Mr. McCoy: United States History 2007-2008
Textbooks due by 5/15/08
100 pts extra credit!
Textbook online:
tarvol1.glencoe.com
User id: TAR2005
Password: bek6cabr
LINK AT BOTTOM OF PAGE.
No late work will be accepted. Excused absences that follow the County Absentee Policy are the exception to this rule.
Assignments will be posted on this site as they emerge.
Calendar events will also be posted.
Grade Breakdown:
20% Laptop Projects
20% Classwork
20% Tests
15% Homework
15% Participation
10% Planner
100% Final Grade
Assignments 1st 9wks
Homework:
-p. 26 1, 4-5 Cities and Empires
-p. 42 1,2,4,5 A Changing World
Classwork:
-Why Study History?
-p. 19 1-3
-p. 33 1-6
-p. 34 11-20
Laptop Projects:
-Florida (PowerPoint)
-European Explorers (iMovie)
Tests:
-Chapter 1
Assignments 2nd 9wks
Homework
-p. 70 1-4 Early English Settlements
-p. 80 1,2,4 New England Colonies
-p. 85 1,4,5 Middle Colonies
-p. 93 1-6 Southern Colonies
-p. 106 1-6 Life in the Colonies
-p. 135 1-6 Trouble in Boston
-p. 139 1-6 Building Colonial Unity
-p. 145 1-6 A Call to Arms
Classwork
-WB pp.29-31Early English Settlements
-Video Guide to Vikings in North America video
-WB pp. 32-36 New England Colonies
-Reading of the Declaration of Independence (extra credit)
Tests
-Chapter 3 11/29 and 11/30/07
Projects
-Ppt. Biography Chapter 3 12/4 and 12/5/07
Assignments 3rd 9wks
Homework
p.151 #1-6 Moving Towards Independence
p.182 #1-6 The War Moves West and South
p. 187 1-6 War is Won
p. 188 4-13 and p. 189 20-23
Classwork
Workbook pp. 76-83
Workbook pp. 89-93
Tests
Test Chapter 5 Road to Independence
Test Chapter 6 American Revolution TBA
Projects
Ppt. Chapter 6 Biography
Ppt./iMovie Black History
4TH 9WKS
Video: Roots
-Alex Haley/Harold Courlander
-Roots/The African
-Separating fact from fiction
Homework:
-p. 424 1-6 The Abolitionists
-p. 439 1-6 Slavery and the West
-p. 444 1-6 A Nation Dividing
Classwork:
-WB pp. 207-211 The Abolitionists
-WB pp. 215-219 Slavery and the West
-WB pp. 220-224 A Nation Dividing
