Unit one: Colonization and the Constitution
Unit One: Colonization and the Constitution
American Dream poster and explanation paper, due Monday, September 15th
Complete poster as assigned on handout. It should be neat and creative and clearly represent The American Dream as you see it.
Part 2: Write a one page typed and double spaced explanation of your poster. The explanation should explain how your poster represents the American Dream and define the dream to the best of your ability. It should also include at least one direct quotation from the Steinbeck reading.
Requirements:
Typed
Edited for spelling and grammar
Contains one direct quotation from Steinbeck
Clearly explains the poster
Defines American Dream
Thursday September 18th: Colony to Constitution notes, answer questions at bottom of note
HW: Big Blue Constitution reading, due Monday
Monday September 22nd: Constitution Scavenger Hunt
Tuesday September 23rd: Create Your own Constitution in class, HW: Current Event
Civil War Unit
Monday October 20th: In class: on the left hand side of your notebook, create an illustration clearly showing the difference between North and South prior to the Civil War.
HW: Read Howard Zinn reading, and do the this, due Wednesday
Thursday and Friday, Oct 30-31: Watch Excerpts of Gettysburg and follow directions in class. See Coovert for make up work
Tuesday November 4th: Notes on the Civil War, assign read 340-345,
Create a chart showing the way the Civil War changed the US in the following ways: economic, political, social, technological Then, pick one change that still affects us today and explain how it still effects us today.
Wednesday November 5th: Discuss election results, HW: find one article dealing with the election, specifically look for articles discussing why someone one or what it means. Bring article to class and write a one page summary in notebook.
Friday, November 7th: Watch the Unfinished Civil War,
Monday, November 10th: Finish movie, hand out test review
Thursday, November 13th: Review for test, hand out notebook self grading sheet
Thursday Nov 8th
Civil War Test
Assign Due Tuesday Nov 13th: Read Big Blue page 380-387. Take notes on the culture of plain Indians and 2. significant battles/conflicts/massacres in the late 1800s.
Then, complete the following writing assignment: Role: Native American from the Plains
Purpose: to explain to a friend in a letter how your life has changed because of US expansion and how it had affected you and your family.
Tuesday Nov 13th: In class, do unit intro assignment
HW: HW: Big Blue, Read 410-413 and 421-425
Take notes on the following questions
How did natural resources fuel industrialization (list key resources)
List new inventions and business strategies and explain how each changed society
What is Social Darwinism?
The Robber Barons
Thursday Nov 15th: In class, read Wealth by Andrew Carnegie and discuss these questions.
Hw: Read Big Blue, page 438-443 and do #2 on 443 on the left side of your notebook.
Monday Nov 19th: In class, read two first hand immigrant accounts and create a Venn diagram comparing the two on the left hand side of your notebook. The immigrant accounts can be accessed here. page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4
HW: Read chap 15 section 2 and complete this worksheet in your notebook. Either print out the sheet, fill it in and paste it in or just do the same work on a right hand page. Due Wed Nov 21.
Wednesday, Nov 21: In class: present dialogues. Discuss Urbanization.
Tuesday, Nov 27: In class, jigsaw activity. See Mr. Coovert for make up work.
HW: Current event, due Thursday
Thursday, Nov 29: Finish jigsaw activity; notes on imperialism
Assign Unit project: due Friday, December 7th
Monday, Dec 3: Read Fast Food Nation excerpt, complete double entry diary. Hand out test review
Wed, Dec 5: Discuss Fast Food Nation. Review. List assignments that should be in notebook.
Fri, Dec 7: Test on Three I's unit.
Tues Dec 11th: Into to unit: lecture on background info, read/discuss red scare
HW: Big Blue 596-600 do #2, Read 601-605, do #2 Due Mon, Dec 17th
Thurs Dec 13th: Watch "This Century" in class. Take notes
Monday Dec 17th: Henry Ford reading in class,
Wednesday Dec 19th: Watch Maxed out
Christmas Break!
