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// Assignment #1 //: vocabulary ** 20 points ** Look up the following and reword the definitions into your own words. Suffrage, abolition, coverture, institution, doctrine, progressivism, industry, social class, migration, immigration, antebellum, postbellum, secession, frontier, reconstruct, urban, rural, manifest destiny, civil war (what does civil war mean?), industrialization // Assignment #2: // Notes on Lecture “The New Nation” You will use your notes to help you with the end of trimester essay test. // Assignment #3 //: Research on voting history ** 10 points ** Find short (2-3 sentence) answers to the following questions: // Assignment #4 // ** 5 points ** Turn in (or show teacher) your worksheet from the Women’s suffrage museum exhibit. 5 points // Assignment #5 //: Revise letters. ** 30 points ** In English you will write letters as a person from the early American period. Using a rubric for historical content, I will have you revise your letters to meet a standard of accurate and interesting historical fiction. // Assignment #6 //: Early American Family Skit Part 1: 1 page, double space, research on one aspect of family life in Early America ** 25 points ** Part 2: 1 paragraph (at least 10 sentences) character description ** 10 points ** Part 3: Work with your group to put together your skit on family life Part 4: Presentation of skit ** 20 points ** // Assignment #7:  // ** Native American/Westward Expansion Presentation  ** This presentation will challenge students to do the following: // Consider the complexity of the interaction between two very different cultures // // Create a coherent presentation of research that tells a story from two sides  // // Develop and practice appropriate presentation skills  // BIG PICTURE: The movement of American and European settlers began in the 1500s and increased dramatically by the 1800s. Europeans and Americans from the newly founded United States sought and traded for, settled in, and/or took lands from a dozens of Native American nations in the process. ** Your presentation will tell the story of a group of white settlers, their background, and their reasons for moving into a new land, AS WELL AS telling the story of the Native Americans who were affected by the incursion into their original lands. **   Steps:  ** 1. **Find a Native American group you wish to study. Identify 10 good websites on these people.  2. Research and record significant aspects of their culture, including dress, spirituality, the lands they lived on, how/what they ate, creation myth. Be sure that your research is thorough enough that you can explain how these came about, and what uses they served your Native group.  3. Identify which white settlers came across your Native group. Describe the details of what brought these people into Indian lands, and important details into the culture of the settlers (dress, spirituality, food, etc.)  4. Give the history (beginning, middle, end) of the settler’s movement into Indian lands. Identify major leaders and agreements.  5. Compare and contrast the Native view of land ownership/land use with those of the white settlers. What is similar and what is different?  6. End your presentation with what resulted from the white/Native interaction, and where and in which condition is the Native group in today? ** Presentation requirements 100 points:  ** Content of presentation should follow the six steps listed above. All steps 2-6 should have a prominent feature in your presentation**. 40 points ** At least 15 visual images, appropriate to telling the story, of which two are interpretable maps, two show realistic images of the land on which the scenes you describe took place. ** 15 points  ** All images should be clearly identified, and the source from the web from which you took them should appear in small text at the bottom of each picture. ** 5 points ** Presentation ** should be rehearsed **, and presentation style should seem conversational with the audience. This includes making eye contact with all audience members, speaking conversationally with the audience, and referring to notes and other materials sparingly. Voice projection should reach all members of audience, and posture should be appropriate to presenting (no leaning, sitting, etc.) ** 30 points ** 3 appropriate quotes, or other form of primary source, should be embedded throughout the presentation to give voice and meaning to the people involved. ** 10 points ** ** Impromptu Writings ** (10 sentences or more of thought, responding to the question): #1: 5 points: What gives someone title, or ownership, or land? #2: 10 points: Was Geronimo justified in his response to white settlement in Apache lands? Why or why not? #7 Civil War Study ** Civil War   ** Civil War Unit SCHS 2011 US HISTORY Topics for thoughtful research, writing and presentation: ** What caused the Civil War? ** **  The Civil War through art: Examine the art around the time, and since, and how it influences our perception of the conflict. ** **  The Civil War through movies: Watch two Civil War movies. Compare the two with some history research. ** **  The Civil War through music: discover how musicians and composers told the story; examine what kind of music was available and created during the Civil War  ** ** The Civil War day-in-the-life of a soldier challenge  ** ** Read a Civil War novel. Compare the novel to some history research. ** **  The Civil War through the eyes of slaves who fought   ** ** The Civil War from the side of a Southerner/Northerner  ** ** Civil War technology/medicine  ** ** Harrowing runaway slave tales  ** ** Families who fought for both the North and South  ** ** Abraham Lincoln and his family during the war  ** ** Famous military leaders of the Civil War  ** ** Most daring battles of the Civil War. **  Important questions to address as you tell the story through your media: // What was the most important reason that led to the Civil War? // //  What was slavery like? // //  How did geography/land influence the development of the story? // //  How was the experience of the war different for three different groups of people (you choose the groups)? // //  How does your story or focus evolve through key events in the Civil War? // //  Secessions  // // 4 major battles  // // Gettysburg Address  // // Emancipation Proclamation  // // The South surrenders   // // Lincoln //// ’s assassination // ** Choose your product **(all students should have completed 2 research papers and 2 presentations by the end of the course of 3 trimesters): 7 minute presentation 2 page research paper (double space) Multimedia exhibit Videotaped presentation/exhibit Newspaper/magazine article Portfolio Speech Skit Impassioned dramatic interpretation Television show News report Documentary Interpretive dance Underwater performance of some sort
 * US History 1 Trimester 2 Assignments **
 * 1)  Who was originally allowed to vote after 1789.
 * 2)  What groups were excluded from voting?
 * 3)  How did women earn the right to vote? What did it take to earn the right?
 * 4)  Class activity: by 2/3 majority, the class must work together to determine a list of voter qualifications for citizens today.