Depression in America


Date

In Class Activity

AP Homework

All Homework

Tues
1/9
Meet in the Annex
  • Sentence Work & NCTE explanation
  • Assign Roles for Mexican Repatriation 'Trial' & New Deal Trial
  • Lecture: The cause of the Great Depression & potential solutions (group think) - song analysis: Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (Video Clips: Day at Ford's)
  • Hoover's Response to the Depression
  • Lecture: The Worst of the Great Depression: (Video Clips: Dust Bowls, and Crime): Bonus Army: Video Clip and the end of the Hoover Administration
  • Effect of the Great Depression on women.
  • Watch Crash Couse #33: The Great Depression and take Cornell Notes
  • Interactively read and summarize Where historians Disagree: New Deal
  • Get your binder and journals set for the new semester. They will be collected. You should separate units to include, 1930s, WW2, 1950s, Civil Rights, 1960s & Vietnam, 1970s-1990s.
  • Interactively read the handout you received in class today for the Mexican Repatriation 'Trial'
  • Start reviewing your role for the New Deal Trial
  • Thurs
    1/11
    Meet in MAP Annex
  • Dorothea Lange Photos, 3 Essential Questions
  • Mexican Repatriation 'Trial'
  • Lecture/Video New Deal to the rescue? Social Security and the New Deal's opponents: The Threat of a Demagogue
  • Listen and take notes to the arguments on Social Security and the new deal and then state your viewpoint.
  • Interactively read half of your Isolationist/Interventionist Debate packet. AP are for Isolationists/America First P are for Interventionists/Globalists
  • Prepare for your role in the New Deal trial. Come dressed.
  • Tues
    1/16
    Meet in MAP Annex:
  • New Deal Trial of FDR's Response to the Great Depression
  • Lecture: Foreign policy under FDR
  • Film: Grapes of Wrath

  • 1930s Day: Steinbeck excerpts
  • Grapes of Wrath themes activity.
  • Set a timer and complete the DBQ: The Great Depression in one hour. (Print it out along with your notes and bring it to class).
  • Print out and bring to class (but don't do) Appeasement Cartoons
  • Prepare for Isolationist/Interventionist Debate by finishing interactively highlighting your packet and answering the questions. AP are for Isolationists/America First P are for Interventionists/Globalists
  • Thur
    1/18
  • Lecture: Foreign policy under FDR
  • Political Cartoons Between the War
  • Isolationist v Interventionist debate/TD>
  • Peer review a DBQ..
  • Jury Report due on Monday for FDR Trial
  • For 5 points extra credit listen to episode 2 of Ultra. Take notes and write a summary including your thoughts on the revelations within the episode regarding paramilitary organizations and media personalities in America prior to WW2(
  • Interactively Read your option for Vietnam: 1965. (I canceled this year so you don't have to do this... Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Write an opening statement on why your option is best.
  • Mon
    1/22
    Meet in Annex
  • Detour: The Vietnam War & the American Story project
  • Assign Roles for the Lt. Calley Trial
  • Lecture: The Vietnam Experience Until 1965
  • Vietnam options Hotseat: 1965
  • Vietnam Song Analysis
  • Take interactive notes and write a summary for Crash Course 38
  • Look at your role for the trial of Lt. Calley. Here is the Witness List and Ron Ridenhour has been added too. (This will help you too lawyers.) Witnesses you need a 1 page write-up on who you are and why you're important in the trial by Friday. Remember to dress like your characters too
  • Wed
    1/24
  • Finish Vietnam War songs and Lecture on Vietnam War 1965 to 1973
  • Start work on political cartoons
  • For Extra Credit take notes on the Ken Burns: Weight of Memory (in my canvas files) and write a paragraph reflection on the film - what did you think about the doc? How does it make you feel about the war and our Vets?
  • Fri
    1/26
  • Lecture: Trial of Lt. Calley
  • Trial of Lt. Calley
  • Video: American Justice - Lt. Calley
  • Finish the first 3 Isolationist/Interventionist political cartoons if you didn't in class
  • Go to the new website