Week of May 2-6, 2016

This week we begin preparation for the "main event" STAAR is sooo near!!! May 12, is the day we've all been waiting for!! We began the school year with this in mind that all our hard work would soon pay off and Thursday is the day!!! We will do our very best to fulfill our goal of commended performance!!!

Monday-Review Reconstruction Era 
*13th, 14th and 15th amendments passed by congress
*Freedman's Bureau
*Scalawags/Carpetbaggers
*Hiram Rhodes Revels
*Black Codes
*Ku Klux Klan
*Sharecropping
*Jim Crow Laws
*Plessy vs. Ferguson

Federal Governments development of the West
*Morril Act
*Homestead Act
*Dawes Act
*Transcontinental Railroad

Begin reviewing important dates: 1492, 1607,1620, 1776,1787, 1803, 1861-1865

Begin reviewing by Eras/Units- Exploration, Colonization, Revolutionary War, Creating a New Government, U.S. Constitution

Tuesday- Review Eras/Units: New Nation/Republic, Industrial Revolution, Age of Jackson, Westward Expansion

Wednesday- Review Era/Units: Reform Movements, Causes of Civil War, Civil War, Reconstruction Era

Thursday- Review with Kahoot/Practice Exam

Friday- Review with Kahoot/ Practice Exam

Week of April 25-29, 2016

This week we conclude the Civil War and begin Reconstruction Era.

Election of 1860
-South Carolina secedes from the United States
-10 states follow
Confederate States of America
-Jefferson Davis is elected President
-Robert E.Lee is the commander of the Confederate soldiers
Fort Sumter
-South Carolina Union fort marks the beginning of the Civil War.
War Strategies
-North-superior resources
-South-great general
Battle of Antietam 
-Bloodiest Day of the War
-first north invasion by the Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation
-Lincoln frees the slaves from states that broke away
-gives the war a new purpose
Siege of Vicksburg
-Union forces get control of Mississippi River
-Break South in half
Battle of Gettysburg
-Turning point of the Civil War
-Once again the South tried to invade the North and fail badly
-51,000 casualties on both sides
Gettysburg Address
-Lincoln is invited to a cemetery dedicated to those who perished in the Battle of Gettysburg, where he delivers a powerful speech

Sherman's March to the Sea
-William T. Sherman orders the total destruction of the South


Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia 
-Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant ending the War

Week of April 18-22, 2016

This week we conclude Reform Movements and begin Road to Civil War.
3 weeks left for STAAR

Week of April 11-15, 2016

This week we begin Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny and Reform Movements/Social Reform

Roots of Manifest Destiny
-Land-Louisiana Purchase 1803
-Nationalism-Spread Democracy
-Population Growth-effects of industrialization and immigration
-Developments in Transportation-encourage people to move west

Territorial Acquisition
-James K. Polk 11th U.S. President
-Annex Texas 1845 leads to Mexican War-Henry David Thoreau "civil disobedience"
-Mexican Cession 1848
-Oregon Territory 1846
-Gadsden Purchase 1853

Trails West
How they got there...
-Mormon Trail
-Oregon Trail
-Santa Fe Trail

Reform Movements/Social Reform

-Education Reform

-Prison Reform

-Women's Rights Movement

-Abolitionist Movement

Week of April 4-8, 2016

This week last round of District Benchmarks and countdown to STAAR begins!!!!

Monday-Review

Tuesday-Science DBM #2

Wednesday-Social Studies DBM #2

Thursday-Fundraising reward

Friday-Autism Walk

Next week: Begin Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny
*Roots of Manifest Destiny
*James K. Polk
*Henry David Thoreau on "Civil Disobedience"