1. Covers Early Presidents and the Manifest Destiny

2.  New Seats  Achieve  Intro to Project- Students will be teaching their classmates about one of the 15 topics available. Students will sign up based on topic, and will not know if they have a partner or not until after.

3.  Review where links are and what we are doing.  Students work independently and silently until the last 20 mins of class. At that time they can meet with their partners to collaborate.  Remind students this is a 96pt project so time is of the essence. They will get all of Friday to complete research too.

4.  Students were to complete research, but we had a snow day.

5.  Write down your homework (see back board)  Answer the following on your own paper:  What does Manifest Destiny mean?

6.  Introduce the discussion session by showing a short video clip introduction: "Gone West - Manifest Destiny". Then play the atlas animation "Growth of a Nation" Briefly review the map animation by asking students to name the major events that occurred during the period 1820 - 1860.

7.  Ask students to imagine how they might have felt if they were a white settler, a slave, an abolitionist, a Native American, a Mexican. Provide a couple of minutes of wait time to let this "sink in.  Have students share with their new elbow buddy when asked by teacher to do so

8.  Remind students that today is the last day of the research of the project.  Remind them that they really want to focus on why their event happened and how it affected the nation politically, economically, and socially.

9.  Write down your homework (see back board)  Warm-up:  What people supported or believed in Manifest Destiny?  Who benefitted most from westward expansion?  Who suffered the most as a result of westward expansion?  Think about yesterdays warm-up and your research.

10.  Before letting the kids loose to work with their partners on the piktochart, you will pull it up on the front board and show they how to use it. Show examples from the past which are based on Presidents FDR and Lincoln.  http://piktochart.com/ will have students start up for free. http://piktochart.com/

11.  I will be coming around to check and make sure that your project outline is completed. This must be completed in order to move forward.  Presentations begin Friday.

12.  Warm-up: Log-on to Achieve 3000 and complete the following-  Story of the States  Big Troubles Lead to Big Changes  Missing Achieves or next week’s Achieves  Write down homework on the back board  I will meet with students who have tested out of Achieve to talk about the Conspiracy Theory Paper.

13.  Students will work on their piktochart project.  I will be walking around helping groups that raise their hand and ask for help.  While waiting for me to come over to help you, see if you and your partner can figure it out without me.  Reminder- Presentations begin Friday; it’s worth 96 pts

14.  Warm-up: Put the following events in order  Declaration of Independence  Civil War  Gold Rush  John Quincey Adams’ Presidency  American Revolution  Andrew Jackson’s Presidency  New Song Time!!!- Show they the Westward Expansion parodies. This is to help all with understanding how all the projects will fit with each other.  Write down homework (back Board)

15.  Today we will continue with presentations. Thank you to everyone who shared their project with me. It has made it easier to grade the product portion of the grade.  Please get out 3 sheets of your own paper and divide it into 8ths. The 1 st column is for causes and the 2 nd column is for effects.  Review audience expectations

16.  Warm-up: Everyone who did not present, pull up your project on one of the computers.  Answer- Which project have you liked the best?  Share with elbow buddy what you learned.  Write down homework (see back wall)

17.  Today we will continue with presentations. Thank you to everyone who shared their project with me. It has made it easier to grade the product portion of the grade.  Please get out 3 sheets of your own paper and divide it into 8ths. The 1 st column is for causes and the 2 nd column is for effects.  Review audience expectations

18.  Warm-up:  How does this picture embody the idea of Manifest Destiny? How do you know? List 3 examples/references to the painting.  Write down your homework:  Achieves  Take home test

19.  Get out your notes sheets. These will be collected tomorrow when you turn in your take home test.

21.  Warm-up:  What events from the presentations will lead to the Civil War?  Get out your take home test. No test? Show me your agenda! You will be back at Silent Lunch.  Homework: Achieves and Progress Reports due Friday. Finish Vocabulary Notes.

22.  We will work on the following articles:  New States, New Troubles  Remembering Dred Scott  Next Week’s Articles or Ones of your choice afterwards  Those of you doing the Conspiracy Theory Paper, I will need a minimum of 4 source cards by next Friday

23.  Go to quizlet.com  Search Quizlet- Farley 2 this will be under the classes tab  Click on Unit 7- Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction.  Fill in the missing definitions  Whatever you don’t finish in class is homework.

24.  Turn in Warm-up sheets.  Get out vocab  Log-on to Achieve 3000- we will be on Achieve for 40 mins  If you get done this week’s achieves, select ones you want to do.

25.  Review Audience Etiquette.  Students will watch America The Story of Us: Division to show how the Manifest Destiny does impact and lead into the Civil War.

26.  There is no talking!!!  Talking = a 4x4  Stay on Task.

27. 1. Define Nationalism 2. Define Sectionalism 3. Use your textbook to assist you. Homework: Achieve articles and Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Math

28. 1. Define Nationalism- loyalty to the nation 2. Define sectionalism – loyalty to a region instead of the nation. Example: North or South

29.  Review key vocabulary terms  Reexamine slavery in the US  Identify the major issues in society that were reasons start of the Civil War  Essential Questions for the week:  What were the reasons that the North and South entered this conflict?  By 1860, why were the nation’s leaders unable to keep the Union together?

30.  We are going to finish the Division section of America the Story of Us in order to make the connection that the events we covered with our Westward Expansion projects blend into the causes of the Civil War.  Turn in your movie guide afterwards so we can get credit.

31.  How did the slave trade change over from the Colonial Era to the 1860s?  When did the abolitionist movement begin?  What is the Underground Railroad?  All of these we will answer using brain-pop.  Login and password are leecs  If you finish early, you may begin your homework.

32.  Warm-up: Use your textbook to answer the following 1. Name the two sides that fought during the Civil War. 2. Who was the general for the North? 3. Who was the general for the South? 4. Who was the President during the Civil War?

33. 1. Name the two sides that fought during the Civil War. North (Union) & South (Confederacy) 2. Who was the general for the North? U.S. Grant 3. Who was the general for the South? Robert E. Lee 4. Who was the President during the Civil War? President Lincoln

34.  Do trade and Grade.  No homework: Show me your agenda.  If charts/answers are incorrect just mark an x. leave it alone if it is correct.  Total is out of 20 points

35.  http://www.slideshare.net/msdean28/causes- of-the-civil-war-sectionalism-states-rights http://www.slideshare.net/msdean28/causes- of-the-civil-war-sectionalism-states-rights  We will be doing Cornell Notes on the Causes of the Civil War.  Essential Questions:  1. What were the reasons that the North and South entered this conflict?  2. By 1860, why were the nation’s leaders unable to keep the Union together?

36. 2. Which set of graphics correctly lists the political and military leaders of the Civil War? 1. Transportation: ___________ as Slaves : South Union President: Abraham Lincoln Major General: Ulysses S. Grant Confederate President: John C. Calhoun Major General: Zachary Calhoun Union President: Abraham Lincoln Major General: Ulysses S. Grant Confederate President: Jefferson Davis Major General: Robert E. Lee Write down your homework: See back wall

38.  I have a separate power-point on the Summary of the Civil War which students will take Cornell Notes from.  Essential Questions:  What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South during this conflict?  What were its political, social, and economic ramifications of the Civil War?  What events led to a Union victory?  Battles side of notes: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B32GY4RV mEu1RjhKY1hlWnZxYU0 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B32GY4RV mEu1RjhKY1hlWnZxYU0

39.  Tentatively, Students will watch America the Story of US Civil War.  May have to finish notes first on Summary of Civil War

40.  Warm-up: Weekly 5 Civil War  Achieve When done.  Finish video