1/24/14

Advanced U.S. History:

2nd period only:

1)  Test 6

2)  Homework: Textbook, pages 486-491; 494-495 ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant")
Focus your reading on:  Meaning of "Industrial Capitalism Triumphant"

1/23/14

Advanced U.S. History:

2nd period: 1) Finish last segment of "Roots"
2)  Study/Work time

3rd period:  1)  Test 6

2)  Homework: Textbook, pages 486-491; 494-498 ("Industrial Capitalism Triumphant")
Focus your reading on:  Meaning of "Industrial Capitalism Triumphant"


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Turn in textbooks

2)  Test 6

1/22/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Watch last episode of "Roots"
--Take 1 page of notes on specific attributes of the Reconstruction Era

2)  Tomorrow:  2nd period: Bring study materials
3rd period: Test 6



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Restructuring the Domestic Order: Public Life, 1992-2001")
2)  Graded Studying for the Test
--Must be the History test
--Recommendation: Quiz each other using class notes in 2s or 3s


3)  --Bring textbooks to class tomorrow to turn in
--Study tonight for Test 6

1/21/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The British Migration and Settlement Pattern")

2)  Finish answering questions from Friday, then graded discussion

3)  Homework: Study for Test 6

Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-93") and ("Foreign Relations Under Reagan and Bush")

2)  Video: "1981-93: A New World"

--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 927-936 ("Restructuring the Domestic Order: Public Life, 1992-2001")

Focus your reading on:  a) Successes during Clinton's first term  b) Attempt to lift ban on gays in the military  c) Health care reform  d) Hillary Rodham Clinton  e) "Contract with America"

1/17/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Frontier and the American Character")
2)  "The Subjugation of the Native Americans in the West"
--Reading: "I Will Fight No More Forever"
--4 Questions (Work Day)
--Finish questions and Graded Discussion on Tuesday


3)  Homework:  Study for Test 6



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s") and ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
2)  Video: "1976-80: Starting Over"
--Take 1 page of notes


3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 908-914 ("The Reagan-Bush Years") and ("Foreign Relations Under Reagan and Bush")
Focus your reading on:  a) Ronald Reagan's leadership style  b) Reaganomics  c) Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)  d) 1984 reelection  e) Iran-Contra Scandal

1/16/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reluctant Conquerors...")
2)  Test 6 Prep Information
3)  Finish yesterday's video
--Discuss/hand in notes

4)  Homework: Ray Allen Billington reading in Blue Reader ("The Frontier and the American Character")
Focus your reading on:  Frederick Jackson Turner and his "Frontier Thesis"

TEST PREP QUESTIONS:
1)  In what ways were the following men and events both significant and controversial in the last sixteen months of the Civil War?
a) The use of African-American troops
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) The Shenandoah Campaign
d) William Tecumseh Sherman

2)  From a modern historical perspective, what were the major achievements and disappointments of Radical Reconstruction? 





Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years") and ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
2)  Test 6 Prep Information
3)  Watergate Assignment
--Read pages 267-276 in books provided
--Answer questions from sheet provided
--Graded Discussion

4)  Homework: Textbook, pages 887-889; 892-904 ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s") and ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
Focus your reading on:  a) Three Mile Island  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c)  Roe vs. Wade  d)  "Modern" political campaigning  e) Gerald Ford's problems as president  f) Jimmy Carter's "outsider" campaign and leadership style  g) Camp David Accords  h) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan  i) Iranian Hostage Crisis 

TEST PREP QUESTIONS:

1)  Some Americans look back on the 1950s with nostalgia and see this period as America at its best, the norm to which the U.S. should return.  In what ways were the years between 1945 and 1960 unusually prosperous?  On the other hand, what realities were hidden by the optimism of those years?
2)  What were the critical events of 1968 that have caused some historians to refer to it as a "year of shocks"? 

1/15/14

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Far West")
2)  Video: "The Geography of Hope" (2 days)
--Take 2 pages of notes

3)  Homework: Thomas Leonard reading in Blue Reader ("Reluctant Conquerors...")
Focus your reading on:  The author's thesis: Why was the U.S. Army "reluctant"?



Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels") and ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2)  Video: "1971-75: Approaching the Apocalypse"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 880-887 ("The Nixon Years") and ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
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) Nixon's pardon  g) Rising oil prices  h) OPEC oil embargo  i) Impact of embargo on the U.S.