5/31/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-93")
2)  Video: "1981-89: A New World"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 912-914 ("Foreign Relations Under Reagan and Bush")
Focus your reading on:  a) 1988 campaign and election  b) Clarence Thomas  c) Collapse of the Soviet Union  d) Persian Gulf War  e) Characteristics of Gulf War troops

**Bring textbooks to class on Monday.

ONLINE REVIEW INFORMATION:

1)  bedfordstmartins.com/henretta
2)  Chapters 25-31, but only topics from 1960-1994 that have been covered in class.
3)  Quizzes and review questions are available.  Use your textbook, homework reading notes, and class notes as sources to assist you.
4)  You will need to create a log in.


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

5/30/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
2)  Women's Rights Presentations (8 groups)
--Students take class notes on presentations

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 908-912 ("The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-93")
Focus your reading on:  a) Ronald Reagan's leadership style  b) Reaganomics  c) Strategic Defense Initiative  d) 1984 election  e) Iran-Contra Scandal

Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2)  Finish Civil Rights Document Assignment (30 minutes work time)
--Discuss and hand in answers

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"

5/29/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Modern Women's Rights Movement")-Canada
2)  8 groups: Modern Women's Rights Movement  (Prep Day in lab)
--Typed 1/2 page of information and 1 visual
--Present tomorrow

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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  Civil Rights Movement Documents (in 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 document 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

5/28/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Why Women's Liberation?")
2)  Video:  "1976-80: Politics in the Wake of Watergate"
--Take 1 page of notes

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


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

5/24/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")
2)  Watergate Assignment
--Read pages 267-276 in books provided
--Answer questions from sheet handed out
--Graded Discussion

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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("The Affluent Society")
2)  Video: "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes

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 and 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

5/23/13

Advanced U.S. History:

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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Role Play Presentations
--All 4 groups present
--Evaluation Form
--1 audience question per person

3)  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 in the 1950s

5/22/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years")
2)  Finish any Oral History presentations
3)  Watch "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" (no notes)

4)  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 U.S.


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")
2)  4 groups: Post-WWII Role Play
a) Read Option information
b)  "Considering Your Option" sheet
c)  Make presentation sheet

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

5/21/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2)  Continue/finish 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) Pardon of Nixon


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Test 5

2)  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"

5/20/13

Advanced U.S. History:

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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Fighting and Winning the War")
2)  Video: "1941-45: Homefront"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Study for Test 5

5/17/13

Advanced 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 ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
Focus your reading on:  a) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  b) Resistance to the draft

**Oral History presentations continue starting Monday.
**PCC History Day is tomorrow


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Life on the Home Front")
2)  Go over second Test 5 essay question
3)  Extra Credit Crossword Opportunity

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

**PCC History Day is tomorrow

5/16/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 2
2)  Peer Review of essays
--3 rounds of evaluations
--Staple together notes, outlines, essays, and evaluations and hand in at the end
--Class compilation of information at the end

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"

Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Organizing for Victory")
2)  Japanese-Americans in WWII
a) Read in books provided, pages 171-176
b)  Answer questions on page 176 and on screen
c)  Graded Discussion

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 762-767 ("Life on the Home Front")
Focus your reading on:  a) Rationing  b) Japanese-American internment

5/15/13

Advanced U.S. History:

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

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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Road to War")
2)  Test 5 Essay Question Information
3)  Great Depression Project Presentations (Day 2)

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 754-755; 758-762 ("Organizing for Victory")
Focus your reading on:  a) Impact of WWII on women  b) Impact of WWII on African-Americans

5/14/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2)  MLK/Malcolm X Essay Assignment (Prep Day 1 of 2)
--Use specific examples to support your points
--20 points total (5-notes; 5-outline; 10-essay)
--Peer Review on Thursday

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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The 2nd New Deal, 1935-38") and ("The New Deal's Impact on Society")
2)  Great Depression Project Presentations (Day 1 of 2)--3 groups today
--20 points total (10-1.5 pages of information; 5-Present; 5-2 visuals)

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 750-754 ("The Road to War")
Focus your reading on:  a) Neutrality Act  b) Lend-Lease Act  c) Atlantic Charter

5/13/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")

2)  Finish Friday's document assignment

--Discuss and hand in

3)  Civil Rights Movement Era literacy tests

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 860-867 ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")

