Syllabus Sword 2016 - 2017

Sword of Freedom

Syllabus (2016-2017)

    Week 1 – Aug 26^th

Lecture - Choosing your Allegiance.  Learn note taking and proper lecture behavior.

Writing Assignment - Where is your allegiance and why?

Activity - Military Rules

Presentation -

Begin Reading - Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher-Stowe

Begin researching your presentation topic

  Week 2 - Sept 2^nd

Lecture - Public Virtue, Pre-Civil War history, and Compromise of 1850.

Writing Assignment - Is compromise a good thing?  Why or why not?

Activity

Presentation -

Reading - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  Week 3 - Sept 9^th

Lecture - The cycles of History, Bleeding Kansas, and Elections of 1860.

Writing Assignment- When evil is being done is it right to react with evil? 

Document study - Dread Scott

Presentation -

Reading - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  Week 4 - Sept 16^th

Lecture - Secession, Fort Sumter, First Manassas

Writing Assignment - Is secession constitutional?  

Book Discussion - Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher-Stowe

Presentation –

Begin Reading - Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

 Week 5 - Sept 23^rd

Lecture - Shiloh and Antietam and Unconstitutional Acts

Writing Assignment - Is it ever wrong to follow the law and if so when and why?

Document study - Emancipation Proclamation

Presentation – Sister Echeverria

Reading - Across Five Aprils

 Week 6 - Sept 30^th

Lecture - Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville

Writing Assignment - Write a poem on something that you have studied so far.

Book Discussion - Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Presentation – Food by Jonah B

Begin Reading - Abraham Lincoln by Wilber F. Gordy

Week 7 – Oct 7^th

Lecture - Gettysburg  

Reading - Abraham Lincoln

Week 8 – Oct 14^th

Lecture - Gettysburg

Document Study:  Gettysburg Address

Presentation – Uniforms and The Army by Guest

Reading - Abraham Lincoln

       Fall Break Oct 21^st  - Enjoy!

 Week 9 – Oct 28^th

Lecture - The Battles of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Wilderness.

Writing Assignment - Write a letter home as if you had just fought in the Battle of Gettysburg.

Book Discussion - Abraham Lincoln by Wilber F. Gordy

Presentation – Underground by Gavin K

Begin Reading - To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

Week 10 – Nov 4^th

Lecture - Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania, Raid in the South

Writing Assignment - In your opinion was Sherman’s Raid right.  Why or why not?

Activity - Who Killed the Constitution? 

Presentation – Spies by Jonah C

Reading - To Kill a Mockingbird

Week 11 – Nov 11^th

Lecture - The Last Goodbye.  The Surrender at Appomattox.

Writing Assignment - Start Writing Hero Report

Document Study - Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

Presentation – Prisons by McKensey E

Reading - To Kill A Mockingbird

Week 12 – Nov 18^th

Lecture - The Death of President Lincoln.

Writing Assignment - Write a paper on how you would try to bind the nation’s wounds.

Document study - Amendments 13-15.

Presentation –  Weapons  by Gavin

Reading:  To Kill A Mockingbird

      Thanksgiving Break Nov 25^th - Gobble Gobble!

Week 13 – Dec 2^nd

Lecture:  The Reconstruction

Writing Assignment - Pay the Debt.  How do you plan to pay back your ancestors and continue to preserve freedom?

Presentation -

Book Discussion - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Week 14 – Dec 9^th

Lecture - Paying the Debt.

Writing Assignment - None

Activity - 

Presentation -

Rank Advancements –

Christmas Break will be Dec 10, 2016 to Jan 5, 2017.  If you are behind on assignments, you will have until Jan 4th to report to Sis.  Cummings.  Enjoy your Christmas Break with Family and Friends.   

Reading:

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher-Stowe

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Abraham Lincoln by Wilber F. Gordy

To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee