Monroe Doctrine

What do you know about The Monroe Doctorine?

Only an original answer will do NO REPEATS of anything anyone else posts (minus 10 points for repeats)

the advantage goes to the early poster

Due Friday, October 27th by Noon.

Dreaded Case of the Poor Constructed Thesis

I have found that my students ability to write thesis statements is horrific. Thus, we have been practicing writing thesis statements and providing evidence in support of those statements. I think the stuff we got in the binders for thesis writing has been very helpful.
Thank you!

Still more links

Teaching History

Lesson Plans

EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web

Societally impactful documents

Here is a list of the most important documents we came up with in class... The copies of which I have transformed into word docs. I can email these to you upon request... or, if you are holding out for the workbook I am making, they will be included in there as well.

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Introduction to Important documents:

The following documents were chosen by a brilliant veteran APUSH teacher and a College professor who specializes in American History as thee must- know documents for any APUSH student. All the documents below are either included in this packet in full… or… if they were just way too long… an abstract or description is given.

City on a Hill (in modern English) 1630
State of the Colony of Virginia 1622
Common Sense (Abstract) 1776
The Federalist's Papers #10 1787
North West Ordinance 1787
Washington's Farewell Address 1796
Marbury v. Madison 1803
The Monroe Doctrine 1823
Declaration of Sentiments 1848
Homestead Act 1862
Lincoln's Second Inaugural address 1865
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
Open Door Policy in China (Summary) 1899
Roosevelt Corollary 1904
The Jungle (Summary) 1906
FDR's Four Freedom's Speech 1941
Letter from a Birmingham Jail 1963
Reagan's Evil Empire Speech 1982

These additional documents are not included in your packet, but are recommended by several APUSH teachers across the US. I suggest you at least know their dates, authors, and something about their relationship to history.

The Emancipation Proclamation The Gettysburg Address The Navigation Acts
The English Bill of Rights The Magna Carta Birth of a Nation (Film)
"The Long Telegram" Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth Va. And Kt. Resolutions
Wilson's 14 Points MLK's Dream speech
Articles of Confederation Einstein's correspondence with FDR
Uncle Tom's Cabin (novel) FDR's "Day that will live in Infamy" Speech
Jacob Riis Photos Fredrick Douglas' Speech Wealth of Nations (book)
Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech Taft's Yale Law School Speeches
Truman Doctrine Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Dred Scot Decision Civil Rights and Voting Acts of 1964-1965
Mayflower Compact Lincoln Douglass Debates Brown V. Board of Education
Roe v. Wade Volstead Act Patriot Act
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Missouri Compromise Alien and Sedition Ac
Fog of War (film) Nixon/ Kennedy Television Debates (T.V.)
Booker T. Washington's address and WEB DuBois Response

Historical Docs

My nerdy Saturday night self found this wonderful website with great- as in copy and past and you can still see them- documents and lesson plans.

Enjoy!

Teaching History Document webiste

Class websites

I'm working on a blog for my class. You can add the link to the others. Thanks.
olyapush.blogspot.com

Vietnam War Lesson Plan

Somehow, my group didn't get our lessons copied for the class. This is one on the Vietnam War but it can really be adapted for any time period. Good luck & have fun.

Lesson Goals and Objectives:
• The student will analyze Vietnam War documents.
• The student will write an editorial to their local paper expressing their stance on the Vietnam War.
Materials and Resources needed: Variety of Vietnam documents, pen/pencil, paper.
Procedure:
1. Pass out packets of Vietnam documents. (This can be done individually or in groups. The larger variety of documents used the larger the variety of perspectives you will receive.)
2. Students should analyze the documents using SOAPSS or similar process.
3. Students will select two of four documents to assist in writing an editorial to their local paper.
4. Students write an editorial properly citing documents and using correct tense.
5. Students should turn in their SOAPSS or written analysis of each document in addition to their editorial.

Websites we discussed in class

Here are some of the websites we discussed in class... please add more if you have them:

If you can't play the videos Matt gave you, download free software at:
http://www.divix.com

Combat plagiarism
http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html

Cool lessons and ideas recommended by Bob:
http://www.choices.edu/

Write path reading guides (great graphic organizers):
http://www.avidcenter.org/

Cheap books
http://www.amazon.com/
http://www.bookfinder.com/

Lesson books for AP US history
http://www.socialstudies.com/
http://catalog.socialstudies.com/c/product.html?record@TF23668+s@O2JzKQq3bSODg

History Lectures on line
http://www.ashbrook.org/sounds/

Presidential Oral Histories
http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/

CSPAN Book notes
http://www.booknotes.org/home/index.asp

** Note- Matt's Website for Class, Kelly's Website for class and the college board website are all posted to your Left. If you create a website for class, email the address to Kelly or post it here and I will put it in the left hand column

Populism

Populism

1896

1896

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873

Documenting the American South homepage

Documenting the American South homepage

Confusing Words

Confusing Words

Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)

Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)

The Living Room Candidate

The Living Room Candidate

The Presidential Papers Homepage - The Eisenhower Memorial Commission

The Presidential Papers Homepage - The Eisenhower Memorial Commission

History Now

History Now

The American Presidency Project

The American Presidency Project

New Deal Network

New Deal Network

The American Presidency Project

The American Presidency Project

The American Presidency Project

The American Presidency Project

The American Presidency Project

The American Presidency Project

Jensen's Scholars' Guide to Humanities & Social Sciences

Jensen's Scholars' Guide

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

Hayes Diary Search

Hayes Diary Search

Cold War International History Project :

Cold War International History Project :

A's for Everyone!

A's for Everyone!

The Virtual Vietnam Archive

The Virtual Vietnam Archive

Foreign Relations of the United States

Foreign Relations of the United States

Good resource

Pew Research--lots of good stats

New

Civil Rights photo archive

Gordon Wood

on history

More primary sources

Military Documents etc.

DBQ topics

DBQ- Previous Questions

The DBQ, or Document Baised Question, is an essay that includes both documents you are given and your outside knowledge. Here are some previous topics that have been asked by the DBQ.

SOME RECENT DBQ TOPICS
2005: The American Revolution and Changes to American Society
2004: The French and Indian War Alters the Relationship Between Britain and her American Colonies
2003: Responses of President Roosevelt to the Great Depression
2002: Reform Movements, 1825-18502001: The Cold War and the Eisenhower Administration
2000: Organized Labor from 1875-1900
1999: Colonial America on the Eve of the Revolution
1998: Jeffersonian Republicans and Federalists with Respect to the Constitution
1997: American Women, 1890-1925
1996: Constitutional and Social Developments, 1860-1877
1995: Civil Rights Movement, 1960s
1994: U.S. Expansionism
1993: New England and Chesapeake Colonies Compared
1992: The Effects of the Environment on Western Development from the 1840s through the 1890s

Review Idea

With the released test (2001 multiple choice):

Every few days send the kids home with 2-4 questions and answers from the released test. They must tell you what the right answer is, and how they know it is right. They must also tell you what the wrong answers are and how they know they are wrong. This helps them to review several topics at once, and to become more familiar with the test.