Ballston Spa High School - A.P. United States History
Daily Class Index Archive 2014-2015
Talking Points Archive; (2012 to 2014)
Explanations/Activities/Resources/Links | |
Class #120 6/11/2015 |
The Final Class - #apush4life |
Class #119 6/10/2015 |
Regents Quiz - Legacy Chapters #4-8; Norman Starr Revisited |
Class #118 6/9/2015 |
Legacy Chapter #8 Rachel Denham Starr; Presidential Policy Review and Voting Rights Review |
Class #117 6/5/2015 |
Legacy Chapter #6-7 Emily and Richard Starr ; Women's Rights Review |
Class #116 6/4/2015 |
Legacy Chapter #5 General Hugh Starr ; Slavery and the Civil War Review |
Class #115 6/3/2015 |
Legacy Chapter #4 Justice Edmund Starr; Supreme Court Review |
Class #114 6/1/2015 |
Legacy Chapter #2 Jared Starr and Chapter #3 Simon Starr; Regents Govt Review |
Class #113 5/28/2015 |
The New World Order; Legacy Chapter #1 Norman Starr |
Class #112 5/26/2015 |
Re-Set: Reagan, Eighties and Legacy HW: Read Legacy Chapter #1 The Starrs pages 3-12 |
Class #111 5/22/2015 |
LAB: Final Project |
Class #110 5/21/2015 |
Ending the National Nightmare; Love Canal Case Study; Defining Moments of 1970s |
Class #109 5/19/2015 |
Free Speech |
Class #108 5/18/2015 |
The Warren Court - A Summary; Richard Nixon and The Watergate Crisis |
Class #107 5/13/3015 |
LAB: Course Evaluations and Final Project info |
Class #106 5/12/2015 |
Reel History - Day #2 The Butler |
Class #105 5/11/2015 |
Reel History - Day #1 The Butler |
Class #104 5/7/2015 |
Modern America 1968 to 2008 |
Class #103 5/4/2015 |
Modern America 1968 to 2008; Content Review HW: Content Review on Quia Chapter #39 guided reading questions #1-4 |
Class #102 5/1/2015 |
The Vietnam War ; 1968 The Year in Review HW: Content Review on Quia ; Chapter #38 guided reading questions #1-5; |
Class #101 4/30/2015 |
LBJ and the Great Society Civil Rights Pains and Gains; The Vietnam War HW: Content Review on Quia ; Chapter #38 guided reading questions #1-5; |
Class #100 4/29/2015 |
Ike and the Cold War Spike; Civil Rights Pains and Gains HW: Content Review on Quia |
Class #99 4/27/2015 |
The Election of 1952 and Civil Rights Gains HW: Chapter #37 guided reading questions #1-5; Content Review on Quia |
Class #98 4/24/2015 |
Cold War Events 1948-1959; The Cold War Comes Home HW: Chapter #36 guided reading questions #1-7; Content Review on Quia |
Class #97 4/23/2015 |
Wartime Conferences; Cold War Begins 1945 to 1952 HW: Chapter #36 guided readings #1-7 |
Class #96 4/22/2015 |
Civil Rights and Wrongs - The Fred Korematsu Story HW: Finish Chapter #35 guided readings |
Class #95 4/20/2015 |
American Mobilization for WW II ; World War II Homefront HW: Chapter #35 guided reading (1-9) |
Class #94 4/17/2015 |
American Foreign Policy Between the Wars; And War Came....Pearl Harbor 1941 HW: Chapter #34 guided reading (all) |
Class #93 4/15/2015 |
New Deal Legacy HW: The New Deal: Then and Now ( Omit option) |
Class #92 4/14/2015 |
The First 100 Days - FDR and the New Deal HW: Debt to the Past by Felix Carroll |
Class #91 4/13/2015 |
Quiz Chapters #31 -33; Causes of the Great Depression (Summary) HW: Review resource order forms; Clean up Spring Break assignment |
Class #90 4/1/2015 |
Conservative Presidents of the Twenties (Summary) HW: Spring Break Assignment (Pageant Chapters #31-#32-#33) |
Class #89 3/31/2015 |
Introduction to the Twenties |
Class #88 3/30/2015 |
Introduction to the Twenties (Society and Culture) HW: Chapter #31 guided reading questions #1-7 |
Class #87 3/26/2015 |
The Post War Dream THT #8 1898 to 1917 (Closes Tuesday 11:00 pm) |
