1/27/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Nixon Years")
2) Partner Project: 1970s (Prep Day in classroom) PLEASE PRINT OUT YOUR SHEET AT HOME!
--Presenting 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 U.S.  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c) Affirmative action  d) "New Right"

1/26/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
2) Writing Assignment on Vietnam video
--Answer questions from the screen (full paragraphs)
--Graded Discussion
--Staple to yesterday'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:

1)  Reminder of 1990s Oral History assignment and missing reminder

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

1/25/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")
2) Finish video
--Continue 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)

1/24/17

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:

1) Reminder of 1990s Oral History assignment due date and missing assignments

2) 1990s Music (Day 1)
--With note guide

1/23/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("The Widening Struggle for Civil Rights")
2) Graded Sharing on MLK/Malcolm X OPVL
3) Look at literacy tests and discuss

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

1/20/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

**Hand out Unit 6 I.B. Topics and finish notes from Wednesday
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 the OPVL Guidelines
--Graded Sharing on Monday

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:

1) 90s Oral History reminder and reminder about missing assignments to turn in before the end of the semester.

2) 90s TV (Day 2)
("Ellen") and ("Seinfeld")
--Finish note guide

1/19/17

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Test 5

2) 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)