5/18/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Peer Review of Essays
a) Take 3 Evaluation Sheets for the 3 rounds
b)  At the end of the 3rd round, all essays and evaluations will be passed back to their owners
c) Class compilation of info

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"

5/17/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Finish Martin Luther King/Malcolm X essay assignment
--Be done by start of class tomorrow for Peer Review
--Do not type it.

3)  HW-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

5/16/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Martin Luther King/Malcolm X Essay Assignment (Day 1 of 2)
5 pts--notes    5 pts--outline    10 pts--essay
--Use specific examples to support your points
--Quiet work time.  I'll be checking for progress at the end of the period

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

5/15/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")

2)  Finish yesterday's Civil Rights Documents assignment
--Discuss and hand in

3)  Literacy Test examples

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 860-867 ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
Focus your reading on: a) Black separatism  b) White fear of Black Power  c) Cesar Chavez  d) Wounded Knee  e) National Organization for Women (NOW)  f) The Feminine Mystique  g) Women's Liberation Movement

5/14/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2)  Go over Friday's video notes


3)  Civil Rights Movement Documents (using books provided)
a) Rosa Parks (pages 211-215)
b) Martin Luther King (pages 224-229)
c) Black Power (pages 229-234)
--Answer questions at the end of each reading in complete sentences.

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 842-846 ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
Focus your reading on:  a) Lyndon Johnson's political experience  b) 1964 presidential election  c) Great Society programs

5/11/12

Today's agenda:

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

2)  Video: "1960-64: Poisoned Dreams"
--Take 1 page of notes


3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 836-842 ("New Tactics for the Civil Rights Movement")
Focus your reading on:  a) Sit-in movement  b) March on Washington  c) Voting Rights Act of 1965/24th Amendment

FROM HERE ON OUT, TAKING READING NOTES ON YOUR HOMEWORK READINGS WILL BE ESPECIALLY HELPFUL IN DOING WELL ON THE LAST TEST (Multiple choice format).

5/10/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Hand in any remaining video notes from yesterday.

2)  Test 11


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) Peace Corps  d) Bay of Pigs Invasion  e) Cuban Missile Crisis  f) JFK's space program  g) JFK's assassination