- Explain the causes and effects of slavery in the various British colonial regions
- Identified the differences between slavery within each of the four British colonial regions in North America
📖 Corresponding Reading
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Slavery in the British Colonies ⛓
HOMECOMING 2025: TODAY IS CRAZY HAT DAY 👒
🎯 Learning Targets
📖 Corresponding Reading
📖 Corresponding Reading
Monday, September 29, 2025
Slavery in the British Colonies ⛓
HOMECOMING 2025: TODAY IS TOMATO DAY 🍅
🎯 Learning Targets
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Explain the causes and effects of slavery in the various British colonial regions
- Weighed the role Bacon's Rebellion had in the shift from indentured servitude to slavery
📖 Corresponding Reading
Friday, September 26, 2025
Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans 🌎
Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
🎯 Learning Targets
- Explain how and why interactions between various European nations and American Indians changed over time
- Compared the interactions with Native Americans by both the British and Spanish settlers in their respective colonies
- Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans Video
- Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans Guided Notes
- Chapter 4, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 3 in The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 4 in The American Yawp before T 30 Sep 2025
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Transatlantic Trade 💷
- Explain causes and effects of transatlantic trade over time
- Examined British economic policy and the role mercantilism played in the transatlantic trade between Britain and its North American colonies
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 4, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 3 in The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 4 in The American Yawp before T 30 Sep 2025
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
The Regions of British Colonies 🏴
Today is a Late Arrival day 🏫
- Explain how and why environmental and other factors shaped the development and expansion of various British colonies that developed and expanded from 1607 to 1754
- Conducted a gallery walk on the characteristics of the four regions of British colonies in North America
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 4, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 4 in The American Yawp before T 30 Sep 2025
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
The Regions of British Colonies 🏴
- Explain how and why environmental and other factors shaped the development and expansion of various British colonies that developed and expanded from 1607 to 1754
- Continued the investigation into the settings of the four regions of British colonies in North America
- Chapter 4, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 4 in The American Yawp before T 30 Sep 2025
Monday, September 22, 2025
The Regions of British Colonies 🏴
- Explain how and why environmental and other factors shaped the development and expansion of various British colonies that developed and expanded from 1607 to 1754
- Continued the investigation into the settings of the four regions of British colonies in North America
- The Regions of British Colonies Poster (directions and scoring rubric)
- The Regions of British Colonies: New England Slides
- The Regions of British Colonies: Middle Slides
- The Regions of British Colonies: Southern Slides
- Chapter 4, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 4 in The American Yawp before T 30 Sep 2025
Friday, September 19, 2025
The Regions of British Colonies 🏴
- Explain how and why environmental and other factors shaped the development and expansion of various British colonies that developed and expanded from 1607 to 1754
- Began an investigation into the settings of the four regions of British colonies in North America
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 3, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 3 in The American Yawp before M 22 Sep 2025
Thursday, September 18, 2025
European Colonization 🌎
- Explain how and why various European colonies developed and expanded from 1607 to 1753
- Examined the similarities and differences between the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English settlements
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 3, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 3 in The American Yawp before M 22 Sep 2025
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans 🌎
Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
Today is Constitution Day 📜
🎯 Learning Targets
- Explain how and why European and Native American perspectives of others developed and changed in this period
- Compared the cultures of the Native Americans and the Europeans
- Examined the use of religion to subjugate the Native Americans, as well as the methods used by the Native Americans to resist subjugation
- Debated differing primary-source perspectives on the treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish
- Explored the asiento system employed by the Spanish in the Americas
- Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans Slides
- Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans Guided Notes
- Chapter 3, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 3 in The American Yawp before M 22 Sep 2025
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonies 🇪🇸
Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
🎯 Learning Targets
