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“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”

Folders will be turned in at the end of the Semester.
Folders missing any assignments or parts of assignments, and that are not in order, will not be counted for 20% on the Final.
SEMESTER ONE
Reading Guide I
Reading Guide II
Reading Guide III
Reading Guide IV
Reading Guide V
SEMESTER TWO
Reading Guide VI
Reading guide VII
reading guide VIII
reading guide ix


Reading Guide I Folder Assignments
​Folders missing any assignments or parts of assignments will not be counted.

#1. mrginn.com website search worksheet.
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​#2.  Colonial Comparison Chart


#3.  Lecture Notes:  Expanding Colonial America Lecture

#4a.  Only for Periods 5&6--Colonial Slave Trade Data

#4b.  Colonial Social Pyramid

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​​#5.  William Byrd's Secret Diary, Reading

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#6.  Lecture Notes:  Life and Thought in Colonial America


​#7a.  Periods 1-5 Only--Errors in Development Worksheet

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​#7b.  Thematic Objectives and Concepts, Reading Guide II. 
Period 6-Terms & Names.



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Reading Guide II Folder Assignments 
 
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#8a.  College Prep. Only.  Worksheet 2.1


#8b.  Lecture Notes:  The Road to Revolution.


​#9.  Lives of the American Revolution Jigsaw Answers, Periods 1-5; Worksheet 2.2, Period 6


#10.  
The Radicalism of the American Revolution, By Gordon Wood.  Periods 1-5 Only.  Reading and Questions. This
does not count for Period 6!

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#11.  The Articles of Confederation.



#12.  The Constitution & Compromise.





#13.  The Federalist Period.  Lecture Notes


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#14.  Are you a Federalist or Democratic-Republican? 


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#14b.  6th Period Only.  Worksheet 2.4.


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Reading Guide III Folder Assignments


#15.  Jeffersonian Hypocracy?




​#16.  Causes of the War of 1812


​#17. The War of 1812 in the Chesapeake: video, map exploration, and after action report.

​#18. The Era of Good Feeling Lecture Notes




#19. AP-
Alexis de Tocqueville's On Democracy in America Reading and Questions;  CP Periods 5 & 6:  Actively Learn-The Rise of the Common Man.  This is online, and does not need to be
in the folder



#20.  Davy Crocket Notes-Bonus point for anyone having them.  The video is under Reading Guide III Lesson Links.  This is a bonus item.


#21.  Periods 1-5, Errors in Neutrality and National Security Worksheet.  Period 6, Worksheet 3.1

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#21b.  Period 5 & 6 Only.  The Market Revolution.  Write down the best choices for each of the five individuals to have their best life.


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#22.  John Marshall's Court Decisions, Periods 1-5, Worksheet 3.2, Period 6.


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​#23. Clay's American System.





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​#24.  Sectionalism Map.






#25.  "The Lady and the Mill Girl" Reading, AP Periods 1-5.  Worksheet 3.4, CP Periods 5 & 6 only.




​#26.  Antiquity and its Influence on the Founding Fathers.
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Reading Guide IV Folder Assignments 
#27.  The Age of the Common Man and Reform Diagram. Choose a reformer from each column, answer the questions, and complete a Diagram.  Period 6 Only, Worksheet 3.5










​#28.  "Slavery as a Positive Good."
Period 6 Only:  Slavery Timeline, 1619-1850









#29.  Slavery and Expansion, Lecture



​#30.  Sectional Crisis Simulation


#31.  Decade of Controversy & Crisis, 1850-1860 Lecture






#32.  Periods 1-5:  Online Progress Check, Unit 4 Answers.  Period 6:  Worksheet 4.1 answers.








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Reading Guide V Folder Assignments
​​#33.  Reconstruction Lecture.
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Semester Two
​Reading Guide VI Assignments
#1.  Rating the Gilded Age Presidents​. 




​#2.  Factors of Industrialization.




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#3. Monopoly. 



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​​#4. Online Assignment.

