Homework
6/3
Read Ch 30 Sections 3 - 5 (Vietnam and its aftermath) and write the Terms and Names for the three sections.
Due Thursday 6/6
5/29
If you haven't already done so:
Create a comparison chart noting the similarities and differences between Kennedy's "New Frontier" and LBJ's "Great Society"
5/22
Vietnam Notes
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B55XU1Nn6YiRaW9XdXVMN0Q4VzA/edit?usp=sharing
5/7
G Block: Read 26-2 respond to #4
5/6
E Block: Read 26-2 Respond to question #4.
G Block: Read 26-1 and respond to the prompt "What do you know about the Cold War?"
5/3
E Block: Read 26-1 and respond to the prompt "What do you know about the Cold War?"
4/26
Read Chapter 25-4. Create a cause&effect chart that shows the effects of WWII on minority groups in the US.
4/22
Read pages 796-801 & be prepared to discuss question #4 tomorrow.
3/29
OMG Research Projects due MONDAY!!!
3/27
Test Great Depression next block. (Link to notes. Hoover & Roosevelt)
Research projects due Monday.
3/25
Test Thursday.
Final Copy Monday.
3/21
Read 694-700. Notes. Mini-quiz tomorrow. Final research project due in 11 days.
3/20
Read 684-89. Notes. Quiz tomorrow.
3/14
Relax for a night, the rough draft is done! (At least it better be)
3/12
Rough draft due Thursday. Here is a link to the National History Day rule book. Please read your specific format's rules. They are in section 3, beginning on page 13.
http://www.nhd.org/images/uploads/2010rulebook.pdf
3/11
Rough draft T-minus 3 days (Thursday) Rough Draft Expectations
3/7
Read pages 670-677 in textbook. Be prepared for open note quiz on material read.
One week until rough drafts are due!
3/4
Rough drafts T-minus 10 days.
Get those interviews going!
3/1
Rough Drafts due Thursday 3/14
Final Drafts due Monday 4/1
1/30
E & G: If binders haven't been passed in yet, get on it!
Continue research
1/25
E & G Block: Project Contract signed by you and parents, Project Binder w/tabs for Monday.
1/14
E Block: Begin reviewing for midterm
G Block: Continue reviewing for midterm
1/11
E Block: Scopes Trial written assignment submitted by Monday 1/14. Content Questions due 1/22, day of your midterm. I STRONGLY suggest you pass them in earlier so you're not crunched for time studying.
G Block: Scopes Trial written assignment submitted by Monday 1/14. Content Questions due 1/23 day of your midterm. I STRONGLY suggest you pass them in earlier so you're not crunched for time studying.
1/10
E & G Blocks: Scopes Trial written assignment. Please submit to Edmodo, use parenthetical citations as necessary. Due Monday 1/14
1/9
E & G Blocks: Respond to the Edmodo prompt online.
1/8
G Block: According to the Sedition Act, did Schenck & Debs break the law in Documents A-B
Content Questions due 1/14. Type, print & bring to class.
1/7
E Block: According to the Sedition Acts & Documents A-B: Did Schenck and Debs break the law?
Content Questions due 1/14. Type, Print and bring to class
G Block: Edmodo prompt--One paragraph.
Content Questions due 1/14. Type, Print and bring to class
1/4
E Block: Respond to the prompt at Edmodo & respond directly to a classmate's prompt. Agree/disagree with them, why?
1/3
G Block: Read On. Txt. 604-609
1/2 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
E Block: Read Online Txt. 604-609
12/19
E Block: Quiz tomorrow
G Block: Quiz tomorrow
12/18
E Block: Finish Woodrow Wilson speeches & read textbook 583-586.
Quiz Thursday - Causes of WWI & US declares war.
G Block: Finish Woodrow Wilson speeches & read textbook 583-586.
Quiz Thursday - Causes of WWI & US declares war.
12/10
Document Based Question: Philippine Annexation due Wednesday. We will work on it in class tomorrow.
