4/28/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Roots of Expansion")
2) 3 groups: Imperialism Role Play (Prep Day) (Present on Tuesday)
a) Read Option info
b) "Considering Your Option" sheet
c) Make group presentation sheet

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 609; 612-613; 616-622 ("An American Empire")
Focus your reading on:  a) Reasons for going to war with Spain  b) William McKinley/USS Maine  c) Filipino "insurrection"/Emilio Aguinaldo

4/27/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Urbanization") and ("City Life")
2) Finish? Late 19th Century Individual Presentations
--Audience continues taking class notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 604-609 ("The Roots of Expansion")
Focus your reading on:  a) Imperialism  b) Alfred T. Mahan's proposals



American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Oral History assignment reminder

2) 1970s Music (Day 2)
--Finish note guide

4/26/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant") and ("The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-1893")
2) Late 19th Century Individual Presentations
--Points for Title Page/Visual, Typed Info, and Presentation
--Audience takes class notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 544-550; 556-563; 566 ("Urbanization") and ("City Life")
Focus your reading on:  "Dumb-bell" tenements

4/25/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Wagon Trains, Railroads, and Ranchers") and ("The Fate of the Indians")
2) Late 19th Century Individual Presentations (Prep Day in lab)
--Present Wednesday and Thursday

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 486-487; 490; 494-495; 518-519; 521; 523 ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant") and ("The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-93")
Focus your reading on:  a) Andrew Carnegie  b) "Gilded Age"/Laissez-faire  c) Social Darwinism  d) Political machines


American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Oral History assignment reminder

2) 1970s Music (Day 1)
--With note guide

4/24/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Race and Politics in the New South")
2) DuBois vs. Washington (Day 2)
--Finish answers to questions
--Graded Discussion

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 460-461; 464-465; 469-474 ("Wagon Trains, Railroads, and Ranchers") and ("The Fate of the Indians")
Focus your reading on:  a) Exodusters  b) Severalty policy  c) Wounded Knee

4/21/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Sharecropping") and ("The Political Crisis of 1877")
2) DuBois vs. Washington (Day 1)
a) Watch short video clip
b) Reading: "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
c) Questions: With paragraph answers
d) Graded Discussion on Monday

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 525-531; 534 ("Race and Politics in the New South")
Focus your reading on:  a) Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)  b) Booker T. Washington's views on segregation (Accommodationist; Atlanta Compromise Address)  c) W.E.B. DuBois' views that disagreed with Washington


American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Oral History assignment reminder

2) 70s TV (Day 3) ("Good Times") and ("Barney Miller")
--Finish note guide

4/20/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 3

2) Homework: Textbook, pages 442-445; 450 ("Sharecropping") and ("The Political Crisis of 1877")
Focus your reading on:  a) Sharecropping  b) Ku Klux Klan  c) Election of 1876/Rutherford B. Hayes