Even Per. 6 Assignments

Essay Exam on the Second Red Scare, Civil Rights Movement, the 60s, Watergate, and everything since.

Study Questions:

How does political terrorism work?

How do people regain their civil rights and why should you care?

Should "actions speak louder than words" in politics?

What impact does foreign policy have on domestic programs?

When can a President act beyond what is expected?  or legal?

Topic:  Nixon, Ford, & Carter

Homework:  Research US relations with Communist China during Nixon's Presidency.

In class, we will also look at:

EPA

Watergate

Government deregulation

Camp David Peace Accords

Topic:  Vietnam

Homework:  Research the causes and impact of the Vietnam War.

In class, we will also look at:

Tet Offensive (1968)

Topic:  "Great Society"

Research L.B. Johnson's "Great Society."  What was it and what did it accomplish?

In class, we will also look at:

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Voting Right Act (1965)

Amendment XXV 

Topic:  Kennedy's Presidency

Homework:  Review the Bay of Pigs Invasion & Cuban Missile Crisis.

In class we will also look at:

Berlin Wall

Space Race & Moon Landing

Topic:  Civil Rights Movement Impact and Reactions

Homework:  Research the origins of the United Farm Workers union.

In class, we will also look at:

Malcom X

NOW

AIM

Topic:  Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement

Homework:  Review A. Philip Randolph and his promised "March on Washington."  What were his demands and what did he get?

Research the civil rights acts of James Farmer.  Who was he?  What did he do?

 

In class, we will also look at:

Thurgood Marshall

Little Rock Protests

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Freedom Ride of 1961

March on Washington of 1963 and the "I have a dream" speech

Birmingham Municipal Strikes and "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Topic:  Civil Rights and the Courts.

Homework:  Review Dred Scott v Sandford and Plessy v Ferguson.  What were the cases and why are they important to Civil Rights history?

In class, we will also look at:

California Proposition 209

Last make-up for the Exam on 1950s will be held in rm 128 at 7 AM.  Don't be late!

Research the "Blacklisting" & "McCarthyism" of the Second Red Scare.  What are they?  Where did they come from?  How did they work?

Essay Exam on the Cold War before 1960 & the 1950s Culture

Here are some Study Questions:

¿Why do some people reject democracy?

¿How do powerful countries manipulate other countries?

¿What good are “doomsday weapons”?

¿How do you stimulate a consumer society?

¿What are the benefits and drawbacks of conformity?

¿Were the “good old days” of the 1950s really that good?

Here are some Terms and Events:

Arms Race

Baby Boom

Berlin Blockade

Bretton Wood Conference

Brinkmanship

California Master Plan

Cold War

Conglomerate

Containment Policy

Culture of Poverty

Demobilization

Eisenhower’s Presidency

Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956

GI Bill of 1944

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Howl

Iron Curtain

Kennan’s Long Telegram

Korean War

Land Reform

Limited War

Marshall Plan

Massive Retaliation

Military-Industrial Complex

Mutual Assured Destruction

Nationalization

NATO

Organization Man

Polio Vaccine

Potsdam Conference

Sane

SEATO

Sputnik

Suburbia

Suez Crisis

Taft-Hartley Act

Termination Policy

Truman Doctrine

Truman’s Presidency

TV Culture

UDHR (aka IDHR)

United Nations

Yalta Conference

 

Read 18:3

Poverty & Minorities in the 1950s

Read 18:2

Baby Boom

Billy Graham

TV Culture

Read 18:1

GI Bill (1944)

Suburbia & Cars

Read 17:4

Suez Crisis

Cuban Revolution

Cuban Missile Crisis

17:3

Eisenhower's Election

MAD & Brinkmanship

Fallout

Sputnik

Read 17:2

Berlin Airlift

NATO

Reaction to China going Communist

Arms Race

Korean War

Truman v MacArthur

Make up for the exam on World War II is at 7AM in room 128 on 3/17/2017.  Don't be late!

Read Ch. 17:1

Iron Curtain

Yalta & Potsdam as Cold War

UN

Containment

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Exam on the US in World War II.  Study Questions:

¿What is the worth and danger of an unconditional surrender policy?

¿Why does war seem never-ending (especially when it came to the Pacific Theatre of the war)?

