US History
Mr. Chrisman | Room E-8
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\Welcome to U.S. History 2025-2026
Thanks for checking out the website. I've been maintaining a classroom website for ten years. I update it every day and it's available to anyone with internet access. It's extremely important that you bookmark this website on your bookmarks bar.
If you want to buy classroom supplies, you will need mechanical pencils and a spiral college-ruled (not wide-ruled) notebook that is used exclusively for this class. Any work done in a wide-ruled notebook or a notebook that is shared with other classes will not be given credit. These are available for about 35 cents at target and I have a bunch in my classroom if you want to buy one for 35 cents. If you take care of this notebook, it will last all year.
Please click on the dates to see the day's slides show. All homework is highlighted on the first slide
Week 4
Today we talked about the Treaty of Tordesillas and compared Capitalism and Merantilism. We will take some notes on this on Monday. Have a nice weekend. Please check out the new vocabulary on Quizlet. Try downloading the app on your phone.
Today we reviewed the Columbian Exchange, took a quiz, got our notes stamped and learned about Cortez and Pizarro. Homework tonight to to annotate page 22 in digital textbook. Please follow instructions in this video.
Today we talked about the Columbian Exchange and watched a 10 minute video that explains how the exchange of crops, animals, and microbes impacted the entire planet by reducing population in the New World and increasing population in the Old World. Please have those questions answered by tomorrow. You can print the handout out at home if you weren't here, if not, just leave some space at the top. For handouts, see the "Stamp Board" page. If you can't watch the video, the transcript is here in English and Spanish.
Today we finished our Christopher Columbus notes, watched a Brainpop, took a quiz (you can redo this for homework if you didn't like your score) and we read from a book called "Columbus: the Four Voyages" by Laurence Bergreen about Columbus' clever and controversial use of science to convince the natives of Jamaica that he could speak directly to God.
Week 3
Today we had our first planner and stamp test. Here are a few things we need to know:
On the planner test, you can miss one without any penalty. So those of you who didn't have your planner the first day are not going to have a low grade because of that one answer. In the future, it is up to you do get all the answers if you don't have your planner with you, but usually you can miss one and not lose any points.
On the stamp quiz, I want to manually review a few of them. So if you took the quiz and you don't see a score and you see the words "See me" in the comments, that means I need to see your stamps with my own eyes. Probably not a big deal, but I always need to pick a few to see on my own. So please come in at lunch and I will try to add a few bonus points for the inconvenience.
We started our notes on Columbus in most classes except per. 6 and 7 (!). But if you want to get started or finish them, you can. But there will be some time in class on Tuesday. Have a nice weekend.
Today we talked about Columbus and his ideas about the size of the earth. We watched a video and we looked at the results of last night's homework. Please have your stamps by tomorrow (come in at lunch today if you need stamps (I don't stamp on the day of the test unless you were absent). Also make sure your planners are up to date.
Today we reviewed some of the information from Chapter 1 lesson 1 and did a peardeck. Homework is to finish the Quizlet Activity. This should be located in Google Classroom. Try using this link if you can't find it quizlet.com/join-activity?code=AMY555.
PLEASE USE YOUR FIRST NAME LAST INITIAL FOLLOWED BY YOUR PERIOD NUMBER!!
We will resume presentations tomorrow and the stamp/planner quiz is on Friday.
Today we got our textbooks from the library. You can keep these books at home (whe have a class set). We also started our Age of Exploration Notes and will finish those tomorrow and get a stamp.
Here are the class codes for the Digital Portal in McGraw Hill if you didn't get a chance to log in yesterday.
Per. 1: viVqCsUD
Per 2: dilhN7fP
PER #3: vZBUEhy2
Period #6: ScBLIVGl
Period 7: pWoiZT1p
Today we glued two maps into our notebooks and labeled the countries. We also took a look at our digital notebooks and learned a bit about annotating. I also explained when to email me. If you have a late assignment and you want credit for it, sending an email is not going to make a difference. To deal with late work, you must come in at lunch. If you have a question about an upcoming assignment, please email so you don't waste time doing something the wrong way. But late work can only be cleared from Aeries if you come in to see me at lunch so I can have a face-to-face conversation about why you didn't get the assignment in. I don't answer emails about late work.
Week 2
Today we signed up for Quizlet. You can log in using your Google ID. Here are the codes for each class. Be sure to click the correct period or you will lose credit for upcoming assignments. Be sure to sign up for the right class!
Per. 1 https://tinyurl.com/2s36vb8n
Per. 2 https://tinyurl.com/4naspn5d
Per. 3 https://tinyurl.com/3xnfsdau
Per. 7 https://tinyurl.com/75x24e7a
Per. 8 https://tinyurl.com/5n884kmn
Once you join, PLEASE change your user name to someting I can recognize. Ideally your first name with your last initial followed by any random combination of letters. If your name is Christopher Columbus, for example, don't say CdawgSkibidi. Say ChristopherC123123! or something like that. Otherwise, if you want to prove you studied I won't be able to verify your Quizlet Activity.
We also worked on our timeline, talked about notebooks and got our timeline stamped (hopefully).
Today we took a practice quiz on 7 European Countries and tried to organize major events in American History. If you did not like your score on your quiz, I will adjust the settings tonight in order to have you take it again. At home, you will be able to take it an unlimited amount of times, but until 3:00 p.m. it will only allow you to take it once. This way I can see what we know and those of you who aren't sure where these countries are can practice on your own. Please make sure you get 100 percent. After 8:00 am tomorrow the test will be unavailable.
We also did a few presentations.
Today we talked a tiny bit about England/Great Britain/United Kingdom. They are different terms for the same area. We will review this in today's slides show. A few brave souls will present their islands and the rest of you will make changes to our projects based on the feedback I give to these projects.
Today we finished our project, reviewed some geography, and learned about the stamp board. I also stamped the notebooks. If you didn't bring them today, bring them tomorrow (you will lose points each day it is late.)
Today we went over the syllabus and learned how to turn it in. We also took another look at our Bitmoji Island projects and reviewed how to use remove.bg to get rid of backgrounds on personal pictures.
Please bring notebooks tomorrow and also turn in Syllabus using the digital form that links to the bottom of this document.
Here is a great screencast on how to use your aeries picture or your webcam to get a cartoon
Week 1
Today we reviewed some school rules, got our name tags, and worked a little on our Bitmoji island projects. Please go to google classroom to see the complete instructions. Please bring back your name tags if you took them and try to get a notebook for next week. Have a great weekend.
Today was the first day of school and we reviewed the class rules and the King Code. Please take a minute to look at the syllabus and be sure to bookmark this page on your bookmarks bar under the name US HIST so you can get to it whenever you need it. It will be updated every day and the date with be a link to the day's slides show.
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