5/31/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Modern Women's Rights Movement")-Canada

2)  Modern Women's Rights Leaders Presentations
--Audience should take class notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 899-904 ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
Focus your reading on:  a) Gerald Ford's problems as president  b) Jimmy Carter's "outsider" campaign and leadership style  c) Camp David Accords  d) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan  e) Iranian Hostage Crisis

5/30/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Why Women's Liberation?")

2)  Modern Women's Rights Leaders (Prep Day)
--Present tomorrow

3)  Homework:  Paul Bennett reading in Green Reader ("The Modern Women's Rights Movement")-Canada
Focus your reading on:  a) Laura Sabia  b) Canadian Human Rights Commission

5/29/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")

2)  Watergate reading/questions/graded discussion
--Use pages 267-276 in books provided

3)  Homework:  Marlene Dixon reading in Green Reader ("Why Women's Liberation?")
Focus your reading on:  a) Gender roles in the New Left and Civil Rights Movement  b)  U.S. government's use of women and African-Americans

5/25/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")

2)  Video:  "1971-75: Approaching the Apocalypse"
--Take 1 page of notes


3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 887-889; 892-899 ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")
Focus your reading on:  a) Three Mile Island  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c) Roe vs. Wade  d) "Modern" political campaigning

5/24/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years")

2)  Video:  "Dear America:  Letters Home from Vietnam"
--Just watch.  No notes.

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.

5/23/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Finish Vietnam Oral History Presentations


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

5/22/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Vietnam 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 surprise announcement  c) 1968 Democratic Convention  d) George Wallace  e) "Silent Majority"  f) Vietnamization  g) My Lai  h) Nixon's foreign policy

5/21/12

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

VIETNAM ORAL HISTORY PRESENTATIONS will be done this week on Tuesday and Wednesday.

5/18/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Peer Review of Essays
a) Take 3 Evaluation Sheets for the 3 rounds
b)  At the end of the 3rd round, all essays and evaluations will be passed back to their owners
c) Class compilation of info

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"

5/17/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Finish Martin Luther King/Malcolm X essay assignment
--Be done by start of class tomorrow for Peer Review
--Do not type it.

3)  HW-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

5/16/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Martin Luther King/Malcolm X Essay Assignment (Day 1 of 2)
5 pts--notes    5 pts--outline    10 pts--essay
--Use specific examples to support your points
--Quiet work time.  I'll be checking for progress at the end of the period

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

5/15/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")

2)  Finish yesterday's Civil Rights Documents assignment
--Discuss and hand in

3)  Literacy Test examples

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 (NOW)  f) The Feminine Mystique  g) Women's Liberation Movement

5/14/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2)  Go over Friday'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 questions at the end of each reading 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

5/11/12

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

FROM HERE ON OUT, TAKING READING NOTES ON YOUR HOMEWORK READINGS WILL BE ESPECIALLY HELPFUL IN DOING WELL ON THE LAST TEST (Multiple choice format).

5/10/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Hand in any remaining video notes from yesterday.

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

5/9/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Other America")

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


STUDY FOR TEST 11 TONIGHT.

5/8/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Affluent Society")
2)  Go over last question on Test 11 Prep Sheet

3)  Finish Post-WWII Role Play
4)  Make-up WWII Oral History presentations (or other presentations)

5)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 825; 828-830 ("The Other America")
Focus your reading on:  Positives and negatives of low-income housing during the 1950s

5/7/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue")

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


3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 816-825 ("The Affluent Society")
Focus your reading on:  a) Baby boomers  b) Role of women during the 1950s

Tomorrow will be a "clean-up" day: a) Finish role play presentations  b) Finish WWII Oral History presentations  c) Any other make-up presentations  d)  Go over last question on Test 11 Prep Sheet for Thursday's test.

5/4/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Test 11 Prep Sheet

3)  4 groups:  Post-WWII Role Play Presentations
--Complete Evaluation Form/turn in with the "Considering Your Option" sheet
--Ask 2 questions from the audience

4)  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

5/3/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")

2)  4 groups:  Post-WWII Role Play
--Read Option information
--Complete the "Considering Your Option" sheet
--Create an information sheet for tomorrow's presentation


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

5/2/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Continue Oral History 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"

5/1/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Oral History Papers due
--Begin sharing WWII/Korea reports in class

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