5/9/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Other America")

2)  Video:  "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes


STUDY FOR TEST 11 TONIGHT.

5/8/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Affluent Society")
2)  Go over last question on Test 11 Prep Sheet

3)  Finish Post-WWII Role Play
4)  Make-up WWII Oral History presentations (or other presentations)

5)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 825; 828-830 ("The Other America")
Focus your reading on:  Positives and negatives of low-income housing during the 1950s

5/7/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue")

2)  Video:  "Best Years: 1946-52"
--Take 1 page of notes


3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 816-825 ("The Affluent Society")
Focus your reading on:  a) Baby boomers  b) Role of women during the 1950s

Tomorrow will be a "clean-up" day: a) Finish role play presentations  b) Finish WWII Oral History presentations  c) Any other make-up presentations  d)  Go over last question on Test 11 Prep Sheet for Thursday's test.

5/4/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Test 11 Prep Sheet

3)  4 groups:  Post-WWII Role Play Presentations
--Complete Evaluation Form/turn in with the "Considering Your Option" sheet
--Ask 2 questions from the audience

4)  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

5/3/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")

2)  4 groups:  Post-WWII Role Play
--Read Option information
--Complete the "Considering Your Option" sheet
--Create an information sheet for tomorrow's presentation


3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 797-804 ("The Cold War at Home")
Focus your reading on:  a) Fair Deal  b) Election of 1948  c) Joseph McCarthy  d) Alger Hiss  e) Interstate Highway System

5/2/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Fighting and Winning the War")

2)  Continue Oral History presentations


3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 784-785; 788-797 ("The Cold War Abroad")
Focus your reading on:  a) Containment  b) Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan  c) NATO  d) Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War  e) "Massive retaliation"

5/1/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation")

2)  Oral History Papers due
--Begin sharing WWII/Korea reports in class

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 767-776 ("Fighting and Winning the War")
Focus your reading on:  a) D-Day  b) Yalta