Depression in America


Date

In Class Activity

AP Homework

All Homework

Tues
1/7
Meet in the Annex: 1930s Day
  • Assign Roles for New Deal Trial
  • Lecture: The worst of the Great Depression Bonus Army: Video Clip and the end of the Hoover Administration - song analysis: Woody Guthrie
  • Hoover's Response to the Depression
  • Dorothea Lange Photos, 3 Essential Question
  • Lecture/Video New Deal to the rescue? Social Security
  • 1930s Day: Steinbeck excerpts
  • Grapes of Wrath themes activity.
  • 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 and do your green packet from pages 2-5 (do not do the last page).
  • Prepare for your role in the New Deal Trial. Make sure you dress like your character.
  • Thurs
    1/9
  • New Deal's Opponents: The Threat of a Demagogue
  • Economic solutions for the Great Depression (group think)
  • New Deal Trial for FDR's Response to the Great Depression
  • Listen and take notes to the arguments on Social Security and the new deal and then write a paragraph describing your viewpoint.
  • Interactively read half of your Isolationist/Interventionist Debate packet. A-L last name: Isolationists/America First M-Z last name are for Interventionists/Globalists
  • Finish if you haven't already your green packet.
  • Mon
    1/13
    Meet in MAP Annex:
  • Start Lecture: Foreign policy under FDR
  • Assign Roles for the Lt. Calley Trial
  • You do not have to do this, but if you want to practice you can. Make sure to use all the documents and limit your time to 1 hour. DBQ: The Great Depression.
  • Print out and bring to class (but don't do) Appeasement Cartoons
  • Wed
    1/15
    Meet in MAP Annex
  • Detour: The Vietnam War & the American Story project
  • Lecture: The Vietnam Experience Until 1965 & Songs of Vietnam
  • Complete the SAQ on the New Deal on Class Companion. It is due Friday at 8am.
  • Reminder: The New Deal Trial finishes Friday so make sure that you dress if you're a lawyer OR a witness who hasn't testified yet
  • 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
  • (I canceled this year so you don't have to do the following....): Interactively Read your option for Vietnam: 1965. Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Write an opening statement on why your option is best.)
  • Fri
    1/17
  • Finish the New Deal Trial
  • Finish the Vietnam War Songs
  • Continue work on Political Cartoons Between the War
  • Finish your Vietnam War Songs packet. Make sure the songs are annotated.
  • Wed
    1/22
  • Finish Lecture: Foreign policy under FDR
  • Continue work on Political Cartoons Between the War
  • Watch Film: From the Blitz to the Bomb
  • Discuss the American Story Historical Background
  • Finish the Isolationist/Interventionist political cartoons if you didn't in class
  • Go to the new unit