Section F - Thursday, April 19 Sections C, D, & E - Friday, April 20 Your Reconstruction Unit test will be on Thursday or Friday, depending on your period. The study guide is posted below. Photocopies of the pages of the History Alive! text you used for your guided notes have been posted on the Reconstruction page, which is a good place to refresh your memory. The videos watched in class as well as one additional video has been posted on the video page. I am available to help with studying during tutorial and am also available to talk you through your thoughts via email. I will stop checking my email at 9:00 pm on Thursday. Do not leave your studying to the last minute.
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due Tuesday, April 17 - Section E due Wednesday, April 18 - Section F due Thursday, April 19 - Sections C & D In class, we took a look at some documents to get us thinking about symbols of the Confederacy and what they mean today. This is in preparation for a Socratic Seminar about the role that these symbols should play in our modern society.
For homework you are listening to part of an episode of BackStory, a history podcast, called "Contested Landscape". You need to listen to the first two parts of the episode, through minute 15:43 and write 3 interesting points made in the podcast (not in your head because of the podcast), 2 questions you have (preferably one on the surface question and one below the surface question), and one thing with which you disagree. Required Sections: Monument Avenue - 0:00-10:42 Should They Stay or Go? - 10:42-15:43 Highly Recommended: Seeds of Doubt - 32:03-40:32 Closing - 40:32-end due Wednesday, April 11 - Section F due Friday, April 13 - Sections D & E due Tuesday, April 17 - Section C Complete the image analysis sheet on the Thomas Nast cartoon "Worse than Slavery". This image goes with the end of Reconstruction guided notes you took in class, so use that information to interpret the image.
due Wednesday, April 4 - Sections E & F due Thursday, April 5 - Sections E & F Complete the sheet provided in class ( and attached below) to analyze the image below. This image is called "First Colored Senator and Representatives" and is a higher resolution image so you can zoom in if you would like.
due Wednesday, March 21 - Sections E & F if snow day on Wednesday.. due Thursday, March 22 - Section E & F due Friday, March 23 - Sections C & D Follow the directions to complete an image analysis of the image "Emancipation". Attached is a higher resolution image so you can see more detail than the printed image.
due Tuesday, March 20 - Section E due Wednesday, March 21 - Sections C & D Section F - optional due to Pi Day assembly To work on your close reading skills (that means to be able to read a text and not just understand what it means, generally, but to be able to find and interpret specific parts of the text to gain deeper meaning) we started reading this primary source together in class. There are questions to the right of the reading that are, for the most part, next to the text they are asking about. Please finish answering the questions using specific details fro the text. If you use a quote, be sure to explain how it answered the questions. This is about focus and specificity. If you are unclear or confused, please email me. Giant question marks will not receive full credit.
due Wednesday, March 14 - Sections E & F due Thursday, March 15 - Sections C & D Read the first five pages of this New York Public Library blog post entitled "Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was)" and answer the questions. The questions are also posted separately in case you prefer to read from the blog itself. You do not need to read the whole post as it's pretty long. However, I've included the link because there are some interesting bits in here, including a story about a woman who was "caught" traveling as a man. Mostly, though, this relates to our ongoing conversation about names and how they help individuals navigate and control their place in society and the categories into which people are placed. The folks at NYPL also walk you through how the history is done; by looking for sources, double checking information, seeking corroboration, and tracking down the actual story using multiple resources.
due Tuesday, March 13 - Sections E & F due Wednesday, March 14 - Sections C & D Read the selection about Liza Mixon called "An Enslaved Woman Declares her Name" and answer the questions provided. There are quite a few questions and I would like you to answer them fully, so feel free to use note form if you prefer. The questions are grouped. The answers to Comprehension Questions can be found directly in the text. The answers to Inferring Questions are in the subtext, so you have to "read between the lines" to see what the author is saying without saying. Thematic Questions ask you to relate the reading to yourself. These are the questions that are likely to help you see the big picture through this unit. DISCLAIMER: There is offensive language in this reading. We talked in class about the n-word and the history of this word's use. While we will be talking about this word and looking at historical documents that use this word, we will not be saying it in class. Some folks in our class may be in groups where the social norm is to use the n-word in an attempt to reclaim it and take away some of its power. If you are in one of these social situations, cool. (White folks: we are never in one of these social situations. Not ever. We don't have to feel guilty about it, but we do have to be aware of our racial history and behave accordingly.) Our classroom is not one of the social settings where the casual use of this word is acceptable, so the n-word will not be spoken in our classroom. If you are reading aloud, we have gone over three possible substitutions and you should choose one that feels right for you.
due Monday, March 12 - Sections C, D, E, & F During the Colonialism unit we talked about how race was socially constructed in US History. This homework goes back to Anthony Johnson, the man we looked at who was brought to Colonial Virginia from Angola, Africa, as an indentured servant. He finished his indenture and bought a small farm that grew. Anthony Johnson was eventually a member of the gentry, with a family and people that he owned. However, due to the laws put in place to encourage the social construction of race, his children had his land taken from them because they were Black. This reading brings the social construction of race into the Civil War era and the start of Reconstruction. Do the reading (annotation is optional, not required) and answer the questions on the back using complete sentences.
due Thursday, March 1 - Sections C, D, and F due Friday, March 2 - Section E Read the selection about General William T. Sherman and use the text to answer the multiple choice questions. Don't be fooled by the fact that they are multiple choice! Many of the options are true facts that are mentioned in the reading, but do not directly answer the question or are not directly related to the reading.
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