6/19/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1st period:  Extra Study Day

4th period:  a) Hand in textbooks   b) Test 6




American Pop Culture:

Test 2

6/16/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Restructuring the Domestic Order...")
2) Graded Study for Test 6

3) Homework: Study for Test 6

**BRING TEXTBOOKS ON YOUR LAST DAY OF CLASS.

6/15/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Bush Presidency")
2) 12 groups: "America's Wars: How Just?"
--Brief group research in class/group discussion using classroom textbooks, class notes, phones, etc.
--Groups present opinions on paper

a) Causes  b) Reasons for U.S. involvement  c) Outcomes  d) Just or not just? Why or why not?

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 927-933 ("Restructuring the Domestic Order...")
Focus your reading on:  a) "Contract with America"  b) "Peace Dividend" (not in reading)



American Pop Culture:

1) Hand in 90s Oral History assignment

2) Final missing work reminder

3) --Hand out Test 2 review sheet and index card
    --Graded preparation for test

6/14/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Finish yesterday's Carter notes, then ("The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-93")
2) Video: "1981-89: A New World"
--Take 1 page of notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 910-914 ("The Bush Presidency")
Focus your reading on:  a) Clarence Thomas  b) Persian Gulf War

6/13/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) "Mega" notes on the 1970s:  ("The Nixon Years")

("Energy Crisis") and ("Challenges to Tradition...")--Textbook, pages 884; 889; 892-899 Focus terms:  a) OPEC oil embargo/impact on the U.S.  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c) Affirmative action  d) "New Right"

("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")--Textbook, pages 899-904 Focus terms:  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


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



American Pop Culture:

1) Final reminder of 90s Oral History assignment and missing work

2) Finish 90s Movie ("Reality Bites")
--Complete note guide

6/12/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2) Writing Assignment/Graded Discussion on Vietnam War video
--Answer questions from the screen
--Graded Discussion
--Staple to video 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) Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon  f) "Credibility gap"

6/9/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2) Finish Vietnam video
--Continue 2-sided notes
--A follow-up assignment will be on Monday

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:

1) 1990s Oral History assignment and missing work reminder

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

6/8/17

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

6/7/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Finish notes from yesterday ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda") and today's notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2) Graded Sharing on MLK/Malcolm X OPVL

3) 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:

1) 1990s Oral History reminder

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

6/6/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Finish yesterday's JFK notes and then: ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2) OPVL on MLK/Malcolm X (Lab Day)
--Individually, analyze the 2 documents and do the write-up following OPVL Guidelines.
--Graded Sharing tomorrow

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

6/5/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("American Society During the Baby Boom")
2) "Extra" Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation") "Extra Info": Pages 830-836 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

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 836-846 ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
Focus your reading on:  a) Student Non-Violent 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:

1) Reminder about 90s Oral History assignment

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

6/2/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 5

2) Homework: Textbook, pages 804-807; 820-825 ("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 50s  e) The "Beats"

6/1/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2) Post-WWII Role Play presentations
--Complete Evaluation form
--Audience asks 1 question each

3) Homework: Study for Test 5



American Pop Culture:

1) 1990s Oral History assignment reminder

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