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Monday, 2/6/2023: Lincoln v. Thoreau

  1. Please enter quietly and sit in your assigned seat.
  2. Warm Up: Please silently and independently complete U.S. History Vocabulary #6 packet for today’s key term:
    • Literacy (noun) - the ability to read and write
    • Literate (adjective) - being able to read and write

Example: Society has made great progress since 1820 when only 12% of people globally were literate; in 2016, 86% of the world can read and write, which has helped reduce inequality by empowering women and minorities.

Reminders: Reading and writing, knowledge

Did you know? One year of education can increase wage earnings by 10%?

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Upcoming Deadlines

Past Due

  1. Unit 3.11 EdPuzzle - The Story of Reconstruction
    • Purpose: To preview next week’s topic, the era of Reconstruction
    • Notes: Slides are linked if you did not finish your Unit 3.10 stationwork

Announcements

  1. Today’s SAT Paired Passage is a Mastery grade
  2. Unit 3 Content Quiz ✅
    • 70% Average! 2M to everyone who made it up already. Your grade has already been updated.
  3. Office hours today, 3:45-4:45 PM
    • Only chance this week! Ms. Truong will be out of town Wednesday through Friday
  4. Vocab Quiz #6 on Friday!

Remember:

  • High Quality Prep = High Mastery (80% of your grade)

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SAT Practice Passage: Lincoln v. Thoreau

Expectations:

  1. Please work silently until time is called.
  2. Eyes on your own paper.
  3. Practice like you play:
    • 2-3 word summary for each paragraph
    • Box key terms and definitions
    • Identify examples
    • Refer back to the text
    • Make predictions for answer choices

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SAT Practice Debrief: �Lincoln vs. Thoreau

Topic: _____________________

Do they agree or disagree? Explain.

Options:

  • Review Answer Key for SAT Practice Passage 2: �Lincoln v. Douglas at your table groups
  • Receive individualized support on #1-3 with �Ms. Truong
  • Make up Unit 3 Content Quiz if you were absent on Friday

Unjust Laws (i.e. slavery)

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Tuesday, 2/7/2023: Reconstruction & Literacy Tests

  • Please enter quietly and sit in your assigned seat.
  • Warm Up: Please silently and independently complete U.S. History Vocabulary #6 packet for today’s key term:
    • Segregation (noun) - the practice or policy of keeping people of different races, religions, etc., separate from each other
    • Segregate (verb) - to separate people

Example: Although the Civil Rights Movement was in the 1950s and 1960s, the fight to end the segregation in public schools lasted well into the 1990s.

Reminders: separate

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Upcoming Deadlines

By Next Class

  • Finish Unit 3.12 Classwork: Juneteenth, Reconstruction & Thaddeus Stevens
    • Purpose #1: To build historical context before class
    • Purpose #2: Independent reading to get to 2 years of SAT growth (30 points)

Announcements

  • Priority Assignments for Next Week’s Progress Report
    • Unit 3 Content Quiz (10 points)
    • SAT Paired Passage: Lincoln v. Thoreau (2 points)
    • Vocab Quiz #6 on Friday!
  • Ms. Truong is out of town tomorrow through the end of the week. She will be back on Monday and hold office hours as normal.

Remember:

  • High Quality Prep = High Mastery (80% of your grade)

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Building Knowledge Together

Emancipation Day – A sergeant presents an American flag to formerly enslaved people in South Carolina while others celebrate.

The Reconstruction era refers to the period after the Civil War when attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy. The U.S. federal government also needed to determine how to readmit the 11 Confederate states back into the Union.

After the war, formerly enslaved African Americans responded to freedom in different ways. After celebrating the end of the war and their new freedom, most tried to reunite with their separated families. Some set up new institutions, including schools, while participating in politics by voting and even serving in government.

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Building Knowledge Together

For about 10 years after the Civil War, the federal government provided services to the formerly enslaved and took steps under Military Reconstruction to protect their political and civil rights, but these advances were later overturned.

Thus far, we have learned about the 13th and 14th Amendment, which banned slavery in all of the United States and granted citizenship to anyone who was born in the U.S. Now let’s take a look at the 15th Amendment.

4) The 15th Amendment grants all citizens the right to vote, but leaves out one very important word. In other words, who can now vote and who still cannot vote at this point (1877) in U.S. History? Explain.

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Building Knowledge Together

Feel free to pull up Unit 3.11 if you did not complete this for homework yesterday!

  1. Who was Senator Hiram Revels?�
  2. Why do you think it is important for newly freed African Americans to be able to serve in public office?

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During the 1870s, more than a dozen African American men were elected to the U.S. Congress. This was historically significant because many of these Black politicians were born into slavery, but this period ended all too quickly.

To date, only 11 African Americans have served in the United States Senate. Hiram Revels of Mississippi was the first African American senator in 1870. Five years later, Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi took the oath of office. It would be nearly another century, 1967, before Edward Brooke of Massachusetts followed in their historic footsteps.

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Applying Knowledge

If you didn’t do the homework, go back:

  • Please read the excerpt from selected speeches by Thaddeus Stevens.�
  • Answer the comprehension questions under #6-10 in the Formative. Use the audio recording if you’d like!

Finish early? Unit 3 Quiz Corrections or make up another assignment, such as Unit 3.11EdPuzzle - The Story of Reconstruction.

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Exit Ticket

  1. Nice work! Complete #1-2 under “Exit Ticket” of today’s handout independently.
    • Please make sure your name is on your Exit Ticket and separate it from today’s handout.
  2. Finish early? Go ahead and start on your homework for next class!
    • Consider: What do I already know about the next topic?
    • Finish the quarter strong with good academic habits, like doing your homework!

