Today we reflected on the massive changes in American society in the early 1800's. We launched our discussion with a debrief of your textbook notes on Transcendentalism and the Second Great Awakening. That led us to an analysis of economic and social data (HERE) to help draw a clearer picture of the changes and how they affected individual groups of Americans. We ended up the day with an analysis of four different documents related to the reform movements which grew out of the Transcendentalist and Second Great Awakening movements which developed partly in response to the changes of the Industrial and Market Revolutions. This was our first Lit Circle HAPP covering more than one historical document. We will continue regular DocBlock's as well, but will be slowly shifting the emphasis to this style of document analysis as we go. The documents we covered today can be found under Period 4 Document Recitation Block files or here: (#1, #2, #3, #4)
Chapter 12 notes are due tomorrow and you need to be working on your preparation for the scored discussion which will happen in class next Tuesday! -H We wrapped up the major topics related to Andrew Jackson's presidency today by first finishing up our discussion over Indian Removal from yesterday, then analyzing the points of view on Jackson's role in expanding democracy expressed by four different historians. For those of you absent today, you can find those historians under Period 4, Item #12 on this website.
Tonight, Mr. Hutchison's classes need to submit your rough draft introductory paragraphs to THIS FORM. I will give general feedback tomorrow and your will then have a chance to revise if necessary. I will give individual feedback to those students that are still struggling at that time before you have to write your next LEQ this Friday. Also, you need to begin preparing for the first sacred discussion which will be next Tuesday. You can find the materials and directions at the top of Period 5 on this website. -H After a very brief recap of the major issues from today's Chapter notes, we dove into an analysis of some political cartoons on Andrew Jackson applying the analysis skills you've developed in DocBlock exercises. We then explored some of the debates around the Indian Removal Act using editorials from the time written in opposition. We will finish up our debrief over these editorials tomorrow. Also, don't forget that your Chapter 9 notes are due tomorrow as well!
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