American History
Spring
2013
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Instructor: Jerry Alan
Sayers
E-mail:
School: sayersd@jcschools.org
Home: dusty@sayersnet.com
Course Web Page: http://www.sayersnet.com/history
Textbook: United States
History: Reconstruction to the
Present by Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner
et al.,
Pearson Prentice Hall,
Objective: The purpose of this course is
to examine the history
of the
Evaluation:
1. Most
classwork and
homework assignments count as one grade each.
2. Quizzes
count as two grades each.
3. Notebooks
checks count as three grades each.
4. Projects
and presentations count as five
grades each.
5. Tests
count as five grades each.
6. The
final exam will count as a regular test
grade.
7. The
end of course exam counts as 25% of the
term 4 grade.
Extra credit will not be assigned to improve a
grade.
Work is late if it is not ready to be handed
in at the beginning of
class (unless otherwise instructed). Late work
will receive a penalty of
5 points per day, and must be submitted within five
days of the due date.
Missed tests must be made up within three days of a
student’s return to
school. Tests may require a full class period, so
always be present on test
days!
Notebook:
Each student will keep a notebook divided into five
sections:
1. Notes taken in
class
2. Maps
3. Worksheets
4.
Quizzes and Tests
5. Miscellaneous
Papers
Rules:
1. Be
in assigned seat when
bell rings.
2. Have class materials ready
and personal put away
when bell rings.
3. Only speak with
permission.
4. Be
respectful of others.
5. Turn in work on time.
6. Keep the room tidy.
7. Only leave the room with a
hall pass.
8. Quid pro quo
2013 Spring Session
Each day’s topic is followed by the corresponding chapter or chapter and section number or numbers in parentheses. If you miss a day, please read those sections in the chapter.
In case of inclement weather, lecture dates may move back one day for each day missed.
Reading assignments and quizzes will be announced throughout the session. Be diligent in reading the textbook.
JAN 7 NO SCHOOOL
JAN 8 Introduction
JAN 9 Early
America (1)
JAN 10 Manifest
Destiny (2)
JAN 11 The
Civil War and Reconstruction (3)
JAN 14 The
Industrial Age (4.1)
JAN 15 The
Robber Barons and the Captains of Industry (4.2) (Presidents
Quiz)
JAN 16 The
Labor Movement (4.3)
JAN 17 The Labor Movement (4.3)
JAN
18 SNOW DAY
JAN
21 NO SCHOOL
JAN 22 Immigration and Urbanization (5.1-5.2)
JAN 23 The Gilded Age (5.3) and Review
JAN
24 Test 1:
The Growth of
JAN 25 SNOW DAY
JAN
28 The
New South (6.1, 7.1) (States Map Quiz)
JAN
29 The
New South (6.1, 7.1)
*
JAN 30 The Wild West (6.2-6.3) *
JAN
31 The
Wild West (6.2-6.3) *(Physical
Map Quiz)
FEB 1 The Wild West (6.2-6.3) *
FEB 4 The Populists (7.2-7.3) * and The Progressives (8.1) *
FEB 5 The
Women’s Movement
(7.1, 8.2)
FEB 6 The Progressive Presidents (8.4-8.5) *
FEB 7 Review *
FEB 8 Test 2:
The Age of Reform (6-8)
FEB 11 Imperialism (9.1-9.2) *
FEB
12 The
Big Stick (9.4)
FEB
13 The
Philippine Insurrection and the Open Door
(9.3)
FEB
14 The
Great War (10.1)
FEB
15 America
Prepares for War (10.1-10.2)
FEB 18 The American Expeditionary Force (10.3)
FEB
19 The
Lost Battalion
FEB
20 The
Treaty of Versailles
(10.3-10.4)
FEB
21 Review
FEB
22 Test 3:
FEB
25 The
Business of America
(11.1-11.2)
FEB
26 The
Roaring Twenties and The
Harlem Renaissance (11.4-11.5)
FEB
27 The
Dark Side of the Twenties (10.4, 11.3)
FEB
28 Black
Tuesday (12.1)
MAR 1 The
Great Depression (12.2-12.3)
MAR 4 The
Great Depression (12.2-12.3)
MAR 5 The
New Deal (13.1-13.2)
MAR 6 The
Welfare State (13.3-13.4)
MAR 7 Review
MAR 8 Test
4:
The Great Depression and the New Deal (11-13)
END
OF TERM 3
SPRING
BREAK
MAR
18 The
Rise of Totalitarianism (14.1-14.2)
MAR
19 A
Date Which Will Live in Infamy
(14.1-14.3)
MAR
20 Turning
the Tide (14.3-15.2)
MAR
21 Turning
the Tide (14.3-15.2) *
MAR
22 The
Allied Victory (15.3)
MAR
25 The
Holocaust (15.4) *
MAR 26 The Post-War World (15.5) *
MAR 27 Review *
MAR
28 Test
5:
World War II (14-15) *
MAR
29 NO SCHOOL
APR 1 The Cold War (16.1) *
APR 2 The
Korean War (16.2)
APR 3 The
Arms Race and the Red Scare
(16.3-16.4)
APR 4 The
Baby Boom (17.1-17.2)
APR 5 A
Vast Wasteland (17.3-17.4)
APR 8 Review
APR 9 Test
6:
The Cold War (16-17)
APR
10 Desegregation
Begins (18.1-18.2)
APR
11 Desegregation
Begins (18.1-18.2)
APR
12 Black
Power (18.2-18.3)
APR
15 Passing
the Torch to a New Generation
(19.1-19.2)
APR 16 The Great Society (19.3) (Study Guide Page 4 Quiz)
APR
17 The
Domino Theory
(20.1-20.2)
APR 18 The War in Vietnam (20.3-20.4) (Study Guide Page 5 Quiz)
APR
19 Primary
Sources from the Vietnam War
APR
22 The
Counterculture (21.1)
APR 23 Richard Nixon (20.5) (Study Guide Page 6 Quiz)
APR
24
Feminism
and Immigration
(21.2-21.3)
APR
25 Review
APR
26 Test 7: Civil
Rights and
APR
29 Watergate
(22.1)
APR 30 Ford and Carter (22.2-22.3) (Study Guide Page 1 Quiz)
MAY 1 The
Reagan Revolution (23.1-23.2)
MAY 2 The
End of the Cold War
(23.3-23.4)
MAY 3 The New World Order and the War on Terror (24) (Study Guide Page 2 Quiz)
MAY 6 Review
MAY 7 Test
8:
Late 20th Century and the New Millennium
(22-24)
MAY 8 Review
MAY 9 Review (Study Guide Page 3 Quiz)
MAY
10 Review (Presidents Quiz)
MAY
13 Review
MAY
14 End of Course Exam
MAY
15 Review
MAY
16 Review
MAY
17 Review
MAY
20 Review
MAY
21 Review
MAY
22 Review
MAY
23 Review
MAY
24 Review
MAY
27 NO SCHOOL
MAY
28 US History Final Exam
MAY
24 Other Final Exams
