1. Thursday, 9/22 Open up your notebook to the table of contents – we are updating it and adding to it! Pick-up a Yellow sheet (Unit 2 Learning Map) and reading from yesterday (only if you did not get it!)

2. Thursday, 9/22 What issues need to be addressed after the Civil War ends? In other words... What has to be fixed?

3. Wednesday, 9/21 Take out your notebook. Look over your materials and be prepared with any questions in preparation for the test.

4. Tuesday, 9/20 Pick-up up a Civil War Review Sheet. Begin answering the questions on the back... How much do you know?

5. Monday, 9/19 (Blocks 2 & 3 only) “Although Lincoln had upheld the Fugitive Slave Act in his inaugural address (March 1861), the runaway slave question remained....” Write the question below in your notebook and answer it: “How would Union soldiers treat fugitive slaves they encountered as they marched South?” From Smithsonian, September 2011 (p. 19)

6. Friday, 9/16 You have ten minutes from the start of class to write a caption or short story for the picture you received. Be creative: add names, etc., but keep it historically accurate.

7. Next... Please meet up with others who have the same picture and share your stories. Decide which one is the best and be prepared to share!

8. Union Soldiers (Pennsylvania) Playing Cards at Camp in Petersburg, VA

9. Sailors aboard the USS Monitor resting and playing games on deck

10. Dominoes game, Union officers near Yorktown, VA

11. Antietam, Md. President Lincoln with Gen. George B. McClellan and group of officers].

12. Cold Harbor, Va. African Americans collecting bones of soldiers killed in the battle].

13. Falmouth, Va. Group in front of post office tent at Army of the Potomac headquarters].

14. Washington, D.C. Officers at door of Seminary Hospital

15. Thursday, 2/15 Please pick-up a vocabulary sheet in the bin. On the back, please write and answer: What elements are necessary to win a war? Explain.

16. Glory Capt. Robert Gould Shaw – white leader of the 54 th Massachusetts Regiment. Dad is a wealthy and prominent abolitionist in Boston, Massachusetts John Rawlins – black gravedigger and father figure for troops Thomas Searles – educated, free black who is a long-time friend of Shaw Tripp – proud, escaped slave who joins troops

17. Wednesday 9/14 Get out the reading from yesterday Create a T-chart in your notes and note the Northern and Southern Advantages. Do not use sentences – this is a quick list! North Adv.South Adv.

19. Closer – 9/14 – Honors Only You are the director for a new BLOCKBUSTER movie about the beginning of the Civil War (lead-up or first battles)! Create a movie title and tag-line for to get the word out!

20. Titanic A Woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets. Nothing on Earth could come between them

21. Tuesday, 9/13 Grab a piece of scrap paper in the bin. Write down the eight events we discussed yesterday w/ a brief description. Open your notebook to pages 26-27 to check your work!

22. A B AA C D

23. Monday, 9/12/11 Please pick-up a reading in the bin on the student desk under the back bulletin board. As you read think about this question, Could this happen today?

24. Friday, 9/09 Please have the worksheet, Cotton, Cotton, Cotton out and ready to review. Make sure you have completed the questions!

25. Thursday, 9/08/11 Write the following question on a piece of paper in your notebook and answer it. What kind of problems might be expected after increasing the size of the United States?

27. Slavery is...

28. Wed. 9/07/11 Find your seat! I’ll collect your cards when the bell rings. Please pick-up a term sheet (orange) and map of US Land Acquisitions. On the back of the orange sheet, list EVERYTHING and ANYTHING you can relate to the American Civil War period.

29. Tuesday, 9/06/11 Please drop off your signed Parent Letter and/or Opinion Essay in the bin on Mrs. Parker’s desk. Please have your Textbook and the Textbook Scavenger Hunt out and ready to review. Put your name tag on your desk.

30. Personal Archive Presentations On a blank piece of paper make two columns with the following headings: Name A Way to Remember