12/19

2Pager: The Crash of 1929

Great Depression Presentation

http://prezi.com/_tm3fenpamih/the-great-depression/

We are going to concentrate on this material this week.  Please review the presentation when you can.

12/8

We will be having a vocab quiz on Tuesday, December 13.  Study the 'Roaring 20s' prezi.

11/29

Discuss and read together 2Pager on Red Scare.

Follow on fb

If you have a Facebook account, follow class by liking Meldon's American History page.

Short vocab quiz tomorrow.

Presentation

http://prezi.com/814ldmss_oqw/imperialism-and-wwi/

11/14- Imperialism and WWI

Discussion of Terms (PowerPoint)


http://prezi.com/7ttosbdxkknw/copy-of-imperialism-and-wwi/


-same as term on packet
- Quiz Friday

Out due to Paternity Leave (tentative schedule below)

• 10/26-  Vocabulary (packet)
• 10/27- Vocabulary cont. (packet)
• 10/28- Video- Murder at The Fair (10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America)
• 10/31- Read 2Pager:Spanish American War and write response (packet)
• 11/1-  Finish Summary and create a timeline using 5 most important dates (student chooses) on large white sheets (on their own)
• 11/2-  Read 2Pager: Panama Canal/ Roosevelt Corollary and answer question sheet
• 11/3-  All Quiet on Western Front Video
• 11/4- All Quiet on Western Front Video
• 11/7- Finish video and have students write summary
• 11/8- Read 2Pager:Lusitania and answer essay
• 11/9- Read 2Pager:WWI before US and 2Pager:WWI with US.  They need to ‘actively read’ (i.e. underline and define). 

10/18

I will be out the next 2 days.  I will be at a conference in Columbus.

10/18- 2Pager: Hull House and Progressivism

10/19- Book work on Imperialism

10/20- Video on Imperialism

10/21- Quiz- Populist or Progressive?  Multiple Choice

10/13

Presidential Video.
Understand the Progressive Politics of T. Roosevelt and Taft.

10/12

Review Vocabulary Quiz
Discuss 2pager:Populists questions
Discuss 2Pager: What was the Cross of Gold?

10/11

Quiz Day.

2pager: Populists Questions 

10/10

Discuss Vocabulary for Populism/Progressive Unit

Quiz Tomorrow.

10/6

Discuss Homestead Act, Indian Wars, Cattle, and Cowboys

Also, start discussion on new unit vocabulary (Populism and Progressivism)

10/5

2Pager: The Wild West Questions
I will model first question and how I expect you to go through the process.

No weekly assignment this week.

9/29

Vocabulary Review Discussion
Brooklyn Bridge Video

Understand the Importance of Steel and the Innovations that came in the Gilded Age

9/28

Continue 2Pager: Labor in the Gilded Age Reading
Answer 2Pager Questions

Understand the working conditions in the Gilded Age

9/27

Agenda:
2Pager: Labor in the Gilded Age- Read quietly
Discuss

Understand the working conditions during the Gilded Age including child labor.  Also understand why Unions were started.

9/23

The Triangle Fire Video

9/22

Homestead Strike Video

9/21

Agenda:

• 2Pager: Immigration questions

Objective:  Understand Immigration during Gilded Age

9/20

Agenda: Discuss 2Pager on Immigration
Objective:  Understand the reason for immigration to America as well as life situations for the immigrants

9/19

Agenda: Discuss videos in video link section to understand Gilded Age
Objective:  Understand the impact of the Industrial Revolution on society

Homework:  ACTIVELY READ the 2Pager: Immigration in Gilded Age

9/16

Great week!  Make sure you turn in your weekly assignment!

Quiz day.

9/15

Vocabulary Discussion on Gilded Age

 Short Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow...Weekly Assignments due by midnight tomorrow.

9/12-- New Unit-- "The Gilded Age"

Now that you know how class works, make the most of it and do your best!

Great job on our first unit, now keep it up.  Don't forget what you learned though!

Agenda:  Gilded Age Vocabulary Power Point Discussion/ Notes

Objective:  Understand the essential vocabulary for unit.

9/8

Agenda:

• Finish 2Pager: Reconstruction reading and discussion
• Review Vocab

Objective:  Review the Reconstruction Era content

End of unit quiz tomorrow....STUDY!

9/7

Agenda:

• Name Game!  I need to learn a few of your names still.  We are going to take a few minutes to allow me to get to know all of you a little more.  
• Review Jim Crow Laws
• Read over 2Pager: Reconstruction

Objective: Understand the Reconstruction Era

9/6

http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm

Please go to the link above and read about the Jim Crow Laws/ Black Codes.

Take notes in your notebook on reading.

Read 2Pager: Reconstruction for Thursday discussion

9/2

Another great week.  Great job everyone!  Keep it up.

Agenda:

• Finish writing assignments from Wednesday.
• You may work on 'weekly assignment' 

9/1 Reconstruction cont.

Agenda:  View and Discuss History Channel Documentary, 'Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War'

Objective:  Understand the Reconstruction Era and the conflicts that arose in it.

FYI: 
13th Amendment = Jan 1865
14th Amendment = July 1868
15th Amendment = Feb 1870

8/31

Agenda:

• Writing assignment on Moodle ('Freed Slaves' Response)

Objective:  Understand the immediate impact of freedom on freedmen after the Civil War.

Need FOLDERS and NOTEBOOKS TOMORROW.

8/30 Quiz Day

Agenda:

• Take Vocab Quiz
• Discuss 2Pager

Objective:
Understand the immediate effects of freedom.

You MUST have a Notebook and Folder for class by THURSDAY.

8/29 Here's To A New Week...

Weekly Assignment DUE Friday at Midnight! (On Moodle- see me by THURSDAY if problems) 

 

Agenda:

• Review Vocab
• New Vocab
• Assignment-- Read 'Freed Slaves' 2Pager tonight

Objective:
To understand the 'immediate impact of the 13, 14, 15th Amendments'

QUIZ TOMORROW on VOCABULARY.

Aug 26

Great week so far everyone!

Agenda:

• Review our words from yesterday (Reconstruction, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, Freedman's Bureau, Radical Republicans, Share Cropper, Plessy v. Ferguson)
• Read our first 2-pager. (See the 2-pager section if you need a copy.)

  Objective: To understand Reconstruction and the many attributes that made the era unique.

I am truly excited to be here with you this year. For those of you that do not know me from Rapid Run, this will be my 5th year in this great district and my first year at Oak Hills. I am an Oak Hills graduate myself and I am very proud of my Alma mater. I currently live in Loveland with my wife and daughter and I have a little boy on the way...sometime in late October/early November. I look forward to getting to know and work with all of you. This class will be challenging, but it will also be fun and interesting. If you put forth the effort you will do great.
Here's to a great year...

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