2/23:  

• 7.1
• 7.2
• 7.3

2/24:  

• Journal
• 8.1
• The Jungle

2/27:

• Journal
• 8.3
• Washington vs. DuBois

2/28:

• Journal
• 8.4
• Square Deal

3/01:

• Panama Canal

3/02:

• The Century: Seeds of Change

3/03:

• 8.2
• Women's Suffrage

7.1, 7.2 & 7.3: Compacted

• Checkpoint (p.186): In what ways were the rights of African Americans restricted?
• Checkpoint (p.187): How did Wells, Washington, and Du Bois protest the mistreatment of African Americans?
• Checkpoint (p.188): How did Chinese immigrants use the court system to protest discrimination?
• Checkpoint (p.189): Why did Mexican Americans lose rights to their land?
• Checkpoint (p.191): What successes did women achieve in the years after Reconstruction?

• Analyzing Political Cartoons (p.194): #1 & 2
• President Garfield is Shot (p.195): How did Garfields assassination lead to a change in the civil service system?
• Checkpoint (p.196): Why did the Republicans and Democrats differ in their view of the tariff issue?

• Checkpoint (p.199): What were the farmers' major grievances, or complaints?
• Checkpoint (p.200): What reforms did the farmers' organizations introduce?
• Checkpoint (p.200): What were the goals of the Populist Party?
• Checkpoint (p.203): What happened to the Populist Party?

7.2: Political and Economic Challenges

Chapter 7 Section 2: Political and Economic Changes

• Checkpoint (p.194): Why did the federal government fail to make significant political gains between 1877 and 1897?
• Analyzing Political Cartoons (p.194): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.195): How did the spoils system lead to government corruption and, eventually, government reform?
• President Garfield is Shot (p.195): How did Garfields assassination lead to a change in the civil service system?
• Checkpoint (p.196): Why did the Republicans and Democrats differ in their view of the tariff issue?
• Section 2 Assessment (p.196): #1, 4, 5, 6

Thursday Chapter 6 Compacted

Chapter 6: Section 1 -- The New South.  

• Checkpoint (p.158): Why did southern farmers face hard times?
• Checkpoint (p.159): How did southern blacks lose their rights?
• Section 1 Assessment (p.159):
• #4: What positive steps did the South take to industrialize after the Civil War?
• #5: How did southern agriculture suffer from the domination of cotton?
• #6: How did southern African Americans both gain and lose civil rights after the Civil War?

Chapter 6: Lesson 2: Westward Expansion and the American Indians

• Checkpoint (p.162): What three circumstances hurt Native Americans?
• Map Skills (p.163): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.164): Why did tensions exist between settlers and Indians?

Chapter 6: Lesson 3: 

• Checkpoint (p.172): How did the government encourage the development of a transcontinental railroad?
• Checkpoint (p.173): How did the railroad affect the cattle industry?
• Farming the Plains (p.174): How did settlers adapt to the challenges of living on the Plains?
• Checkpoint (p.175): Why did farmers move to the Plains?
• Checkpoint (p.176): What were some of the causes of prejudice and discrimination in the West?

Little House on the Prairie

Today we will be watching a piece of the Little House on the Prairie premiere movie and discussing pioneer life, the trials of being out and alone,

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Charles and Caroline Ingalls, the original "Ma" and "Pa" from Little House on the Prairie, on their wedding day on February 1, 1860.

FROM THE LEFT – CARRIE, MARY, AND LAURA INGALLS

LAURA & ALMANZO WILDER – WINTER 1885-1886

LAURA INGALLS WILDER – PORTRAIT AT 70 YEARS; COURTESY OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION, MANSFIELD, MISSOURI