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US History Summer 2014Mountain View/Marana High School
Mr. Klein2 weeks June 2 –
June 13US History ~100’s-
19001. Make a name
tent city, state of birth
Quick Klein rules• Be productive• Be respectful• Raise hands• Cellphones• Follow break/time schedules
• Marana Summer School rules handout
Group Pretest – 20 minutes
1. Make a top ten list of most important events, ideas, laws, people in the United States circa 1400-1896
2. Explain top 3 choices3. Each person shares and
writes which city or state you have never been to that you would like to visit & short reason why
Let’s all get books
• Return on day of final to get exam• In your groups decide which state you
would like to “represent” for group activities (pages R30-R31)• For example: Group 1 is Louisiana
(1812), write your group on backside of name tent
Syllabusbring paper and pencil
Break time?
Thematic approach to history• Short class• Minimize lectures• History: Why should I care
about this?• Today: What are Americans?• Other days: rebellion,
economics, war/military, separation, religion, expansion, race, law/government
My top 10 events, 1400-1900stake notes, leave spaces (Cornell?)
1. 14922. 1776 – Declaration of Independence
3. 1791 – Bill of Rights ratified4. 1861 – US Civil War begins5. 1831 – Trail of Tears6. 1803 – Louisiana Purchase7. 1848 – Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo8. 1863 – Emancipation Proclamation9. 1876 – invention of telephone10. 1886 – invention of automobile11. 1865 – Assassination of Lincoln
Today: What is an American?
1. For each group member, Describe a time when you felt out of place.
Try to use a non-school example
Assignment #1 in your groups
“American” History
American Dream?2. Make up a definition of what that phrase means to
your group
Source: The Atlantic Magazine
1491
1492 AD
• Italian Christopher Columbus convinces King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to give him money.
• Looks for shorter way to China and India• Hero?• Show cartoon#4 write down 2+ examples of bias in
cartoon
1492 AD
Americans?
#5 What does it mean to be an American?
5+ characteristics turn in10 points
Why do people move to the United States?Americans?
New Americans 1600’s• Euros create colonies
• Spaniard – “peninsulares”• English – “Englishmen”• Dutch – “Dutchmen”• French – “Frenchmen”
No Americans yetDuality: Mexican-AmericansAfrican-Americans, Asian-
Americans
Chapter 2 Individual Assignment1. Describe each of the 4 European colonial
expansions2. Why might Popé’s Pueblo Revolt only be a recent
addition to US history text books?3. Draw a map of the British Colonies4. In 1776, the Presido of Tucson was a part of which
colonial empire?5. How was Maryland a different type of British
Colony?6. Page 67 #1, 2 and #3
A strategy for images• OPTIC
“O” Overview (what is it?, source, year)“P” Parts (what is in it?, numbers, people etc)“T” Title“I” Interrelationship between parts“C” Conclusion “What could I think?”
“History of Mexico”Diego Rivera mural
1940’s
Reasons to change name ?
Last Assignment
• Write a 4 paragraph letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Godell regarding the controversy over the Redskins name.
• First paragraph: intro to issue• Second paragraph: 3 detailed historical examples of conflict
between Native Americans and new Americans (Ch.s 1,2,3,7, 13, see index also)
• Third paragraph: based on paragraph 3, should the commissioner suggest Redskins name change?
• Fourth paragraph: conclusion • 20 points, graded for completeness, -5 for missing history, -3
for historical mistakes, -15 for not “IYOW”
IdeasName tents
Short interview, travel in US, Outline of class notes
What does an American act, look, etc?Native Americans or their tribes
SyllabusColonial begings