5/30/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
2)  Women's Rights Presentations (8 groups)
--Students take class notes on presentations

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 908-912 ("The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-93")
Focus your reading on:  a) Ronald Reagan's leadership style  b) Reaganomics  c) Strategic Defense Initiative  d) 1984 election  e) Iran-Contra Scandal

Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2)  Finish Civil Rights Document Assignment (30 minutes work time)
--Discuss and hand in answers

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"

5/29/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Modern Women's Rights Movement")-Canada
2)  8 groups: Modern Women's Rights Movement  (Prep Day in lab)
--Typed 1/2 page of information and 1 visual
--Present tomorrow

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 899-904 ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
Focus your reading on:  a) Gerald Ford's problems as president  b) Jimmy Carter's "outsider" campaign and leadership style  c) Camp David Accords  d) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan  e) Iranian Hostage Crisis


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  Civil Rights Movement Documents (in 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 document 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

5/28/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Why Women's Liberation?")
2)  Video:  "1976-80: Politics in the Wake of Watergate"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Paul Bennett reading in Green Reader ("The Modern Women's Rights Movement")-Canada
Focus your reading on:  a) Laura Sabia  b) Canadian Human Rights Commission


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

5/24/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")
2)  Watergate Assignment
--Read pages 267-276 in books provided
--Answer questions from sheet handed out
--Graded Discussion

3)  Homework: Marlene Dixon reading in Green Reader ("Why Women's Liberation?")
Focus your reading on:  a) Gender roles in the New Left and Civil Rights Movement  b) U.S. government's use of women and African-Americans


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("The Affluent Society")
2)  Video: "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes

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 and 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

5/23/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
2)  Video:  "1971-75: Approaching the Apocalypse"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 887-889; 892-899 ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")
Focus your reading on:  a) Three Mile Island  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c) Roe vs. Wade  d) "Modern" political campaigning


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Role Play Presentations
--All 4 groups present
--Evaluation Form
--1 audience question per person

3)  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 in the 1950s

5/22/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years")
2)  Finish any Oral History presentations
3)  Watch "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" (no notes)

4)  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 U.S.


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")
2)  4 groups: Post-WWII Role Play
a) Read Option information
b)  "Considering Your Option" sheet
c)  Make presentation sheet

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

5/21/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2)  Continue/finish Oral History Presentations

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) Pardon of Nixon


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Test 5

2)  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"