ACCESSING MATERIALS

Students may find copies of resources they may need to complete tasks, such as articles, worksheets, etc.  

Click on the appropriate unit under Class Resources to the left.

Online Textbooks:  These sites are used to complete reading assignments, vocab charts, etc.

Digital History - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/hyper_titles.cfm

U.S. History - http://www.ushistory.org/us/index.asp

Outline of U.S. History - http://www.america.gov/publications/books/history-outline.html

Monterey Institute - US History I Colonial-Reconstruction http://www.montereyinstitute.org/courses/AP%20US%20History%20I/nroc%20prototype%20files/coursestartc.html

               - US History II Post Civil War-Present http://www.montereyinstitute.org/courses/US%20History%20II/nroc%20prototype%20files/coursestartc.html

September 2011

Date	Topic	Essential Question	Lesson
9/8/11	Introduction Review of Colonial Terms/Key  People
9/12/11
9/14/11	Selling America’s Colonies	How do the colonies provide opportunity for immigrants to seek life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?	Lesson Plan
9/16/11	Foreign Policy and Survival: Indian Policy	How do the colonists interact with the Native Americans?	Lesson Plan
9/20/11	Rebellion on the Frontier		Lesson Plan
9/22/11	Bacon on Trial	How is Bacon’s Rebellion evidence of colonists fighting for the protection of their rights?	Lesson Plan
9/26/11	Building an American Character: Government, Puritans and Ben Franklin	How do the actions of the colonists during the pre-revolutionary era establish a foundation for building American characteristics?	Lesson Plan
9/28/11	Building an American Character: Great Awakening-Zenger Trial	How do the actions of the colonists during the pre-revolutionary era establish a foundation for building American characteristics?	Lesson Plan
9/30/11	Trade Relations in the Empire French and Indian War	How do the actions of the colonists during the pre-revolutionary era establish a foundation for building desire to separate from the English Empire?	Lesson Plan

October 2011

10/4/11	The Influence of the French and Indian War	How did the willingness of colonists to resist develop during the French and Indian War?	Lesson PLan
10/6/11	From Resistance to Revolution	How did the colonial resistance alter into revolution?

OTHER SITES FOR REVIEW:

1. www.regentsprep.org - Site offers review summaries of the basic themes in US History as well as practice M/C and essay questions.

2. http://www.geocities.com/athens/pantheon/9910/ - The Official US History Cram Packet online.

3. http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/cards.php - Set of 1600 notecards on the key terms, people, and events in US History.

4. http://www.course-notes.org/US_History - Offers unit outlines, practice quizzes, and more!!!

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkpkAnUOYfY - this link to a youtube video shows a US history teacher doing a video podcast review.  If the link does not work go to youtube and search for "hughesdv" and all of this teachers 10 minutes review lectures should come up.  He's a little quirky but does a great job hitting the key concepts!!!

6. http://www.phschool.com/curriculum_support/brief_review/us_history/index.html - Offers a good set of review m/c questions.

7. http://edusolution.com/regentsquiz/ushistorypackage/index.htm - more practice m/c questions!!!

8. http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/socstre/regentushg.html - Why pay for the Barrons review book when all of the old regents tests are free online here for you to practice!!!!

9. http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/sscore2.pdf - THIS PDF FILE IS WHERE I CREATED MY REVIEW PACKET FROM.  IT'S FREE FOR YOU ONLINE!  PAGES 33-67.

SUMMER ASSIGNMENT

1. READ THE ASSIGNED ARTICLES AND CREATE THE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FROM ANY OF THE READINGS USING BLOOM'S TAXONOMY AS A GUIDE.

2. POST YOUR COMMENTS IN RESPONSE TO THE PROMPTS POSTED ON THE MESSAGE BOARD. (Select "My Message Board" from the menu; read through the rubrics for online discussions and scroll down to the topics list; select "Early Encounters"; select the appropriate topic, read the prompt and post reply.)

US History 11R Course Syllabus (doc file - 48 KB)
ACC US History 103 Course Syllabus (doc file - 46 KB)
ACC US History 104 Course Syllabus (doc file - 46 KB)
A Brief History of the US - review packet (doc file - 26 KB)
Students should emphasize the bold and underlined words while reading through this review packet.
Regents Review Packet with notes section (doc file - 12 KB)
Come Along Son - A poem by Lexi Cartier (doc file - 23 KB)
Students wer asked to select an image from the Great Depression then interpret the image by telling the story of the person featured, based on their knoweldge of the Great Depression and ability to interpret the image.
Freedom Riders by Lexi Cartier (doc file - 64 KB)

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