Date |
In Class Activity |
Longterm Homework |
Next Class Homework |
Tues/Mon
11/21-11/27 |
Finish Stock Market Simualtion
Lecture: The cause of the Great Depression & potential solutions (group think) - song analysis: Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (Video Clips: Day at Fords)
Start Hoover's Response to the Depression |
If you're a witness or lawyer prep for the trial (witnesses 1 page typed on who you are, why you're important in the trial, and how you will try and help your side. Lawyers prep questions and opening statements.
Start reviewing your role for the New Deal Trial |
Print out, read, and interactively highlight worksheet on Income Distribution
Interactively read the 1 page handout you got in class today for the Mexican Repatriation 'Trial' and write a one paragraph defense of your group and why you're not to blame. |
Tues/Wed
11/28-11/29 |
Lecture: Finish 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.  |
Listen and take notes to the arguments on Social Security and the new deal and then state your viewpoint.. |
Interactively Read Great Depression Overview. |
Thu/Fri
11/30-12/1 |
Mexican Repatriation 'Trial'
Lecture: The 'Engineer Fails': Bonus Army: Video Clip and the end of the Hoover Administration
Who was FDR? |
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Take interactive notes and write a summary for Crash Course 34 (the New Deal).Print out and bring to class (but don't do) Appeasement Cartoons |
Mon/Tues
12/4-12/5 |
Lecture/Video New Deal to the rescue? Social Security and the New Deal's opponents: The Threat of a Demagogue
Start prep for Jigsaw |
Trial is next class be ready with your dress and papers |
If you didn't finish it in class interactively read your section of the jigsaw and finish your expert bullet points
Prepare for your role in the New Deal trial. Come dressed
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 before WW2 |
Wed/Thur
12/6-12/7 |
Pearl Harbor DayTrial of FDR
Start Lecture: Foreign policy under FDR
Political Cartoons Between the War |
Start preparing for the Isolationist/Interventionist Debate by interactively highlighting your packet and answering the questions. Last Name A-M: Isolationists/America First N-Z Interventionists/Globalists
Jury Report due one week after the trial |
Finish preparing for the Isolationist/Interventionist Debate by interactively highlighting your packet and answering the questions. Last Name A-M: Isolationists/America First N-Z Interventionists/Globalists |
Fri/Mon
12/8-12/11 |
What Should Be Done About the Depression packet
Start Foreign Policy between the wars |
Remember that if you need to debrief the 2nd test you must do so before the final.
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Finish the What Should Be Done About the Depression packet |
Tue/Wed
12/12-12/13 |
Isolationist v Interventionist debate
Draw a political cartoon of your opponent
American NAZIsm & anti-semitism (and it's echoes today)
Assign FDR Trial #2: Did America do enough to rescue Jews and stop the Holocaust? |
Here is a brief studyguide for the final. I've decided not to make it culmulative |
Finish the Isolationist/Interventionist political cartoons.
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Thur/Fri
12/14-12/15 |
Lecture: Lead up to Pearl Harbor
Start Review Film: From the Blitz to the Bomb |
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Start getting your binder and journals set for the new semester. They will be collected several times. You should separate units to include, WW2, 1950s, Civil Rights, 1960s & Vietnam, 1970s-1990s, Present Day America
Go to the new website |