Welcome!
Thursday, May 16
-Summary assignment (in class)
-choose from : Cattle Industry, Chisholm Trail, Exodusters
or Adapting to the Plains
******Comprehensive Test is Wednesday, May 22******
Wednesday, May 15
Read and discuss the Dust Bowl
Tuesday, May 14
Summary assignment (in-class)
-choose from : depression, Carrie Nation, Eisenhower
Friday, May 10
Finish reading “…Jacob Rote”
Continue Quantrill lecture
Thursday, May 9
Open-note quiz over study guide
Begin lecture – Quantrill’s raid
Wednesday, May 8
Beginning reading “The Abduction of Jacob
Rote”
-Finish study guide
-due Thursday
Tuesday, May 7
Discuss SG 1-17
Complete questions 18-24
Monday, May 6
-discuss/review comprehensive test
-Work on study guide
-do questions 1-15
Thursday, May 2
-Review for vocabulary quiz (Friday)
-Read and discuss the Pony Express
-Watch short video on Pony Express
Wednesday, May 1
2nd Hour – work on essays - due Thurs
Hrs 4,5,6 – Watch video “Kansas symbols”
Tuesday, April 30
Finish essay
***Essay is due Wed. for hours 4,5,6
Essay is due Friday for hour 2
Friday, April 26
Read/discuss Wyandotte Constitution
Review timeline
Begin writing essay
-will be due Tuesday
Wednesday, April 24
Get back essay test and discuss
Review the first territorial vote
-contruct time line
Tuesday, April 23
Essay Test
Monday, April 22
Discuss Comprehensive Test
Read page 86
-discuss the first two territorial elections
**** Essay test tomorrow****
Thursday, April 18
-Review essays
-Discuss massacres (Pottawatomie and
Marais des Cygnes)
Wednesday, April 17
Review all essays
-esp John Brown and the chart information
Discuss the Marais des Cygnes Massacre
Tuesday, April 16
Video – John Brown
Review essays
– Dred Scott and the Sacking of Lawrence
Monday, April 15
Go over John Brown notes
Get essay information from Compromise chart
Discuss james Lane and Beecher’s Bibles
***** 165-point essay test next Tuesday***
Friday, April 12
John Brown lecture
-the students need to be writing all three
essays out
- John Brown, Dred Scott, Sacking of
Lawrence
Thursday, April 11
Finish summarization assignment
-due Friday
Wednesday, April 10
Summarization assignment
Tuesday, April 9
Discuss Essays (Dred Scott and Sacking of
Lawrence so far)
Summarization assignment
-we will work on this through Thursday
Monday, April 8
Get back chart quizzes
Lecture – The Sacking of Lawrence
Thursday, April 4
Review for quiz on Friday
-quiz of compromise chart
Lecture over Dred Scott
Tuesday, April 2
Quiz - Pre-territory
Discuss Compromise of 1850
Go over terms for unit
2nd Hour – Summarize key events
Monday, April 1
Review for quiz
-quiz is tomorrow
****you need to see your child studying tonight
They need to be writing an essay out
multiple times tonight*****
Fill out compromises chart
Thursday, March 28
Finish notes – Kansas-Nebraska Act
**** Quiz over notes will be Tuesday****
Wednesday, March 27
Finish pre-territory lecture notes
Discuss Missouri Compromise
**There is a possibility of a quiz Friday over
the pre-territory notes. Will determine
tomorrow**
Tuesday, March 26
Review Kansas as:
-part of France
-Louisiana Territory/Purchase
-Explorers
Begin lecture – Pre-territory Kansas
**** Study Guides due Thursday****