¿Why has no one used the Atom Bomb since World War II?

¿How can a social, political & economic plurality win a war against nationalism?

¿Who benefits from war?  Who suffers?

¿How does total war change your world?

Read Ch. 16, section 3.

Especially review the role of A. Phillip Randolph in the creation of the FEPC.

Read Ch. 16, section 2.

Read ch. 16, sec. 1.

Review the questions at the back and add "plurality" to the vocab. list.

Read the attached file.  Answer these questions (into your weekly log) with a paragraph apiece:

~What were the factors that forced Eisenhower to go through with the Normandy Invasion?  

~What were the risks?

Research the objectives & results of...

-The attack on Pearl Harbor

-Battle of Midway

-Battle of Iwo Jima

-Battle of Okinawa 

Make-up for Essay test on the New Deal and Pre-War Isolationism is Friday, Feb. 24, 7AM in room 128.  Don't be late.

Read 15:3

Essay on Ch. 14 thru 15:2

Study questions:

•How does a democracy solve an economic emergency?

•How do demagogues gain power in a democracy?

•What role does a government have in your life?

•Why is isolationism popular in a democracy?

•How does a democracy admit that isolationism is ultimately a failure?

 

Suggested study techniques:

•Make sure you have 3x5 cards for the New Deal & Isolationism before WWII (see above homework assignments)

•Create 3 more for the demagogues (and critics) question

•Organize the cards according to topics (and questions) and study them

•Get some sleep

•Review just before you take the exam

•Read 15:2

•Fill-out a "snowflake" 3x5 card for three events that best illustrate 

Pick out three events that best illustrate the shifting policy of Isolationism before World War II:  Fill-out a "snowflake" 3x5 card for each.

•Bring these and your New Deal 3x5s to class.

Read ch. 15, sec. 1.  

Bring to class all your 3x5 cards already filled out for each of the following items

(Topic on one side, Who, What, When, Where, Why, & How Important on the other)

 

Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)

Civil Works Administration (1933)

Civilian Conservation Corps (1933)

Emergency Banking Act (1933)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1933)

Federal Emergency Relief Administration (1933)

National Industrial Recovery Act & NRA (1933)

National Labor Relations Board & Wagner Act (1935)

Public Works Administration (1933)

Securities Exchange Commission (1934)

Tennessee Valley Authority (1933)

Work Progress Administration (1935)

Start work on your 3x5 cards (see Feb. 13/14 for the full assignment)

Read 14:3

Read 14:2

Read Ch. 14, sec, 1 in the textbook.  Look at the review questions & vocabulary.  A Homework Evaluation will be given.  You will want to bring some 3x5 cards to class.

Final Project presented in class.  See Mr Gray ASAP if you don't know what your assignment is.  No, there is no make-up (it's your Final).

You'll be graded on 10 items:

1.  Research your assigned topic for the Pitch.  Put in 3 or more sources (go beyond Wikipedia) on 3x5 cards.

2.  3x5 cards of your main points and sources; to be handed in before your pitch.

3.  Memorized presentation with no visuals or tools.

4.  Time:  Make it 2 1/2 min. long (give or take 30 seconds).

5.  Opening:  Make it interesting.

6.  Causes:  Cover the influences of the times.

7.  Evidence:  Give data that documents your talk!

8.  Importance:  Results and relevance today.

9.  Interest:  Avoid a dry presentation of just a memorized speech; keep everything as interesting as you can.

10.  Be direct and to the point; don't make us feel like your just taking up time and space.

Make-up exam on the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression 7 AM in room 128. Period 6 make-ups bring your study packet that you got 1/10.

Essay Exam on World War I through the "Bonus Army"

We will cover chapter 13, section 3 in class.  Read it if you are absent this day.

Bring your textbook to class; you are going to want it.

Read 13:2

Read 13:1

Read 12:2 AND 12:3.  Focus on...

•Escapism

•Jazz

•The Lost Generation

•Harlem Renaissance

•Prohibition

•KKK

Read 12:1

Read chapter 11, sections 3 AND 4!  Focus on...

•How the economy did so well

•The American Plan & Welfare Capitalism

•Scientific management

Read 11:2

Read 11:1

Final make up for Elevator Pitch.  Be ready to stay for all the other presentations and be on time (think early); 7AM in rm. 128.

