Week 8

Week 8

Week 8 Scholar Challenges: 

1. Complete your full persuasive essay on your opinion of The Power of the Federal Government.  Revise the introduction and body paragraphs.  Scroll down the blog for helps for your essay.

2. Research and prepare for your leader study and presentation.  Page 30

Bella-Robert E. Lee

Haakon-Ulysses S. Grant

Makayla-Jefferson Davis

Ava-George B. McClellan

Zeke-William Tecumseh Sherman

Elise-PGT Beauregard

3. Finish reading Abraham Lincoln by Wilbur Gordy

4. Complete battle chart for Fort Sumter.  Page 33 upper left corner

5. Complete book dossier for ​Abraham Lincoln ​ by Wilbur F. Gordy. Page 76

6. Continue working on memorization work. Page 14

7. Continue memorizing the “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln. Page 39



November 6^th: Week 9: Devotional Insights Assignment:

Zeke

Samuel Colt-Weapons used in the Civil War

Haakon

Jack Hinson-Military





I will be checking to see your progress on Wednesday.  Please double check that you have done the following assignments:



Journal Entries:

1. What is your mission?  If you are unsure, write about what you would like your mission to be.

2. Why is slavery wrong?

3. Did the Supreme Court get the Dred-Scot decision right? Support your thoughts.  Cite information from the decision to support your answer.

4.Write three paragraphs about what you would have done differently in your debate and what you did well.



Reading Assignments and Book Dossiers:

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Dossier on page 74



Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Dossier on page 75



Abraham Lincoln by Wilbur Gordy

Dossier on page 76

You can read/listen to the book here:
Abraham Lincoln by Wilbur Gordy



Persuasive essay:  You will write persuasive essay on your opinion of The Power of the Federal Government. 



Seven Ways to Hook an Audience and Begin an Introductory Paragraph

1) An interesting fact or surprising statistic

2) A thought-provoking question

3) A short but interesting and applicable quote

4) An attention-grabbing statement

5) A short, interesting story (can be a personal experience)

6) Historical background

7) Vivid description



Thesis Statement: the sentence in the introductory paragraph that introduces the argument of your essay.  A strong thesis statement should take a stand, express ONE main idea, and be specific.



Quotes regarding states’ rights for use as hook in opening paragraph of your persuasive essay:



The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will forever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.​

 - Alexander Hamilton



The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.​

- ​James Madison



If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no  arrogant federal judges usurping states’ rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.

 -Ron Paul



The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government​

-Thomas Jefferson



Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue.  Gay marriage is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.​

-Wayne  Allyn Root



Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen.  Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.​

-​Robert Kennedy



My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late.  To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.​

-Hubert H. Humphrey



For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign powers, while in reality the federal government appears able to dictate everything from the ingredients of school lunches to speed limits. Congress now routinely collects taxes in order to return the money to the states with conditions on their conforming to federal demands.​

-Jonathan Turley



Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.​

-​Oscar Wilde



The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so.​

-Alexis de Tocqueville



There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.​

-Lyndon B. Johnson



The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.​

-George W. Romney



Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.​              -Elizabeth  Price Foley

Week 7: Split Vote, Split Nation

Week 7: Split Vote, Split Nation

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman "was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad." (Wiki)

Underground Railroad: “The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-1800s, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The scheme was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees.” (Wiki)

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Ralph Waldo Emerson "was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century." (Wiki)

Transcendentalism Movement: “Transcendentalism is a 19th-century school of American theological and philosophical thought that combined respect for nature and self-sufficiency with elements of Unitarianism and German Romanticism. Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson was the primary practitioner of the movement, which existed loosely in Massachusetts in the early 1800s before becoming an organized group in the 1830s.” (History.com)

 The results of the Presidential Election of 1860:

Timeline Dates:

1822-1913 – Harriet Tubman  

1831-1863 – Underground Railroad  

1811 – 1896 – Harriet Beecher Stowe  

1852 – ​Uncle Tom’s Cabin ​ published  

November 6, 1860 – Lincoln elected 

Scholar Challenges:  

1. Complete the body of your essay. 

2. Complete timeline assignment. 

3. Primary source study preparation of state letter of secession. 

4. Start reading ​Abraham Lincoln ​ by Wilbur F. Gordy.  Due ________. 

5. Continue your memorization work. 

6. Start memorizing the “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln.

Please double check that you have done the following assignments:

-Journal:  What is your mission?  If you are unsure, write about what you would like your mission to  be.

