Today we continued exploring less commonly discussed aspects of the American Revolution. We started with an argument between historians regarding the purposes of the Declaration of Independence and followed this up with a DocBlock HAPP analysis of a selection by Joseph Plumb Martin. We ended the day by comparing four different subpopulations in terms of the ways they participated in the Revolution and what they gained and lost from their participation.
We also took a few minutes to explain writing intro paragraphs. Tonight you need to write your first rough draft pass of an intro paragraph for the essay we have been working on with thesis statements. You also need to make one more pass at thesis revisions since your thesis will be the last sentence of your intro paragraph. Don't forget, Chapter 7 is also due tomorrow and Chapter 8a on Thursday! -H PLEASE NOTE: We have decided to move the Chapter 7 notes due date from Monday to TUESDAY, 9/17/2019! :)
Today we started off with a quiz over Chapter 6. Afterwards we continued discussing the American Revolution, first completing and debriefing a DocBlock HAPP analysis of an excerpt from Common Sense by Thomas Paine. We next discussed how primary sources related to the Stamp Act reveal fundamental misunderstandings between the American Colonists, British officials, and the average British citizen regarding the nature of American Colonial culture and identity. We finished up by discussing the events at Lexington and Concord which would eventually mushroom into the Revolutionary War. We examined two brief primary sources with an eye on determining credibility and historical reliability. This weekend, please look over the comments on your thesis revisions and take one more pass at them to correct any remaining issues or errors. Almost all could benefit from an editing pass to help simplify and clarify your wording. Chapter 7 is now due on Tuesday and Chapter 8a (on the class calendar, click on the 8a event to open a dialogue box detailing what 8a covers) is due on Thursday! Mr. Hutchison's 2nd period will have picture day during class on Monday! -H We started today with a debrief of some of the significant themes from Chapter 5, followed by a discussion over your rough draft thesis statements. After clarifying many of the aspects of the questions and the crafting of thesis statements in response, you were assigned the task of revising your rough drafts and posting your revision as a reply to your original post on the thesis board. Please have these done as early as possible this evening so that I can give you feedback as necessary on the board.
The rest of the period we conducted our first exercise in historiography for the semester as we examined four different perspectives on the American revolution from four different historians. After we finish up this unit, you will be asked to reflect on those points of view once more. Tonight you need to post your thesis revision if you did not do so yet and you also need to finish up your Chapter 6 notes for tomorrow! -H Today we explored the conflicting objectives held by various groups of people in colonial era North America in the years leading up to the French and Indian War. We focused on the British, Native Nations, and Colonists as we identified areas of agreement and of conflict.
We also discussed writing thesis statements for historical writing. Tonight you need to write and post your rough draft thesis statement for the prompt we shared in class on the thesis board for your class period found linked on the Discussion Boards page of this website (find this page by clicking the "Discussion Boards" tile on the main page of the website, the essay question is also posted on the discussion board for your convenience). Don't forget, Chapter 5 is also due tomorrow and Chapter 6 on Friday! -H Today we tackled the two currents of change in Colonial American society prior to the American Revolution: The Enlightenment and the First Great Awakening. We identified the challenges each of these movements created for each other as well as similarities between the two movements. After examining two sets of primary sources to develop these big picture concepts, we did a DocBlock HAPP analysis of an excerpt from the autobiography of Nathan Cole as a specific historical example of these concepts and changes. We ended the day with team discussion over chapter 4.
Chapter 5 is due Thursday and Chapter 6 on Friday! -H We were back today after our extended weather weekend and we dove right in to discussing the many possible causes of the Salem witch panic of 1692. We used a variety of brief primary sources and historical data to compile the causes list then evaluated their relative significance.
We we also spent some some me describing the nature and purpose of historical writing, especially compared to writing you have learned in other classes. You can’t find the slideshow we used today’s on this website on the “Writing Tips” page. The last activity of the day involved analyzing and interpreting some historical information from maps and data sets. You can find the documents we used on the website under Period 2 to complete anything you did not finish in class. Tonight you you need to read the selection by Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” found need Period 2 and answer the associated questions. Chapter 4 is also due tomorrow! -H The class calendar for the entire semester has been updated to reflect the changes we had to make due to the two hurricane days. Chapter 4 will be due TUESDAY. Please look over the calendar to be familiar with all of the upcoming due dates!
-H FYI Folks, We are waiting to see what happens with school tomorrow to make permanent shifts to the class calendar further than next week. As of now, the due dates for tomorrow and next week have been appropriately shifted, but that is all. Stay tuned for updates!
-H So as I was writing this blog, school was cancelled for tomorrow! Everything on our calendar the next few days will just shift one day. Some essays may stay on Fridays, so I will make all of those calendar shifts later tonight.
Today our conversations centered around the role of unfree labor systems in the English Colonies in America. We began the day with a debrief discussion over the podcast you listened to last night on Maroon communities in the Great Dismal Swamp. Next we completed our first HAPP of a secondary source, a selection on the Middle Passage by historians Mannix and Cowley. We spent the rest of class using a heuristic chart to guide our analysis of a set of advertisements for runaway slaves published in Colonial newspapers in the 1700's. Your task tonight is to use the information from those documents to write a one or two paragraph response to the prompt below. Please take the feedback I gave at the end of class into consideration as you craft your responses:
Don't forget, Chapter 4 is now due Monday! -H Prompt: Using what you have learned from these advertisements, compare the institutions of servitude and slavery in colonial America. In what ways were these worlds similar? What were the most significant differences? Sample use of evidence based on last night's prompt: Among the significant reasons for the low life expectancy in the Jamestown Colony’s early years was starvation. Writing in 1617, Governor Samuel Argall commented on the significantly poor conditions of his colony. Argall noted that public buildings had been left to crumble and planting of food crops was abandoned in favor of planting as much tobacco for profit as possible, even in the public square and roadways. This indicates that the colonists were active participants in their own starvation by refusing to grow food crops, thus making starvation a major contributing factor to the low life expectancy in the colony. Red: assertion Blue: Introduction of evidence Green: Explanation of evidence Purple: Link between evidence and assertion After our long weekend break, we began today with a debrief of the reading on Indian Slavery and your HAPP over the Richard Hakluyt document that you completed as homework. We then explored the other side of colonization with a Doc Block HAPP analysis of a letter written by and indentured servant, Richard Frethorne. After discussing our main take-away's from that document, we used some more raw materials of history, ships passenger lists, to draw some inferences about the makeup and nature of English Colonial societies in different parts of North America.
Tonight, you need to use the "Doing History with Jamestown Documents" resources found under Period 2 Activities to respond to the questions below in a brief paragraph, citing specific evidence from the resources to support your answer. You should also listen to the podcast on the Great Dismal Swamp (link found under Period 2 Activities) and be ready to discuss your thoughts at the beginning of class tomorrow. One final note: ALL of the major assignment dates are now posted correctly on the class calendar on this website! Chapter 4 is now due on Friday of this week! -H Jamestown Documents Response: Look at each of the documents then hypothesize a plausible explanation for the life expectancy of early Jamestown settlers. |
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