US History 11
Class Syllabus Second Semester
January 29, 2013- April 3, 2013
1/29-1/30 Class Topic: Finish Civil War and Foner Chapter 14
1/31-2/7 Class Topic: The Reconstruction Era
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You read Chapter
15 during January Regents Week
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Homework will be
small assignments given out of the classwork packet
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You should be
working on your Slavery paper and preparing for the mid-year exam.
2/8 Slavery
Term Paper Due
2/8 Mid-Year Exam
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Cumulative Exam-
includes all material from September through the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Castle Learning will
be available for practice
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50 Multiple
Choice Questions
2/8 Homework Foner Chapter
16- The Gilded Age
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Read Chapter 16
Sections 1-3; create Cornell Notes; Due Monday, 2/11
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Complete Chapter
16, Sections 4 & 5; create Cornell Notes; Due Wednesday 2/13
2/15 Tentative Exam for Chapter 16
2/15 Homework Takaki Chapter
9 (Natives) & Foner Chapter 17 (Populism, Jim Crow South and Imperialism)
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Read Takaki
Chapter 9 annotate in the margins; Due Thursday 2/21 for class discussion- will
not be accepted late
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Read Foner Chapter
17, ALL Sections; annotate; Due Friday 2/22
February “Break” 2/18, 2/19; Full-Length Practice SAT
in school 2/20
2/21-2/22 Class Topics: Natives After the Civil War & Begin
Populism
2/22 Homework: Jim Crow Blues by Leon Litwack
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Read Jim Crow Blues and answer discussion
questions; be prepared for a class discussion on the Jim Crow South on Monday,
2/25
2/25-2/27 Class Topics: Jim Crow South and Populism
2/27-3/1 Class Topics: American Imperialism
3/1 Immigration Group Project Distributed
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Readings will
come from Takaki Chapters 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
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Project Due 3/6
3/4 Cumulative Exam: Chapter 17 + all year’s material
3/4 Homework Foner Chapter 18-
Immigration and the Progressive Era
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Read & Create
Cornell Notes for Chapter 18, Section 1; Due 3/5; see blog for due dates of
subsequent sections
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Work on
Immigration Project- presentations on 3/6!
3/5-3/14 Class Topics: Immigration and the Progressive Era
3/15 Tentative Exam on Chapter 18
3/15 Homework Read Foner Chapter
19- Women’s Suffrage and WWI
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Read & Create
Cornell Notes for Chapter 19, Section 1-3; Due 3/18; see blog for due dates of
subsequent sections
3/28-3/22 Class Topics: Women’s Suffrage and WWI
3/22 Cumulative Exam: Chapter 19 + all year’s material
3/22 Homework: Foner Chapter
20 & 21 All Sections
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Create Cornell
Notes for each section of each chapter
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Due: Wednesday,
4/3