Class #86 3/24/2015 |
Wartime Intolerance and The Post War Dream HW:Chapter #30 guided reading questions #11 - 22 (US at War to Treaty of Versailles) |
Class #85 3/23/2015 |
US Entry in World War I ; US Mobilization HW: Chapter #30 guided reading questions #1-10 (War starts to Mobilization) |
Class #84 3/20/2015 |
New Directions in Foreign Policy 1900 to 1917 and Origins of the Great War HW: Chapter #29 guided reading questions # 8-13 (President Wilson Foreign Policy) |
Class #83 3/19/2015 |
TR to Taft to 1912 and President Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 HW: Chapter #29 guided reading questions # 1-7 (President Wilson Domestic Policy) |
Class #82 3/17/2015 |
Readings: TR and Progressivism and The Election of 1912 |
Class #81 3/16/2015 |
Progressives in Government ; Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal HW: Chapter #28 guided reading questions #10-16 |
Class #80 3/13/2015 |
Origins of the Progressive Movement |
Class #79 3/12/2015 |
Test 1877 to 1898 (25 M/C); Origins of the Progressive Movement HW: Chapter #28 guided reading #1-9 |
Class #78 3/10/2015 |
LRQ on the Impact of Spanish American War (35 minutes); "I have seen two Americas..." HW: THT 1877 to 1898; Prepare for Test #5 |
Class #77 3/9/2015 |
Americas Course (Curse) of Empire - Part I and Part II HW: THT 1877 to 1898; Prepare the LRQ on the Impact of Spanish American War (35 minutes) |
Class #76 3/6/2015 |
Imperialistic Impulses;Spanish American War (1898) HW: Chapter #27 Guided Reading #9-16; |
Class #75 3/4/2015 |
Populism and the Election of 1896 HW: Chapter #27 Guided Reading #1-8; THT Westernization, Urbanization and Immigration (Optional) |
Class #74 3/3/2015 |
Raise Less Corn and More Hell - The Rise of Populism HW: Chapter #26.2 Guided Reading #1-10 |
Class #73 3/2/2015 |
Gilded Age Politics HW: Chapter #23.2 Guided Reading Questions #1-10 |
Class #72 2/26/2015 |
Immigration Reactions and Social Thought in the Gilded Age |
Class #71 2/25/2015 |
Immigration Patterns and Immigration Reactions HW: Selective and Restrictive Immigration Policy |
Class #70 2/24/3015 |
Urbanization - Rise of the American City |
Class #69 2/13/2015 |
Labor and Strikes ; Labor Movement Timeline HW: Guided Reading Chapters 24 and 25 |
Class #68 2/12/2015 |
The Impact of Industrialization HW: Guided Reading Chapters #24 and #25 |
Class #67 2/11/2015 |
Ingredients of Industrialization |
Class #66 2/6/2015 |
The Conquest of the West ; The Settlement of the West; The End of the Trail HW: Guided Reading Chapter #26.1; Native Americans as Prisoners of War |
Class #65 2/5/2015 |
The Reconstruction Period Ends and The Election of 1876; The Conquest of the West HW: Guided Reading Chapter #26.1 |
Class #64 2/3/2015 |
Mid Term Results and brief discussion HW: Mid -Term Survey ; Outside reading on the Gilded Age |
Class #63 1/23/2015 |
A Splendid Failure HW: Mid-Term Narrative; Mid Term THT (Due Sunday 1/25/2015) |
Class #62 1/22/2015 |
Constitutional Crisis ; A Splendid Failure HW: Mid-Term Narrative |
Class #61 1/20/2015 |
Andrew Johnson, Radical Republican and Constitutional Crisis HW: Mid-Term Narrative |
Class #60 1/16/2015 |
The Election of 1864, Surrender and Assassination; HW: Chapter #22 Guided Reading (all) |
Class #59 1/15/2015 |
Turning Points 1863 and the Election of 1864 Omit Podcast: Lincoln's Evolving Thoughts on Slavery; Gettysburg Address |
Class #58 1/13/2015 |
The Problem with Numbers Omit Podcast: Wartime Civil Liberties |
Class #57 1/12/2015 |
The Furnace of War HW: Chapter #21 Guided Reading (all) |
Class #56 1/9/2015 |