​All Periods, Monday, January 9:
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Actively Learn:  A Rush of Immigrants
(Assignments-Reading Guides and Lesson Links-Semester Two-Scroll down under Reading Guide VI.)
​Take your time, this will be graded!
​Make sure to click on the correct period!

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​#5.  Immigration Timeline.
All Periods, Tuesday, January 10:
Assignment #5.
​For each of the time period on the website, list the following:
Which groups of people came to America?
What caused these groups to come?
What were the results of their immigration?
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#6.  Labor in the Gilded Age Wednesday, Jan. 12

AP Students:
Watch the two AP videos (6.7 & 6.7b).  Take notes for this assignment.
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​CP Students:  Worksheets 6.3 & 6.4 



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​#7.  The Organized Assault on Laissaz-Faire


Thursday, January 13.  All Periods.
Assignment #7: 
Make the pdf chart below on a piece of paper.  Use the internet to fill in the chart information, and answer the final question at the bottom of the sheet.




​#8.
 Lecture Notes.  Urbanization and Its Impact on American Society, 1860-1900.





​#9.  All Periods (1/20/22): Industrialization and African-Americans, located under Reading Guide VI, complete both Actively learn assignments online.  Then, on a piece of paper explain the differences in ideas and efforts of Washington and Dubois.
Today's quiz will be combined with the next quiz on the 19th.  I will be back tomorrow for the lecture.



#10.  All Periods (1/21/22): Complete the following Actively Learn Assignment about the Dawes Act by clicking on your class (The Act that attempted to assimilate Native-Americans into American society).  Then, watch the following video to see how the Act affected Native Americans (Use your earphones).  There will be questions on the next test about the video.




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​#11.  The Last Frontier lecture.



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​#12.  Inflation/Deflation Chart, Periods 1, 3, & 4

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​​Reading Guide VII Assignments
#13.  CIA World Fact Book Web Search Worksheet.



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#14.  Map 57.  The Spanish-American War.



​#15.  The Path to Empire, Lecture Notes.

Assignment #16 (1/3/22):
AP Periods 1-5.  Complete Unit 6 Progress Check (links below).  This will be graded.
CP Periods 5 & 6.  Complete the worksheets 10.3 & 10.4 on a piece of paper to be turned in to the sub.(files at right).  This will be graded.



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​#17.  Muckraking in the Jungle/Progressivism Chart.






​#18.  Great War Entry Chart.





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#19.  Online.  
The Treaty of Versailles and The League of Nations Actively Learn Assignment.




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​#20. 2/17/22.  AP:  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. PDF with Questions.  CP:  Worksheet 11.3.




#21.  AP ONLY.  Video 7.2.


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​Reading Guide VIII Assignments
#22.  Themes Worksheet, AP Only
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#23.  "When the Negro was en Vogue"  Reading and Questions(AP); Chapter 12, Section Definitions (CP)






​#24.  The Era of Normalcy Lecture Notes



​#25.  The New Deal Lecture Notes 



#26.  CP ONLY.  Complete the Chapter 15.1 worksheet on a piece of paper.
#27.  3/14/22, Actively Learn.  The New Deal and Minorities.

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#27.  1930s Entertainment.
#28.  American Neutrality in the 1930s and 1940s
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​Reading Guide IX Assignments 
AP Daily Videos Required
#29.  The American Dream Lecture.




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#30.  Cold War Lecture.

#31.  Online AP Only Assignment.  Unit 7 Progress Check
#32.  All Students.  The Other America.
#33.  AP students only.  New Frontier/Great Society Chart.
#34. All Students.  Civil Rights Movement Time Line.  Use the "A Time For Justice" Video (Reading Guide IX) to complete the assignment. 
#35.  All Periods.  The Other Movements of the 1960s and 1970s Chart.
#36.  Review Vocabulary.  Students taking an AP test on Tues. May 3 do not have to complete this assignment.

#37.  Two Days in October video notes.  AP students are not responsible for notes on days they are testing.


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Reading Guide X Assignments 
#38.  Elvis-Innocence & Rebellion video notes.
AP Daily Videos Required
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