1/30/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Great Race")-Part 1
2)  Video: "The Grandest Enterprise Under God"
--Take 2 pages of notes

3)  Homework: Dee Brown reading in Green Reader ("The Great Race")-Part 2 [Pages 117-135]
Focus your reading on:  What happened when Union Pacific workers were not paid by the company?


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Collect agreements
2)  Notes ("First English Model: Tobacco and Settlers")
3)  Historical Investigation and Case Study: "John Smith: History or Hoax?"
--Use your own paper as we go through each step as a class

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 56-66 ("Puritan New England") and ("The Indians' 'New World'")
Focus your reading on:  a) Characteristics of the Puritans  b) Why they came to America  c) The Puritans and witchcraft  d) Anne Hutchinson  e) Conflict between Puritans and Pequots

1/29/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Hand back tests/New Seating Chart
2)  Notes ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant")
3)  4 groups:  Industrial Era Documents
--Read document in books provided (pages 37-53)
--Prepare sheet for group presentation
--Questions at the end of the document can help
--Include writer's view of the proper role of government and big business

4)  Homework:  Dee Brown reading in new Green Readers ("The Great Race")-Part 1 pages 100-117 only
Focus your reading on:  a) 2 railroad companies in the "Great Race"  b) "Hell on Wheels" towns

Test 7 will be on Wednesday, 2/13


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Information Sheet/Seating Chart
2)  Syllabus (Agreement due tomorrow)/Check out textbooks
3)  Getting acquainted

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 48-56 ("First English Model: Tobacco and Settlers")
Focus your reading on:  a) Jamestown  b) Obstacles to the colonization of Virginia  c) Indentured servants  d) Nathaniel Bacon/Bacon's Rebellion  e) Navigation Acts

Test 1 will be on Wednesday, 2/13

1/25/13

Advanced U.S. History (2nd period only):

Same plans as Advanced U.S. History 3rd period yesterday (1/24/13)

END OF 1ST SEMESTER--1/2 DAY

1/24/13

Advanced U.S. History:

2nd period:  1) Finish "Roots"; discuss/hand in notes
                    2)  Study Hall
                    3)  Study for Test 6 tonight

3rd period:  1) Test 6
                 
2)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 486-491; 494-498 ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant")
Focus your reading on:  Meaning of "Industrial Capitalism Triumphant"


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Turn in textbooks
2)  Test 6

1/23/13

Advanced U.S. History:

Last episode of "Roots"
--1 page of notes on attributes of the Reconstruction era

Tomorrow:  2nd period:  Bring study materials
                    3rd period:  Test 6


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Restructuring the Domestic Order: Public Life, 1992-2001")
2)  Finish yesterday's video; discuss/hand in notes
3)  Graded Studying for Test 6
--Must be studying for this test
--Recommendation:  Quiz each other using class notes in pairs or 3s

Tomorrow:  BRING TEXTBOOKS TO CLASS TO TURN IN!
                    Study for Test 6  tonight

1/22/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The British Migration and Settlement Pattern")
2)  Finish answering questions from Friday's assignment, then...
--Graded Discussion

3)  No reading homework:  Study for Test 6


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-93") and ("Foreign Relations Under Reagan and Bush")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes from Friday
3)  Video:  "1981-89: A New World"
--Take 1 page of notes

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 927-936 ("Restructuring the Domestic Order: Public Life 1992-2001")
Focus your reading on:  a) Successes during Bill Clinton's first term  b) Attempt to lift ban on gays in the military  c) Health care reform  d) Hillary Rodham Clinton  e) "Contract with America"

1/18/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Frontier and the American Character")
2)  "The Subjugation of the Native Americans in the West"
a)  Reading packet:  "I Will Fight No More Forever"
b) 4 questions (Work Day)
c) Graded Discussion on Tuesday

3)  No homework reading.  Begin Test 6 study.


