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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 Quarter.
Your folder will include all "Folder Only" Assignments.
Semester One
Semester Two


Reading Guide I Assignments (Weeks of 12 & 19)
  • Assignment 1
  • Assignment 2
  • Assignment 3
  • Assignment 4​
  • Assignment 5
  • Assignment  6 
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Due 10/13.  Conflicting Spanish Views:  Compare and Contrast Las Casas vs Sepulveda excerpts.  The document is under Reading Guide I on the Semester One Lesson Links page.  In a paragraph, describe the differences between the two views, and turn it in via Google Classroom.
Due 10/18.  This week's reading.  Google Document notes for Chapters 2 & 3 (AP); Chapters 1.1-1.3 (CP). To be turned in via Google Classroom.
Week of October 12 (Folder Only). Differences among the European North American Colonies.  Distance Learners and others:  Write a one page description of the differences among the Spanish, English, and French colonies, using the reading for the week.  This item is only for your folder, and not to be turned in via Google Classroom, but to be turned in at the end of the Quarter.  
Due Wednesday, 10/21.  Unearthing Secret America. Watch this video (on Semester I Lesson Links Page, under Reading Guide I) to answer the questions below.  This is to be turned in via Google Classroom, in any form.

1.  Why is it unfair to say the colonists at Jamestown were lazy?
2.  Why was it that the English had such a hard time getting their first
    colony started (It has to do with the Ancient Cyprus trees.)

3.  What is a sub-floor pit?  
4.  Why are these pits important?
5.  Describe what sub-floor pits tell us about slave life?
6.  What happens at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, today?


Folder Only. Formal Lecture:  Life and Thought in Colonial America (This is located on the Lesson Links Page, Semester One, under Reading Guide I. If you miss this lecture,  Answer the questions on the slides, using the textbook, and place the notes in your class folder.
Due 10/25.  This week's reading.  Google Document notes for Chapters 4 & 5 (AP); Section Assessment Questions 1-4 for both Sections 1.1 & 1.2. (CP). To be turned in via Google Classroom.

Reading Guide II Assignments (Weeks of Oct. 6 & Nov. 2)
  • Assignment 7 
  • Assignment 8 
  • Assignment 9
  • Assignment 10
  • Assignment 11
  • Assignment 12
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10/26.  Lecture:  The Road to Revolution. Folder Only. If you miss this lecture, answer the questions on the slides using the video (listed under Reading Guide II, on the Links page) and the Textbook. 
Due 10/28.  Causes of the American Revolution, Actively Learn Assignment.  On the Links Page, go to Reading Guide II and scroll down to find the assignment and the links for your class.  Answer all questions online.  
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Due 11/01. Reading Notes, Chapters 7 & 8 (AP), Chapter 2.1 & 2.2 (CP)
11/2.  The Federalist Period Lecture. Folder Only (This goes in your class folder, to be turned in at the end of the Quarter.) If you miss the lecture,  The video is on the Links Page, under the title , under Reading Guide II.  Answer the questions on the slides, using the textbook. ​
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Due 11/4. Was Our Revolution Revolutionary?
Go to the Links Page, First Semester.  Scroll down to find the assignment title under Reading Guide II.  Click on your period.  This assignment is done online through Actively Learn.

​Due 11/08. Reading Notes, Chapters 9 & 10 (AP), Chapter 2.3 & 2.4 (CP).  Use Google Documents and turn the notes in via Google Classroom.
Reading Guide III Assignments (Weeks of November 9 & 16)
  • Assignment 13
  • Assignment 14
  • Assignment 15
  • Assignment 16
  • Assignment 17
  • Assignment 18
  • Assignment 19​
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Due 11/11. The Jefferson Presidency
Go to the Links Page, First Semester.  Scroll down to find the assignment title under Reading Guide III.  Click on your period's button.  The Code is on the button.  This assignment is done online through Actively Learn.
11/9-11/13.  Lecture:  The Era of Good Feeling.  This is a Folder Only assignment, to be kept until checked at the end of the Quarter.  If you miss the lecture or are Distance Learning, Answer the questions on the slide, using the textbook and keep the paper, numbered 
Due 11/13.  LEQ (Long Essay Question).  AP Only.  To be turned in via google classroom with Google Doc's.  Prompt:  How well did the Federalists lead the United States from 1789-1800.  Use your notes from our last lecture on the Federalist Era to write a timed essay of 40 minutes.  Be honest, to s​imulate the AP test.  The grading will be forgiving.
11/15. Reading Notes in Google Documents to be turned into Google Classroom:  Chapters 11 & 12 (AP), Chapter 3.1 (CP)
11/16.  Sectionalism Chart.  Folder Only.  Zoom meeting. 

If you do not attend our Zoom meeting, write a page explaining the many differences between the North and South in the pre-Civil War period, to be numbered and included in your class folder.  
Due 11/18. On Democracy in America.
Go to the Links Page, First Semester.  Scroll down to find the assignment title under Reading Guide III. 

AP-Click on your class button to answer the five questions.  This is to be turned in via Google Documents and Google Classroom.

