Dumas

=**__DC History - Mr. Dumas__**=


 * [[file:DC History Syllabus Updated.docx|Syllabus]]**

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[|Civil War Interactive Map] - Has locations of hospitals, freedmen's villages, churches, etc. [|DC Housing Segregation Interactive Map and Storyline] - Shows progress and courts cases regarding segregated housing in DC during the early- to mid-1900s

**__ Week 15 - 5/15 - 5/19 __**

 * Friday HW -** __Epsilon__ & __Eta__ - (Due Monday) - Read and annotate or take notes on Marion Barry obituary. Consider how events in his life and the city's history during his mayorships connects to the older history of the city and its people.

[|Marion Barry Obituary] [|Marion Barry article]


 * Thursday HW -** __Epsilon__ - (Due Friday) - Read "Marion Barry article" and be prepared to discuss in class - copies are above


 * Wednesday HW -** __Eta__ - (Due Friday) - Read and annotate or take notes on "Marion Barry article" - copies are in link above
 * Wednesday HW -** __Epsilon__ - (Due Thursday) - Read and annotate or take notes on "People Were Out of Control" 1968 DC Riots article - copy below under Tuesday HW


 * Tuesday HW -** __Eta__ (Due Wednesday) - Read and annotate or take notes on "People Were Out of Control" 1968 DC Riots article


 * Monday HW -** __Epsilon__ (Due Wednesday) & __Eta__ (Due Tuesday) - Read D.C. Votes to Become the 51st State, But It Likely Won't" article and create 2 questions about it.

**__ Week 14 - 5/8 - 5/12 __**

 * If you are planning on missing school Friday for prom any assignments due Friday will be checked Monday!**

[|Un-Natural State video]
 * Thursday HW -** __Epsilon__ (Due Friday) - Watch video "Un-Natural State" and answer questions on worksheet - [[file:DC History Un-Natural State worksheet.docx|Worksheet]]

[|Un-Natural State video] [|John Oliver DC Statehood video]
 * Wednesday HW -** __Epsilon__ (Due Thursday) - Read & annotate/take notes on "Why I voted no on D.C. statehood" and "America's 51st State?". If you are unable to print the articles, take notes on them. (If you don't have the articles from class they are the two links below the Tuesday Eta HW)
 * Wednesday HW -** __Eta__ (Due Friday) - Write a 2-3 paragraph letter to someone outside of the District explaining DC's denial of voting rights and sharing your opinion about the issue.


 * Tuesday HW -** __Eta__ (Due Wednesday) - Read & annotate "Why I voted no on D.C. statehood" and "America's 51st State?". If you are unable to print the articles, take notes on them.


 * Monday HW -** __Eta__ (Due Tuesday) & __Epsilon__ (Due Wednesday) - Read and annotate biography of your notable African-American and be prepared to answer questions about your individual next class.

**__ Week 13 - 5/1 - 5/5 __**

 * Friday HW -** __Epsilon__ & __Eta__ (Due Monday) - Answer the following questions: 1. Describe how "compensated emancipation" and "contraband" relates to DC during the Civil War period (a couple sentences each) 2. How did the Freedmen's Bureau help freedmen with: Food & Clothing, Housing & Employment, and Education & Health? (1-2 paragraphs)



__Eta__ (Due Friday) - Finish Contraband Journal Entry. Continue working on current event paper due Friday.
 * Wednesday HW** - __Epsilon__ (Due Friday) - Continue working on current event paper due Friday.




 * Monday HW -** __Epsilon & Eta__ (Due Wednesday) - Make up any missing work from Q4. (Due Friday) - Choose a current event relating to the class or your life in DC and write a 1-3 page paper about it. The paper will include a summary, the significance of the article, and your opinion of it. The outline and rubric are below:

**__ Week 12 - 4/24 - 4/28 __**

 * Friday HW -** __Epsilon & Eta__ (Due Monday) - Read rest of ch. 7 packet. Answer question #3 on page 163. (If you were absent Friday, the packet includes pages 149-163. You can look at the scanned chapter that I've linked to below - under the Wednesday HW)

(The last page is scanned twice by accident!) [|Map of DC-area forts] [|Civil War Defenses Video]
 * Wednesday HW -** __Epsilon__ (Due Thursday) - Answer in 2 paragraphs or more: If you were in charge of defending/protecting the capital during the start of the Civil War what would you do? Remember to consider how you would respond to the threat of spies, southern sympathizers, disloyal troops and gov't employees, and possible attacks on the city. Do your actions include defenses, laws, etc? Be detailed.
 * Wednesday HW -** __Eta__ (Due Friday) - Answer in one paragraph or more: What makes for a good fort/defensive location? Looking at the map of forts in the capital, why do you think those locations were chosen?