-Journal:  Why is slavery wrong?

-Journal writing:  Did the Supreme Court get the Dred-Scot decision right? Support your thoughts.  Cite information from the decision to support your answer.

-Journal:  Write three paragraphs about what you would have done differently in your debate and what you did well.

Week 6: State vs. Federal

Week 6: State vs. Federal

A well-educated woman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton married abolitionist lecturer Henry Stanton in 1840. She, too, became active in the anti-slavery movement and worked alongside leading abolitionists of the day. In 1848, Stanton and Mott held the first Woman’s Rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton authored, “The Declaration of Sentiments,” which expanded on the Declaration of Independence by adding the word “woman” or “women” throughout. This pivotal document called for social and legal changes to elevate women’s place in society and listed 18 grievances from the inability to control their wages and property or the difficulty in gaining custody in divorce to the lack of the right to vote.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Seneca Falls Convention 1848

Vocabulary Words:


Nullification: Nullification is the act of cancelling something.

In government it means: “Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution (as opposed to the state's own constitution).” wikipedia


orator: great persuasive speaker



We learned about 3 orators:

Henry Clay

1

Daniel Webster

3

John Cahoun

Timeline Dates:

1803-1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

1820’s – 1830’s – Transcendentalism Movement 

1782-1852 – Daniel Webster 

1782-1850 – John C. Calhoun







Scholar Challenges: 

1. Write the opening paragraph of a persuasive essay expressing your opinion of states’ rights vs. the authority of the federal government.  Be sure to use a quote for your hook and fully develop your thesis statement.

2. Complete timeline assignment.

3. Finish reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Complete the book dossier for ​Uncle Tom’s Cabin ​ by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Be ready to discuss this book next week.

4. Continue your memorization work.

5. Read over the “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln.  This should be very familiar by now.





This week we learned about persuasive essays.  You will write persuasive essay on your opinion of The Power of the Federal Government. 



Seven Ways to Hook an Audience and Begin an Introductory Paragraph

1) An interesting fact or surprising statistic

2) A thought-provoking question

3) A short but interesting and applicable quote

4) An attention-grabbing statement

5) A short, interesting story (can be a personal experience)

6) Historical background

7) Vivid description



Thesis Statement: the sentence in the introductory paragraph that introduces the argument of your essay.  A strong thesis statement should take a stand, express ONE main idea, and be specific.

Quotes regarding states’ rights for use as hook in opening paragraph of your persuasive essay:

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will forever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.​

 - Alexander Hamilton

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.​

- ​James Madison

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or "fast-track"; no  arrogant federal judges usurping states’ rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited. 

 -Ron Paul

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government​

-Thomas Jefferson

Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue.  Gay marriage is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.​

-Wayne  Allyn Root

Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen.  Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.​

-​Robert Kennedy

My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late.  To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.​

-Hubert H. Humphrey

For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign powers, while in reality the federal government appears able to dictate everything from the ingredients of school lunches to speed limits. Congress now routinely collects taxes in order to return the money to the states with conditions on their conforming to federal demands.​

-Jonathan Turley

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.​

-​Oscar Wilde

The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so.​

-Alexis de Tocqueville

There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.​

-Lyndon B. Johnson

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.​

-George W. Romney

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.​              -Elizabeth  Price Foley

States’ Rights died at Appomattox.​

-​Salmon P. Chase

Week 4: Fuel for the Fire

Week 4: Fuel for the Fire

 



Vocabulary words:
Popular Sovereignty:  is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.
Compromise: an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. (a deal)


The Fugitive Slave Act: The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. Enacted by Congress in 1793, the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.