12/4 E Block Links to notes:
G Block Links to notes:
11/19
QUIZ TOMORROW: Immigration, Industrialization, Urbanization
Content Questions Due Tomorrow: DO NOT ANSWER #6 or the social gospel section of #7
Links to notes: Immigration Industrialization
11/16
Write a 1 paragraph explanation of your photograph from class today: explain the issue involved and how it could be solved in the United States.
We will be having a quiz next Tuesday on Industrialization, Immigration, & Progressivism. That means the Content Questions are due.
Link to E Block Photos Link to G Block Photos
Content Questions for those who 'misplaced' them
- What were the most important causes of the industrial development of the US between the Civil War and World War I? Describe how natural resources, innovation, transportation, communication, government policy, labor, urbanization, and capital contribute to economic development.
- How do the instruments of modern capitalism (including corporations, markets and lending) function?
- What were the causes and effects of immigration to the US during the Gilded Age? What has the immigrant experience been in the US?
- What were the causes and effects of urbanization – the concentration of the US population in the cities? What was life like in American cities in the late 1800’s?
- What were the social, economic and political factors that led to innovation in the late 19th century? Were the leading industrialists of the second half of the 1800’s robber barons or captains of industry?
- What were the most significant causes of conflict between workers and owners of capital in the late 1800’s? What were the similarities and differences between the significant labor conflicts of the Gilded Age?
- What roles did government take in the economy during the Gilded Age? Describe the philosophies of laissez faire and social gospel thinkers. Why did socialism fail to take root in the US?
- How did the Progressives attempt to deal with the profound changes brought about by industrialization?
11/14
E Block: Who are you interviewing and rough draft of questions due 11/16
G Block: Who are you interviewing and rough draft of questions due 11/16
11/8
E Block: Family tree due Tuesday November 13th.
G Block: Generate 3 questions to ask the veterans we are meeting with tomorrow.
Family tree due Wednesday November 14th.
11/2
None
10/31
E Block: Begin researching Family history
10/26
E Block: Webquest due by Midnight tonight
G Block: Webquest due by Midnight tonight
10/19
E Block: Finish Reflection on Simulation
G Block: None
10/18
E Block: Quiz tomorrow. Reflect on Simulation.
G Block: Quiz tomorrow. Read Cohen Primary Source.
10/17
E Block: Reading Guide due Thursday. Quiz Tomorrow on Causes of IR and How Big Business Operated
G Block: Reflection on Simulation. Quiz Tomorrow on Causes of IR and How Big Business Operated
10/16
E Block: Reading Guide 14.3 due Thursday
Finish Reading Social Darwinism & Laissez Faire Economics
G Block: Reading Guide 14.3 due tomorrow
10/15
G Block: Reading Guide 14.3 Due Wednesday
Finish Reading on Social Darwinism & Laissez Faire Economics
10/11-12
E Block: Complete cause-effect analysis of IR
G Block: Same
10/10
E Block: Complete your outline answering the question: What were the causes of the Industrial Revolution? Outline can be completed on the back of your DBQ packet.
G Block: Complete your outline answering the question: What were the causes of the Industrial Revolution? Outline can be completed on the back of your DBQ packet.
10/9
E Block: Read and summarize Chapter 14-1 in Notes
G Block: Same
10/5
E Block: Complete Content Questions for Reconstruction Era. Finish Historian C's reading if you haven't already.
G Block: Complete Content Questions for Reconstruction Era. Finish Historian C's reading if you haven't already.
10/4
E Block: Reading Historian B's interpretation of the Reconstruction. Mark up the writing, looking specifically for author's point of view.
G Block: Same as E block.
10/3
E Block: Reading Historian B's interpretation of the Reconstruction. Mark up the writing, looking specifically for author's point of view.
G Block: Same as E block.
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT AT 9. WATCH IT!
E Block: 1) Finish Questions from 'The Help'.
2) Read Integrating Ole Miss: A Transformative, Deadly Riot
G Block: 1) Finish questions from 'The Help'