5/31/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2) Writing Assignment on the Vietnam War video
--Answer questions from the screen (paragraph each)
--Graded Sharing
--Staple to Friday's notes and hand in

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 (B day):

Same as 5/27 entry, except your 90s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 6/6.

5/27/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

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

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873 ("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 (A day):

1) Reminder that your 1990s Oral History assignment is due next Friday, 6/3.
2) Please get any missing work in as soon as possible.

3) 1990s Movie:  ("Reality Bites") (Day 1)
--With note guide

5/26/16

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 (B day):

Same as 5/25 entry, except your 90s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 6/6.

5/25/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2) Discuss/hand in JFK video notes
3) Graded Sharing on MLK/Malcolm X OPVL
4) Look at class set of literacy tests and ask class discussion questions

5) 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 (A day):

1) Reminder of 1990s Oral History assignment due date on Friday, 6/3.
2) Missing work reminder

3) 1990s Music (Day 2)
--Finish note guide

5/24/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
2) Reverse of yesterday's plans for 1st and 2nd periods

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 (B day):

Same as 5/23 entry, except your 1990s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, June 6.

5/23/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation")
2) 1st period: OPVL on Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X (Lab Day)
--Individually, analyze 2 documents and do write-up following OPVL Guidelines
--Graded Sharing on Wednesday
2nd period:  Video: "1960-64: Poisoned Dreams"
--Take 1 page of notes

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 836-846 ("New Tactics in the Civil Rights Movement") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
Focus your reading on:  a) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)/Sit-in Movement  b) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)/Freedom Rides  c) March on Washington  d) Civil Rights Act of 1964/Voting Rights Act of 1965  e) 1964 presidential election  f) Great Society programs  g) War on Poverty/Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)


American Pop Culture (A day):

1) Reminder of 1990s Oral History assignment being due on Friday, 6/3.
2) Reminder to get missing work in as soon as possible.

3) 1990s Music (Day 1)
--With note guide

5/20/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

**Hand out Unit 6 I.B. Topics
1) Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("American Society During the Baby Boom")
2) Video: "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes

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) Bay of Pigs Invasion  d) Construction of the Berlin Wall  e) Peace Corps  f) Alliance for Progress  g) Cuban Missile Crisis  h) Space Race


American Pop Culture (B day):

Same as 5/19 entry, except your 1990s Oral History assignment is due on Monday, 6/6.