Thursday January 3rd: Women in the 1920s, in class activity
HW: read Big Blue 642-649, do 649 #2
Monday January 7th: Lecture on causes of depression, see Mr. Coovert for notes
HW: Big Blue: Read 650-654On right side of notebook make a chart that lists the following groups: urban dwellers, rural dwellers, women, African Americans, families, And then list how the depression affected each group
Wednesday January 9th: Assign depression paragraph assignment, see Mr. Coovert for readings and directions, rough draft due Tuesday
Friday January 11th: Work day in class
Tuesday January 15th: Rough Draft of paragraph due
World War II Unit
Friday, February 1st: Watch This Century, HW: read 719-725, do #2 on 725 in notebook
Tuesday, Feb 5th: Notes on World War II, Assign notes on Chap 25 section 1 (get handout from Coovert), due Thursday, Feb 7th
Thursday, Feb 7th: Read 746-749 in Big Blue. For each Green heading write one or two sentences summarizing the section
Discuss: why allies won World War II
Read: Internment story and discuss internment
Assign: Read Korematsu decision and dissent. For Each list 4-5 main arguments for why internment was/was not Constitutional. Then, write one paragraph explaining which side you agree with. Due Monday, Feb 11th
Discuss Korematsu decision; atomic bomb notetaking. See Mr. Coovert for handouts.
Wed, Feb 13th
Finish atomic bomb note taking
Friday, Feb 15th
Atomic bomb note taking due, turn in notebooks
In class:
Write a clear, focused short essay of one to two pages. This should not be written in the notebook; treat it like a rough draft and turn it in to me. It should be on one of the following two prompts.
World War II was a “total war” in numerous ways. Do you think it is ok for militaries to target civilians in war? Explain your reasoning and use specific examples from World War II.
Or
Was the United States use of the atomic bomb on Japan justified? Support your answer and use specific examples.
Tuesday, Feb 26th
Watch Best Years of Our Lives (take notes) HW: Big Blue: 756-761 do page 761 #2
Cold War and the 1950s Unit
Friday March 7th: Assign: read 776-772 complete #2 on 772
Tuesday March 14th: Cold War Notes; Discuss Cold War, assign Cold War Debate readings (get from Mr. Coovert) follow these directions
Thursday March 16th: Discuss Cold War, assign read page 784, do #2, due Tuesday
Tuesday March 18th: McCarthyism activities. Assign: Read 796-802
On the right hand side of your notebook Explain how the US attempted to solve each of the following problems:
1. Readjustment of soldiers
2. Economic Challenges
3. Social Unrest and civil rights issues
Thursday March 20th: Junior Exhibition note taking, Guiding Question notes, Assign worksheet on chap 27, section 2, DUE: Wednesday March 26th
Wednesday, March 26th: Chap 27 section 2 due, guiding question due. Journal: how was the American Dream different and similar to the dream of today during the 1950s.
Discuss 1950s; Baby Boom activity, start Good Night and Good Luck, worksheet
Civil Rights and Segregation unit
Thursday April 10: Read Big Blue 820-823 and do #2 on page 823, due Tuesday
Monday April 14th: Read other America Excerpt: discussion of poverty and its effects: pick out quotations and respond
Read 856-863 for homework do #2 on right side of notebook
Wednesday April 16th: Watch Jo Ann Robinson video
Segregation in class readings (get from Mr. Coovert)
Discuss segregation
Friday April 16th:
Outline due
Assign and work on newscasts
Tuesday April 22nd:
Watch I have a Dream speech and discuss (please check out and watch if you missed this)
Work on Newscasts
Thursday April 24th
Discuss I have a dream speech
Assign chap 29 section 2, pages 864-870 and do page 870 #2
Work on presentations
Mon April 28:
15 minutes for final practice
Present Newscasts take notes as you watch
Discuss information
Chap 29 2 due
Big blue chap 29 section 3 (pages 871-877), create timeline with illustrations in notebook for section, due Wednesday
Wed April 30
Finish presentations
Redlining activity
Discuss success or failure of Civil Rights movement
Review (click here to download)
Friday May 1st
Open note quiz on Civil Rights unit
Start 60s/Vietnam
Vietnam and the 1960s
Tuesday, May 6th
Journal: When do you think the United States should to to war or send troops into other countries? What conditions would make you support or oppose military action?
Notes on cold war interventions (please copy into notebook)
Thursday, May 8th
Read “Why we are in Vietnam” a speech by President Johnson (get from Mr. Coovert)
As you read, on a right hand notebook page do the following:
1. Write down at least four direct quotations that you think are interesting or key to Johnson’s argument.
2. Write down at least 4 questions that you would like to have answered based on this reading.
Vietnam: Roots of Conflict
Read pages 884-888 in your book, as you read complete two tasks:
1. Create a timeline of the key events surrounding the United States getting involved and then escalating its involvement in Vietnam. You will also add illustrations to this timeline.
2. Pick out three direct quotations from the book dealing with the decisions that led the US to get involved. You will need these later for the unit project.
