History 7
Assignments
Monday 5/19 - Manifest Destiny and Pioneer Spirit
- How the U.S. added to its borders and why Americans can't wait to get out West!
HOMEWORK: read the handout ch 6 "Getting There" and answer the following:
1. define the words: pioneer, schooner, wagon train
2. describe their journey:
what are the challenges and dangers?
what are the benefits?
what happens to some of the travelers as a result of the difficulty of the journey?
what happens once a trail west is established?
Tuesday 5/20 - Nationalism and Manifest Destiny!
HOMEWORK:none
Wednesday 5/21 - Teacher visitor - lesson on the Civil War
- Frontier House
Homework: - none
Thursday 5/22 - The Donner Party - PBS film
HOMEWORK: read the packet of poems from the perspective of Tamsen Donner and wirte an additional poem on Tamsen's experience from any point during the year April 1846 when they left to April 1847 when the last of the Donner Party were rescued
Friday 5/23 - Library Day
WEEKEND
Monday 5/26 - No School! Memorial Day
Tuesday 5/27 - Tamsen Donner
- Donner Party Film
Wednesday 5/28 - Donner Party film
Thursday 5/29 – the Donner Party - explanation of Final Essay assignment
Friday 5/30 - Library Day and Renaissance Faire
PLEASE DOUBLE SPACE!
HOMEWORK: write an essay that responds to the following:
When the pioneer movement began, fewer than 20,000 white Americans lived west of the Mississippi. Ten years later the immigration into the west had swelled to a flood and ultimately more than half a million men, women, and children had stepped off into the wilderness to head out over the long road to California and Oregon. As 1846 began, thousands of Americans were on the move west, eager to bring Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, and California into the American sphere and to claim their personal fortune out of the seemingly endless supply of land . This tide of emigration was remarkable and the eyes of these pioneers turned westward with willingness and determination to make one last move to the far West. The Donner Party was one wagon train out of thousands that traveled west at this time, but what happened to them was a crisis the like of which few humans have ever faced.
How did Americans new sense of nationalism ultimately lead The Donner Party to be faced with the dreaded solution of cannibalism?
**Please see rubric at end of assignments **
Weekend
Monday 6/2- Essay due
- Introduction to Reform movements and Sectionalism
HOMEWORK- read the ch 23 handout ”Seneca Falls and the Rights of Women” and answer the following:
1. Why was Elizabeth Cady not like most middle class American women?
2. What was the reaction among Americans to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Seneca Falls Declaration?
3. What was a ‘reformer” at this time? Describe some of the other reform movements and their goals
4. Why was Elizabeth Cady Stanton's remarks at the teacher's convention so shocking?
5. why were some people so against women voting?
Tuesday 6/3– Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth
HOMEWORK: Read in your text Ch 14 section 3 “Cotton Kingdom in the South” on pp 418-421. Answer on p 421 in the Assessment #2, #3, #4 and #6
Wednesday 6/4– Field Day
Thursday 6/5 - Moving Up Day - 10:30 am ceremony - arrive to school by:
NEW UNIT: INDUSTRIALIZAITION AND WESTWARD EXPANSION Vocabulary
Industrialization / Industrial Revolution
Factory system
capital
investor
Agrarian economy
Urbanization
Tenement
technology
Manifest Destiny
Disposable income
Manufactured good
Pioneer
Nationalism
Schooner
wagon train
Mondroe Doctrine
Industrialization Themes
Why was Lowell considered a “Model Factory Town”?
What contributed to the growth of industrialization?
What does it mean to go from “farm to factory”
What were the major changes in society as a result of industrialization?
Home
Work
Gender roles
Working conditions; danger and child labor
Reform movements
Spending money/disposable income and the desire to buy manufactured goods
Pioneer Themes
Why did Americans think they “deserved” to claim the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific?
What was the experience of the many pioneers who headed west?
How did America's sense of Manifest Destiny create conflict with Native Americans and other nations?
What happened to the Donner party?
DONNER PARTY ESSAY RUBRIC
DOUBLE SPACE PLEASE!
History 7 Name_________________________
Essay Rubric
Nationalism and The Donner Party Grade__________/ 42points_=_____
INTRODUCTION ______________
1. state your thesis: 2 points
2. Identify Historical Context: 10 points
a. define timeperiod
b. Define nationalism and manifest destiny
c. Identify who pioneers were in general
d. Identify “The Donner Party”
e. why do we know about them today?
BODY : (10 points each)
_____________PARAGRAPH 1 :Discuss how the Donner Party was representative of all the other wagon trains that left for the far West in the 1840s. Why did they go? What did they have to do to prepare for the journey? How did they get there? What was the typical journey like?
*be as specific as possible and provide historical detail from you readings and discussions in class
_____________PARAGRAPH 2 : Discuss what went wrong with the Donner Party- what mistakes were made? What did they experience that led them to be trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains? How did the travelers deal with the crisis? Who was able to survive and why?
*be as specific as possible and provide historical detail from you readings and discussions in class
CONCLUSION : (5 points each)
___________Tie your evidence back to your thesis –explain how your historical evidence, presented in the body of your essay, shows a relationship between nationalism and cannibalism when looked at within the context of The Donner Party.
___________Make some independent conclusions/interpretations about this part of American history. What do you think was motivating Americans at this time? How might the Donner Party turned out differently?