5/1/15

1)  Notes ("The Cold War at Home")
2)  Discuss/hand in video notes
3)  Test 11 prep information:

a)  In what ways did World War II alter the lives of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians?
b)  Describe how the U.S. policy in regard to the Soviet Union ("containment") evolved during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
c)  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 strive to 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?


4)  Make-up Canada in WWII presentations?
5)  4 groups: Post-WWII Role Play (Prep Day)
--Read Option information
--Complete the "Considering Your Option" sheet
--Make group presentation sheet for Monday

6)  Homework: Textbook, pages 804-807 ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue")
Focus your reading on:  a) Brown vs. Board of Education  b) Montgomery Bus Boycott

4/30/15

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



IB Diploma Students Information from Mr. Savage:

For anyone who needs a few more service hours,  Templeton Elementary is looking for several volunteers for their STEM Night, Thursday May 28th, 5:30 - 8:30 pm (yes it is on the CAS due date, but you could turn in your reflection on the 29th and it would be okay).  

You would be helping set up and staff booths and activities with a science theme (marshmallow towers, penny boats, paper airplanes, marble roller coasters, circuits, etc.) It sounds like it will be a lot of fun.

If you need creativity hours I could put you in touch with the woman in charge and she would probably let you design your own booth or activity.  

4/29/15

1)  Notes ("Fighting and Winning the War")
2)  Continue Oral History Presentations
--WWII and Korean War primarily

3)  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"

4/27/15

1)  Notes ("British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation")
2)  Oral Histories due
--Begin presentations (continued on Wednesday)

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 767-776 ("Fighting and Winning the War")
Focus your reading on:  a) D-Day  b) Yalta

4/24/15

1)  Canada and the Second World War
--Presentations
--Audience takes class notes

2)  Homework: W. Peter Ward reading in Green Reader ("British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation")-Canada
Focus your reading on:  Specific examples of the impact of WWII on Japanese-Canadians

**Oral History Project due Monday
**Online forecasting due Sunday night

4/23/15

1)  Canada and the Second World War
--6 groups: Prep Day in lab
--Present tomorrow
--At least 1/2 page typed bullet point notes
--At least 1 relevant visual

2)  Homework: Oral History work time

4/22/15

1)  Notes ("Life on the Home Front")
2)  Video: "1941-45: Homefront"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Work on Oral History Project (due Monday)