1/25/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("Energy Crisis") and ("Challenges to Tradition: The Women's Movement and Gay Rights")
2) 1970s Project Presentations (Day 1 of 2)
--Present information
--Audience takes class notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 899-904 ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
Focus your reading on:  a) Gerald Ford's problems as president  b) Jimmy Carter's "outsider campaign" for president  c) Camp David Accords  d) Panama Canal Treaty  e) Iranian Hostage Crisis


American Pop Culture (4th period A day):

Same as 1/22 entry, except you will also be given the Test 2 review sheet and an index card to prepare for Wednesday's test.

1/22/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Nixon Years")
2)  Partner Project: 1970s (Prep Day)
--Present Monday and Tuesday

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 884; 889; 892-899 ("Energy Crisis") and ("Challenges to Tradition: The Women's Movement and Gay Rights")
Focus your reading on: a) OPEC oil embargo/impact on the U.S.  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c) Affirmative Action  d) "New Right"


American Pop Culture (2nd period B day):

1) 90s Oral History assignment due
2)  Graded Sharing in class

**Reminder about getting missing work as soon as possible. Check your grade on Synergy.

1/21/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1)  Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2)  Writing Assignment/Graded Discussion on Vietnam video
--Answer questions from the screen (paragraph each)
--Graded Discussion

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 880-883 ("The Nixon Years")
Focus your reading on:  a) George McGovern  b) Watergate  c) "Executive privilege"  d) "Smoking gun"/"The tapes"  e) Ford's pardon of Nixon  f) "Credibility gap"


American Pop Culture (4th period A day):

Same as 1/20 entry, except your Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 1/25.

1/20/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2)  Finish Vietnam War video and 2-sided notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873; 876 ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on:  a) Tet Offensive  b) Robert Kennedy  c) Campaign/Election of 1968  d) "Silent Majority"  e) Vietnamization  f) My Lai Massacre  g) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)


American Pop Culture (2nd period B day):

** Reminder to get missing work in as soon as possible!
**Reminder that your Oral History assignment is due in 2 days (Friday)!

90s Movie ("Reality Bites")-Day 2
--Finish note guide; discuss and hand in

1/15/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2)  Graded Sharing on MLK/Malcolm X OPVL
3)  Looking at examples of literacy tests from segregated era

4) Homework: Textbook, pages 850-856 ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
Focus your reading on:  a) Vietminh/Ho Chi Minh  b) Dien Bien Phu/Geneva Accords c) Domino Theory  d) Ngo Dinh Diem  e) National Liberation Front (NLF)/Vietcong  f) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution  g) Operation Rolling Thunder


American Pop Culture (2nd period B day):

1) Reminder about missing work and Oral History assignment due on Friday, 1/22.

2)  90s Movie: "Reality Bites"
--With note guide

1/19/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1)  Notes ("Into the Quagmire, 1945-68")
2)  Video: "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" (Day 1)
2-sided notes: a) Specific scenes or quotes that give us a picture of the Vietnam War combat soldier's experience.  b) Specific examples showing the "message", or bias, of the filmmakers (selection of clips, music, quotes, etc).

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 856-860 ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
Focus your reading on:  a) Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)/Port Huron Statement  b) Free Speech Movement at Berkeley  c) Resistance to the draft  d) Hippies

American Pop Culture (4th period A day):

Same as 1/15 entry, except Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 1/25.

1/14/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1)  Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2)  OPVL on MLK/Malcolm X (Lab Day)
--Individually, analyze the 2 documents and do a write-up following OPVL guidelines
--Graded Sharing tomorrow

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 860-867 ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
Focus your reading on:  a) Malcolm X  b) Black Power/Black Panthers  c) Cesar Chavez  d) American Indian Movement (AIM)  e) Women's Rights Movement/National Organization for Women (NOW)  f) Women's Liberation Movement


American Pop Culture (4th period A day):

Same as 1/13 entry, except your Oral History assignment due date is on Monday, 1/25.