1. Quick Write Please sit in your assigned seat.
Get out your notes, article, History Frame, and Major Themes sheet.
You have three minutes to respond to the following image.
What do you see?
What do you think?
What do you wonder?
Write down your response in your spiral notebook.

2. End Four Minutes First Four Spiral Notebook Date & label your work
“Mex-Am War” 10/24
List several causes of the Mexican-American War
List several outcomes of the Mexican-American War
Use your notes & History Frames as needed.
To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling.
When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds.
End

3. I See… I think… I wonder…

4. Review Bridging the gap… US Government Basics Slavery
How were the seeds of conflict planted in the early national period?
Evaluate the impacts of slavery and of expansion in the growing divide between North & South.
US Government Basics
Slavery
US Expansion to 1840s
See PPT from Wednesday

5. How did western expansion & slavery lead to the growing conflict between the North and the South?
Animated Atlas:
What conflicts can you see?

6. Texas & The Mexican Cession

7. Mexican-American War 1846-1848 What were the causes & outcomes?

8. Group Presentations
How and why did the outcomes of the war with Mexico 1846–48 add to sectional difficulties?
History Frames & Articles
Group Project
See the rubric & assignment sheet!

9. Writing Workshop