Read 10:4 (on League of Nations).  As usual, study questions and vocabulary are in the back of the section.

We will cover chapter 10, section 1 in class.  Read it if you are absent this day.

"Elevator Pitch" on the Progressives due!

Make up for this Project is Monday, 11/28 at 7AM in 128.  Don't be late!

Essay Exam on the Progressives & Expansionists before the World War I.

 

 

~How did the New Immigration [from Southern & Eastern Europe] change the US socially, politically, and economically? 

~Who were the Progressives that helped improve society [through religion & journalism]?

~Who were the political Progressives and what did they do [grass roots, state, and national]?

~How does the Federal Reserve control the value of cash?

~What did the US hope to get out of expansionism [in the Pacific & in the Spanish-American War]?

~Explain Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy.

10:1 Big Stick Diplomacy 

7:4 Expansionism before 1900

9:3 W.E.B. DuBois & Booker T. Washington

9:2 Wilson, the Progressive

9:1 TR & Taft, the Progressives

8:3 Political Progressives (state and local)

8:2 Social and Economic Progressives

8:1 New Immigration, Political Machines, Trusts

(Read chapter eight, section one; use the questions at the end of the section for study).

Essay Exam on the USA's First Hundred Years

Your flash cards are due at the time of the test and they must be completed and wrapped in a rubber band to gain credit (this is NOT an assignment you can "make up").

Study topics; we have been looking at...

• States’ Rights & nullification issues
• Westward expansion
• Causes of the Civil War
• Effects of Reconstruction
• Agenda of the “Captains of Industry”
• Populism & early unions

The events and vocabulary involved are documented in the textbook.

 Make ups will be held this Friday at 7AM in rm. 128.

Bring your Weekly Log and something to write with as we WILL be doing work on Reconstruction (6:3) in class.  Otherwise, no homework.

Read 6:2 on the Civil War

Study Questions:

What were the social, economic, and political consequences of the Civil War?

Define Secession, Emancipation, Lynching, Scorched earth policy.

Make-up for this week's essay is at 7AM in rm 128 on Friday, Sept. 23.  Do not be late.

Bring your favorite 3x5 blank flash cards to class for the rest of this unit!

Read 4:3 (chapter four, section three) on Washington, Adams, & Jefferson.

Outlines are useful although not required at this time.

As always, a Homework Evaluation is planned (the Section Assessment provides some very good study terms and questions).

Essay exam on ch. 1, 2, 3, and ch. 4 sections 1-2.

You will need to explain the facts and processes in..

•US Geography

•Colonization

•1st Great Awakening

•Causes of the Am. Revolution

•Declaration of Independence

•US Constitution

Outline ch. 4, sec. 2.  You are required to bring your books to class on this day.

Outline ch. 4, sec. 1

Outline ch. 3, sec. 3.

Outline ch. 3, sec. 2

Outline Ch. 3, sec. 1 Study Questions:

What was the Proclamation of 1763 and why did the English Colonists not like it?

What was the purpose of the Sugar Act and how did it violate the Magna Carta?

What was the Stamp Act?

What is the importance of the Boston Massacre?

Why did the First Continental Congress meet?  What about the Second Continental Congress?

Who authored the Declaration of Independence and why is it important today?

Make up for the SuperQuiz Geography of the US is 7AM in rm. 128.

Outlines and HW Evaluation for ch. 2, section 4 is due on this date.

Read and outline ch. 2, sec. 4.

SuperQuiz today on US Geog.  See the attached pdf.

Memorize the major physical features of the US.  See the attached pdf.

Read chapter 2, section 3 for homework.  Outline your work for credit.

Here are some study questions:

Be able to compare and contrast the New England, Middle, and Southern English Colonies in America.

¿Why did the French adopt a different policy towards the American Indians than the Spanish?

¿What were the pros and cons of the Puritan sense of religious purpose?

NOTE:  You do NOT need to bring your textbook to class today!

Memorize the 50 state capitals.  Bring your textbook to class.

1.  Finish your outlines of chapter 1, section 1

2.  Start memorizing the location of the 50 states

3.  Bring your textbook to class

Welcome.  Please bring your textbook to class.