Monday, April 28
- Topic: WWII & Cold War review
- Workshop: Research papers
Wednesday, April 30
- Reading: Norton 802-806 (review) & 834-837(new)
- Topic: The Cold War at Home
- Workshop: ICE prep
Friday, May 2
- Reading: Norton 815-821
- Topic: The Cold War Abroad
- Workshop: In-class essay
- In what ways did the actions and inaction of the United States during WWII lead to the Cold War?
Tuesday, May 6
- Reading: Norton 837-840
- terms: Brown vs. Board of Ed., Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Topic: The Civil Rights Era
- Workshop: research time
Thursday, May 8
- Reading: Norton 872-877
- terms: SCLC, Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Civil Rights Act
- Topic: The Vietnam War
- Due: Crisis Paper
Monday, May 12
- Reading: Norton 901-906
- Topic: Nixon & Watergate
- Workshop: Berlin Airlift Simulation
- Due: Civil Rights id terms (7 above)
Wednesday, May 14
- Reading: Norton 913-916
- Topic: Jimmy Carter & the Iran Hostage Crisis
- Workshop: Cuban Missile Crisis Simulation
- Matt, Kaylee, Alex, Angelica
Friday, May 16
- Reading: Norton 923-931
- Topic: Reagonomics
- Workshop: Gulf of Tonkin Simulation
- Tristan, Anna, Mat, Grace
Tuesday, May 20
- Reading: Norton 957-962
- Topic: The Clinton Years
- Workshop: Iran Hostage Simulation
- Due: Vietnam War assignment
- answer the questions distributed in class in the form of:
- Timeline (include: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Tet Offensive, Vietnamization + at least 3 more events - identify: Ngo Dinh Diem, Ho Chi Minh
- 2 page essay
- five paragraph responses to 5 questions
- other graphic organizer of your choice
Thursday, May 22
- Reading: Norton 964(from last paragraph)-969
- Topic: George Bush, Electoral Politics & the War on Terror
- Workshop: TBD
- Due: Nixon, Carter & Reagan GRQs
Tuesday, May 27
- Reading: none
- Topic: Clean-up
- Workshop: Exam review
- Due: Review sheet
Thursday, May 29
March 31
- Reading: Norton 665-668
- Presentation: Civil Liberties during/after WWI
- Workshop: Compare Palmer Raids to Edward Snowden debate
April 2
- Reading: Norton 699-703
- Presentation: Culture in the 1920s
- Workshop: La Vie Boheme
April 4
- Reading: Norton 714-720
- Presentation: Depression & Response
- Workshop: Evaluating Gov't Response to Economic Crises
- Due: 1 page of research on 3 government agencies/inititiatives started during New Deal and still in existence today.
April 8
- Reading: none
- Presentation: Life During the Depression
- Workshop: Film
April 10
- Reading: Norton 769-772; 785-792
- Presentation: US Involvement in WWII
- Workshop: Timeline
April 14
- Reading: Norton 798-802
- Presentation: Post-War Settlement
- Workshop: Cold War term ids
- Due: Detailed Timeline
April 16
- Reading: Norton 802-806
- Presentation: Intro to Cold War
- Workshop: Berlin Airlift
- Due: Cold War term ids
Monday, March 3
- Reading: review 598-604
- Discussion: Progressivism
- Workshop: Social Justice Project
- Due: 4 term ids
- 18th Amendment
- Mann Act
- John Dewey
- Eugenics
- Due: social justice project
Wednesday, March 5
- Reading: Norton 621-623; 634-637
- Discussion: Spanish-American War
- Workshop: Social Justice Project
Monday, March 10
- Reading: Norton 639-644
- Discussion: U.S. Imperialism
- Workshop: Social Justice Vacation Presentations
- Due: SJ Project, pt. 1
Wednesday, March 12
- Reading: 649-654
- Discussion: Woodrow Wilson & Isolationism
- Workshop: Social Justice Vacation Presentations
- Due: GRQs, term ids OR reading notes
- GRQs
- Why did the United States prefer to stay neutral in the early years of WWI?
- When, how and why did that position change?
