1/31/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
2) Finish 70s Project Presentations
3) Graded Study for Test 6

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 908-910 ("The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-93")
Focus your reading on:  a) "Reaganomics"  b) Strategic Defense Initiatives (SDI or "Star Wars")  c) Contras/Sandinistas  d) Iran-Contra Affair  e) Reagan's meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev

1/30/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Energy Crisis") and ("Challenges to Tradition: The Women's Movement and Gay Rights")
2) 1970s Project Presentations (Day 1)
--Credit for typed info, visual, and presentation
--Audience should 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 for president  c) Camp David Accords  d) Panama Canal Treaty  e) Iranian Hostage Crisis


American Pop Culture:

1) 1990s Oral History assignment reminder and missing work reminder

2) 1990s Movie: ("Reality Bites") (Day 1)
--With note guide

1/27/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Nixon Years")
2) Partner Project: 1970s (Prep Day in classroom) PLEASE PRINT OUT YOUR SHEET AT HOME!
--Presenting Monday and Tuesday

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 884; 889; 892-899 ("Energy Crisis") and ("Challenges to Tradition: The Women's Movement and Gay Rights")
Focus your reading on:  a) OPEC oil embargo/impact on U.S.  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c) Affirmative action  d) "New Right"

1/26/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2) Writing Assignment on Vietnam video
--Answer questions from the screen (full paragraphs)
--Graded Discussion
--Staple to yesterday'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:

1)  Reminder of 1990s Oral History assignment and missing reminder

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

1/25/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2) Finish video
--Continue 2-sided notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873; 876 ("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)

1/24/17

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:

1) Reminder of 1990s Oral History assignment due date and missing assignments

2) 1990s Music (Day 1)
--With note guide

1/23/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2) Graded Sharing on MLK/Malcolm X OPVL
3) Look at literacy tests and discuss

4) 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

1/20/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

**Hand out Unit 6 I.B. Topics and finish notes from Wednesday
1) Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2) OPVL on MLK/Malcolm X (Lab Day)
--Individually, analyze the 2 documents and do a write-up following the OPVL Guidelines
--Graded Sharing on Monday

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:

1) 90s Oral History reminder and reminder about missing assignments to turn in before the end of the semester.

2) 90s TV (Day 2)
("Ellen") and ("Seinfeld")
--Finish note guide

1/19/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 5

2) 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)

1/18/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("American Life During the Baby Boom") Textbook,, pages 804-807; 820-825  Focus:  a) Brown vs. Board of Education case  b) Montgomery Bus Boycott  c) Baby Boomers  d) Role of women in the 50s  e) The "Beats"

("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation") Textbook, pages 830-836  Focus:  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

NOTE: We are starting Unit 6 material day today because we don't have time to take the Unit 5 Test due to the 2-hour delay schedule. The test will be tomorrow.

2) Homework: Study for Unit 5 Test



American Pop Culture:

1) 1990s Intro Notes
2) Hand out 1990s Oral History Assignment

3) 1990s TV (Day 1)
("The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air")
--With note guide

1/10/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

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

3) Homework: Study for Test 5

1/9/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

At this point in time (Monday morning), with school closed today, I am planning on delaying the Unit 5 Test until Wednesday. We need to cover a little more information before you take the test. So Tuesday night I will be staying up until 10:00 p.m. for late outline emails. You can still send them during the day today but I won't be doing the 10:00 thing tonight.

Please spread the word through your teen-age communication systems if you see this. Thanks.

1/6/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")
2) Test 5 Essay Question

Describe how the U.S. policy in regard to the Soviet Union (containment) evolved during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.

3) 4 groups: Post-WWII Role Play (Prep Day)
a) Read 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

1/5/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Fighting and Winning the War")
2) a) Atomic Bomb reading
    b) Answer questions from screen
   
3) Homework: Textbook, pages 784-785; 788-797 ("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 & the Korean War  f) "New Look"/"Massive retaliation"  g) Eisenhower Doctrine


American Pop Culture:

1) Hand in 1980s Oral History assignment (no graded sharing this time)

2) 1980s Movie (Day 2) ("WarGames")
--Finish note guide

1/4/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Life on the Home Front")
2) Video: "1941-45: Home Front"
--Take 1 page of notes

3) 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

1/3/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

**Hand in Great Depression Presentation sheets
1) "Catch-up" on notes:
("The New Deal's Impact on Society")
("Depression-Era Isolationism")
("Organizing for Victory")

"Catch-up" readings and focus terms:
Textbook, pages 751-754 Focus:  a) Lend-Lease Act  b) Atlantic Charter
Textbook, pages 754-755; 758-762 Focus:  a) Impact of WWII on women  b) Impact of WWII on African-Americans

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

**Test 5 is scheduled for next Tuesday, 1/10.


American Pop Culture:

1) Reminder about 1980s Oral History assignment (due Thursday, but no graded sharing)

2) 1980s Movie: ("WarGames") (Day 1)
--With note guide