Focus your reading on:  a) Black separation  b) White fear of Black Power  c) Cesar Chavez  d) Wounded Knee  e) National Organization of Women (NOW)  f) The Feminine Mystique  g) Women's Liberation Movement

Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression") and ("The New Deal Takes Over, 1933-35")

2)  Prep Day 2 of Great Depression Project in lab

--Begin presenting tomorrow

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 728-735; 738-741; 743; 745-746 ("The 2nd New Deal, 1935-38") and ("The New Deal's Impact on Society")

Focus your reading on:  a) Works Progress Administration (WPA)  b) "Court packing" scheme  c) "Roosevelt Recession" of 1937-38  d) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

5/10/13

Advanced U.S. History:

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

3)  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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Hard Times") and ("Harder Times")
2)  5 groups: Great Depression Project (Prep Day 1 of 2 in lab)
--Present Tuesday and Wednesday
--Each person needs 1.5 pages of meaningful bullet-point information and 2 visuals when presenting

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 714-718; 722-727 ("Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression") and ("The New Deal Takes Over, 1933-35")
Focus your reading on:  a) Herbert Hoover's response to the Depression  b) The nation's feelings toward Hoover  c) FDR's first "Hundred Days"

5/9/13

Advanced U.S. History:

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 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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Coming of the Great Depression")
2)  Video: "1929-36: Stormy Weather"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 699; 701-711; 714 ("Hard Times") and ("Harder Times")
Focus your reading on:  a) Examples of how the Depression affected people who lived through it  b) Impact of the Dust Bowl  c) "Okies"

5/8/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Test 11

2)  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

HOMEWORK READING AND TAKING READING NOTES ARE A KEY TO SUCCESS IN THIS LAST UNIT!


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("A New National Culture") and ("Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict")

2)  1920s Prejudice/Nativism Presentations
--Anyone is fair game to be asked questions during group presentations
--Staple 2 sheets together and hand in

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 697-699 ("The Coming of the Great Depression")
Focus your reading on:  Causes of the Great Depression

5/7/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Affluent Society") and ("The Other America")
2)  Go over last essay question for tomorrow's Test 11
3)  Video:  "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes (keep until tomorrow to help study for test)

4)  Homework: Study for Test 11



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Business-Government Partnership of the 1920s")
2)  6 groups: 1920s Documents of Prejudice/Nativism
a)  On own paper, summarize key points in a paragraph
b)  "Analyzing Sources" sheet
c)  Work as a group.  Anyone is fair game tomorrow for answering questions

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 673-677; 680-692 ("A New National Culture")
Focus your reading on:  a) Examples of 20s entertainment  b) Examples of 20s popular culture people  c) Examples of 20s nativism  d) The "new" KKK  e) "The Birth of a Nation"

5/6/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue")
2)  Role Play Presentations
--Evaluation Form
--All 4 groups present
--1 audience question per person

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 816-825; 828-830 ("The Affluent Society") and ("The Other America")
Focus your reading on:  a) Baby boomers  b) Role of women in the 1950s  c) Positives and negatives of low-income housing during the 50s


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Test 4

2)  Homework: Textbook, pages 666-670; 672-673 ("The Business-Government Partnership of the 1920s")
Focus your reading on:  a) Warren G. Harding's administration  b) Calvin Coolidge's political beliefs  c) Dawes Plan

5/3/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Test 11 prep information
3)  Post-WWII Role Play (Prep Day)
a) Read Option information
b)  "Considering Your Option"
c) Make presentation sheet

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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("An Unsettled Peace, 1919-20")
2)  Woodrow Wilson Assignment
a) Read documents
b)  Answer questions
c)  Graded Discussion

3)  Homework:  Study for Test 4

5/2/13

Advanced 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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("War on the Home Front")
2)  Video: "1914-19: Shell Shock"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 655; 658-662 ("An Unsettled Peace, 1919-20")
Focus your reading on:  a) Wilson's 14 Points  b) Palmer Raids

5/1/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Fighting and Winning the War")
2)  Finish WWII/Korea 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"


Honors U.S. History:

1) Notes ("The Great War: 1914-18")
2)  WWI Propaganda Assignment
--Use books provided (pages 139-158)
--Answer 4 questions from each of 4 selections:
(Pick 1 from #s 1; 17-19/Pick 1 from #s 2-5; 20/ Pick 2 from #s 6-16; 21-23)

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 647-655 ("War on the Home Front")
Focus your reading on:  Examples of U.S. civilian involvement in WWI