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s") and ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
2)  Test 6 prep questions
3)  Video:  "1976-80: Starting Over"
--Take 1 page of notes

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 908-914 ("The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-93") and ("Foreign Policy Under Reagan and Bush")
Focus your reading on:  a) Ronald Reagan's leadership style  b) Reaganomics  c) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)  d) 1984 reelection  e) Iran-Contra Scandal  f)  1988 campaign and election  g) Clarence Thomas  h) Collapse of the Soviet Union  i) Persian Gulf War  j) Characteristics of Gulf War troops

1/17/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reluctant Conquerors...")
2)  Go over Test 6 prep sheet
3)  Finish video
--Discuss/hand in notes

4)  Homework:  Ray Allen Billington reading in Blue Reader ("The Frontier and the American Character")
Focus your reading on:  Frederick Jackson Turner and his "Frontier Thesis"


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years") and ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
2)  Watergate Document Assignment
--Read pages 267-276 in books provided
--Answer questions on the screen
--Graded Discussion

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 887-889; 892-904 ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s") and ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
Focus your reading on: a) Three Mile Island  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c) Roe vs. Wade  d) "Modern" political campaigning  e) Gerald Ford's problems as president  f) Jimmy Carter's "outsider" campaign for president and leadership style  g) Camp David Accords  h) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan  i) Iranian Hostage Crisis

1/16/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Far West")
2)  Video: "The Geography of Hope"
--Take 2 pages of notes

3)  Homework:  Thomas Leonard reading in Blue Reader ("Reluctant Conquerors...")
Focus your reading on:  The author's thesis: Why was the U.S. Army "reluctant"?


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels") and ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2)  Video:  "1971-75: Approaching the Apocalypse"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 880-887 ("The Nixon Years") and ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
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  g) Rising oil prices  h) OPEC oil embargo  i) Impact of embargo on the U.S.

1/15/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Canada's Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-85")
2)  Finish last 2 Role Play presentations
--Staple 2 sheets together and hand in

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 474-482 ("The Far West")
Focus your reading on:  a) Population on the West Coast  b) Chinese immigration to the U.S.


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
2)  Video: "1965-70: Unpinned"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 856-860; 867-873; 876 ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels") and ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on: a) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  b) Resistance to the draft  c) Tet Offensive d) LBJ's surprise announcement  e) 1968 Democratic Convention  f) George Wallace  g) "Silent Majority"  h) Vietnamization  i) My Lai  j) Nixon's foreign policy

1/14/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Great Plains")
2)  Arizona 1871 Role Play
--Evaluation Form
--Audience asks 3 questions of different groups
--3 presentations today

3)  Homework: John Tobias reading in Blue Reader ("Canada's Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-85")
Focus your reading on:  a) Cree tribe vs. Canadian government  b) Metis Uprising (1885)


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2)  Finish Civil Rights Document Assignment

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"

1/11/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  5 groups:  Arizona 1871 Role Play
--Read Option information
--"Presenting Your Option" sheet
--Make presentation info sheet

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 458-461; 464-474 ("The Great Plains")
Focus your reading on:  a) Exodusters  b) Wounded Knee


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  Civil Rights Movement Documents
a) Rosa Parks (pages 211-215 in books provided)  b) MLK (pages 224-229) c) Black Power (pages 229-234)
--Answer questions at the end of each reading in complete sentences.

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

1/10/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Radical Reconstruction")
2)  Video:  "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" (1865-96")
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 442-445; 448-450 ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Sharecropping  b) Election of 1876/Rutherford B. Hayes


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2)  Video: "1960-64: Poisoned Dreams"
--Take 1 page of notes

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

1/9/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Presidential Reconstruction")
2)  Finish sharing research papers

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 436-442 ("Radical Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Positives and negatives of Radical Reconstruction  b) Impeachment of Andrew Johnson


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("The Affluent Society")
2)  Role Play Presentations
--Evaluation Form
--Groups present
--Ask 1 question

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 830-836; 842-846 ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
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  h) Lyndon Johnson's political experience  i) 1964 presidential election  j) Great Society programs

1/8/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Union Victorious: 1864-65")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  Share about Research Papers (individual presentations)

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 430-433; 435-436 ("Presidential Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Lincoln's Reconstruction plan  b) Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  4 groups:  Post-WWII Role Play
--Read Option information (9 atomic bombs in 1946)
--"Completing Your Option" sheet
--Create information sheet for presentation

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 804-807; 816-825 ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("The Affluent Society")
Focus your reading on:  a) Brown vs. Board of Education  b) Montgomery Bus Boycott  c) Baby boomers  d) Role of women during the 1950s

1/7/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Turning Point: 1863")
2)  Finish Civil War video
--Discuss and hand in notes

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 417-421; 424-426 ("The Union Victorious: 1864-65")
Focus your reading on: (These are tied to a test essay question):  a)  Role of African-American soldiers  b) Ulysses S. Grant's war strategies  c) Shenandoah Campaign  d) William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea"

Bring your Research Papers tomorrow and Wednesday to class.


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")
2)  Video:  "1946-52: Best Years"
--Take 1 page of notes

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