Kathy O'Reilly

March 1st

All students completed the February calendar quiz today. Complete #1 & #2 on the March calendar Download March 2011 for homework.

AC classes will begin work on the Civil War study guide tomorrow Download CIVIL WAR STUDY GUIDE Students in 4th hour will take the test Friday.

1st, 2nd, & 3rd hour classes will look at Sherman's March to the Sea and Andersonville Prison in class tomorrow and complete the checklist of activities Download CIVIL WAR ASSIGNMENTS CHECKLIST  Students will work on the study guide Download CIVIL WAR STUDY GUIDE Thursday and Friday and take the chapter 8 test Monday.

 

 

February 28th and March 1st

Monday:

1.  All classes reviewed February calendar to prepare for tomorrow's quiz.

2.  AC class began presenting "menu" projects.  Please be sure all of your activities are ready to be turned in tomorrow.

Tuesday:

1.  February calendar quiz.

2.  1st, 2nd, and 3rd hour classes will complete "Key Battles of the Civil War" .

3.  4th Hour- Students will turn in menu activities and complete activities about Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and his second innaugural address.

 

February Calendar Answers

February Calendar Quiz Tuesday, March 1!  Check your calendar with the answers listed below.

 

FEBRUARY CALENDAR ANSWERS

1. sectionalsim
2. the North
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe
4. Maine

 

      7.  the South

      8.  Dred Scott

      9.  Planters

     10.  Compromise of 1850

     11.  Alexander Stephens

 

     14.  Abraham Lincoln

     15.  Fort Sumter (South Carolina)

     16.  Fugitive Slave Act

     17.  popular sovereignty

     18.  Because it allowed the people to decide if they would allow slavery, there was the possibility of slavery being allowed north of the Missouri Compromise line (the southern boundary of Missouri).

 

 

      21.  greater population, more railroad tracks and equipment, an army and a navy, more industry, more farms and draft animals.

     22.  Jefferson Davis

     23.  Robert E. Lee

     24.  Antietam

     25.  a war measure that isolates and area of importance to the enemy.  Lincoln ordered a blockade of southern ports.

     268  a Confederate prisoner of war camp where many Union soldiers died of disease and neglect

 

February 18th

 I hope all students have had an opportunity to complete the Civil War checklist and Civil War menu (AC).  The attached powerpoints will help you complete the charts for the strategies and resources Download WartimeStrategiesanswers  Download ResourcesNorthSouthanswers

1st, 2nd, and 3rd hour classes may not have completed the Key Battles Chart.  The attached article about Antietam and Gettysburg will help   Download Antietam-Gettysburg  If you have not completed the ABC's of the Civil War Download THE ABC s of Civil War in class today, please work on it over the break.

 

Please complete class activities during the winter break!  I look forward to returning to school with a fully functional ankle!

Check out this activity to review some of the events we have been studying Lincoln's Crossroads 

 

REMINDER:  We will review the February calendar when we return on the 28th Download February Calendar  You will take the quiz Tuesday, March 1.  If you have not yet taken the January quiz Download January 2011 please make plans to do so by March 4th! 

Have a wonderful winter break!
 

Week of February 14th

We will begin our study of the Civil War this week (chapter 8 in the text).

AC Classes:  Download CIVIL WAR MENU PLANNER  We will be working in the media center this week.

1st, 2nd, 3rd Hour classes:   Download CIVIL WAR ASSIGNMENTS CHECKLIST

Students will work in pairs using the text and the Atlas of United States History to complete assignments.

 

The attached assignments will be completed:

Download TheRoadtoWarQuestions

Download NorthSouthResources

Download CivilWarStrategies

Download CivilWarKeyBattles

Election of 1860 and Antebellum Study Guide

We reviewed Lincoln's election and the causes of the Civil War  in class today Download Lesson_1860_election

Students will receive a study guide Download ANTEBELLUM STUDY GUIDE for the chapter 7 test in class tomorrow.  The test is scheduled for Friday.

January Calendar Quiz Monday!

All classes will have the January vocabulary calendar quiz Monday.  Study! Download January 2011

HOMEWORK:

1st, 2nd, and 3rd hour classes:  Complete the acrostic for the term COMPROMISE with sentences about the growing differences between the North and South and the causes of the Civil War.

4th Hour:  Create a rap or poem about the causes of the Civil War using the the vocabulary for chapter 7.

Week of Jan. 31

Monday:  Chapter 6 Test:  Review:

1.  the study guide you received in class Friday,

2.  chapter 6 (pages 177 - 203)

3.  powerpoint   Download Growth and Prosperitypowerpoint

HOMEWORK:  FINISH JANUARY CALENDAR  Download January 2011

Tuesday:  AC class trip to State Bar of Georgia- Please arrive at school by 8:00 am.

1st, 2nd, 3rd hour classes: read pages 215 - 219 and complete the attached charts Download NorthandSouthDifferences  ,  Download SouthernSocialLadder  AC students will complete the reading and charts for homwork.

Wednesday:  

1.  Review differences between North and South and Southern Social Ladder.

2.  Read pages 222 - 225 complete Slavery and Compromise chart Download SlaveryandCompromise

Thursday:  Use chart completed in class Wednesday to create maps of Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850.

Friday: 

1.  Quiz:  Differences between N & S, compromises

2.  Create Frayer diagrams Download Template to be written on for Frayer Diagrams   for the following terms:

• States' Rights
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas- Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• Popular Sovereignty

Online Resources for the Antebellum Unit:

• Georgia Stories  User Name:  brown, password:  thrasher
• Brain Pop (U.S. History- Causes of Civil War)-  See me for user name and password.

January 21st

AC Class:

1.  Our trip to the State Bar of Georgia has been rescheduled for February 1st.  Please remember to return your permission slip and payment by Tuesday. 

2.  Homework:  Read pages 184 - 188 in the text.  Create a venn diagram to compare and contrast life on the frontier with life in towns and record three facts about education and religion in Georgia between the years 1790 and 1840.

1st, 2nd, and 3rd hour classes: 

1.  Read pages 179 - 183.

2.  Complete Economics and Technology chart. Download Blank_economics_and_technology_chart

Complete your summary notes for the powerpoint notes. Download CAUSE & EFFECT-pwrptch9.ppt3

We're Back!

Students, please note that the December calendar quiz has been rescheduled for tomorrow!