5/31/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2) Writing Assignment on the Vietnam War video
--Answer questions from the screen (paragraph each)
--Graded Sharing
--Staple to Friday's notes and hand in

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 880-883 ("The Nixon Years")
Focus your reading on:  a) George McGovern  b) Watergate  c) "Executive privilege"  d) "Smoking gun"/"The tapes"  e) Ford's pardon of Nixon  f) "Credibility gap"


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/27 entry, except your 90s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 6/6.

5/27/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2) Finish Vietnam video and notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873 ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on:  a) Tet Offensive  b) Robert Kennedy  c) Campaign/Election of 1968  d) "Silent Majority"  e) Vietnamization  f) My Lai Massacre  g) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) Reminder that your 1990s Oral History assignment is due next Friday, 6/3.
2) Please get any missing work in as soon as possible.

3) 1990s Movie:  ("Reality Bites") (Day 1)
--With note guide

5/26/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
2) Video: "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" (Day 1)
--2-sided notes: a) Specific scenes or quotes that give us a picture of the Vietnam War combat soldier's experience.
b) Specific examples showing the "message", or bias, of the filmmakers (Selection of clips, music, quotes, etc).

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 856-860 ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
Focus your reading on:  a) Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)/Port Huron Statement  b) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  c) Resistance to the draft  d) Hippies


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/25 entry, except your 90s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 6/6.

5/25/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2) Discuss/hand in JFK video notes
3) Graded Sharing on MLK/Malcolm X OPVL
4) Look at class set of literacy tests and ask class discussion questions

5) Homework: Textbook, pages 850-856 ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
Focus your reading on:  a) Vietminh/Ho Chi Minh  b) Dien Bien Phu/Geneva Accords  c) Domino Theory  d) Ngo Dinh Diem  e) National Liberation Front (NLF)/Vietcong  f) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  g) Operation Rolling Thunder

American Pop Culture (A day):

1) Reminder of 1990s Oral History assignment due date on Friday, 6/3.
2) Missing work reminder

3) 1990s Music (Day 2)
--Finish note guide

5/24/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2) Reverse of yesterday's plans for 1st and 2nd periods

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 860-867 ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
Focus your reading on:  a) Malcolm X  b) Black Power/Black Panthers  c) Cesar Chavez  d) American Indian Movement (AIM)  e) Women's Rights Movement/National Organization for Women (NOW)  f) Women's Liberation Movement


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/23 entry, except your 1990s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, June 6.

5/23/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation")
2) 1st period: OPVL on Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X (Lab Day)
--Individually, analyze 2 documents and do write-up following OPVL Guidelines
--Graded Sharing on Wednesday
2nd period:  Video: "1960-64: Poisoned Dreams"
--Take 1 page of notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 836-846 ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
Focus your reading on:  a) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)/Sit-in Movement  b) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)/Freedom Rides  c) March on Washington  d) Civil Rights Act of 1964/Voting Rights Act of 1965  e) 1964 presidential election  f) Great Society programs  g) War on Poverty/Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) Reminder of 1990s Oral History assignment being due on Friday, 6/3.
2) Reminder to get missing work in as soon as possible.

3) 1990s Music (Day 1)
--With note guide

5/20/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

**Hand out Unit 6 I.B. Topics
1) Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("American Society During the Baby Boom")
2) Video: "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes

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) Bay of Pigs Invasion  d) Construction of the Berlin Wall  e) Peace Corps  f) Alliance for Progress  g) Cuban Missile Crisis  h) Space Race


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/19 entry, except your 1990s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 6/6.

5/19/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 5

2) Homework: Textbook, pages 804-807 ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("American Life During the Baby Boom")
Focus your reading on:  a) Brown vs. Board of Education  b) Montgomery Bus Boycott  c) Baby Boomers  d) Role of women in the 1950s  e) The "Beats"


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) 1990s Oral History assignment reminder that it is due on Friday, 6/3. Missing work needs to be turned in as soon as possible, too.

2) 1990s TV (Day 2) ("Ellen") and ("Seinfeld")
--Finish note guide

5/18/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2) Cold War Role Play Presentations
--Complete Evaluation Form
--Ask 1 question from the audience

3) Homework: Study for Test 5


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/17 entry, except your 1990s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 6/6.

5/17/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")
2) Go over second Test 2 question
3) 4 groups: Post-WWII Role Play (Prep Day) (9 atomic bombs in 1946)
a) Option info  b) "Considering Your Option" sheet  c) Make group presentation sheet

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 797-804 ("The Cold War at Home")
Focus your reading on:  a) Fair Deal  b) Election of 1948  c) Joseph McCarthy/McCarthyism  d) House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAAC)  e) Alger Hiss  f) Sputnik  g) Interstate Highway System


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) 1990s Intro Notes
2) 1990s Oral History assignment (due Friday, 6/3)
3) 1990s TV ("The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air")
--With note guide

5/16/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Fighting and Winning the War")
2) a) Atomic Bomb reading
    b) Answer questions from the screen
    c) Graded Discussion

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 784-785 ("The Cold War Abroad")
Focus your reading on:  a) "Iron Curtain" speech  b) George Kennan (Mr. X)/containment  c) Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan  d) NATO  e) Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War  f) "New Look"/"Massive retaliation"  g) Eisenhower Doctrine


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/13 entry.