Civil War Tally Sheet - 1861 |
Class #55 1/7/2015 |
And War Came - 1861 HW: Podcast Options Bleeding Kansas or John Brown; |
Class #54 1/6/2015 |
The Impending Crisis; The Election of 1860 HW: Podcast Options Bleeding Kansas or John Brown; How one piece legislation divided the nation (Ted Ed - 6 mins) |
Class #53 1/5/2015 |
HW: Reading on Ballston Spa, 1861 |
Class #52 12/19/2014 |
Test #4 Top 5; Select scenes from 12 Years a Slave HW: Chapter #19 and #20 Guided Readings; THT based on Chapter #19 and #20 (Due 1/4/2015 at 11:59 pm) |
Class #51 12/18/2014 |
Test #4 Jeffersonian Republicanism to the Mexican War (1800 to 1848) HW: Chapter #18 Guided Reading pages 391-396 guided reading notes |
Class #50 12/17/2014 |
Polk the Purposeful and Party Politics; The Legacy of 1848 - What did the Mexican War Unleash? HW: Prepare for Test #4 1800 to 1848; Podcast Omits: Nat Turner Podcast; Andrew Jackson Podcast |
Class #49 12/15/2014 |
Manifest Destiny and Expansion HW: Chapter #17 pages 384 to end Guided Reading Notes; THT #4 1836 to 1848 |
Class #48 12/12/2014 |
Slavery and the Southern People HW: Chapter #17 pages 371-383 Guided Reading Notes |
Class #47 12/11/2014 |
The Impact of Market Revolution; Slavery and the Southern People HW: Chapter #16 pages 362 to 369 Guided Reading Notes; Historical Thinking Skill Quiz tomorrow |
Class #46 12/8/2014 |
Antebellum Reform and Culture HW: Chapter #16 pages 350 to 362 Guided Reading Notes |
Class #45 12/5/2014 |
Antebellum Reform and Culture Chapter #15 pages 324-347 Guided Reading Notes |
Class #44 12/4/2014 |
The Northern World View ; Market Revolution Graphic.doc HW: Chapter #15 pages 320-324 Guided Reading Notes; Take Home Test #4a (1800 to 1836)Closes Thursday at 11:00 pm |
Class #43 12/2/2014 |
The Battles of Andrew Jackson (Day #2)HW: Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #14 297 to 319; Take Home Test #4a (1800 to 1836)Closes Thursday at 11:00 pm |
Class #42 12/1/2014 |
John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson HW: Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #14 pages 287 to 296 |
Class #41 11/24/2014 |
DBQ - Era of Good Feelings (1 Hour)HW: Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #13 (all) (Word Document) |
Class #40 11/21/2014 |
The Presidency of James Monroe HW: Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #12 pages #7-10; prepare for DBQ on Era of Good Feelings |
Class #39 11/20/2014 |
1815 and Beyond - The Post War Afterglow HW: Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #12 pages #5-6 |
Class #38 11/19/2014 |
The War of 1812 HW: Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #12 pages #1-4 |
Class #37 11/17/2014 |
And War Came - 1812 HW: Create a timeline for Native American resistance (page #14) and complete foreign policy brainstorm (page #16) |
Class #36 11/14/2014 |
The Louisiana Godsend; Notable Events 1804 to 1808 HW: Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #11 pages 12-15 |
Class #35 11/13/2014 |
Influence of the Marshall Court HW: Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #11 pages 9 and 11 |
Class #34 11/10/2014 |
The Revolution of 1800 HW: Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #11 pages 6 and 7 AND Note grid on the Marshall Court |
Class #33 11/7/2014 |
Participation Grade for MP #1; Long Response Essay question - the 1780s and 1790's HW:Guided Reading Notes - Chapter #11 pages #1, #3 and #5 (covers American Pageant pp. 210-218 |
Test #3 The New Nation (1783 to 1798) | |
Class #32 11/6/2014 |
The Presidency of John Adams HW: Prepare for LRQ Make-up essay (35 minutes) |
