Tues, May 6

In class, students broke up into committee groups and worked on drafting joint resolutions for presentation to the House of Representatives or Senate. Finalized resolutions must be emailed to cfeehan@burkemtnacademy.org by 8pm Tuesday night!

Monday, May 5

In class, students reviewed major Relief, Reform, and Recovery programs created under FDRs New Deal.

HW due Tues: 1-page write-up on solution to a current domestic problem that you would devise if granted "blank check" powers by Congress as the U.S. President.

Friday, May 2

In class, students discussed the nature of the economy in a current events discussion led by George.

HW: read text pgs 770-785. Class will NOT meet on Saturday (SATs).

Week of Monday April 28 - Friday May 2

Students are working on an on-going historical fiction project involving individuals, small groups, and large groups.

On Friday, students must submit the following:
1) Individual, 1-page story
2) 2-page, small group story
3) 5-page large group story with a cover page that includes a title, author, and front-jacket graphic.

We will also discuss Current Events on Friday which will be in your mailboxes by Thursday afternoon.

Friday, April 25

In class, students discussed aEuropean return to coal as an energy source during CurrentEvents (led by Zack).

HW: read DKMAH handout on the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.

Wednesday, April 23

In class, students viewed The Great Train Robbery and completed group projects on the Roaring Twenties.

HW due Friday: Current events articles in your mailboxes!

Tuesday, April 22

In class, students completed notes on WWI and worked in small groups on assigned aspects of the Roaring 20s.

HW due Wed: Read text pgs 733-738, 740-745.

Monday, April 21

Welcome back from Spring Break!

HW due Tuesday: Read text pages 720-725, 728-top 733.

Thurs, March 27

In class, students worked in groups to create campaign posters for the Election of 1912, representing Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. HW due Wednesday 4/2 read + notes pgs 688-693; 696-703. Class will not meet on Friday, 4/4.

All Model UN students should have read their briefs by Wednesday 4/2. We will meet as a group before lunch at 11am on Wed in Witherell Right; bring your briefs.

HW due Monday 4/21 upon return from April Break: read + notes pgs 704-708, 710-717.

Tues, March 25

In class, students viewed a film on the Progressivre Movement. HW due Thurs: read + notes text pgs 668 Earth-673 no Roosevelt Panic, 681 Woodrow -686.

NO CLASS Mon 3/24

Due to athlete travel, U.S. History will NOT meet as a class on Monday, 3/24.

Thurs, March 20th

In class, students presented arguments in favor of and against American Imperialistic foreign policy.

HW: read + notes text pgs 654-665 no "Earth Control".

Tues, March 18th

In class, students met in groups and worked on debate cases for pro- and anti- imperialist U.S. foreign policies. HW: prepare for Thursday's class debate.

Monday, March 17

HW due Tues: no new reading, but students should have read through text pg. 651. We will continue working on debates in class on Tues and will present debates on Thursday.

Tues, March 11

In class, students participated in a discussion covering pgs 572-592. Topics included Darwinism, changes in religion, feminism, Booker T. Washington & WEB Du Bois, heightened divorce rates, and leisure activities of the turn of the century.

HW due Thurs: read + notes text pgs 626-635.
We are intentionally skipping Chapter 26.

Thurs, March 6

Reading due Monday: pgs 572-582.

Thurs, Feb 28

In class: students viewed a film connecting industrialization to urbanization via the new immigration wave.

No class Monday or Tuesday (3/3 & 3/4). Feef away at J3 Finals.

HW due Thursday 3/6: Read + notes on text pgs 558 - top 572.

Traveling athletes should additionally read + notes on 572-592 for Mon/Tues 3/11-3/12.

Monday, Feb 11

HW due Tues: Revised draft of paper due at beginning of class.

Traveling students must submit a paper via email by midnight tonight!

Thursday, Feb 7

HW due Monday: 2-3 page paper (5 paragraph essay) on capitalists in America. Bring printed, stapled copy to class. Students traveling must submit via email by Tuesday at midnight. cfeehan at burkemtnacademy.org

Tues, Feb 5th

Reading assignments from past week were checked. Students received a handout on a DBQ essay. HW for Thursday: due at the end of the class, students must have a plus and minus column chart on the capitalists as well as an outline for their paper including a thesis statement, 3 main points of argument, and at least 1 document for each point of argument.
We will use Thursday's class period as a working period. Please bring laptops to class.

Thurs, Jan 31

In class, students viewed a film on Industrialization and Urbanization. There is no homework due on Monday. Yee-haw!

Tues, Jan 29

http://www.cprr.org/Game/Interactive_Railroad_Project/indexy.htm

HW for Thursday: read + notes pgs 540-556.

Monday, January 28th

HW due Tues: Read + notes on pgs 530-540 no "Supremacy of Steel"
Class will meet in library on Tues. Bring laptops if you own them.

On Tues, I will check notes for page selections from 502-528, 5 main ideas from your assigned section, and notes on pgs 530-540.

Sick or traveling students are only responsible for keeping up with the reading.

'Loaf-bound Speed Freakers

Pack your text book and read + notes on pgs 530-556. We will be working on an essay on those pages the week you return, so read carefully!

Thursday, January 24

Completed viewing of Glory in class

HW for Monday: Read + notes on text pages 502-503, 508, 512-515 (top), 516-517, 523 (Drumbeat)-528.

Tuesday, Jan 22nd

In class, we continued to watch the film Glory. No homework.

NEW POLICY 2nd Semester

NEW POLICY for 2nd Semester
Beginning 1/22/08, any student traveling when text reading is assigned MUST present notes on that reading upon return for course credit.

Thursday, January 17

In class, students viewed the film Glory. No class on Monday (Feef @ J3 race). On Tuesday, groups will perform skits (including Corinne!) and we will continue watching Glory.

Tuesday, January 15th

In class on Tuesday, students completed outlines and organized skits on the lives of freedmen during Reconstruction and the battles between Pres. Johnson and Congress. Skits will be performed in class on Thursday.

HW for Thursday: Rehearse skits; read + NOTES on text pgs 490-499.

Monday, January 14

In class on Monday, students worked on pictorial time lines covering 8-10 events from the First Battle of Bull Run to the surrender at Appomattox Court House. Five images must be drawn.

HW for Tues: Complete time line, read + notes on text 479-490.

For Athletes Missing 1/14-1/18

Read + notes on test pgs 479-499 to keep up on assignments through 1/18.

Thursday, Jan 10

In class on Thursday, we reviewed the major battles of the Civil War from 1861-1863. The Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address were also discussed. Students received and read aloud a copy of the Gettysburg Addrress.

HW for Mon: read + NOTES on text pgs 466-477.

Tuesday, Jan 8th

In class on Tuesday, we discussed:
strengths and weaknesses of the North and South entering the Civil War
first shots fired at Ft Sumter
Lincoln's suspension of liberties
Jefferson Davis' struggle to unite the Confederacy

HW for Thursday: read + notes on pgs 453-466. We will be reviewing individual battle strategies.

UPDATE!!

U.S. History will not meet as a class on Monday, Jan 7th. Please use class time to catch up on reading or any late assignments. Class will meet on Tues as scheduled.

Thurs, Jan 3

HW for Monday: read + notes on text pages 442-452; compose a 1 paragraph response comparing BMA to West Point; complete posters if not yet submitted.