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