5/11/15

1)  Notes ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2)  Finish Friday's Civil Rights Documents assignment
--Discuss and hand in

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 860-867 ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
Focus your reading on:  a) Black separation  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

5/8/15

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

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 842-846 ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
Focus your reading on:  a) Lyndon Johnson's political experience  b) 1964 presidential election  c) Great Society programs

5/7/15

1)  Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation").  Note-taking and homework reading more important in this last unit than any other in order to be successful on the last test in June.
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

5/6/15

1)  Turn in yesterday's video notes
2)  Test 11

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 830-836 ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation")
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

**Homework readings and reading notes are more critical to success now more than ever on the last unit, since the last test is multiple choice and covers about a month of information (1960-2001).

5/5/15

1)  Notes ("The Affluent Society")
2)  Ungraded Unit 11 Review Quiz
3)  Go over last essay question for Test 11
4)  Video: "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes

5)  Homework: Study for Test 11

5/4/15

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue")
2)  Cold War Role Play Presentations
--Complete Evaluation Form
--Audience asks 1 question each

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 816-825; 828-830 ("The Affluent Society") and ("The Other America")
Focus your reading on:  a) Baby boomers  b) Role of women in the 1950s  c) Positives and negatives of low-income housing in the 1950s

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