American Pageant Group Reading Plan and Process

• Notetaking Each group member must maintain their own notebook and take notes on the chapters using Cornell method
• Reading Groups Create reading groups assigning duties, rotating them to ensure that each member participates thoroughly.
• Allotted Time Dedicate one hour class period to complete each week's reading.

Here's a detailed in-class group reading plan for the entire American Pageant text, starting in mid-August and ending in April
First Quarter: Mid-August to OctoberFocus: Colonial America to the Revolutionary War
Week 1-2:

• Chapter 1 – The New World
• Chapter 2 – The Planting of English America

Week 3-4:

• Chapter 3 – Settling the Northern Colonies
• Chapter 4 – American Life in the Seventeenth Century

Week 5-6:

• Chapter 5 – Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
• Chapter 6 – The Duel for North America

Week 7-8:

• Chapter 7 – The Road to Revolution
• Chapter 8 – America Secedes from the Empire

Week 9-10:

• Chapter 9 – The Confederation and the Constitution
• Chapter 10 – Launching the New Nation

Second Quarter: November to DecemberFocus: The Early Republic to the Antebellum Period
Week 11-12:

• Chapter 11 – The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic
• Chapter 12 – The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism

Week 13-14:

• Chapter 13 – The Rise of a Mass Democracy
• Chapter 14 – Forging the National Economy

Week 15-16:

• Chapter 15 – The Ferment of Reform
• Chapter 16 – The South and the Slavery Controversy

Week 17-18:

• Chapter 17 – Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
• Chapter 18 – Renewing the Sectional Struggle

Week 19-20:

• Chapter 19 – Drifting Toward Disunion
• Chapter 20 – Girding for War: The North and the South

Third Quarter: January to FebruaryFocus: Civil War and Reconstruction
Week 21-22:

• Chapter 21 – The Furnace of Civil War
• Chapter 22 – The Ordeal of Reconstruction

Week 23-24:

• Chapter 23 – Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
• Chapter 24 – Industry Comes of Age

Week 25-26:

• Chapter 25 – America Moves to the City
• Chapter 26 – The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution

Week 27-28:

• Chapter 27 – The American Revolution
• Chapter 28 – Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

Fourth Quarter: March to AprilFocus: The Progressive Era to the Early 20th Century
Week 29-30:

• Chapter 29 – Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
• Chapter 30 – The War to End Wars

Week 31-32:

• Chapter 31 – American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”
• Chapter 32 – The Great Depression and the New Deal

Week 33-34:

• Chapter 33 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
• Chapter 34 – America in World War II

Week 35-36:

• Chapter 35 – The Cold War Begins
• Chapter 36 – America in the 1960s

Week 37-38:

• Chapter 37 – The Search for Order
• Chapter 38 – The Resurgence of Conservatism

Week 39-40:

• Chapter 39 – The Age of Globalization
• Chapter 40 – America Confronts the Twenty-First Century

Review & Assessment: End of April

• Week 41-42: Comprehensive review of key concepts, themes, and historical events.
• Week 43-44: Final exam and project presentations.