 * Monday HW** - __Eta__ (Due Tuesday) & __Epsilon__ (Due Wednesday) - Answer the following 3 questions from the Ch. 6 Part 2 PowerPoint: **1.** Explain this quote: "The black community stabilized during the 1850s" **2.** Looking at the table of jobs held by free blacks - is it fair to say that they were truly free? Why or why not? **3.** What does the map of the election of 1860 tell us about the state of the nation at that time?



**__ Week 11 - 4/18 - 4/21 __**

 * [[file:DC History Ch. 5 Quiz Review .docx|CH. 5 Quiz Study Guide]] - Ch. 5 Quiz Friday!!! Use the study guide to review!**


 * Wednesday HW** - __Eta__ (Due Friday) & __Epsilon__ (Due Thursday) - Answer the following questions: 1. How did abolitionists work towards ending slavery? 2. As a white person or free black, would you have risked your freedom and/or life to help slaves? What would you do? Why? 3. Was Congress right to institute a "gag order" regarding petitions to end slavery and the slave trade in DC?




 * Tuesday HW** - __Eta__ - Continue working on Alexandria Retrocession papers.


 * Monday HW -** __Epsilon__ (Due Wednesday) - Ch. 5 packet read and annotate, answer handwritten question on pg. 101 and questions 3 & 5 on pg. 113. Continue working on Alexandria Retrocession drafts.
 * Monday HW -** __Eta__ (Due Tuesday) - Ch. 5 packet, answer handwritten question on pg. 101 and questions 3 & 5 on pg. 113. Continue working on Alexandria Retrocession paper.

**__ Week 9 - 4/3 - 4/7 __**





 * Friday HW** - __Eta__ (Due Monday) - Answer written question on pg. 101 and ques. #3 on pg. 113 if you do not finish in class.
 * Friday HW** - __Epsilon__ (Due Monday) - Work on Alexandria Retrocession draft. Email Mr. Dumas if you have any questions. You must use at least 2 sources.


 * Thursday** **HW** - __Epsilon__ (Due Monday) - Answer written question on pg. 101 and ques. #3 on pg. 113 if you do not finish in class.


 * Wednesday HW** - __Eta__ (Due Monday) - Work on Alexandria Retrocession draft.


 * Monday HW -** __Epsilon__ (Due Wednesday) & __Eta__ (Due Tuesday) - Answer the following 2 questions: 1. Explain why Washington did not develop into a great commercial city. Give at least 3 different reasons. 2. If you were starting a business in the mid-1800s what would it be? Why? What would you need to get it started?





**Wednesday HW** - Epsilon (Due Thursday) - Answer questions #1, 3, 5 on pg. 90 of Ch. 4.

 * Wednesday HW** - Eta (Due Friday) - Answer question #6 on pg. 90 of Ch. 4.

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 * Monday HW** - __Eta__ (Due Tuesday), __Epsilon__ (Due Wednesday) - Read the Washington Post article titled "[|DC Neighborhood Names Rekindle History]". On a separate sheet of paper (it will be collected) please answer the following: 1. What is the history of the name of your neighborhood? (you may have to research this) 2. What neighborhood history name from the article interests you most? Why? 3. What, if any, patterns do you notice about the names of the neighborhoods?======

**__ Week 7 - 3/6 - 3/10 __**

 * Friday HW -** Eta & Epsilon (Due Monday) - Finish travel brochure activity


 * [[file:DC 1800s tourism brochure activity.docx|Travel Brochure Activity]]**


 * Thurday HW** - __Epsilon__ (Due Monday) - Write response detailing what life was like for each class - elite, middle, working, slave. Include jobs, living conditions, entertainment, etc. Make sure to differentiate, if appropriate, between white and African-American experiences in these classes. Responses can be written in paragraphs or charts.


 * Wednesday HW** - __Eta__ (Due Friday) - Write response detailing what life was like for each class - elite, middle, working, slave. Include jobs, living conditions, entertainment, etc. Make sure to differentiate, if appropriate, between white and African-American experiences in these classes. Responses can be written in paragraphs or charts.
 * Wednesday HW** - __Epsilon__ (Due Thursday) - Read the dark-colored text insert on pg. 76 and answer the 2 questions at the beginning of the pg. 76 reading.

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Friday HW (Epsilon & Eta) - Watch [|Crash Course video on The Age of Jackson] (which occurs after the Era of Good Feelings). In a 2-3 paragraph response determine whether or not Andrew Jackson can be considered a good president. Consider his impact on campaigns, veto power, banking, state vs. federal power/rights, interactions with Native Americans, and political parties. For more information read about [|Jackson's presidency].======



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Wednesday HW (Epsilon) - Respond to this prompt: "We have seen that although the period from around 1815 to 1825 was called the Era of Good Feelings, there were many issues that were causing division and discord across the country. Do you think this period should be called the Era of Good Feelings? Why or why not"====== Wednesday HW (Eta) - Look over and come up with at least 6 questions you may have regarding the information. We will go over the PowerPoint Friday in class and address the questions you come up with.

