Week of 12/13/2021

 12/13 - Chapter 7 Section 1 The Early Years of the Revolutionary War

Section 1 Objectives

1. To describe colonial opinions on American independence

2. To explain the importance of the mid-Atlantic coastal cities

3. To analyze early British strategy

4. To summarize the causes and effects of the Battle of Saratoga

Group students – read section, take notes

12/14 - Chapter 7 Section 2 The War Expands

Section 2 Objectives

1. To explain why and how Europeans helped the United States

2. To gain insight into the hardships and sacrifices of the revolutionary forces

3. To describe the war on the frontier

4. To summarize important battles at sea

Group students – read section, taking notes

*Catch up day on 50 States Test

12/15 - Chapter 7 Section 3 The Path to Victory

Section 3 Objectives

1. To explain why the war shifted to the South

2. To analyze fighting methods and their effects

3. To summarize events that led to the war’s end

Group students, read section, take notes 

12/16 - Chapter 7 Section 4 The Legacy of the War

Section 4 Objectives

1. To evaluate the strengths of the American army in comparison with the British army

2. To summarize the 1783 Treaty of Paris

3. To analyze the costs of the Revolution

4. To identify challenges that the new United States faced after the war

Group students, read section, take notes

Week of 12/6/2021 DETOUR

 On Wednesday and Thursday we will be taking a bit of a detour. We are going to be veering into Geography with some concerted work on the US states.

Use this website: https://lizardpoint.com/geography/usa-quiz.php

This will take you to a geography quiz to practice your knowledge of the US states. You will have to take the actual quiz for credit while in the classroom.

Week of 12/6/2021

 12/6 - Chapter 6 Review

12/7 - ‘A Day Which Will Live in Infamy’

Chapter 6 Test

12/8 -  Chapter 7 Section 1 The Early Years of the Revolutionary War

Section 1 Objectives

1. To describe colonial opinions on American independence

2. To explain the importance of the mid-Atlantic coastal cities

3. To analyze early British strategy

4. To summarize the causes and effects of the Battle of Saratoga

Group students – read section, take notes

12/9 - Chapter 7 Section 2 The War Expands

Section 2 Objectives

1. To explain why and how Europeans helped the United States

2. To gain insight into the hardships and sacrifices of the revolutionary forces

3. To describe the war on the frontier

4. To summarize important battles at sea

Group students – read section, taking notes

12/10 - Note taking strategies revisited.

Work day

Week of 11/29/2021

 11/29 - Chapter 6, Section 2, Colonial Resistance Grows

Section 2 Objectives

1. To explain the Townshend Acts

2. To describe why and how the colonists protested the Townshend Acts

3. To explain the Boston Massacre

4. To summarize the Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party

11/30 - Chapter 6, Section 3 

Section 3 Objectives

1. To describe the Intolerable Acts

2. To explain how the colonies wavered between war and peace

3. To profile the Midnight Ride

4. To describe the battles of Lexington and Concord

12/1 - Work day, complete Section 3

12/2 - Chapter 6, Section 4, Declaring Independence

Section 4 Objectives

1. To describe the early skirmishes between the Continental and British armies

2. To profile British and American responses to the deepening conflict

3. To summarize Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

4. To explain how colonial leaders officially declared their independence from Britain

12/3 - Declaration of Independence, the founding of America.

Week of 11/22/2021

 11/22 -  Chapter 6, Section 1, Tighter British Control 

Section 1 Objectives

1. To identify why the Proclamation of 1763 angered so many colonists

2. To describe the debate over taxes and troops in the colonies

3. To explain the Stamp Act

4. To examine how the colonists forced Britain to repeal the Stamp Act

11/23 - Economics in History ‘The Impact of British Taxes’ group project

Primary Source study ‘Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress’

Finish Section 1

11/24 - No School

11/25 - Thanksgiving No School

11/26 - No School

Week of 11/15/2021

 We will be working on a five paragraph research essay all week in conjunction with ELA. See your ELA Google Classroom for details.

Week of 11/8/2021

 11/8 - Chapter 5 Section 1

Section 1 Objectives

1. To analyze colonial values

2. To identify roles of colonial women and children

3. To evaluate the results of a high literacy rate in the colonies

4. To identify the effects of the Great Awakening and the

Enlightenment

Growth of Colonial Economies

11/9 - Chapter 5 Section 2

Section 2 Objectives

1. To identify the rights that colonists expected as English subjects

2. To explain why colonies challenged the rule of Governor Edmund Andros

3. To evaluate how England’s Glorious Revolution affected the colonies

4. To explain the importance of the Zenger trial verdict

11/10 - Chapter 5 Section 3 ‘The French and Indian War’

Section 3 Objectives

1. To identify French colonial claims

2. To trace the French and Indian War

3. To explain how the British won the French and Indian War

4. To evaluate the results of the war

Cause and Effect of the War

11/11 - French and Indian War - The Last of the Mohicans

Chapter 5 Review

11/12 - Chapter 5 Test