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Late Assignment Cover Sheet
Info on Writing Your Current Events Essay
Instructions for Your Second Semester Research Project
Opportunities For Extra Credit
Outside Readings Used in the Course
Selected Assignments and Handouts (categorized by unit of your text)
Midterm / Final Exam Review Materials

Late Assignment Cover Sheet

The American Journey Make Your Own Chapter Homework Packet Resources

Instructions:

Go to the "Chapter Summary HWP Cover Pages" link below and print out the appropriate page(s)
Go to the "Chapter Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles" link below and print out the appropriate puzzle
 Print out the Chapter Practice Test and complete it as you read the chapter
• Chapter Homework Packets are worth 40 points (10 for Crossword Puzzle, 10 for multiple choice questions on the practice test, and 20 for the written responses to the short answer summary questions from the practice test)
• You may gain up to +6 points extra credit for completing a chapter timeline / notetaking exercise...print out the blank timeline paper from below...+3 for directly hand copying the chronology in your book...+3 for 10 additional items in your timeline from the chapter that you add additionally...set them apart from the text chron. items with an (*).
• Any section of online section review questions that you complete during the course of the chapter and submit on paper to Mr. Ruppert are worth up to +2 points extra credit to your homework packet .  This will be added onto the score out of 40 you earn on the standard chapter homework packet.  Once we have completed a particular chapter, you MAY NOT go back and complete online review questions to receive extra credit on your homework grade.
• Staple these items together in the order listed above (cover page, crossword puzzle, practice test, timeline and / or online review questions) and hand them in on days when you take a full period chapter test.

Chapter Summary HWP Cover Pages (Chapters 1-13)

Chapter Summary HWP Cover Pages (Chapters 14-29)

Chapter Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles (Chapters 1-13)

Chapter Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles (Chapers 14-29)

Blank Timeline Paper

Chapter Practice Tests:    Chp1    Chp2    Chp3    Chp4    Chp5    Chp6    Chp7    Chp8    Chp9    Chp10    Chp11    Chp12    Chp13                                        Chp14    Chp15    Chp16    Chp17    Chp18    Chp19    Chp20    Chp21    Chp22    Chp23    Chp24    Chp25                                        Chp26    Chp27    Chp28    Chp29    Chp30

The American Journey "Speedpackets"

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10

Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 20

Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Chapter 29, Chapter 30

Instructions for the Assignment

Grading Rubric Cover Sheet

2nd Semester Research Project (The Big Picture and Due Dates -- Options 2 and 3)

Option 1:  Term Paper Instructions (not being used in the 2007-08 school year)

Term Paper For Dummies Packet

Proper Citation Packet

Sample Paper

Option 2:  Instructions for the Veterans History Project

Option 3:  Instructions for "Historical Ignatian Knights -- The Quest for Social Justice in American History"

 

Some useful web links to possibly help with the assignment:

www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/

www.religioustolerance.org/index.htm#new

www.ndcf.org/Conflict_List/Conflict_Count_2000.htm

nobelprize.org/peace/educational/conflictmap/index.html

www.cnie.org/NAE/northwest.html

Keep in mind that your chosen "clash of cultures" need not necessarily be a situation where there is military conflict or warfare.

 

Make Your Own "Top 10 Colonial Grievances" Broadside (plus extra credit "Henryesque" speech)

The Transition From "War For British Citizenship" to "War For Independence":  An Interactive Chronology (1774-1776)

• "1776" Assignment

• Student Presentation:  Battles of the American Revolution

• George Washington --The Man Who Would Not Be King Assignment

Unit 2:  Balancing Liberty and Order, 1781-1830 (Chapters 7-10)

• Mock Election of 1808: Jeffersonians vs. Federalists

• The Age of Jackson Essay

Unit 3:  An Emerging New Nation, 1800-1860 (Chapters 11-13)

• Donner Party Assignment

• Assignment:  The Slave Narratives

Unit 4:  Division and Uneasy Reunion, 1848-1877 (Chapters 14-16)

• Assignment:  His Name Was Lincoln / The Civil War Through Lincoln's Eyes

• John Brown the Ignatian Knight Or Religious Zealot / Crazed Fanatic?

• Your Own Secret Plan For Reconstruction

• Reconstruction Report Card:  Success or Failure of Potential?

Unit 5:  Expansion: Rewards and Costs, 1860-1920 (Chapters 17-21)

• DBQ:  How Violent Was The Old West?

• Native American Apology Assignment

• Rise of the Railroads -- Make Your Own Quiz

• Ken Burns -- New York:  A Documentary Film / Episodes 3 and 4 assignment

• Bill Gates:  Captain of Industry or Robber Barron?

• Guilded America:  Immigrant Expectation vs. Reality Rap and Poster

Unit 6:  The United States on the Brink of Change, 1890-1920 (Chapters 22-23)

• U.S. Foreign Policy (1865 - 1914):  Morally Justifiable?  You Make The Call!

• Modern Day Muckraker Current Events Assignment

• Historical Resume of Theodore Roosevelt

• Influenza 1918 Assignment

• Roaring 20s Group Radio Broadcasts

Unit 7:  Boom Times to Hard Times, 1919-1938 (Chapters 24-25)

• DBQ:  Criticisms Of The New Deal...Justified?

• Pearl Harbor Top Secret Report and D-day Thank You Letter

• The Decision To Drop The Bomb:  Have A Take!

 Unit 8:  Hot and Cold War, 1939-1960 (Chapters 26-28)

 Unit 9:  Shaken To The Roots, 1965 - 1980 (Chapter 29)

Midterm Exam Review

Study Guide
Student Completed Identifications and Chronology Review and Outlines for Essays

Final Exam Review