Make sure you’ve added these dates to your timeline.

Timeline Dates:

1800-1859 – John Brown 

1859 – Harper’s Ferry/John Brown incident 

1820 – Missouri Compromise of 1820 

1850 – Compromise of 1850 

1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 

1799-1858 – Dred Scott 

1857 – Dred Scott decision

John Brown

    "John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men seized from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured." (PBS)

1. Missouri Compromise of 1820

2. Compromise of 1850 

3. Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Our Simulation this week was on the Dred Scott Decision.  

Dred Scott

Sound Smart: Dred Scott Case | History

We assigned a debate topic of:  

The military draft is a good thing.  

The North is Affirmative and the South is Negative.

North Side (Blue): Bella, Zeke, and Makayla

South Side (Grey): Ava and Elise

Scholar Challenges: 

1. Complete research for your debate.  Fill out debate worksheet. 

2. Complete primary source study for the Dred-Scott Decision.

3. Complete timeline assignment.

4. Continue reading ​Uncle Tom’s Cabin ​ by Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Due on October 23rd.

5. Continue your memorization work.

6. Read over the “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln.

7. Journal writing:  Did the Supreme Court get the Dred-Scot decision right? Support your thoughts.  Cite information from the decision to support your answer.

Hero Insight Instructions​: ​(Should be about Five Minutes)

-Introduce your hero in an interesting way.

-Give background of your hero

-What did he/she do?  Did this make him/her a hero?

-Explain and present accompanying topic in an interesting way.

-Use pictures, props, etc!

Hero Insight Assignments

October 9^th : Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Seneca Falls Convention 1848

Makayla

October 16^th : Ralph Waldo Emerson/Transcendentalism Movement

Bella

Week 3: A Nation Divided

On Wednesday we reviewed a bit from last week and talked about Westward Expansion and the contention on if the new states would be free or slave states.  We had a great discussion on Huck Finn.  We divided into North and South and introduced the Lincoln Douglass document study.  They need to mark it up at home.  Please watch this 8-minute documentary: Inside The Lincoln Douglas Debates – Documentary.  

Inside the Lincoln Douglas Debates-Documentary

We assigned a debate topic of:  The military draft is a good thing.  The North is Affirmative and the South is Negative.  

North Side (Blue): Bella, Zeke, and Makayla

South Side (Grey): Ava and Elise

Make sure you’ve added these dates to your timeline.

Timeline Dates:

1765-1825 – Eli Whitney 

1793 – Cotton gin invented 

1858 – Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Timeline Dates from Last Week:

1619 – First African slaves in America 

1807 – Britain bans slavery 

1824 – Britain and US negotiate a treaty recognizing the slave trade as piracy 

1837 – Britain invites the US and France to create patrol to stop slaving, US declines 

1835 – 1910 – Mark Twain 

1818 – 1895 – Frederick Douglas 

1885 – ​Huckleberry Finn ​ published 

1753 – 1784 – Phillis Wheatley

Scholar Challenges: 

1. Start researching for your debate.  Fill out debate worksheet.  Write your debate introduction.  

2. Complete timeline assignment.

3. Continue reading ​Uncle Tom’s Cabin ​ by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

4. Continue your memorization work.

5. Read over the “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln

Hero Insight Instructions​: ​(Should be about Five Minutes)

-Introduce your hero in an interesting way.

-Give background of your hero

-What did he/she do?  Did this make him/her a hero?

-Explain and present accompanying topic in an interesting way.

-Use pictures, props, etc!

Hero Insight Assignments

Week 4, October 2nd: Eli Whitney/The Cotton Gin

Elise

Week 5, October 9^th: John Brown/Harper’s Ferry

Ava