U. S. History Syllabus
August 12, 2004

In order to have time to cover the last half of the twentieth century, we need to move quickly through the first few chapters. Therefor, I am assigning chapters 1 and 2 to be completed before the first week of co-op. Chapters 1 and 2 are due on Monday, Sept. 6 as I will be out of town several days and back in time for Friday’s class.

Read the assignments carefully. Only answer the questions indicated!

Due: 9/6 Chap. 1 – End of chap review: People, Terms, Places, Identify, Map Skills.
Chap. 2 – Section rev. 1 #4, 8
Sec. rev. 2 #2, 5, 6
Sec. rev. 3 #1, 5, 6
Sec. rev. 5 #4, 5, 6, 7
End of chap. rev.: People, Terms, Places, Identify, Map skills
Class: 9/10 Introductions
Review chap. 1 & 2
Start Memorizing the States and Capitals

Due: 9/15 Chap. 3 – Sec. Rev. 1 #3, 4, 5, 6
Sec. Rev. 2 #1, 2, 5
Sec. Rev. 3 #1, 4, 5
Sec. Rev. 4 #1, 2, 3, 4
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Identify, Map skills
Class: 9/17 Discuss chap. 3
Review chap 1 – 3
Fill out colonies chart
Test 1

Due: 9/22 Chap. 4 – Sec. Rev. 1 #1, 4, 10
Sec. Rev. 2 #1, 7
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Identify, Map skills
Class: 9/24 Collect Test 1
Review chap. 4
Outline Chap. 4 together

Due: 9/29 Chap. 5 – Sec. Rev. 1 #1, 2, 4
Sec. Rev. 2 all
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Places, Identify
Class: 10/1 Rev. chap. 5
Mini reports
Continue memorizing states and capitals

Due: 10/6 Chap. 6 – outline the chap and bring it to class
Sec. Rev. 1 #3
Sec. Rev. 4 #2
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Places, Identify, Map skills

Class: 10/8 Rev. chap. 6
Rev. chap. 4 – 6
Read excerpts of Common Sense and American Crisis
Test 2

Due: 10/13 Chap 7 – Sec. Rev. 1 #1, 2
Sec. Rev. 2 all
Sec. Rev. 3 all
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Identify
Class: 10/15 Test on States and Capitals
Collect Test 2
Rev. chap. 7
List issues important in the election
Pick a candidate and find their positions on the issues listed.
Start second memorization

Due: 10/20 Chap. 8 – Sec. Rev. 1 #2
Sec. Rev. 3 #1
Sec. Rev. 4 #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Identify
Class: 10/22 Report on candidate’s positions
Rev. chap. 8

Due: 10/27 Chap. 9 – outline the chap. and bring it to class
Sec. Rev. 1 #1
Sec. Rev. 4 #7
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Identify, Map skills
Class: 10/29 Rev. Chap. 9
Rev. chap. 1 – 9
Test 3 (chap. 1 – 9)

Due: 11/3 Chap. 10 – Sec. Rev. 1 #3
Sec. Rev. 2 #2
Sec. Rev. 4 #1, 4
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Identify
Outline the chap. and bring it to class
Class: 11/5 Collect test 3
Rev. chap. 10

Due.: 11/10 Chap. 11 – Sec. Rev. 1 #1, 2
Sec. Rev. 2 #2, 4, 5, 6
Sec. Rev. 3 #3
Sec. Rev. 4 #4
Chap. rev., People, Terms, Identification
Outline the chap. and bring it to class
Class: 11/12 Rev. chap. 11


Due: 11/17 Chap. 12 - Sec. Rev. 1 #1, 2
Sec. Rev. 2 #1, 3, 8
Sec. Rev. 3 #5, 8
Sec. Rev. 4 #1, 4
Sec. Rev. 5 #4, 5
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Places, Identification
Class: 11/19 Review chap. 12
Test 4 (10 - 12) This will be an open notes test. You may use your
notes, but not your textbook.
Second memorization due.

December: No Co-op
Complete your Presidential Research project and chapter 13.

Due: 1/5 Chap. 13 - Sec. Rev. 2 #5
Sec. Rev. 4 all
Sec. Rev. 5 all
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Identification, Map Skills
Class: 1/7 Turn in research paper
Review chap. 13
Begin memorizing the Gettysburg Address
Presidential oral reports

Due: 1/12 Chap. 14 - Sec. Rev. 1 #1, 3, 5, 6, 7
Sec. Rev. 3 #3, 6, 7
Sec. Rev. 4 #2
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Places, Identify, Map Skills
Outline the chap. and bring it to class
Class: 1/14 Rev. chap. 14
Presidential oral reports
Notebook checks

Due: 1/19 Chap. 15 Sec. Rev. 1 all
Sec. Rev. 2 all
Sec. Rev. 3 all
Sec. Rev. 4 all
Sec. Rev. 5 #1
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Places, Identify
Class: 1/21 Review chap. 15
Presidential oral reports
Test 5 (13 - 15)

Due: 1/26 Chap. 16 Sec. Rev. 1 #3, 6
Sec. Rev. 2 #2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13
Sec. Rev. 3 #1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
Sec. Rev. 4 #1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 13
Chap. Rev. People, Terms, Places, Identify, Map Skills
Class: 1/28 Rev. Chap. 16
Collect test 5
GOOD THRU HERE.