5/29/15

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

5/28/15

1)  Notes ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
2)  Video: "1976-80: Starting Over"
--Take 1 page of 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 (SDI)  d) 1984 election  e) Iran-Contra Scandal

5/27/15

1)  Notes ("The Modern Women's Rights Movement")-Canada
2)  Modern Women's Rights Leaders Presentations
--Students 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

OPTIONAL UNIT 12 TEST REVIEW INFORMATION:

1)  This is not required or even necessarily recommended.  It's just an option.
2)  Textbook website: bedfordstmartins.com/henretta
3)  Chapters 25-31.  Click on chapter headings to get sample questions.
4)  Only concern yourself with topics covered in the class notes and homework readings.
5)  You will need to create a login.

5/26/15

1)  Notes ("Why Women's Liberation?")
2)  8 groups:  Modern Women's Rights Leaders (Prep Day in lab)
--10 points total (5 pts-1/2 page of typed info; 2.5 pts--presentation; 2.5 pts--visual)
--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

5/22/15

1)  Notes ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")
2)  Watergate reading/questions/graded discussion
--Read 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 Movements  b) U.S. government's use of women and African-Americans

5/21/15

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

5/20/15

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years")
2)  Finish any Oral History Presentations
3)  Video: "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam"
--No notes. Just watch.

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.

5/19/15

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

5/18/15

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

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873; 876 ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on:  a) Tet Offensive  b) President Johnson's surprise announcement

5/15/15

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 resumes on Monday and Tuesday.

5/14/15

1)  Notes ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 2
2)  Peer Review of MLK/Malcolm X Essays
--Turn in Notes, Outline, and Essays when done

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

5/13/15

1)  Notes ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 1
2)  Finish MLK/Malcolm X Essay Assignment
--Notes, Outline, and Essay all due at start of the period on Thursday for Peer Review

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

5/12/15

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2)  MLK/Malcolm X Essay Assignment
For today: --Use classroom reading packets to take notes
--Make an outline of your essay
--Tomorrow will be time to write the essay

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

5/11/15

1)  Notes ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2)  Finish Friday's Civil Rights Documents assignment
--Discuss and hand in

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

5/8/15

1)  Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2)  Civil Rights Movement Documents (using books provided)
a) Rosa Parks (pp. 211-215)  b) MLK (pp. 224-229)  c) Black Power (pp. 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

5/7/15

1)  Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation").  Note-taking and homework reading more important in this last unit than any other in order to be successful on the last test in June.
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

5/6/15

1)  Turn in yesterday's 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

**Homework readings and reading notes are more critical to success now more than ever on the last unit, since the last test is multiple choice and covers about a month of information (1960-2001).

5/5/15

1)  Notes ("The Affluent Society")
2)  Ungraded Unit 11 Review Quiz
3)  Go over last essay question for Test 11
4)  Video: "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes

5)  Homework: Study for Test 11

5/4/15

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue")
2)  Cold War Role Play Presentations
--Complete Evaluation Form
--Audience asks 1 question each

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 in the 1950s

5/1/15

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  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?


4)  Make-up Canada in WWII presentations?
5)  4 groups: Post-WWII Role Play (Prep Day)
--Read Option information
--Complete the "Considering Your Option" sheet
--Make group presentation sheet for Monday

6)  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