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