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Week #

Time Period

Social Studies (w/ standard)

English (w/ standard)

Projects

4.1

1789 - 1800

Launching the New Ship of State (Ch 10)

Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac

Personal almanac of self-improvements and inventions

4.2

1800 - 1812

The Triumphs & Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic (Ch 11)

Biography of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine

4.3

1812-1824

The Second War for Independence and Upsurge of Nationalism (Ch 12)

Betsy Ross : the American flag, and life in a young America

Randolph, Ryan P.The Boston Tea

“Old Ironsides” p/162 in Am Lit. Party

Kroll, Steven.

4.4

1824 - 1840

The Rise of a Mass Democracy (Ch 13)

Trail of Tears

Intro to Romanticism-The Scarlett Letter Abridged

4.5

1790 - 1860

Forging the National Economy (Ch 14)

-The Scarlett Letter Abridged

4.6

1790 - 1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture (Ch 15)

Edgar Allen Poe-Pit and the Pendulum