5/31/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Oregon Student Wellness Survey (in lab).

2)  Notes ("The Nixon Years")

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 884-887 ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
Focus your reading on:  a) Rising oil prices  b) OPEC oil embargo  c)  Impact of embargo on the U.S.

5/27/11

Today's agenda:

1) Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75").

2)  Finish Oral History presentations/Watch video "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam".

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 880-883 ("The Nixon Years").
Focus your reading on:  a) George McGovern  b) Divisions in the Democratic Party c) Spiro Agnew  d) Watergate cover-up  e) "Smoking gun"/"The tapes"  f) Nixon's pardon

5/26/11

Today's agenda:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")

2)  Oral History Presentations

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873; 876 ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on:  a) Tet Offensive  b) LBJ's announcement  c) Democratic Convention  d) George Wallace  e) "Silent majority"  f) Vietnamization  g) My Lai  h) Nixon's foreign policy

5/25/11

Today's agenda:

1) Notes ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68").

2)  Video:  "1965-70: Unpinned"
--Take 1 page of notes


3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 856-860 ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
Focus your reading on: a) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  b) Resistance to the draft

BRING ORAL HISTORY PAPERS TOMORROW IF YOU HAVEN'T SHARED YOURS IN CLASS YET.

5/24/11

Today's agenda:

1) Notes ("Or Does it Explode?")-Part 2

2) Peer Review of Essays
a) 3 rounds
b)  After the 3rd round, essays and evaluations passed back to owners to read, staple together, and hand in.
c) Class compilation of information.

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 850-856 ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68").
Focus your reading on:  a) Vietnam's colonial history  b) Ho Chi Minh  c) Ngo Dinh Diem  d) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  e) First "television war".

5/23/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Or Does it Explode?")-Part 1

2)  Finish essay assignment.  Due tomorrow for the peer review in class.

3)  Homework: Howard Zinn reading in Green Reader ("Or Does it Explode?")-Part 2 (pages 197-212 only).
Focus your reading on: a) Malcolm X's view of the March on Washington  b) Racial separation in northern cities  c) Black Panther leaders  d) Busing to achieve better integration

5/20/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights").

2) Martin Luther King/Malcolm X Essay Assignment
5 pts-notes
5 pts--outline
10 pts--essay
--Notes and outline done today in class.

3) Homework: Howard Zinn reading in Green Reader ("Or Does it Explode?")-Part 1 (Pages 182-197 only).
Focus your reading on:  a) Freedom Riders  b) Black Power leaders

5/19/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda").
2)  Examine a literacy test from the segregation era.

3) Finish yesterday's Civil Rights Movement document assignment.  Discuss and hand in.

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 860-867 ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights").
Focus your reading on:  a) Black separatism  b) White fear of Black Power  c) Cesar Chavez  d) Wounded Knee  e) National Organization for Women  f) The Feminine Mystique  g) Women's liberation movement

5/18/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("New Tactics for the Civil Rights Movement").
2)  Discuss/hand in yesterday's video notes.


3)  Civil Rights Movement Documents (using books provided):
a) Rosa Parks (pages 211-215)
b) Martin Luther King (pages 224-229)
c) Black Power (pages 229-234)
--Answer the questions at the end of each document in complete sentences.

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 842-846 ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda").
Focus your reading on:  a) Lyndon Johnson's political experience  b) 1964 presidential election  c) Great Society programs

5/17/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation").

2)  Video: "1960-64: Poisoned Dreams".
--Take 1 page of notes.


3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 836-842 ("New Tactics for the Civil Rights Movement").
Focus your reading on:  a) Sit-in movement  b) March on Washington  c) Voting Rights Act of 1965/24th Amendment.

5/16/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Hand in any remaining video notes.


2)  Test 11


3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 830-836 ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation").
Focus your reading on:  a)  1960 presidential campaign/election  b) "Flexible response"  c) Peace Corps  d) Bay of Pigs invasion  e) Cuban Missile Crisis  f) JFK's space program  g) JFK's assassination.
MORE SPECIFIC INFO TO STUDY FROM THIS POINT ON DUE TO THE LAST TEST OF THE YEAR BEING ALL MULTIPLE CHOICE.  DIFFERENT KIND OF NOTES AND MORE DETAILED INFORMATION.

5/13/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Other America")

2)  Video:  "1953-60:  Happy Days (Daze)"
--1 page of notes




STUDY FOR TEST 11 ON MONDAY.

5/11/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue").  3rd period also does tomorrow's notes.
2)  Test 11 Prep Sheet

3)  Continue Oral History presentations


4)  Homework (except for 3rd period):  Textbook, pages 816-825 ("The Affluent Society").
Focus your reading on:  a) Baby boomers  b) Role of women in the 1950s

Assignment for 3rd period replacing tonight's homework and tomorrow's classwork:


In preparation for tomorrow's visit by Theodore Roosevelt, write 3 paragraphs:
--3 serious questions you would ask TR and your reasons why you want to know his response.

5/10/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Canada and the Second World War presentations
--1/2 page of information and a visual.
--Audience should take class notes.

2)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 804-807 ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue").
Focus your reading on:  a) Brown vs. Board of Education  b) Montgomery Bus Boycott

5/9/11

Today's agenda:

Canada and the Second World War group project


--6 groups:  Prep Day in lab
--Present tomorrow
--At least 1/2 page typed bullet-point notes
--At least 1 relevant visual




NO OTHER HOMEWORK BESIDES FINISHING THIS

5/6/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home").

2)  Video:  "1946-52: Best Years"
--Take 1 page of notes.


NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEKEND.

5/5/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home").

2)  Post-WWII (Cold War) Role Play
a)  Present  (5 pts)
b)  2 audience questions per person (5 pts)
c)  Evaluation Form/"Considering Your Option" (5 pts each)

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 797-804 ("The Cold War at Home").
Focus your reading on:  a)  Fair Deal  b) Election of 1948  c) Joseph McCarthy  d) Alger Hiss  e) Interstate Highway System.

5/4/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Fighting and Winning the War").

2)  4 groups:  Post-WWII (Cold War) Role Play
a)  Read Option information together as a group.
b)  Complete the "Considering Your Option" sheet.
c)  Create a transparency for tomorrow's presentations.


3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 784-785; 788-797 ("The Cold War Abroad").
Focus your reading on:  a)  Containment  b)  Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan  c)  NATO  d) Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War  e) "Massive retaliation".

5/3/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation").

2)  Oral Histories due.  Begin presenting.
a)  Introduce person (Name, age, location, place in life, etc).
b)  Share highlights of person's story.
c)  Personal Reflection.

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 767-776 ("Fighting and Winning the War").
Focus your reading on:  a)  D-Day  b) Yalta

5/2/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Life on the Home Front").

2)  Video:  "1941-45: Homefront".
--Take 1 page of notes.


3)  Homework:  W. Peter Ward reading in Green Reader ("British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation")--Canada
Focus your reading on:  Specific examples of the impact of WWII on Japanese-Canadians.