1/14/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Canada's Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879-85")
2)  Finish Arizona: 1871 Role Play
--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")
Focus your reading on:  a) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  b) Resistance to the draft  c) Tet Offensive  d) President Johnson's surprise announcement (1968)  e) 1968 Democratic Convention  f) George Wallace  g) "Silent Majority"  h) Vietnamization  i) My Lai  j) Nixon's foreign policy

1/13/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Great Plains")
2)  Arizona: 1871 Role Play
--Complete Evaluation Form
--Ask 3 questions from the audience (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
--Discuss/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"

1/10/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Undoing of Reconstruction")
2)  5 groups: Arizona: 1871 Role Play
--Study background and Option information
--"Presenting Your Perspective"
--Make presentation sheet

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

3)  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

1/9/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Radical Reconstruction")
2)  Video: "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow"
--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

1/8/14

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)  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/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

1/7/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1) Notes ("The Union Victorious, 1864-65")
2)  Discuss and hand in yesterday video notes
3)  Begin sharing Research Papers with the class

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)  Role Play Presentations (Post-WWII)
--Present
--Complete Evaluation sheet
--1 audience question


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

1/6/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes (" The Turning Point: 1863")
2)  Finish video; discuss and hand in notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 417-421; 424-426 ("The Union Victorious: 1864-65")
Focus your reading on(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 RESEARCH PAPERS TOMORROW TO BEGIN SHARING WITH THE CLASS



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Abroad")
2)  4 groups: Post-WWII Role Play (20 points)
--Option information (9 atomic bombs in 1946)
--"Considering Your Option" sheet
--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