Date |
In Class Activity |
Longterm Homework |
Next Class Homework |
Fri
11/15 |
Lecture: The cause of the Great Depression & potential solutions (group think) - song analysis: Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Start Hoover's Response to the Depression
Jigsaw: What casued the Great Depression and Depression Highlights
Assign Roles for the New Deal Trial |
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 |
Interactively read the back page of 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
11/19 |
Lecture: The Worst of the Great Depression: Dustbowl, Bonus Army, & Repatriation
Mexican Repatriation 'Trial'
causes of the Great Depression Jigsaw
Continue Hoover's Response to the Great Depression |
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
11/21 |
Lecture: Finish Hoover's Response to the Depression
Lecture: (Video Clips: Dust Bowls, and Crime): Bonus Army: Video Clip and the end of the Hoover Administration
Effect of the Great Depression on women.
Lecture: The 'Engineer Fails': Bonus Army: Video Clip and the end of the Hoover Administration
Who was FDR? |
|
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
12/3 |
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 |
Finish your pink packet from class (Brother Can You Spare a Dime on front)
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
12/5 |
Trial 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 |
Interactively read the first half of your Isolationist Debate Packet and answering the questions. Last Name A-M: Isolationists/America First N-Z Interventionists/Globalists |
Fri
12/7 |
Start Foreign Policy between the wars |
Remember that if you need to debrief the 2nd test you must do so before the final.
 |
Finish the debate packet: Last Name A-M: Isolationists/America First N-Z Interventionists/Globalists |
Wed
12/11 |
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.
|
Fri
12/13 |
Lecture: Lead up to Pearl Harbor
Start Review Film: From the Blitz to the Bomb |
|
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 |