1. Speaking of skills work…
Your first journal entry is to write a thesis answering the following prompt…
Explain, in detail, why your summer was either the best (or the worst) summer in the class.
This is a persuasive thesis, be sure to persuade me

2. Journal Tuesday Answer the following questions…
What makes US cultural values unique?
What makes US cultural values different from other nations?
What are some of the things that other nations dislike about US cultural values?
What are some things that other nations copy from US cultural values?

3. Journal 9/10/15
Predict, (based on what you know about Puritans) what values and ideals we have today that carried over from Puritanical beliefs.

4. Journal Entry 9/11/15
What are three tenets of Puritanical doctrine that we discussed yesterday?
What are two things that you see in today’s society that come from Puritan beliefs?

5. Read the Puritan background reading you printed last night 3-5 minutes
Journal Entry
Read the Puritan background reading you printed last night 3-5 minutes
Answer the following question in your journal.
Do you think that Puritan values are seen in today’s society? Why or why not?

6. Predict what the cause of the Salem Witch Trials might have been?
Journal Entry
Predict what the cause of the Salem Witch Trials might have been?

7. Journal Entry 09/17/15
Answer in your own words how GB was able to control the economy of the 13 colonies?

8. Predict 3 reasons the colonists wanted to declare independence?
Journal Entry 09/18/15 (9)
Predict 3 reasons the colonists wanted to declare independence?

9. Journal Entry 9/21/51
Write a thesis statement that answers the following prompt –
Why did the colonists want to declare independence from Great Britain?
Take out your homework

10. Journal Entry 9/23/15
In three sentences or less explain the differences between Federalists and Anti-federalists.

11. Read the article Tribune on Manifest Destiny
Journal Entry 09/25/15
Read the article Tribune on Manifest Destiny
Define, in your own words, what Manifest Destiny is.
Consider the HW reading on this, what the Tribune says and what you already know about Manifest Destiny

12. Journal Entry Monday 9/28/15
What was the best thing and the worst thing that you did or happened to you this weekend?

13. Journal Entry 09/27/15
Take a few minutes and write a fictionalized story (a paragraph or two) about Andrew Jackson
Include the following…
Background information (who he was, where he was from etc…)
Make sure it is a story that could be true, but also sounds a little bit crazy for the time

14. Journal Entry 10/2/15
Write down three things that you remember about the Underground Railroad

15. Journal Entry 10/5/15
Answer the “Background Questions” found in your DBQ documents…
You can complete these questions as a group, however, you must turn write your own answers in your journals
Write the names of the Northern States that made up each of the regions.
Six New England States:
Three Mid-Atlantic States:
Seven Midwest States:
In 1860:
What was the population of the US (including slaves)?
What was the slave population of the US?
What was the free black population in the North?
What percent of all African Americans in the US in 1860 lived in the North? (do the math)
What generalizations can you make about the size of the black population in the North in 1860?
Define or explain each of these terms.
Census
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16. Journal Entry 10/6/15
Who was William Lloyd Garrison, explain his contribution to emancipation?
Use your notes if you need to