Lesson 5-7 Launching the New Republic

This week's lesson will focus on three lessons from the unit Launching the Republic.  Students will participate in a Socratic Seminar and discuss one of the following essential questions: 1.  To what extent should the United States have become involved in world affairs in the early 1800s? 2.  What did it mean to be an American in the early 1800s? or 3. How well did Andrew Jackson grow democracy? The Socratic Seminar will take place on Thursday.  The homework can be found on the Webpage and RTI document.  Each day of the week we will focus on one of the essential questions with a different mini-lesson.  If students are not in class for the Socratic Seminar they will take a test on Lesson 5,6,and 7 focusing on the essential questions and Lesson 5 sec 4 and 6, Lesson 6 sec 3 and 5, and lesson 7 sec 6 and Reading further they Trail where they cried.  

Lesson 5-7 Socratic Seminar
Lesson 5-7 Socratic Seminar

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Copy of Microsoft Word - e7-socratic-seminar-packet.docx.pdf
Copy of Socratic Seminar Grading

Grading for Socratic Seminar

Lesson 5- Foreign Affairs in the Young Nation- To what extent should the United States have become involved in world affairs in the early 1800s?



The following will be completed in class and can be used for your notes and five sections.  

Lesson 6- A growing sense of Nationhood- What did it mean to be an American in the early 1800s?


The following will be completed in class and can be used for your notes and five sections.  

Lesson 7- Andrew Jackson and the Growth of American Democracy - How well did Andrew Jackson grow democracy?


The following will be completed in class and can be used for your notes and five sections.