5/31/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Oregon Student Wellness Survey (in lab).

2)  Notes ("The Nixon Years")

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 884-887 ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
Focus your reading on:  a) Rising oil prices  b) OPEC oil embargo  c)  Impact of embargo on the U.S.

5/27/11

Today's agenda:

1) Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75").

2)  Finish Oral History presentations/Watch video "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam".

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 880-883 ("The Nixon Years").
Focus your reading on:  a) George McGovern  b) Divisions in the Democratic Party c) Spiro Agnew  d) Watergate cover-up  e) "Smoking gun"/"The tapes"  f) Nixon's pardon

5/26/11

Today's agenda:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")

2)  Oral History Presentations

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873; 876 ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on:  a) Tet Offensive  b) LBJ's announcement  c) Democratic Convention  d) George Wallace  e) "Silent majority"  f) Vietnamization  g) My Lai  h) Nixon's foreign policy

5/25/11

Today's agenda:

1) Notes ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68").

2)  Video:  "1965-70: Unpinned"
--Take 1 page of notes


3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 856-860 ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
Focus your reading on: a) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  b) Resistance to the draft

BRING ORAL HISTORY PAPERS TOMORROW IF YOU HAVEN'T SHARED YOURS IN CLASS YET.

5/24/11

Today's agenda:

1) Notes ("Or Does it Explode?")-Part 2

2) Peer Review of Essays
a) 3 rounds
b)  After the 3rd round, essays and evaluations passed back to owners to read, staple together, and hand in.
c) Class compilation of information.

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 850-856 ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68").
Focus your reading on:  a) Vietnam's colonial history  b) Ho Chi Minh  c) Ngo Dinh Diem  d) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  e) First "television war".

5/23/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Or Does it Explode?")-Part 1

2)  Finish essay assignment.  Due tomorrow for the peer review in class.

3)  Homework: Howard Zinn reading in Green Reader ("Or Does it Explode?")-Part 2 (pages 197-212 only).
Focus your reading on: a) Malcolm X's view of the March on Washington  b) Racial separation in northern cities  c) Black Panther leaders  d) Busing to achieve better integration

5/20/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights").

2) Martin Luther King/Malcolm X Essay Assignment
5 pts-notes
5 pts--outline
10 pts--essay
--Notes and outline done today in class.

3) Homework: Howard Zinn reading in Green Reader ("Or Does it Explode?")-Part 1 (Pages 182-197 only).
Focus your reading on:  a) Freedom Riders  b) Black Power leaders