Domestic Life in America During the 1950s


Date

In Class Activity

Long Term HW

All Homework
Mon
1/27
  • Lecture: America in the 1950s (cont.)
  • Generations packet
  • 1950s Lecture and conduct discussion: Are Saratoga students in little boxes?
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  • Continue working on your 1950s packet (pages 1-5 & 7-9).
  • Be ready for 1950s Day. Are you prepared to dress up and dance or do something 50s like next Tuesday?
    • Wed
    1/29
  • Continue 1950s Lecture
  • Work on Generations packet
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  • Generations packet is due next class
  • Do the TV assignment. (You will finish the 1950s part in class on 1950s Day but watch the modern show and interactively read the article attached.)
  • Sign up on the to bring food for 1950s day next week
    • Fri
    1/31
  • Film How the 50s became the 60s
  • Lecture: Finish 1950s
  • 1950s Day is our next class. Wear 50s-style clothing, bring 50s food for extra credit. Make sure you sign up on this form
    • Tues
    2/4
  • 1950s Day:
  • Television Shows on the 50s
  • 1950s Music Powerpoint with Dancing
  • Remember the next test is Civil Rights, the Cold War, and the 1950s. It will be when we finish the three mini-units Here is the 1950s one(Cold war on next test) but you will likely get to use your binders/notes.
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  • You should have completed the 1950s packet through page 19 by Monday
  • The Television assignment is due on Thursday. Make sure you print out and interactively read the articles along with answering the questions on the two shows.
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    Thurs
    2/6
  • Activity: What are Civil Rights? Can the government discriminate?
  • Lecture: Civil Rights after Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Watch and take notes on Crash Course: Civil Rights.
  • 1950s packet except the last two pages will be collected next class.
    • Mon
    2/10
  • Lecture: Reconstruction thru 1955
  • Read pages 1&7 in your packet and fill in the timeline
  • Watch the Frontline video: De Jure Segregation?. Take notes and write 3 sentences on whether or not you think the decision is based on racism.
    • Wed
    2/12
  • Second Reconstruction 1954-1964 - Lecture: MLK Jr./Freedom Summer/March on Washington & the government taking action.
  • Activity: How would you protest?
  • Listen to the Reparations podcast and take Cornell notes/summarizeYou do not have to do the margin questions - just provide a summary.
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    Fri

    2/14


  • Lecture: Civil Rights 1964-1967:
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  • For Extra Credit you make listen and take notes to the very good podcast: Who Replaces Me?
  • Extra credit for this part of the unit includes the following films:
    1. When They See Us: A fantastic mini-series (I mean fantastic!) about the Central Park 5 who were kids arrested for murder & charged as adults.2. Blindspotting: So good I can't stand it - see Jefferson from Hamilton. Reflects the gentrification, police brutality, and racial relations in modern Oakland. Watch it before our trip on Friday!
    3. Fruitvale Station: Michael B. Jordan plays out the last day of Oscar Grant's life (a bay area story) before he was killed by the BART police at Frutivale Station in Oakland.
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  • Read the reparations debate packet and be prepared to debate either side. .
    • Tues
    2/25

  • Lecture: Civil Rights 1967-1968: 4 views on the path forward, health inequity & wealth inequity
  • Songs of the Movement and Housing Reform

    		•  You should be nearly done with the Civil Rights Packet. You do not have to do the Invisible Man Article again
    Thur
    2/27
  • Activity: 4 Views on Civil Rights
  • Lecture: Modern issues in Civil Rights and the lasting officials of Redlining
  • Modern Issues
  • Lecture/Discussion: Are there solutions (Song) to racial inequity? Police reform? Affirmative Action?
  • Debate: Reparations and discussion: Affirmative Action - College Activity.
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  • Complete the 2nd Inequality section in your packet that your took a picture of.
  • Finish up the Civil Rights Packet
  • Print out film guide for 13th and bring it to class on Monday
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    Mon
    3/3
  • The experience of additional groups in the pursuit of Civil Rights
  • Start Film: 13th
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    Wed
    3/5
  • Finish Film: 13th
  • Debate: Reparations and discussion: Affirmative Action - College Activity.
  • Finish your film guide for 13th
  • Make sure you've read the first page of your Cold War packet and numbered it from start to finish. Bring it to class every day during the unit.
    • Fri
    3/7
  • Finish Film: 13th
  • Work on the Cold War packet
  • Start Cold War (Davey gone with MAP on LA Trip on Thursday)
  • Go to new unit page
  • Make sure you've read the first page of your Cold War packet.
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