5/30/14

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 Policy 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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("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) Pardon of Nixon  g) Rising oil prices  h) OPEC oil embargo  i) Impact of embargo on the U.S.

5/29/14

Advanced U.S. History:

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

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 Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2)  Video: "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam"
--No notes.  Just watch.

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

5/28/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Modern Women's Rights Movement")-Canada
2)  8 groups: Women's Rights Leaders (Prep Day in lab)
--10 pts(5 pts-typed 1/2 page; 2.5 pts-present; 2.5 pts-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 ("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

5/27/14

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

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"

5/23/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")
2)  Watergate Assignment
a)  Read pages 267-276 in books provided
b)  Answer questions from sheet provided
c)  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 ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2)  Civil Rights Movement Documents (using books provided)
a)  Rosa Parks (pages 211-215)  b) MLK (pages 224-229)  c) Black Power (pages 229-234)
--Answer questions at the end of each document 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

5/22/14

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 ("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

5/21/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years")
2)  Finish any Oral History Presentations, then...
3)  Watch "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" (just watch--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 the U.S.


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

5/20/14

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)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Post-WWII Role Play Presentations
a)  Evaluation Form  b) 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

5/19/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2)  Vietnam Oral History Presentations (Day 1 of 2)

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 ("The Cold War Abroad")
2)  4 groups: Post-WWII Role Play (20 points)
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

5/16/14

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.  If you're riding the shuttle, be in front of THS at 8:40.  If you're driving, be at PCC Rock Creek campus at 9:30 (Building #9).


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"

**PCC History Day is tomorrow.  If you're riding the shuttle, be in front of THS at 8:40.  If you're driving, be at PCC Rock Creek campus at 9:30 (Building #9).

5/15/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 2
2)  Peer Review of Essays
--3 rounds
--Pass back essays and evaluations to owners at the end; staple together and hand in after reading
--Class discussion of points made

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

3)  Homework: Study for Test 5

5/14/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 1
2)  Finish MLK/Malcolm X Assignment
--Do Essay today.  Due at the start of class tomorrow.

3)  Homework: Howard Zinn reading in Green Reader ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 2 [Pages 197-212 only]
Focus your reading in:  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 ("Life on the Home Front")
2)  Go over second Test 5 essay question
3)  Extra Credit Crossword Opportunity (in class only)

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

5/13/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2)  MLK/Malcolm X Essay Assignment
--Use specific examples to support your points.
--5pts--notes; 5pts--outline; 10pts--essay
--Notes and outline should be done today

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 ("Organizing for Victory")
2)  Japanese-Americans in WWII Assignment
--Reading in books provided; pages 171-176
--Answer questions on page 176 and from screen
--Graded Discussion

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

5/12/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2)  Finish Civil Rights Documents assignment from Friday
--Discuss and hand in
3)  Examine and discuss Civil Rights Era literacy tests

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


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Road to War")
2)  Test 5 Essay Questions information:
a)  What forms did American nativism and prejudice take during the 1920s?
b)  In what ways did World War II alter the lives of Japanese-Americans?
3)  Finish Great Depression Project Presentations

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

5/9/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2)  Civil Rights Movement Documents
--Using books provided:
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 ("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 (10 pts-1.5 pages of info; 5 pts-present; 5 pts-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

5/8/14

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 ("Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression") and ("The New Deal Takes Over, 1933-35")
2)  Prep Day 2 in lab for Great Depression Project
--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)

5/7/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Hand in 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

I STRONGLY RECOMMEND DOING HOMEWORK READING NOTES ON THE FOCUS TERMS FROM HERE ON OUT, DUE TO THE LAST TEST BEING ALL MULTIPLE CHOICE.


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 on Friday and Monday
--Each person needs 1.5 pages of typed 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) Hoover's response to the Depression  b) The nation's feelings toward Hoover  c) FDR's first "Hundred Days"

5/6/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Affluent Society") and ("The Other America")
2)  Go over last essay question for Test 11
3)  Video: "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes

4)  Homework: Study for Test 11



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 the people who lived through it.
b)  Impact of the Dust Bowl  c) "Okies"

5/5/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue")
2)  Brown vs. Board of Education (3 groups)
--Read assigned document(s) in books provided
--Answer questions on pages 253-254 pertaining to your document on paper provided for group presentation today.

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 50s  c) Positives and negatives of low-income housing during the 50s


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("A New National Culture") and ("Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict")
2)  1920s Prejudice/Nativism Presentations
--Anyone in the group is fair game for answering questions
--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

5/2/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Test 11 Prep information:
a)  In what ways did World War II alter the lives of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians?
b)  Describe how the U.S. policy in regard to the Soviet Union ("containment") evolved during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations?
c)  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 strive to 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?


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

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 673-677; 680-692 ("A New National Culture") and ("Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict")
Focus your reading on:  a) Examples of 1920s entertainment  b) Example of 1920s popular culture people  c) Examples of 1920s nativism  d) The "new" KKK  e) "The Birth of a Nation"

5/1/14

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)  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