- Term ids
Friday, March 14
- Reading: 654-661
- Discussion: Americans in the Great War
- Workshop: Social Justice Vacation Presentations
- Due: WWI GRQs
Tuesday, March 18
- Reading: 661-668
- Discussion: Effects of the Great War
- Workshop: Social Justice Vacation Presentations
- Due: Timeline of 6-10 major events in WWI
- one page
- focus on US involvement
Thursday, March 20
- Reading: 682-693
- Discussion: Roaring Twenties
- Workshop: Social Justice Vacation Presentations
- Due: Postwar GRQs
Tuesday, March 25
- Reading: none
- Discussion: Exam Review
- Workshop: Social Justice Vacation Presentations
- Due: Completed Review Sheets
Thursday, March 27
Tuesday, Feb. 24
- Reading: none
- Discussion: Race & Missionary Activity in 19th c. U.S.
- Workshop: same
Thursday, Feb. 25
- Reading: Norton 598-604
- Discussion: Progressivism
- Workshop: Social Justice Travel Project
- Due: Guided Reading Questions for 593-604
Monday, Jan. 27
- Reading: Norton, 471-476
- Discussion: U.S. Indian Policy
- Workshop: Boarding Schools
Wednesday, Jan. 29
- Reading: Stegeman reading
- Discussion: U.S. Indian Policy, cont.
- Workshop: TBD
- Due: annotated Stegeman reading
Friday, Jan. 31
- Reading: Norton, 481-492
- Discussion: Ranching, Railroads & Mechanized Agriculture in the West
- Workshop: Mapping links between East & West
- Due: Guided Reading Questions
Tuesday, Feb. 4
- Reading: Norton, 497-499
- Discussion: Industrialization in the East
- Workshop: Intro to Social Justice Sojourns
Thursday, Feb. 6
- Reading: Norton, 510-515
- Discussion: Labor Unrest
- Workshop: Essay Preparation
Monday, Feb. 10
- Reading: Norton 593-598
- Discussion: Progressivism Activity
- Workshop: In-class essay
- You will have 60 minutes to address the following prompt:
- How did life in the Industrial United States change in the late-nineteenth century? In what ways did various groups react to those changes?
- You may use your in-class assignment from last week and the homework due today to compose your response.
- Due: 3-column chart on reactions to Industrialization
- Government
- Organized Labor
- Women
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Friday, Feb. 14
- Reading: Norton 598-604
- Discussion: Progressivism
- Due: Guided Reading Questions for 593-604
- Shortened Class - Winter Carnival
- Happy Valentine's Day
Monday, Jan. 6
- Reading: none
- Presentation: Review of Unit Themes
- Workshop: Review Sheet Construction
Wednesday, Jan. 8
- Reading: Norton 437-443
- Presentation: Lincoln's Assassination & the Meaning of Freedom
- Workshop: North-South comparison review
- Due: Reading Notes
Friday, Jan. 10
- Reading: Norton 443-452
- Presentation: Johnson v. Congress
- Workshop: Rising Tensions review
Tuesday, Jan. 14
- Reading: Norton 452-457
- Presentation: Reconstruction Policies and Their Failures
- Workshop: Civil War review
Thursday, Jan. 16
- Reading: Norton 457-462
- Presentation: Postwar Southern Culture
- Workshop: Exam Prep
- Due: 1/2 of Term Ids from review sheet
Tuesday, Jan. 21
- Reading: none
- Presentation: Clean-up
- Workshop: Exam Review
- Due: Completed review sheet
Thursday, Jan. 23
Tuesday, Dec. 3
- Reading: Norton 369-374
- Discussion: Mexican-American War
- Workshop: presentation planning & preparation
- NOTE: Research Paper due next class
Monday, Dec. 9
- Reading: Norton 374-385 (read "effectively")
- Discussion: Slave States & Free States
- Presentations
- Due: Research Paper
Wednesday, Dec. 11
- Reading: Norton 385-391
- Discussion: Rising Tensions in the 1850s
- Presentations
Friday, Dec. 13
- Reading: Norton 397-403
- Topic: Civil War I
- Presentations
- Due: 6 id terms
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Dred Scott Case
- Assault on Harper's Ferry
- 2 of your choice
- each supported by at least 1 primary source
Tuesday, Dec. 17
- Reading: Norton 411-415, 417-419
- Topic: Civil War II
- Presentations
Thursday, Dec. 19
- Reading: Norton 424-430
- Topic: Civil War III
- Presentations
- Angelica, Grace, TJ & Tyler
**Essay Question:
- In what ways did 19th century tensions between North and South represent competing notions of Progress? Discuss the issues of slavery, states' rights and economics.
