5/20/15

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years")
2)  Finish any Oral History Presentations
3)  Video: "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam"
--No notes. Just watch.

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 the U.S.

5/19/15

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

5/18/15

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2)  Vietnam War Oral History Presentations

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873; 876 ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on:  a) Tet Offensive  b) President Johnson's surprise announcement

5/15/15

1)  Notes ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
2)  Video: "1965-70: Unpinned"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 856-860 ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
Focus your reading on:  a) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  b) Resistance to the draft

**Oral History presentations resumes on Monday and Tuesday.

5/14/15

1)  Notes ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 2
2)  Peer Review of MLK/Malcolm X Essays
--Turn in Notes, Outline, and Essays when done

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

5/13/15

1)  Notes ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 1
2)  Finish MLK/Malcolm X Essay Assignment
--Notes, Outline, and Essay all due at start of the period on Thursday for Peer Review

3)  Homework: Howard Zinn reading in Green Reader ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 2 [Pages 197-212 only]
Focus your reading on:  a) Malcolm X's view of the March on Washington  b) Racial separation in northern cities  c) Black Panther leaders  d) Busing to achieve better integration

5/12/15

1)  Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2)  MLK/Malcolm X Essay Assignment
For today: --Use classroom reading packets to take notes
--Make an outline of your essay
--Tomorrow will be time to write the essay

3)  Homework: Howard Zinn reading in Green Reader ("Or Does It Explode?")-Part 1 [Pages 182-197 only]
Focus your reading on:  a) Freedom Riders  b) Black Power leaders