5/31/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Modern Women's Rights Movement")-Canada

2)  Modern Women's Rights Leaders Presentations
--Audience should take 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 and leadership style  c) Camp David Accords  d) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan  e) Iranian Hostage Crisis

5/30/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Why Women's Liberation?")

2)  Modern Women's Rights Leaders (Prep Day)
--Present tomorrow

3)  Homework:  Paul Bennett reading in Green Reader ("The Modern Women's Rights Movement")-Canada
Focus your reading on:  a) Laura Sabia  b) Canadian Human Rights Commission

5/29/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")

2)  Watergate reading/questions/graded discussion
--Use pages 267-276 in books provided

3)  Homework:  Marlene Dixon reading in Green Reader ("Why Women's Liberation?")
Focus your reading on:  a) Gender roles in the New Left and Civil Rights Movement  b)  U.S. government's use of women and African-Americans

5/25/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")

2)  Video:  "1971-75: Approaching the Apocalypse"
--Take 1 page of notes


3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 887-889; 892-899 ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")
Focus your reading on:  a) Three Mile Island  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c) Roe vs. Wade  d) "Modern" political campaigning

5/24/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years")

2)  Video:  "Dear America:  Letters Home from Vietnam"
--Just watch.  No notes.

3)  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.

5/23/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")

2)  Finish Vietnam 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) Nixon's pardon

5/22/12

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Cold War Consensus Unravels")

2)  Vietnam Oral History Presentations


3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 867-873; 876 ("The Long Road Home, 1968-75")
Focus your reading on:  a) Tet Offensive  b) LBJ's surprise announcement  c) 1968 Democratic Convention  d) George Wallace  e) "Silent Majority"  f) Vietnamization  g) My Lai  h) Nixon's foreign policy