- Explain how the growth of the Spanish Empire in North America shaped the development of social and economic structures over time
- Explored the encomienda system implemented in the Spanish-held territories of the New World
- Analyzed the development of the trans-Atlantic slave trade by the Spanish
- Inspected the hierarchy of the caste system employed by the Spanish in the Americas
- Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonies Video
- Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonies Guided Notes
- Chapter 3, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 3 in The American Yawp before M 22 Sep 2025
Monday, September 15, 2025
Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest 🌎
- Explain causes of the Columbian Exchange and its effect on Europe and the Americas during the period after 1493
- Identified the interactions of European expeditions with the Native Americans
- Summarized the Europeans' justification of conquest
- Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, & Conquest Video
- Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, & Conquest Guided Notes
- Chapter 3, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 3 in The American Yawp before M 22 Sep 2025
Friday, September 12, 2025
9/11: An American Tragedy 🇺🇸
- Students will interpret primary and secondary sources regarding the basic facts, perpetrators, victims, the history, timeline of events, and effects of the events of September 11, 2001
- Reflected upon yesterday's 9/11 activity by writing answers to wrap-up prompts
- Chapter 2, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in The American Yawp before M 15 Sep 2025
Thursday, September 11, 2025
9/11: An American Tragedy 🇺🇸
- Students will interpret primary and secondary sources regarding the basic facts, perpetrators, victims, the history, timeline of events, and effects of the events of September 11, 2001
- Walked through six stations, reading and viewing primary sources pertaining to one specific focus of 9/11
- Responded to reflection prompts at each station
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 2, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in The American Yawp before M 15 Sep 2025
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest 🇪🇸
- Explain the causes of the Columbian Exchange and its effect on Europe and the America during the period after 1492
- Signed up with Remind (@carp5th on the Remind app)
- Examined the first encounters of Europeans with Native Americans
- Explored the Columbian Exchange and its impact on both Europe and the Americas
- Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, & Conquest Slides
- Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, & Conquest Guided Notes
- Chapter 2, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in The American Yawp before M 15 Sep 2025
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
European Exploration in the Americas 🇪🇸
Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
- Explain the causes of exploration and conquest of the New World by various European nations
- Explored the historical context of Europe prior to exploration
- Examined the motivations for European exploration
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 2, The American Yawp
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in The American Yawp before M 15 Sep 2025
Monday, September 8, 2025
Native American Societies Before European Contact 🏜️
- Explain how and why various native populatinos in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America
- Collected The American Yawp Chapter 1 notes
- Identified the location of major indigenous groups and cultural areas in North America
- Compared the human geographic regions
- Defined animism
- Native American Societies Before European Contact Slides
- Native American Societies Before European Contact Guided Notes
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in The American Yawp before M 15 Sep 2025
Friday, September 5, 2025
Views of Columbus 🧭
- Explain the context for European encounters in the Americas from 1491 to 1607
- Debriefed and discussed the views of William Bennett and Howard Zinn about Christopher Columbus
- Read and take notes on Chapter 1 in American Yawp before M 8 Sep 2025
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Intro to Short Answer Questions ✏️
- Acquire an understanding of the structure of — and strategies on — Short Answer Questions (SAQs)
- Signed in/up with AP Classroom and registered with AP Microeconomics
Introduced to Microeconomics SAQsExamined and completed a sample SAQ
SAQ Writing Strategies
- Read and take notes on Chapter 1 in American Yawp before M 8 Sep 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Course Overview: AP U.S. History 🗽
- Summarize the classroom expectations and the course
- Provided an overview of the class website and the course syllabus
- Distributed the "Your Course at a Glance" and discussed an overview of AP U.S. History Test
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Read and take notes on Chapter 1 in American Yawp before M 8 Sep 2025
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Welcome Back! 🏫
- Establish classroom rapport and expectations
- We shared our names and introduced ourselves
- Created name cards to help learn student names
- Discussed and clarified classroom expectations
- Demonstrated how to navigate the textbook and identify key information using its features
- Read and take notes on Chapter 1 in American Yawp before M 8 Sep 2025
- Purchase a 3" three-ring binder and 10 tabs before class on M 8 Sep 2025