5/13/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Life on the Home Front")
2)  Test 5 Essay Questions for next Thursday's test:
a) To what extent did the New Deal solve the problems of the Great Depression?
b) Describe how the U.S. policy in regard to the Soviet Union (containment) evolved during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.

3) Video: "1941-45: Homefront"
--With note guide

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 767-776 ("Fighting and Winning the War")
Focus your reading on:  a) Battle of Stalingrad  b) D-Day  c) Battle of Midway  d) Big Three at Yalta e) Harry Truman's options for ending the war with Japan


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) 1980s Oral History assignment due

2) Graded Sharing of Oral History interviews

5/12/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Organizing for Victory")
2) Groups of 4: OPVL on Japanese-American Internment
--Group work time, then present
--Use OPVL Guidelines Packet

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


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/11 entry, except your 1980s Oral History assignment is due next class on Monday, 5/16.

5/11/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Depression-Era Isolationism")
2) CCC Assignment (Part 2)
--Discuss yesterday's video notes
--Answer questions on screen (paragraph responses)
--Graded Discussion


3) 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


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) Reminder that your 1980s Oral History assignment is due next class on Friday, 5/13!

2) Finish 1980s Movie 
--Discuss/hand in note guide

5/10/16

I.B. History of Americas:

1) Notes ("The New Deal's Impact on Society")
2) Video: "The Civilian Conservation Corps"
--Take 1 page of notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 751-754 ("Depression-Era Isolationism")
Focus your reading on:  a) Lend-Lease Act  b) Atlantic Charter


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/9 entry, except your 1980s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 5/16.

5/9/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The 2nd New Deal, 1935-38")
2) Finish New Deal Presentations
--Audience takes class notes
3) Extra Credit in-class opportunity

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 732-735; 738-741; 745-746 ("The New Deal's Impact on Society")
Focus your reading on:  Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) Reminder about 1980s Oral History assignment being due this Friday, 5/13.

2) 1980s Movie ("WarGames")
--With note guide

5/6/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The New Deal Takes Over, 1933-35")
2)  New Deal Presentations
--Points for Typed Info/Visual and Presentation
--Audience takes class notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 728-732 ("The 2nd New Deal, 1935-38")
Focus your reading on:  a) National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) (Wagner Act)  b) Social Security Act  c) Works Progress Administration (WPA)  d) Tax Reform Bill of 1935 (Revenue Act of 1935)  e) "Court-packing" scheme  f) "Roosevelt Recession"


American Pop Culture (B day):


Same as 5/5 entry, except your Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 5/16.

5/5/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1)  Notes ("Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression")
2) Discuss/hand in yesterday's video notes
3) New Deal Project (Prep Day)
--Present Friday and Monday


4) Homework: Textbook, pages 722-727 ("The New Deal Takes Over, 1933-35")
Focus your reading on:  a) Fireside chats  b) Brain Trust  c) "Hundred Days" (Emergency Banking Act; Civilian Conservation Corps; Prohibition repealed; Agricultural Adjustment Act; National Recovery Administration; Federal Emergency Relief Administration; Public Works Administration/Civil Works Administration)  d) Roosevelt's critics (Dr. Francis Townshend; Father Charles Coughlin; Senator Huey Long)


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) Reminder of your 1980s Oral History assignment due date (Friday, 5/13)

2) 1980s Music (Day 2)
--Finish note guide and hand in

5/4/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

**Hand out Unit 5 I.B. Topics
1) Notes ("The Coming of the Great Depression")
2) Video: "1929-36: Stormy Weather"
--Take 1 page of notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 714-718 ("Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression")
Focus your reading on:  a) Herbert Hoover's response to the Depression  b) The nation's feelings toward Hoover  c) Bonus Army


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/3 entry, except your 1980s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 5/16.

5/3/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 4


2) Homework: Textbook, pages 697-699; 701-711; 714 ("The Coming of the Great Depression")
Focus your reading on:  a) Causes of the Great Depression  b) Black Tuesday  c) Examples of how the Depression affected the people who lived through it  d) Dust Bowl



American Pop Culture (A day):

1) Reminder of 1980s Oral History assignment due date

2) 1980s Music (Day 1)
--With note guide

5/2/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict")
2) 1920s Prejudice/Nativism Presentations
--Anyone is fair game for answering questions
--Hand in 2 sheets stapled
3) Graded Study for tomorrow's test

4) Homework: Study for Test 4



American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 4/29 entry, except your 1980s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 5/16.