1/15/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Canada's Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-85")
2)  Finish last 2 Role Play presentations
--Staple 2 sheets together and hand in

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 474-482 ("The Far West")
Focus your reading on:  a) Population on the West Coast  b) Chinese immigration to the U.S.


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
2)  Video: "1965-70: Unpinned"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 856-860; 867-873; 876 ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels") and ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on: a) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  b) Resistance to the draft  c) Tet Offensive d) LBJ's surprise announcement  e) 1968 Democratic Convention  f) George Wallace  g) "Silent Majority"  h) Vietnamization  i) My Lai  j) Nixon's foreign policy

1/14/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Great Plains")
2)  Arizona 1871 Role Play
--Evaluation Form
--Audience asks 3 questions of different groups
--3 presentations today

3)  Homework: John Tobias reading in Blue Reader ("Canada's Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-85")
Focus your reading on:  a) Cree tribe vs. Canadian government  b) Metis Uprising (1885)


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2)  Finish Civil Rights Document Assignment

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"

1/11/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  5 groups:  Arizona 1871 Role Play
--Read Option information
--"Presenting Your Option" sheet
--Make presentation info sheet

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 458-461; 464-474 ("The Great Plains")
Focus your reading on:  a) Exodusters  b) Wounded Knee


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  Civil Rights Movement Documents
a) Rosa Parks (pages 211-215 in books provided)  b) MLK (pages 224-229) c) Black Power (pages 229-234)
--Answer questions at the end of each reading in complete sentences.

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

1/10/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Radical Reconstruction")
2)  Video:  "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" (1865-96")
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 442-445; 448-450 ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Sharecropping  b) Election of 1876/Rutherford B. Hayes


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2)  Video: "1960-64: Poisoned Dreams"
--Take 1 page of notes

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

1/9/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Presidential Reconstruction")
2)  Finish sharing research papers

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 436-442 ("Radical Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Positives and negatives of Radical Reconstruction  b) Impeachment of Andrew Johnson


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("The Affluent Society")
2)  Role Play Presentations
--Evaluation Form
--Groups present
--Ask 1 question

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 830-836; 842-846 ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
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  h) Lyndon Johnson's political experience  i) 1964 presidential election  j) Great Society programs

1/8/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Union Victorious: 1864-65")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  Share about Research Papers (individual presentations)

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 430-433; 435-436 ("Presidential Reconstruction")
Focus your reading on:  a) Lincoln's Reconstruction plan  b) Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  4 groups:  Post-WWII Role Play
--Read Option information (9 atomic bombs in 1946)
--"Completing Your Option" sheet
--Create information sheet for presentation

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 804-807; 816-825 ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("The Affluent Society")
Focus your reading on:  a) Brown vs. Board of Education  b) Montgomery Bus Boycott  c) Baby boomers  d) Role of women during the 1950s

1/7/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Turning Point: 1863")
2)  Finish Civil War video
--Discuss and hand in notes

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 417-421; 424-426 ("The Union Victorious: 1864-65")
Focus your reading on: (These are tied to a test essay question):  a)  Role of African-American soldiers  b) Ulysses S. Grant's war strategies  c) Shenandoah Campaign  d) William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea"

Bring your Research Papers tomorrow and Wednesday to class.


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")
2)  Video:  "1946-52: Best Years"
--Take 1 page of notes

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