1/31/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("A Railway in Principle")
2) a) Reading: "The Chinese Link a Continent and a Nation" (Read from "The Great Railway Competition" to the end)
b)  Answer questions from the screen
c)  Graded Discussion

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 498-505 ("The World of Work")
Focus your reading on:  a) Characteristics of production line work in the late 1800s  b) Characteristics of women's working conditions



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Politics of Empire") and ("The Imperial Slave Economy")
2)  a) "Writing an History Essay"
b)  "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears" Practice Essay (Your question should be the title of the essay)
--15 minutes to finish on Monday
--DO NOT TYPE!

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 93-98; 121-130 ("The New Politics of Empire") and ("The Mid-Century Challenge...")
Focus your reading on:  a) Salutary neglect  b) Details on the French and Indian War  c) How the war impacted the coming of the Revolution

1/30/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Great Race")-Part 2
2)  Finish video; discuss/hand in notes

3)  Homework: D.N. Sprague reading in Green Reader ("A Railway in Principle")--Canada
Focus your reading on:  Prime Ministers Alexander Mackenzie and John Macdonald--different views on railroad construction



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Puritan New England") and ("The Indians' 'New World'")
2)  Finish John Smith
3)  "10 Major Events that Shaped the U.S."
--Individual list first
--Group consensus list shared with the class

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 70-80; 84-93 ("The Politics of Empire") and ("The Imperial Slave Economy")
Focus your reading on:  a) Quakers  b) Navigation Acts  c) South Atlantic System  d) The "Middle Passage"  e) Specific effects of the slave trade on England, Africa, the West Indies, and the American colonies

1/29/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Great Race")-Part 1
2)  Video: "The Grandest Enterprise Under God" (2 days)
--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 weren't paid by the company?



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Collect agreements
2)  Notes ("First English Model: Tobacco and Settlers")
3)  "John Smith: History or Hoax?"
--Use your own paper as we do each part

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

BRING TEXTBOOKS TO CLASS TOMORROW

1/28/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant")
2)  4 groups: Documents on Industrial Era
--Read assigned documents in books provided (pages 37-53)
--Explain main points on paper provided for group presentation
--Answer questions at the end of the document
--Include writer's view of proper role of government and big business

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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Information Sheet
2)  Syllabus (agreement due tomorrow)
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

1/24/14

Advanced U.S. History:

2nd period only:

1)  Test 6

2)  Homework: Textbook, pages 486-491; 494-495 ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant")
Focus your reading on:  Meaning of "Industrial Capitalism Triumphant"

1/23/14

Advanced U.S. History:

2nd period: 1) Finish last segment of "Roots"
2)  Study/Work time

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

1/22/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Watch last episode of "Roots"
--Take 1 page of notes on specific attributes of the Reconstruction Era

2)  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)  Graded Studying for the Test
--Must be the History test
--Recommendation: Quiz each other using class notes in 2s or 3s


3)  --Bring textbooks to class tomorrow to turn in
--Study tonight for Test 6

1/21/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The British Migration and Settlement Pattern")

2)  Finish answering questions from Friday, then graded discussion

3)  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)  Video: "1981-93: A New World"

--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 927-936 ("Restructuring the Domestic Order: Public Life, 1992-2001")

Focus your reading on:  a) Successes during 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"

1/17/14

Advanced U.S. History:

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


3)  Homework:  Study for Test 6



Honors U.S. History:

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


3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 908-914 ("The Reagan-Bush Years") and ("Foreign Relations 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

1/16/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reluctant Conquerors...")
2)  Test 6 Prep Information
3)  Finish yesterday's 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"

TEST PREP QUESTIONS:
1)  In what ways were the following men and events both significant and controversial in the last sixteen months of the Civil War?
a) The use of African-American troops
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) The Shenandoah Campaign
d) William Tecumseh Sherman

2)  From a modern historical perspective, what were the major achievements and disappointments of Radical Reconstruction? 





Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years") and ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
2)  Test 6 Prep Information
3)  Watergate Assignment
--Read pages 267-276 in books provided
--Answer questions from sheet provided
--Graded Discussion

4)  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 and leadership style  g) Camp David Accords  h) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan  i) Iranian Hostage Crisis 

TEST PREP QUESTIONS:

1)  Some Americans look back on the 1950s with nostalgia and see this period as America at its best, the norm to which the U.S. should return.  In what ways were the years between 1945 and 1960 unusually prosperous?  On the other hand, what realities were hidden by the optimism of those years?
2)  What were the critical events of 1968 that have caused some historians to refer to it as a "year of shocks"? 

1/15/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Far West")
2)  Video: "The Geography of Hope" (2 days)
--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.

1/14/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Canada's Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-85")
2)  Finish Arizona: 1871 Role Play
--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")
Focus your reading on:  a) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  b) Resistance to the draft  c) Tet Offensive  d) President Johnson's surprise announcement (1968)  e) 1968 Democratic Convention  f) George Wallace  g) "Silent Majority"  h) Vietnamization  i) My Lai  j) Nixon's foreign policy

1/13/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Great Plains")
2)  Arizona: 1871 Role Play
--Complete Evaluation Form
--Ask 3 questions from the audience (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
--Discuss/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"

1/10/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
2)  5 groups: Arizona: 1871 Role Play
--Study background and Option information
--"Presenting Your Perspective"
--Make presentation sheet

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

3)  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

1/9/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Radical Reconstruction")
2)  Video: "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"
--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

1/8/14

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)  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/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

1/7/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1) Notes ("The Union Victorious, 1864-65")
2)  Discuss and hand in yesterday video notes
3)  Begin sharing Research Papers with the class

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)  Role Play Presentations (Post-WWII)
--Present
--Complete Evaluation sheet
--1 audience question


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

1/6/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes (" The Turning Point: 1863")
2)  Finish video; discuss and hand in notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 417-421; 424-426 ("The Union Victorious: 1864-65")
Focus your reading on(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 RESEARCH PAPERS TOMORROW TO BEGIN SHARING WITH THE CLASS



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")
2)  4 groups: Post-WWII Role Play (20 points)
--Option information (9 atomic bombs in 1946)
--"Considering Your Option" sheet
--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