Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Westward Expansion: Manifest Destiny

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Agenda 1/2/13:
  1. Students viewed a series of paintings of the American West by Albert Bierstadt. The painting were made during the period of Westward Expansion.
  2. Students reviewed previous content by writing their own definitions of several key terms: Westward Expansion, Fort Laramie Treaty, Wounded Knee, Misconceptions and Stereotypes of Native Americans, Manifest Destiny.
  3. Students read A Great Nation of Futurity by John L. O'Sullivan, summarizing and answering questions.
  4. Students watched a viewer clip about the Battle of Little Big Horn and saw looked at this article about bias in today's news regarding Sitting Bull, Custer, and President Obama.
Albert Bierstadt:



Custer's Last Stand: