Agenda 8/19 Honors U.S. History

1.BR: Get out homework and talk about how it applies to writing in history with your group

-Turn in
2. Finish RAFTs (if already finished, work on the homework)
-Role
-Audience
-Format
-Topic

5.Reconstruction RAFT: Take the role of a freedman during post-Reconstruction who is writing to a relative in the North. Describe your opinion on (or experience with) the Jim Crow Laws, the increase in lynchings, and Pap Singleton/the Exodusters after the Hayes-Tilden Compromise (4-6 sentences). Use detail and be specific!   # Catch Up Unit

-Read the following articles for background knowledge (use info from them in your response)

-http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_election.html

-https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-lynching-america/

-https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/singleton.htm

3.Start Industrial Age Notes

-Go through slide #5 (time zones)

HW: Read 3.4