CP-Click on your class button to complete this Actively Learn, online assignment.  
11/22. Reading Notes in Google Documents to be turned into Google Classroom:  Chapters 13 & 14 (AP), Chapter 3.2 & 3.4 (CP)
Reading Guide IV Assignments(Weeks of November 30 & December 7) 
  • Assignment 20
  • Assignment 21
  • Assignment 22​
  • Assignment 23
  • Assignment 24​
  • Assignment 25​
  • Assignment 26
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​Due 11/29.  Antebellum Reformers.  This Actively Learn assignment is listed under Reading Guide IV on the Lesson Links page (First Semester).  Scroll down to find it.  Click on your class and use the Class Code to complete the assignment online.   
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​12/2.  Slavery as a Positive Good-the Southern Argument. This Actively Learn assignment is listed under Reading Guide IV on the Lesson Links page (First Semester).  Scroll down to find it.  Click on your class and use the Class Code to complete the assignment questions online.  

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Due 12/06. Reading Notes:  Chapters 16 & 17 (AP), Chapter 3.3 & 4.1 (CP)
11/30. Lecture:  Expansion and Slavery Folder Only. If you miss this lecture, answer the questions on the slides using the video (listed under Reading Guide IV, on the Links page) and the Textbook. 
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 Due 12/13.  All students are to use Google Documents and Google Classroom to respond to the following question (Time yourself to write for 35 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes to brainstorm your response):  What three events of the 1850s most directly led to the Civil War, and why are these more important than others?  
Due, 12/11.  Folder Only.  Lecture:  Decade of Controversy. Assignment:  Answer the questions on the slides using the video on the Lesson Links page, under Reading Guide IV, and the textbook.
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12/13.  Reading Notes, Chapters 18 & 19 (AP), Chapter 4.2 & 4.3 (CP).  To be turned in via Google Classroom.
Reading Guide V Assignments
  • Assignment 27
  • Assignment 28
  • Assignment 29
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12/16.  Reconstruction Era Amendments and Their Legacy.  This is an Actively Learn assignment on the Links Page (Semester One), located under Reading Guide V.
Due 12/17. Reading Notes, Chapters 22(AP), Chapter 4.4 (CP), via Google Classroom.
Due by 12/17. Class Folder.  To get extra credit for your folder, you must turn in all the "Folder Only" assignments into Google Classroom.  Take a picture of the assignments, and turn them in using the link.

Semester Two
​Reading Guide VI Assignments (Weeks 1 and 2)
AP Only. Also Required are your Daily Videos.
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  • Assignment 1
  • Assignment 2
  • Assignment 3
  • Assignment 4
  • Assignment 5
  • Assignment 6
  • Assignment 7
  • Assignment 8
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​Due 1/11.  Actively Learn: Politics of the Gilded Age.  This assignment is located on the Reading Guide page, under Reading Guide VI.  This assignment is done online, using your class' code.
​Due Week of January 11.  Folder Only.  Factors of Industrialization.  Go to Factors of Industrialization, under Reading Guide VI on the Reading Guides & Lesson Links page.  Look up the factors listed and then organize them into 3 or 4 groups, on a piece of paper.   Group factors based on their similarities (your opinion). After grouping, write a sentence for each group, explaining what is similar about those factors. These groups will be used for a future timed writing. This also goes into your folder as Assignment #2, to be turned in at the end of the Quarter.
Due 1/15.  AP ONLY.  Click on the button to the right to complete the Unit 6 quiz.  You must already have a College Board password.
period 1
Period 3
period 5
​Due 1/17. Reading Notes, Chapters 23 & 24 (AP), Chapter 6 (CP), via Google Classroom, done in Google Doc's.
​Due 1/22.  Folder Only.  Lecture:  Urbanization:  Distance students answer the questions at the bottom of the main slides, using the video on the Lesson Links page (under Reading Guide VI) and the textbook.  Label your paper "Assignment 5."
Due 1/21.  Actively Learn: A Rush of Immigrants assignment is listed under Reading Guide VI on the Lesson Links page (Second Semester).  Scroll down to find it.  Click on your class and use the Class Code to complete the assignment online. ​
Due 1/22.  Actively Learn: The Dawes Act. The assignment is listed under Reading Guide VI on the Lesson Links page (Second Semester).  Scroll way down to find it.  Click on your class and use the Class Code to complete the assignment online. ​
​Due 1/24. Reading Notes, Chapters 25 & 26 (AP), Chapters 5 & 8 (CP), via Google Classroom, to be done in Google Doc's (This requires you to type your notes.
​​Reading Guide VII Assignments (Weeks 3 and 4)
AP Only. Also Required are your Daily Videos.
  •  Assignment 9
  • Assignment 10
  • Assignment 11
  • Assignment 12
  • Assignment 13
  • Assignment 14
  • Assignment 15
  • Assignment 16
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Due 1/26.  Actively Learn:  The Spanish-American War.  The assignment is listed under Reading Guide VII on the Lesson Links page (Second Semester).  Scroll way down to find it.  Click on your class and use the Class Code to complete the assignment online. ​
Due Week of 1/25.  Folder Only.  The Progressive Era Chart.  If you miss this Zoom assignment, you must create a chart that has examples of Progressivism (from your reading-AP Ch. 28 & 29; CP Ch. 9) for each of the 4 categories (Set up your chart using the example provided on the Reading Guides & Lesson Links page, under Reading Guide VII).
   
Due 1/28.  The Jungle. Folder Only Item. The assignment is listed under Reading Guide VII on the Lesson Links page (Second Semester).  Scroll way down to find it.  Click on and read the 3 documents to answer the questions listed to the right.  This assignment goes into your class folder as #11. 
​​Due 1/31. Reading Notes, Chapters 27 & 28 (AP), Chapter 9 (CP), via Google Classroom, to be done in Google Doc's (This requires you to type your notes.
Due 2/2.  Actively Learn: The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. The assignment is listed under Reading Guide VII on the Lesson Links page (Second Semester).  Scroll way down to find it.  Click on your class and use the Class Code to complete the assignment online. ​​
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Due 2/5.  DBQ (Document-Based Question).  To be turned in via google classroom with Google Doc's, TYPED. Period 5 is to use the "AP Period 5" link!  
Prompt: Evaluate the effectiveness of Progressive Era reformers in bringing about reform at the local/city level. In your answer be sure to analyze the successes and limitations of these efforts in the period 1890-1920.
​Use your Progressivism Chart and the documents provided below to write a timed essay of 60 minutes.  
Document 1
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Document 2.
Newspaper drawing of the Trial of the Triangle Shirt Waist Company owners, c. 1911-1912.
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​Due 1/7. Reading Notes, Chapters 29 & 30  (AP), Chapter 11 (CP), via Google Classroom, to be done in Google Doc's (This requires you to type your notes.
​Reading Guide VIII Assignments (Weeks 5 and 6)
Daily Videos Required (AP Only)
  • Assignment 17
  • Assignment 18
  • Assignment 19
  • Assignment 20
  • Assignment 21
  • Assignment 22
  • Headline 7
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Due 2/10.  Actively Learn:  Domestic and international politics of the 1920s.  The assignment is listed under Reading Guide VIII on the Lesson Links page (Second Semester).  Scroll way down to find it.  Click on your class and use the Class Code to complete the assignment online. ​​
Due Week of 2/15.  Folder Only.  "When the Negro was en Vogue." Answer the three questions, using the pdf under the above title, on Reading Guides & Lesson Links page, under Reading Guide VIII).  This assignment is #18 in your folder.
​Due 2/14. Reading Notes, Chapters 34 & 35  (AP), Chapters 12 & 13 (CP), via Google Classroom, to be done in Google Doc's (This requires you to type your notes.)
Due 2/17.  Actively Learn: Equal Rights and the New Deal.  The assignment is listed under Reading Guide VIII on the Lesson Links page (Second Semester).  Use your specific class code.  
Closed.  AP ONLY!  Due 2/19.  AP Quiz, Period 7.  Click on your class below.
AP Period 1
AP Period 3
AP Period 5
​Due 2/21. Reading Notes, Chapters 32 & 33  (AP), Chapters 14 & 15 (CP), via Google Classroom, to be done in Google Doc's (This requires you to type your notes.)
Due . "When the Negro Was en Vogue."  Folder Only. Read the PDF located below Reading Guide VIII on the Links page.  Take written notes and place them in your folder, labelled as #18.
​Reading Guide IX Assignments (Weeks 7 and 8)
AP Daily Videos Required
  • Assignment 23
  • Assignment 24
  • Assignment 25
  • Assignment 26
  • Assignment 27
  • Assignment 28
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Due 2/24.  Actively Learn. The Cold War at home:  who is Un-American?  The assignment is listed under Reading Guide IX on the Lesson Links page (Second Semester).  Use your specific class code. 
To be determined (TBD)
Due 2/28. Reading Notes, Chapters 36 & 37  (AP), Chapters 18 & 19 (CP), via Google Classroom, to be done in Google Doc's (This requires you to type your notes.)
Due March 3.  Actively Learn:  Cultural Upheaval of the 1960s. The assignment is listed under Reading Guide IX on the Lesson Links page (Second Semester).  Use your specific class code. 
​Due March 4.  Folder Only, Watch America's Civil Rights Movement:  A Time For Justice.  It is under Reading Guide IX.  Your notes of each event described in the vide will be #26 in your folder.
Due March 7.  Reading Notes, Chapters  38 & 39 (AP), Chapters 20 & 21 (CP), via Google Classroom, to be done in Google Doc's (This requires you to type your notes.)
Reading Guide X Assignments (Week 9)
  • Assignment 29-CP Only
  • Folder-All Classes
  • AP Quiz, Period 8
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College Prep. Only:  Reading Notes, Chapter 25.  Due 3/10, in Google Classroom.
To receive extra credit, you must have all "folder only" assignments completed and turned in via Google Classroom.
Quiz, Period 8.  Links and test times will be listed here soon.

​-AP Students need to complete their daily videos.
-The last day to turn in any work is Thursday, March 11.