Monday:   Presidents’ Day Holiday

Tuesday: 

Bell ringer:   What motivated social reformers to advocate for social changes? (What were they thinking?)

Students will continue to examine and evaluate the impact of reform movements, including educational reform, temperance, the women’s rights movement, prison reform, the labor reform movement, religious influences and care of the disabled during the 1800s.  (Venn Diagram focusing on the following reforms: Religion, Prison and Mental Health, Temperance, Education, Women, Abolition, Transcendentalism, and Civil Disobedience.)

Wednesday: Benchmark test (Reading)

Thursday:   Continue to examine and evaluate the impact of reform movements.

Friday:   Unit 8:  Reform Movement (This is Part 2 of the Industrial Revolution Era).  Test will be Monday over Unit 8: The Reform Movement.

Monday:   Analyze the westward growth of the nation, including the Louisiana Purchase and Manifest Destiny as well as explain how the Northwest Ordinance established principles and procedures for orderly expansion of the United States.

Tuesday:   Explain the causes and effects of the U.S.-Mexican War and their impact on the United States., the annexation of Texas (28th state), Gadsden Purchase (Reason for this purchase). and the Compromise of 1850  in regards to California admittance to the US.

(Vocabualry quiz Tuesday)

Wednesday:   Examine and describe the positive and negative consequences that influenced the settlement patterns and the economic activities; also what (human) modification of the physical environment of the United States helped with Manifest Destiny.

Thursday:   Students will review westward expansion for their test on Friday.

Friday:  Unit 7:  Westward Expansion (Manifest Destiny)  test

Monday:  Explain and chart significant major battles that were fought by the Patriots to gain independence.

Tuesday:   Break down the Treaty of Paris and its significance.   If time permits, analyze political cartoons/pictures representative of the struggle for independence.  Warm-up activity (Google Classroom)  As we have on each warm up, students will follow this procedure: Without using your graphic organizer/notes, try answering the questions.  When you finish, and if necessary, check your notes and then submit.

Wednesday:   Review for our Unit 3 American Independence test (Thursday)

Thursday:   Unit 3:  American Independence test

Friday:   Students will begin to chart their progress on the assessments they have taken thus for. (Unit 2 as well as Study Sheet Quiz #1 and #2.). Analyze strengths and areas for improvement.