Class #31 11/4/2014 |
George Washington Foreign Policy HW: Chapter #10 Guided Reading #10-17 |
Class #30 11/3/2014 |
George Washington Domestic Policy HW: Chapter #10 Guided Reading #10-17 |
Class #27 10/29/2014 |
Weaknesses of the Articles; Events leading to the Constitutional Convention |
Class #26 10/28/2014 |
Debating the Impact of Shays's Rebellion HW: Optional Podcasts - The Constitutional Convention |
Class #25 10/27/2014 |
SAQ - The Critical Period; The Weaknesses of the Articles HW: Reading on Shays's Rebellion |
Class #24 10/23/2014 |
LRQ Essay Comments ; The Critical Period (Notes and Discussion) HW: |
Class #23 10/22/0214 |
The Critical Period (1783-1789); Newburgh Conspiracy |
Class #23 10/21/2014 |
Test #2 The Revolutionary Period |
Class #22 10/17/2014 |
APUSH 5 Week Survey ; Class Wiki Sign-up; The Critical Period (Video Questions) HW: Prepare for Test #2; The Next Test (Info on essay options, omits and THT) |
Class #21 10/16/2014 |
Perspectives - Revolution Roundtable - Historiography HW: Prepare for Test #2 The Next Test |
Class #20a 10/15/2014 |
DASA Presentation HW:Perspectives on the American Revolution (Read and answer your assigned questions) |
Class #20 10/10/2014 |
Revolutionary War Tally Sheet and an Overview of Revolutionary War HW: Perspectives on the American Revolution (Read and answer your assigned questions) |
Class #19 10/9/2014 |
Talking Points Declaring Independence Omit Options: READING Indian War for Independence (2) PODCAST - Thomas Paine (1) |
Class #18 10/8/2014 |
Analysis of Mystery Document; Practice short answer question HW: Chapter #8 Guided Reading #8-13 |
Class #17 10/6/2014 |
Talking Points Rejection of Empire 1763- 1774 ; Toward IndependenceChapter #8 Guided Reading #1-7 |
Class #16 10/3/2014 |
DBQ French and Indian War Chapter #7 guided reading (7-13); finish DBQ Prewrite |
Class #15 10/1/2014 |
Review 1754 Talking Points 3.2 Rejection of Empire 1763- 1774 HW: Chapter #7 guided reading (#1-6) |
Class #14 9/30/2014 |
Talking Points 3.1 The Great War for Empire 1754-1763 HW: Chapter #6 guided reading (all) |
Class #13 9/29/2014 |
Test #1 1491 to 1754 HW: The Schenectady Massacre (generate notes) |
Class #12 9/26/2014 |
Talking Points 2.6 The First Great Awakening HW: Take Home Test #1 on Quia (due Sunday by 11:00 pm) |
Class #11 9/24/2014 |
Talking Points 2.5 An Economy of Slavery HW: Podcast Option: Tobacco |
Class #10 9/23/2014 |
Talking Points 2.4 Traders in the Wilderness |
Class #9 9/22/2014 |
Talking Points 2.3 Resistance and Rebellions ; Talking Points 2.4 Traders in the Wilderness HW: Video Omit: Jill Lepore: The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity; Podcast Option - The Salem Witch Trials |
Class #8 9/18/2014 |
Talking Points 2.2 Radicals in the Wilderness HW: Omit Reading Spanish vs. English Settlement (Word Document) |
Class #7 9/17/2014 |
English Settlement in the Chesapeake HW: Analysis of Docs C, D and E on European Exploration |
Class #6 9/16/2014 |
French and Dutch in the New World; English Settlement in the New World |
Class #5 9/12/2014 |
Spanish Exploration of the New World |
Class #4 9/11/2014 |
Remembering 9.11 ; Heroes in History? Spanish Exploration of the New World HW Disease and Depopulation in Colonial Spanish America Optional |
Class #3 9/10/2014 |
1. Why History; Exploration and Discovery ; Columbus 1492; |
Class #2 9/8/2014 |
1. Collect disclosure contracts - Themes to Follow 2. Talking Points 1.1 Exploration and Discovery ; Columbus 1492; |
Class #1 9/5/2014 |
1. Introductions and course expectations |