History 8-2 Home Page

Five handy links to use.

Email Mr. Robbins
If you are trying to email me from a computer where you do not have a webmail account, copy and paste the above linked address into your email program.

Quiz Star

The Library of Congress

National Geographic Search Engine

Presentation Rubric

Class starter handouts

Class Syllabus and Rules

Emergency supplies
Please, use these only if needed occasionally.

Lined paper

Graph paper

Before registering for any web tools, I strongly suggest you read my guidelines.
Click here to read them.

Web tools for your use

Easel.ly
This is a very handy and simple poster creation tool that includes some pretty sophisticated tools.

thenounproject.com
This may be the largest selection of clip art on the web - and it's free.

This is the class web site for History 8-2 from
Mr. Robbins at Madison Junior High School.

Announcements

1800 - 1860 Illustrated Timeline Jefferson's Pasta Recipe Click here to view the PowerPoint we used in class about the Adams administration. Click here to open a copy of the notes pages we used to accompany that PowerPoint. A page with the information about the Adams administration we used in class will be added to the site later. This is a small-size map of the territorial expansion of the United States up to 1900. Click on the above map to open a large-scale version.	Check back for important information! Key Battles of War of 1812
Online Textbook > Click here.

Assignments

Assignment Number & Name	Links Use the links below to go to the web page for that assignment.	Deadline
The Course Assessment	Quiz Star	In class 3/8
1, The Washington Presidency, Part One	Click here.	3/15
2, The Lewis and Clark Expedition	Click here.	3/18, or TBA
3, War of 1812	Click here.	Depends on class per.
4, part two, War of 1812 part 2, 2nd & 4th hours only	Click here.	3/31
5, Changing Democracy in America	Click here.	4/7
Historical Essay	Click here.	4/29
One Third Book Report	Click here.	4/01
6, The Market Revolution in America	Click here.	4/13
7, Four Important Supreme Court Cases, 1800 -1860	Click here.	TBA
Two Thirds Book Report	Click here.	4/21
8, Westward Migration & Antebellum America	Click here.	5/03
9, Events Leading Up to the Civil War	Click here.	5/09
10, The Civil War	Click here.	5/16 or TBA
11, Reconstruction	Click here.	5/23 or TBA

Books for class reading The books listed below are already approved for your class reading. If you want to use another, that's fine, but you need to have Mr. Robbins approve it. Generally speaking a book needs to be set close to the time period we will cover in class, be well written, and be moderate length. You may use these books in any form you can find. You may check one out from the school or public library, or purchase it from an online source such as Amazon. These books are all in the public domain and are not very expensive. You may use the links below to access your book as an ebook. Some books have audio files. You may use the audio file for your book reading if you choose. To view a printable copy of the book report handout you received in class, click here.
Book Title	PDF Link	Audio File Link
Roughing It, Mark Twain		Click here.
Best Humorous American Short Stories, Assorted Authors	HTML only (for now)
Eight Cousins, Louisa May Alcott	Click here.	Click here.
Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington	Click here.	Click here.
Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain	Click here.	Click here.
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott	Click here.	Click here.
Rose in Bloom, Louisa May Alcott	Click here.	Click here.
Little Men, Louisa May Alcott	Click here.	Click here.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe *	Click here.	Click here.

* These books qualify for extra credit.

Journal Items

Remember -

We read and summarize a reading selection for your journal every day.
You will submit your journal entries from each week Friday. Please, submit only the items for that week each Friday.
You will keep your journal entries on 8 1/2" x 11" three hole punch paper.
When your journal entries are returned, keep them in your class binder.

The links to the journal entries we use for each day are found in the right hand column of this table. There are also extra copies of the articles from each day in the blue out box.

If you want to see an example of how your journals should be formatted, click here.

To view the PowerPoint about plagiarism and journal entries we used at the beginning of class, click here.

Vocabulary

Week ending March 11