How To Study Smarter

Thought some of you might be interested in this: Better Ways to Learn
(Hint: study in focused short spurts, over a period of time, in different places. Teacher others. Write things. It works!)

Paper Slide Presentations

Students! Please email me your video as an attachment OR upload it to Youtube and send me the link. My email is katherine.harris AT dpsnc.net

Study Tips for Test #2

Hey there....

1) Your study guide is up.
2) There are also a few resources on the Lectures tab. Remember that you will have an essay on this test, so understanding the big ideas are crucial.
3) Remember to do extra credit: notes, reflection, and themes.
4) Quizzes 4-8 on this page might be helpful.
5) Here is a playlist for you. Enjoy.

Reading for Tuesday

Everyone will read pages 210-219.

For the online reading, please come to class with a paragraph summary of your reading(s) and at least one "amazing quote"--a sentence or two quote that really sums up the reading, makes you think, or that you have a question about.

Group A: Women
Abigail Adams Letter
John Adams Letter

Group B: Slavery
Washington's Last Will and Testament (last 2 pages only)
Jefferson's Notes from the State of Virginia

Group C: Western Farmers
Whiskey on the Frontier (skip video, read the Making...section and Taxing....section).
Washington's Sixth Annual Message (read the two excerpts here, the Message & Farewell Address. Ignore the questions!)

Group D: Native Americans
Treaty of Greenville (read excerpts A and D only)
Tecumseh to William Henry Harrison

And if you get bored, a youtube video on AHam. For fun....
Alexander Hamilton Rap

Some videos and ideas regarding the American Revolution

Some of the big questions and ideas that we have discussed regarding the Revolution:

What caused the American Revolution?

2 Revolutions--how much did things actually change?

Too Late to Apologize

And in case you're wondering whether this will be on the test, let John Green answer. Just watch the very first minute:

Getting ready for your first test!

It's that time. Here are a few resources and reminders that might help you along the way...

1) Copies of resources we used in class are available under the Lectures tab

2) Practice review quizzes. This test will cover topics 1, 2, 3, and some of four.

3) Use the study guide and your summer assignment to check your knowledge. Go over the quiz that we took on the first day and make sure you know the right answers!

4) Do the extra credit for the readings assigned so far this year.

5) Attend the review session Monday from 2:45-3:15 prepared to ask specific questions about topics that you need help with.

Good luck!

Primary Source Homework Assignment

Your first homework assignment continues the theme of settlement and encounter. Please go to this website where you will find a set of documents from both European American and Native American perspectives. Choose 1 document written by a European American and complete one side of the APPARTS worksheet that you received in class. Then choose 1 document written by a Native American and complete the other side of the APPARTS worksheet. Think about how these documents work together--what can be learned from studying both closely? Are they in agreement in anyway? Where is there tension? Come to class prepared to discuss these ideas.