.doc
Ellis Island slideshow note sheet.doc
October 19
 Finish Ellis Island slideshow
October 20
 Late 1800's immigration political cartoons
October 24
 Timeline of immigration laws notes
History of Immigration law notesheet (filled in).doc

Melting pot/salad bowl notes and assignment:
Melting pot vs. salad bowl - standard filled in.doc
October 26
 Finish melting pot/salad bowl drawings
Quiz corrections due
Ancestry assignment #1:
Ancestry assignment 1.doc
October 27
 Read/discuss 2007 Immigration Bill
October 31
 Begin Immigration Policy Project
November 2
 Continue work on Policy Project
November 3
 Continue work on Policy Project: PROJECT DUE ON MONDAY, NOV. 7