**__ Week 5 - 2/21 - 2/24 __**
[|Burning of DC lecture video]

Friday HW (Epsilon & Eta) - Read & annotate handout. Write a 1 page news article as if you were a reporter covering the British attack on DC and Baltimore. You can include "interviews" with eyewitnesses in your article and/or provide a firsthand account of what you saw.

Thursday HW (Epsilon) - None

Wednesday HW (Eta) - Answer question in notebooks: "Would you have rebuilt the national capital in DC again after it was burned down? Why or why not?" Wednesday HW (Epsilon) - Read article on Arizona SB 1070 and be prepared to discuss in class on Thursday.

Tuesday HW (Eta) - Read article on [|Arizona SB 1070] and be prepared to discuss in class on Wednesday.

** __ Week 4 - 2/13 - 2/17 __ **




__Friday HW__ - Due Tuesday (Eta) - Finish journal. Read pgs. 57-67 and answer questions 3, 4, and 5 on pg. 67. I will be collecting these next week, so please write them on a fresh sheet of lined paper. __Friday HW__ - Due Wednesday (Epsilon) - Finish. Finish. Read pgs. 57-67 and answer questions 3, 4, and 5 on pg. 67. I will be collecting all these next week, so please write them on a fresh sheet of lined paper.

Thursday HW (Epsilon) - None

Wednesday HW (Eta) - Wednesday HW (Epsilon) - Finish reading and annotating through pg. 57 - answer prompt on pg. 46

Tuesday HW (Eta) - Finish reading and annotating through pg. 57 - answer prompt on pg. 46 Tuesday HW (Epsilon) - finish any missing work to be checked in class Wednesday.

**__ Week 3 - 2/6 - 2/9 __**
Epsilon -

[|Video of Prof. Bowling's Lecture on the early history of DC]

Wednesday HW (Epsilon, Eta) Look over and study for Ch. 2 quiz Friday.

Monday HW (Eta, Epsilon) Complete #3 on pg. 42 if you did not do so already. Create 5 questions with answers that you might see on a Chapter 2 quiz/test. You may create one multiple choice question if you'd like, but the rest need to be short answer questions.

**__ Week 2 - 1/30-2/3 __**
Weekend Homework: (Eta) - Finish reading & annotating Ch. 2 - Answer 2 questions on pg. 41 and question #3 on pg. 42. The L'Enfant letter excerpt is on the left-hand side of pg. 32. (Epsilon) - Finish reading & annotating Ch. 2 - Answer 2 questions on pg. 41 and question #3 on pg. 41. The L'Enfant letter excerpt is on the left-hand side of pg. 32. Read "Follow-Up Activity" and write a 2 paragraph response - one paragraph on why it is a good idea and one paragraph on why it is a bad idea.

Wednesday HW (Epsilon, Eta) - Read & annotate pgs. 32 to middle of 36

Tues HW (Eta) - Read "Follow-Up Activity" and write a 2 paragraph response - one paragraph on why it is a good idea and one paragraph on why it is a bad idea.

Monday HW - Read Ch. 2 pgs. 25-31 and answer the following questions:
 * 1) How is the fall line reflected in the geography of DC?
 * 2) How did the fall line and Potomac River influence local settlement.
 * 3) Why did George Washington think this location would be good for the new federal city.
 * 4) Who was involved in the administration and design of the federal city? What were their roles/titles?
 * 5) How did George Washington raise money for the new federal city? How did he negotiate with landowners?
 * 6) Why was it important for the new federal city to be successful?

**__ Week 1 - 1/23-1/27 __**
Weekend HW - Read Ch. 2 up to "A Site Prepared by Nature" - Create a timeline of the 12 dated events mentioned in those 4 pages. Dates go from 1774 to 1790. You can use a sheet of notebook paper to create a vertical timeline, or you can use a blank sheet of paper and create one that way. DC History Ch. 2 -


 * Quiz Friday on Ch. 1 (Epsilon & Eta)**
 * [[file:DC History Ch. 1.pdf]] (email jdumas@latinpcs.org if you need a printed copy. I will get you a copy during school on Thursday)**

Ch. 1 Reading due Wednesday (Eta) & Thursday (Epsilon)

Voyage Activity due Friday (Eta) - Epsilon will work on it Friday in class

Introductory Assignment [|DC Council Website] - find your council member! You must go click on the council members to see their bio and what Wards they represent. [|DC Redistricting Game] - In 2013 some of the wards did not contain an appropriate number of residents. Try changing ward boundaries to make each ward's population acceptable.