Both of these can be done on either side of the notebook.
Due Wed May 14th (combined with timeline of next section)
Monday, May 12th
Journal: Imagine it is the year 2010 and a draft is instituted. You are drafted into the military (the draft now includes women). How would you react? What would you do?
Read “No Cause other than our own survival”
Pick out three direct quotes that sum up the reading. Then choose 1 and explain why you think it is significant.
Read "No crime is a crime and do the same"
Big Blue: Read 889-894
Add at least 5 more dates and illustrations to your timeline
Write down three significant quotes
Wednesday, May 14th
Watch Letters Home from Vietnam. List eight quotes from movie
Friday, May 16th
Final Exhibition paper due
Read Martin Luther King's speech against the war (get from Mr. Coovert)
Find two key quotation and list the reasons MLK opposed the war
Read 895-906. Find information to answer the following questions
1. Why was Vietnam called a Working Class war?
2. What were the aims of the anti-war movement? Who were its members?
3. How did a majority of Americans feel about the war in ’67? How did they react to the protests?
4. What was the Tet Offensive? How did it influence public opinion?
5. How did the war affect the Presidential race of 1968?
Next, Add the key events of 1968 to your illustrated timeline
Tuesday, May 20th
Turn in speech outline
Read Holbrooke, "A No Winner from the Beginning" answer the following:
Read Holbrooke: no winner from the beginning
What is Holbrooke’s thesis?
What are his main arguments? What evidence does he use?
Do you agree/disagree?
Read pp. 907-913 add more dates to illustrated timeline including: Mai Lai, Kent State, invasion of Cambodia, Kent state, peace agreement, Fall of Saigon
Thursday, May 22
Start presentations
Read Iraq war fact sheet; brainstorm similarities and differences between Vietnam and Iraq
Three I's Unit
Friday, November 14th: Test on The Civil War, assign
Assign Due Tuesday Nov 18th: Read Big Blue page 380-387. Take notes on the culture of plain Indians and 2. significant battles/conflicts/massacres in the late 1800s.
Then, complete the following writing assignment: Role: Native American from the Plains
Purpose: to explain to a friend in a letter how your life has changed because of US expansion and how it had affected you and your family.
Tuesday, November 18th: do unit intro assignment
HW: HW: Big Blue, Read 410-413 and 421-425
Take notes on the following questions
How did natural resources fuel industrialization (list key resources)
List new inventions and business strategies and explain how each changed society
What is Social Darwinism?
Who were The Robber Barons?
Wednesday, November 19th
Journal: Why are some people rich and others poor? What determines where each person ends up?
Notes on Industrialization
Read Wealth by Carnegie (click on the link for reading) and answer questions on your own.
Follow this link to questions and notes
Friday, November 21st
Discuss Carnegie reading in groups: discuss HW questions
Review chap 14: Key drivers of industrialization: issues of big business
Hw: Read Big Blue, page 438-443 and do #2 on 443 on the left side of your notebook.
Monday, November 24th
In class, read two first hand immigrant accounts and create a Venn diagram comparing the two on the left hand side of your notebook. The immigrant accounts can be accessed here. page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4
Prepare immigration dialogues.
HW: Read chap 15 section 2 and complete this worksheet in your notebook. Either print out the sheet, fill it in and paste it in or just do the same work on a right hand page. Due Wed Nov 26th.
Wednesday, November 26th
Finish and present dialogues
Discuss Urbanization
Monday, December 1st
Review Urbanization
Read chapter 19 in History Alive and complete notes
HW: current events article due Thursday; finish 19.2 and 19.3 as needed due Wed
Wednesday, December 3rd
Read 19.4 and complete notebook activity and discuss chapter 19
Notes on Spanish American War
Thursday, December 4th
History Alive chapter 19
Discuss articles
HW: Choose one recent US foreign policy decision, place it on the realism-idealism scale and write a 1 page explanation of why you placed it there on the scale: Due MONDAY
Monday, December 8th
Start History Alive Chapter 20, do spoke diagram on presidents
Assign metaphor activity
Tuesday, December 9th
Continue metaphor
Assign reading on Spanish American War: read and 1. list questions, 2. list examples of imperialism and 3. write a paragraph explaining whether the occupation of the Philippines was realism or idealism. Due Thursday
Thursday, December 11th
Finish metaphor activity. Discuss realism and imperialism. Discuss Philippines occupation
Assign: Review
Friday, December 12th
Review Day
Tuesday, December 16th
Test
