Daily Entries
Expect to have Entry Questions most days. Record these into your notebooks and include the Entry Number and Date!!
I collect entries before every quiz. these are our daily grade and by the end of a quarter or semester account for a lot of points!!
Assignments will also be posted on these pages under the dates they are assigned.
8/28/2026 - First Americans Article and Questions
Entry 1 8/31/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 1 sec 1
What did the folsom discovery prove?
Where did the earliest Americans most likely come from?
What happened 9,000-10,000 years ago?
How did the shift to agriculture change the way the early humans lived?
Entry 2 - 9/1/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Pg 14
Who do Anthropologists think were the first people to build a civilization?
Where did they build their civilization?
About how long did that civilization last?
Who were the Anasazi?
Assignment:
Create a Concept Map to identify 5 different advances/dates of existence/location - Maya, Aztec, Hohokam, Anasazi, Mississippian Culture
Entry 3 - 9/3/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Pg 33
What is Feudalism?
By the 1300s, which good were flowing into Europe? - 35
Why were Europeans able to begin exploring the world in the 1400-1500s?
What new technology enabled the Europeans to travel further away from home during this time?
Friday 9/4/2026
Next Friday is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. answer the following questions
1. What comes to mind when you think about those attacks or what do you know about it?
2. How has the meaning of September 11 changed for Americans who were alive during the attacks versus for those who were born after 2001? (Does this attack mean something differently for your parents than it does for you?)
3. What questions do you have or what do you want to know about that event?
4. Do you think the United States is a safer nation today than it was in 2001?
Entry 4 - 9/8/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Pg 39
Why did the Portuguese turn Columbus down in funding his expedition?
What was the result of Columbus’ second trip to the “New World”?
Age of Exploration Video
Entry 5 - 9/9/2-26 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Pg 41
Why was the Treaty of Tordesillas created?
Identify 5 things that were introduced to America and 5 things that were introduced to Europe through the Columbian Exchange
Who was Hernan Cortes? - Pg 50
Exploration Map
Find a map online - “Age of Exploration map” - to identify the explorers routes. (Wikipedia and Studentsofhistory.com)
Entry 6 - 9/10/2026 - Ol Blue CH 2 Pg 61
Why did Queen Elizabeth use Privateers?
What happened to the Roanoke colony?
What were some of the early problems with Jamestown?
Entry 7 - 9/14/2026 - Ol Blue CH 2 Pg 63
What was John Rolfe’s role in Jamestown?
What was the Headright System?
13 colonies map
5th period - with your chromebook
click on this link to read the article about tobacco
https://www.anamericanquilt.com/virginia-tobacco.html
Answer these 4 questions
What were the thoughts on Tobacco “early on”?
What did King James I think of tobacco?
Where did John Rolfe get his tobacco seeds?
How many pounds of tobacco were shipped to England in 1615-16?
Entry 8 - 9/15/2026 - Ol Blue Pg 66
Who were Separatists?
What was the Mayflower?
How was the early government in the Massachusetts Bay colony set up?
Why was Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts?
Wednesday 9/16/2026 - Assignment
Colonizing America worksheet due at end of period.
We have a QUIZ tomorrow - 9/17 click on the link below for the review.
QUIZ REVIEW - This is not an assignment - but will help you study
9/17/2026 - QUIZ Day
Friday 9/18/2026 - Entries Due
Primary Source - German immigrant travels to Pennsylvania
Questions from the Article:
What does Mittelberger say about the food and water?
What evidence of does he provide?
Why do some passengers remain on board for a couple weeks after arriving in America?
Why might immigrants have continued to come to America despite these dangers?
Entry 1 - 9/21/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 117
Why would a war break out between the British and French in America?
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
Need your laptop!
Entry 2 - 9/22/2026 - Click on the link below to answer the following questions
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/french-and-indian-war-1754-1763-causes-and-outbreak
Who were all of the participants in this French and Indian War?
How many times had the two powers fought each other over the past century?
How was this war “unique” with where it started compared to previous wars?
Who gave the order to fire the first shots of the war?
What was it that both sides wanted?
Which nation held the population advantage within the colonies?
After the initial skirmish, where did Washington return to? Why?
What happened when the French returned?
Wednesday 9/23/2026 - Assignment
You are the Historian!
9/24/2026
Keep working on the assignment + Washington video on Netflix
Entry 3 - 9/25/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 119
Why did the British issue the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
What are customs duties?
What was the complaint by colonial merchants about the sugar Act?
What was the main argument by colonists like James Otis?
Entry 4 - 9/28/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 121
What were the Stamp Act and Quartering Act?
What are writs of assistance?
What continued argument did John Dickinson make in his series of essays?
Entry 5 - 9/29/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 127
What was the committee of correspondence?
What led to the Boston Tea party?
Why did the British pass the Coercive Acts?
Who were the loyalists and patriots?
Entry 6 - 9/30/2026 - Ol Blue Pg 131
1. What was decided at the Second Continental Congress?
2. Why was the Battle of Bunker Hill important for the Americans?
3. How did the King respond to the American Olive Branch Petition?
4. How did Thomas Paine help to change the attitudes of many American colonists?
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. . . .
I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great-Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.
Thursday 10/1/2026 - Assignment
Mike Rowe Podcast: The Way I Heard It, episode 162 - Occasionally Independent
Patrick Henry WebQuest
Friday - 10/2/2026 - Assignment
Declaration of Independence Questions
Monday - 10/5/2026 - MAKE-UP DAY
Work on the two assignments from last week
No Late work will be accepted after tomorrow
Entry 7 - 10/6/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 139
What were the advantages that both the colonists and the British had during the Revolutionary war.
Aside from win battles, what else did the British need to do in order to force a quick end to this war?
Where was Washington’s daring attack in December of 1776?
What is Valley Forge?
Entry 8 - 10/7/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 141
Why was the Battle of Saratoga a Turning Point of the war?
How did the letters of Marque have an impact on the American war effort?
Why did the British decide to begin a campaign in the Southern colonies?
Entry 9 - 10/8/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 143
What did the British do in the Southern colonies that pushed loyalists to join the American cause?
Who was Francis Marion?
Thursday 10/8/2026 - Timeline Assignment
On a separate sheet of paper place the following events into chronological order. You need to provide a brief explanation about each, (explain the significance). Provide the year that each event happened
American Benedict Arnold becomes a traitor***
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Kings Mountain***
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Yorktown
British soldiers are sent to Lexington and Concord, Mass.
Declaration of Independence
France enters the war on the American side
Parliament passes the Coercive Acts
Parliament passes the Stamp Act
Royal Proclamation of 1763
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense
Treaty of Paris is signed
Washington crosses the Delaware River
*** these two events happened in the same year, don’t worry about getting them in the correct order
Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday: Movie - The Crossing
Entry 10 - 10/14/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 144
Who did British General Cornwallis link up with in Virginia?
How did the French Naval fleet help with the victory at Yorktown?
What became the western border of the new nation with the Treaty of Paris?
The French and Indian War Changes the Fate of America and the World.
Article of Confederation Questions - Answer the questions on a sheet of paper to turn in.
A More Perfect Union: George Washington and the Making of the Constitution
THEN: Complete the Federalists/Anti-Federalists worksheet on a separate piece of paper and hand in.
U.S. Constitution Principles Bubble Map