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Wednesday, 2/8/2023: Ida B. Wells

  • Please enter quietly and sit in your assigned seat.
  • Warm Up: Please silently and independently complete U.S. History Vocabulary #6 packet for today’s key term:
    • Reparations (noun) - something that is done or given as a way of correcting a mistake that you have made or a bad situation that you have caused

Example: Some historians think the U.S. government should pay African Americans money for slavery reparations, just like when we made Germany pay as an apology for their role in World War I.

Reminders: Repair harm, apologize, make right

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Upcoming Deadlines

By Next Class

  • Finish Unit 3.13 Classwork: Literacy Tests & the Rise of the KKK
    • Purpose #1: To prepare for tomorrow’s Reconstruction Gallery Walk
    • Purpose #2: Independent reading to get to 2 years of SAT growth (30 points)

Announcements

  • Priority Assignments for Next Week’s Progress Report
    • Unit 3 Content Quiz (10 points)
    • SAT Paired Passage: Lincoln v. Thoreau (2 points)
    • Vocab Quiz #6 on Friday!
  • The rest of Unit 3.12 Classwork is due by 7 AM on Monday, 2/13 when Ms. Truong gets back.

Remember:

  • High Quality Prep = High Mastery (80% of your grade)

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Racial Violence at the Polls

  • Although the Fifteenth Amendment protected Black men’s right to vote, many southern whites came up with ways to keep Black people from voting.
  • By 1900, disenfranchisement, or blocking the Black vote, was almost complete, hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan used violence, intimidation, and lynchings to keep blacks from exercising their right to suffrage.
  • Klansmen often surrounded polling places, so many black voters stayed away from the polls for fear of racial violence.

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The Law & the Loopholes

  • Some legislatures passed a poll tax, which required voters to pay money before they could vote. Many African-Americans were too poor to pay the tax and could not vote.
  • Literacy test laws required voters to be able to read a passage before voting. At the time, about half of African-Americans could not read so they could not vote. Questions were designed so that the test-takers would pass or fail simply at the discretion of the test administrator.
  • Wouldn’t these practices exclude the poor white vote? Southern policymakers found a way around this by enacting the grandfather clause, which exempted anyone whose grandfather had voted from having to pay poll taxes or take literacy tests.

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Literacy Test Discussion

The Reconstruction Era marks a period of both progress and pain� in our country. You are about to experience literacy test, which �was created to keep Black people from exercising their voting rights.

Righting Wrongs: Today, several states in the Deep South have to prove to the government that they have a certain percentage of black voters registered.

Discussion Questions:

  1. How did taking the literacy test make you feel? Which particular questions or phrases that stand out to you?
  2. Why do you think literacy tests were purposely used instead of simply telling Black Americans they were not allowed to vote?

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Thursday, 2/9/2023: Reconstruction Gallery Walk

  • Please enter quietly and sit in your assigned seat.
  • Warm Up: Please silently and independently review your U.S. History Vocabulary #6 packet to prep for tomorrow’ vocab quiz.

If you don’t have your packet, there are also review materials in Google Classroom.

Matching Game Prizes:

  • 1st Place: 4 Merits
  • 2nd Place: 3 Merits
  • 3rd Place: 2 Merits

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Upcoming Deadlines

By Next Class

  • Study for Vocab Quiz #6
    • Purpose #1: To be prepared for the next Mastery assessment
    • Purpose #2: Independent reading to get to 2 years of SAT growth (30 points)

Announcements

  • Priority Assignments for Next Week’s Progress Report
    • Unit 3 Content Quiz (10 points)
    • SAT Paired Passage: Lincoln v. Thoreau (2 points)
    • Vocab Quiz #6 tomorrow!
  • Ms. Truong is out of town tomorrow through the end of the week. She will be back on Monday and hold office hours as normal.

Remember:

  • High Quality Prep = High Mastery (80% of your grade)

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Reconstruction Gallery Walk

Expectations:

  1. Finish the Period 5, Day 5 Formative first.
  2. Headphones and music are okay and encouraged! Check out this playlist:

tinyurl.com/RGWplaylist

  • Voice level is a whisper so that everyone is able to process the information at their own pace. You’ll have a chance to debrief with your group.
  • Stop #1 is optional because it is potentially triggering.
    • The image is quite a graphic depiction of an enslaved person’s back, so it’s hidden behind the cover on the door.

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Exit Ticket

Discuss the gallery walk with your table group:

  • Did they notice anything that you overlooked?
  • Did you share anything insightful with them?

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Friday, 2/10/2023: Vocabulary Quiz #6

  • Please enter quietly and sit in your assigned seat.
  • Warm Up: Please take out the U.S. History Vocabulary #6 packet and review your notes until the bell.
    • We will begin Vocabulary Quiz #6 altogether!
    • When you finish, please submit Formative and “mark as done” in Google Classroom.
    • Please silently pull up Google Classroom and make sure you are all caught up in U.S. History.

Homework Due: Study for Vocabulary Quiz #6

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Upcoming Deadlines

No Homework

  • Take advantage of the weekend to get caught up if you are behind
    • Purpose: To start next week off ready to begin our Unit 3 Performance Assessment! (DBQ Essay)

Announcements

  • Vocabulary Quiz #6 ✅
    • Next Up: Unit 3 DBQ Essay
    • Please get caught up on Unit 3.11-3.13 Classwork this weekend
  • Office hours next Monday and Wednesday, 3:45-4:45 PM
    • Ms. Truong will be back on Monday. Excited to celebrate how you did then!

Remember:

  • High Quality Prep = High Mastery (80% of your grade)