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Syllabi
The Weekly Plan
Syllabi
Everything you need on a weekly basis: weekly plan and lesson plans.
Week Seventeen
Monday and Tuesday
Writing Days
Homework- Peer edit and revise.
Wednesday
Key Understandings
•Birth of corporate America, and the need for government...
Week Sixteen
Monday and Tuesday
Finish with passage analysis and small group discussions.
Homework Monday Night- Read chapters 23-29.
Homework for Tuesday Night- Read chapters 30-37.
Wednesday
Finish...
Week Fifteen
Monday and Tuesday
Welcome back!!
Review - Symbols in The Awakening
Passage Analysis:
“You are burnt beyond recognition,” he added, looking at his wife...
Week Fourteen
Monday and Tuesday
Read about the history of the Women’s Movement
Keynote - Victorian Era background
The Cult of Domesticity and the Four Pillars of True Womanhood
Journal...
Week Thirteen
Monday
Finish Manifest Destiny
Origins of the Term
Conveniently, in the 1840’s there emerged a term that would renew a sense of national identity, addressing...
Week Twelve
Monday
Drawing a Line
The Compromise of 1820
The Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Runaway Slaves
“Our reason for taking the waterroute was, that...
Week Eleven
Monday
45 min Peer Edit/Reading time
Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Read and analyze this poem. What connections can you make to Douglass‘ Narrative?
When...
Week Ten
Monday
Finish viewing the film.
Iconoclastic Individualism - Keynote
Homework- Write argument essay on the following topic:
Krakauer observes that it is not “unusual...
Week Nine
Monday
Read about the background for Jackson’s 1830 Indian Removal speech.
Review of rhetorical analysis format.
Rhetorical Analysis of Jackson’s speech
Homework-...
Week Eight
Monday
Continue with Jacksonian Democracy
Read and explore The County Vote on this EDSITEment website- George Caleb Bingham 1854 The County Vote
For...
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