Wed. 3/30 - Thurs. 3/31 Class Agenda

WED 3/30
1.  Bellringer:  Read the top of pg. 41
2.  Inquiry on the Vietnam War:  Is protest patriotic?  We will be drawing our own conclusions by completing pgs. 41-42.  Please click here for the necessary primary and secondary resources.

HW - Finish pg. 41-42

THURS 3/31
1.  Bellringer:  Complete #3 on top of pg. 43 (use link above)
2.  Discuss classwork from yesterday
3.  Begin "Source Analysis" writing assignment:  Was Vietnam-era protest patriotic?  Use 3 examples in your analysis.

HW - complete Source Analysis writing assignment

Tues. 3/29 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Review classwork…watch Brain-pop to review important themes.
2.  Vietnam War (pg. 38).  Abridged version posted here.

• Watch clip…identify two ways "booby traps" impacted the American military in Vietnam.
• Cu Chi Tunnels...how did network impact the war in Vietnam?

HW - Bring ear buds/head phones tomorrow

Mon. 3/28 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What was the domino theory?
2.  "Fall of Saigon" - do pgs. 36-37
3.  Discuss "Closure" on pg. 37

HW - pg. 39

Wed. 3/23 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  "Dot" simulation…
2.  Red Scare (Again…) pg. 33
3.  Case Study:  Alger Hiss.  Was he a "dot"…or not???

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Tues. 3/22 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Binder up, desk cleared.
2.  QUIZ:  Cold War Part I
3.  "The Rosenberg Trial" (pg. 34-35) - use in-class reading packet.

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Mon. 3/21 Class Agenda

Notes on Cuban Missile Crisis (missed from Friday)...on the page AFTER #13

1a.  Bellringer:  Share your Butter Battle Book endings...
1b.  Bellringer:  How are your interests/hobbies/music/likes/dislikes different from your parents or guardians?  Create a venn diagram to compare & contrast.  Introduce concept of generation gap

2.  1950s American Culture clip:  Interstate Highway Act, suburbs, new technology

HW - Cold War (part I) Quiz TOMORROW (Review Part I of your packet...and pgs. 4-5 #'s 1-17)

Fri. 3/18 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Complete pg. 30...discuss.
2.  Cuban Missile Crisis (pg. 27-30)
3.  Summary (p.pt)

HW - "Butter Battle" ending due MONDAY

Thurs. 3/17 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Read pg. 23
2.  Watch the reading of the "Butter Battle Book"...complete pg. 23 (top).  Discuss answers to questions.
3.  Activity:  begin bottom of pg. 23

HW - Dr. Seuss "Butter Battle" assignment due on MONDAY

Wed. 3/16 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Complete pg. 22
2.  Korean War Activity (pg. 19-21)
3.  Closure:  Brain-pop

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Tues. 3/15 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Pg. 26...bomb drill primary source.  What was the purpose of this document?  How did the arms race impact life in America?  Clip.
2.  The Cold War - Ike and JFK (pg. 24-25)...Compare and contrast their approaches to the Cold War
3.  Current Events:  Nuclear weapons in the world today.  North Korean warheads.

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Mon. 3/14 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  What would be the motivation for someone to "run away" from home?  Read pg. 18…what was the motivation for someone to "run away" from communist East Germany?  Bridge into concept:  defect (verb) - 

2.   Berlin Airlift and Berlin Wall (pg. 14-17).  Apply concept:  defect

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Fri. 3/11 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  See first slide of power point
2.  Class Activity (pg. 10-11).  This is a little different (more organized) wrinkle on our MVP format...which will be put to good use at JDHS!  Use classroom reading packet.

HW - Pg. 8

Thurs. 3/10 Class Agenda: Cold War Unit

1.  Bellringer:  Read "A Curtain of Iron" and complete 1-4 on pg. 9.  Discuss and complete 5-6 with your table partner.
2.  What does it mean when someone is acting "cold" to you (or someone is giving you the "cold shoulder?"  How does that make you feel?  Link this concept to the "Cold War"...
3.  Refresher on communism (Brain-pop).
4.  Contrast the 2 power "blocs" (pg. 7)

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Wed. 3/9 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Put binder up - materials away.
2.  TEST:  World War II

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Tues. 3/8 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Finally, a feel-good story from World War II.  Complete the reading assignment.  If you finish early, work on your homework (It's been a loooooooong unit).
2.  Source Analysis Feedback (New Deal).  How can I improve as a writer?

HW - Test TOMORROW
       - Pgs. 5, 6, and 47 ("Know Thyself")

Mon. 3/7 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Read 57-58 in Reading Packet...What did Oswego have to do with World War II?  How did "immigrants" get round quotas to become American citizens?
2.  Do pgs. 42-44 - How did the Nuremberg Trials hold leaders accountable for their actions during World War II?
3.  Milgram Experiment

HW - TEST on WEDNESDAY
       - Pgs. 5, 6, and 47 ("Know Thyself")

Thurs. 3/3 - Fri. 3/4 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Analyze the quotes on pg. 16
2.  Holocaust documentary - the people profiled were roughly your age when they rounded up during the Holocaust.  TASK:  use today and tomorrow as an exercise in EMPATHY (one of our 5 Keys at JDMS).
3.  Liberation of the Camps (Viewer discretion advised).

HW - WWII Test WEDNESDAY.  "Know Thyself"...(pgs. 5-6 & 47).

Wed. 3/2 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  In your Classroom Reading Packet, read pg. 51:  LIST text-based evidence to support this claim:  The Atomic Bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had devastating effects.
2.  Clip:  Manhattan Project.
3.  Should America have dropped the Atomic Bomb?  (pg. 45)  See Mr. Law for reading assignment.  Victory in the Pacific (p.pt).

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Tues. 3/1 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Do pg. 39 (Yalta)
2.  D-Day clip:  Women, Segregation in military, D-Day and the end of World War II in Europe
3.  End of War in Europe (p.pt)

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