Lesson Plans for Mr. Martens 

RESOURCES

• Introduction

  • • Classroom Rules, Guidelines, and Policies

    • Class Folder Guidelines

    • 1st Semester Student Grade Sheet

    • 2nd Semester Student Grade Sheet

    • Student Information/Book Condition Report

• Unit I:  The Illinois Country

  • • Notes

      • • 1 Notes:  The Early Inhabitants of Illinois

        • 2 Notes:  The French in Illinois

        • 3 Notes:  How the Illinois Country Became American Territory

    • Handouts

      • • Unit I Place Location

        • Chapter 1 Study Guide

        • Chapter 2.1 Study Guide

        • Chapter 2 Map Activity:  The Voyage of Marquette and Joillet 

        • Chapter 2 Primary Source:  The Illinois Country, 1674

        • Chapter 2.2 Study Guide

        • Chapter 3 Study Guide

        • Chapter 3 Primary Source:  Pontiac Rallies His Warriors, 1763

        • Unit I Review Sheet

• • Unit II:  The Illinois Territory

    • Notes

      • • 4 Notes:  Steps Toward Statehood

        • 5 Notes:  The Twenty-First State

        • 6 Notes:  Patterns of Settlement

    • Handouts

      • • Unit II Place Location

        • 4 Study Guide

        • 4 Supplements Study Guide

        • "Earthquake Central" from Smithsonian (Dec. 2011)

        • "Building Fort Dearborn" from The Heartland

        • Chapter 4 Primary Source:  Tecumseh Challenges William Henry Harrison, 1810

        • "It Wasn't the Fort Dearborn Massacre" from The Chicago Tribune--Opinion (15 Aug. 2012)

        • 5 Study Guide

        • Unit II Map Activity:  Size and Boundaries of Illinois

        • 6 Study Guide

        • Chapter 6 Primary Source:  The Black Hawk War, 1832

        • 6 Supplements Study Guide

        • "A Nation Betrayed" from The Heartland  and "Site Where Potawatomi Died to Be Marked" from The State Journal-Register (28 Sept. 1995)

        • "River Pirates of Cave-in-Rock" from Illinois History (Apr. 1996)

        • Unit II Review Sheet

• Unit III:  Illinois Grows and Prospers

  • • Notes

      • • 7 Supplement Notes:  Lincoln - A Backwoods Boy

        • 7 Notes:  A Sampler of Frontier Towns

        • 8 Notes:  The Challenge of the Prairies

        • 9 Notes:  Red Ink in Illinois

        • 10 Notes:  Illinois at Mid-Century

    • Handouts

      • • Unit III Place Location

        • "A Backwoods Boy" from Lincoln:  A Photobiography

        • 7 Supplement Study Guide

        • 7 Study Guide

        • "Did 'Bad Blood' on American Frontier Lead to Chicago's First Murder" from The Chicago Tribune (18 June 2017)

        • "The Prairies" from Outdoor Illinois (Feb. 1972)

        • 8 Supplement Study Guide

        • 8 Study Guide

        • "Lincoln and the Great Reaper Trial" from The Rockford Register Star (2 Aug. 2009)

        • 9 Study Guide

        • 10 Study Guide

        • "Education in Illinois" from The Heartland

        • "The Iron Horse Invades the Prairie" from The Heartland

        • 10 Supplements Study Guide

        • Land Sale by the Illinois Central, 1864

        • Chapter 10 Map Activity:  Railroads in Illinois

        • Chapter 10 Skills Practice:  Reading a Train Schedule

        • Unit III Review Sheet

• Unit IV:  Illinois and the Civil War

  • • Notes

      • • 11 Supplement Notes:  Lincoln - Law and Politics

        • 11 Notes:  Prelude to War

        • 12 Supplement Notes:  U. S. Grant

        • 12 Notes:  Illinois Pitches In

        • 13 Notes:  The Long Road to Peace

• • Handouts

    • • • Unit IV Place Location

        • "Law and Politics" from Lincoln:  A Photobiography

        • 11 Supplement Study Guide

        • "Illinois' Unusual War Memento" from Illinois History (Oct. 1988)

        • 11 Study Guide

        • "U. S. Grant" from None Died in Vain:  The Saga of the American Civil War

        • 12 Supplement Study Guide

        • 12 Study Guide

        • 13 Study Guide

        • "When Jennie Comes Marchin' Home" from Illinois History (Feb. 1994)

        • "Holy Cow! History:  The 14-Year-Old Medal of Honor Recipient" from The LaCrosse Tribune (2 June 2021)

        • 13 Primary Source:  Letter from General William T. Sherman Concerning Orion Howe of Waukegan, 18 Aug. 1863

        • "Medical and Surgical Care during the American Civil War, 1861-1865" from Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings (Apr. 2016)

        • 13 Supplement Study Guide

        • Unit IV Review Sheet

SEMESTER EXAM

• Review Sheet (Units I-IV)

• Place Location