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Please use the link to access Mrs. Melvins webpage for 2018-19
Mrs. Melvin's NEW WEBPAGE: https://sites.google.com/pleasantonusd.net/melvin/home
Amador Valley High School
Pleasanton, CA
Unit 1 - Foundations of America
ONLINE TEXT for UNIT 1: https://www.docsoffreedom.org/explore
1. Unit Page: In this first unit, we focus on reviewing America's founding ideals. In a review unit that spans from colonization through Reconstruction, we will examine key events, individuals, and concepts that took us on a course of defining, protecting, challenging, and redefining our American ideals.
2. Columbus - Two Perspectives (Mon/Tues)
3. American Ideals - Chart (Thurs)
4. HAMR 1 (Fri)
5. HW - Unit Overview Cornell Notes- Text Reading from Bill of Rights, Foundations of Government (Mon)
https://www.docsoffreedom.org/student/units/the-foundations-of-american-government
6. Enlightenment notes (Mon)
7. Declaration of Independence - annotations (Tues)
8. Constitution lecture notes (in class notes) - (Thurs)
9. Constitution Webquest (in class Thurs) *in Google Classroom
class code: ba4223f
10. HW - Documents of Freedom Cornell notes -
The Constitution https://www.docsoffreedom.org/student/readings/the-constitution
11. HAMR #2
12. Race and Slavery - guide, http://www.pbs.org/race/001_WhatIsRace/001_00-home.htm
13. HW - Slavery and the Constitution - Cornell notes
https://www.docsoffreedom.org/readings/slavery-and-the-constitution
14. HW - End of Slavery and Reconstruction Amendments - Cornell notes
https://www.docsoffreedom.org/readings/the-end-of-slavery-and-the-reconstruction-amendments
15. CAPP Frederick Douglass
16. Sectionalism Map and Letters
17. Civil War and Slavery
18. Docs for Socratic - background AND four articles
19. Reconstruction and Amendments - lecture guides
QUIZLET LINK
https://quizlet.com/_3nzd0x
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