5/31/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/30 entry.

5/30/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
2) Finish 70s Presentations
3) 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 Initiative (SDI, or "Star Wars")  c) Contras/Sandinistas  d) Iran-Contra Affair  e) Reagan's meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev



American Pop Culture:

1) Reminder about 90s Oral History and missing assignments

2) 90s Music (Day 2)
--Finish note guide

5/29/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/28 entry.

5/28/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Energy Crisis") and ("Challenges to Tradition...")
2) 1970s Partner Project Presentations
--Audience takes 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) Reminder of 90s Oral History and missing assignments

2) 90s Music (Day 1)
--With note guide

5/24/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/23 entry.

5/23/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Nixon Years")
2) Partner Project: 1970s (Prep Day)
--On Google Classroom
--Present starting next class period

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


American Pop Culture:

1) 1990s Oral History check-in and reminder
2) Missing assignments reminder

3) 90s TV (Day 2)
("Ellen") and ("Seinfeld")
--Finish note guide

5/22/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/21 entry.

5/21/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2) Writing Assignment/Graded Sharing on Vietnam video
--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) Ford's pardon of Nixon  f) "Credibility gap"



American Pop Culture:

1) 1990s Intro Notes
2) 90s Oral History handed out (due Friday, June 7)

3) 90s TV (Day 1) ("The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air")
--With note guide

5/20/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/17 entry.

5/17/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2) Finish video on Vietnam
--Continue taking 2-sided 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 and election of 1968   d) "Silent Majority"  e) Vietnamization   f) My Lai Massacre  g) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)


American Pop Culture:

1) 1980s Oral History due

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

3) Graded Sharing of Oral Histories?

5/16/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/15 entry.

5/15/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
2) Video: "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam"
--Take 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) Final reminder about 80s Oral History

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

5/14/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/13 entry.

5/13/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2) Graded Sharing of MLK/Malcolm X OPVL

3) Look at class set of 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/Vietcong  f) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  g) Operation Rolling Thunder



American Pop Culture:

1) 1980s Oral History check-in and reminder

2) 1980s Music (Day 2)
--Finish note guide

5/10/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/10 entry.

5/9/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2) OPVL on MLK/Malcolm X (Work Day)
--Individually, analyze 2 documents and do write-up following OPVL Guidelines Packet.
--Graded Sharing next class

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) 1980s Oral History check-in and reminder

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

5/7/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation")

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 Commitee (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) 1980s Oral History check-in and reminder

2) 1980s TV (Day 2)
("Cheers")
--Finish note guide

5/6/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/3 entry.

5/3/19

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) Video: "1960-64: Poisoned Dreams"
--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) Cuba Missile Crisis  h) Space Race


American Pop Culture:

1) 1980s Intro Notes
2) Hand out 1980s Oral History (due Friday, 5/17)

3) 1980s TV (Day 1) ("Family Ties")
--With note guide

5/2/19

I.B. History of the Americas:

Same as 5/1 entry.

5/1/19

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 Society 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:

1) 1970s Oral History due

2) Graded Sharing