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May 1-2, 2013

Lesson 1: Plans for Reconstruction

Key Q U9L1: What plans for Reconstruction were offered, and how did it all turn out?

I. Note 00: Study Guide

II. Note 1: Different Plans Offered

A. What might Lincoln have done

B. Rival Plans

III. Note 2: Radical Republicanism

IV. Note 3: Amendments (worksheet)

April 29-30, 2013

Civil Rights Preview
The idea of civil rights
Jim Crow Reading w/questions
Modern Civil Right Movement Video Overview

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March 20-21

Lesson 1: Causes of World War II

U8L1 Key Q How did World War II get started, and why did the United States get involved?

I. Hand out Notes 00 Study Guide and 01 Key Questions

II. Causes of War

A. Notes 2-3: Background Causes: Dangerous Nationalism

1. Italy

2. Germany – Hitler

a. Depression in Europe

b. Treaty of Versailles

3. Japan

B. Note 4: Immediate Causes: German Aggression

1. German Aggression

2. Appeasement

III. Note 4: Reasons for U.S. Entry into War

A. Neutrality Act

B. Lend-Lease Act

C. Pearl Harbor

IV. CPS Informal Assessment and Review

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March 18-19, 2013

Interwar Era America Test!

March 14-15, 2013

Lesson 7: Review for Exam

Objective: Be prepared to take the Unit 7 exam

 Quiz 3

 15 questions test review.

 Note organization

 Jeopardy Review

March 12-13, 2013

Lesson 6: The New Deal

Key Q U7L7: What were the programs offered by FDR in his New Deal? What were the limits of the New Deal?

I. Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address

II. Note 15: Overview of Roosevelt in Action:

A. Brain Trust

B. 100 days

C. Experimentation

III. Limits of the New Deal: Note 16

A. Success of the New Deal

B. Roosevelt tries to go too far?

C. Oliver Twist Cartoon (on Key Question Power Point)

IV. Notebinder organization – show each note on board as they search and sort.

V. Review

March 8 & 11, 2013

Lesson 5: Coping with the Great Depression:

Key Q U7L6      How did the federal government, particularly the executive branch, deal with the hardships created by the Great Depression?

I. Quiz 2

II. Note 11: Life during the Depression

A. Families Struggle

B. Dustbowl

C. Migrant Workers

D. Tolerating Conditions

1. Escapism

2. Soup Kitchens – community help

III. Note 12-13: Hoover’s Response

A. Hoover’s Response

1. Rugged Individualism – government should stay out of it

2. Private Charities and Volunteers need to help

3. People Criticize Hoover – “Hoovervilles”; Hoover Flags; Hoover Blankets

4. Hoover attempts some public works projects

B. Bonus Army

C. Hoover Out; FDR In

IV. Note 14: Roosevelt’s Promise: Reassurance

A. New Deal

B. Inaugural speech

C. Fireside chats

March 6-7, 2013

Lesson 4: Dark Side of the 20s – The Crash of ’29

Key Q U7L5 How could we have gone from a boom period in the 1920s to a depression in the 1930s?

Skill Using graphs to draw conclusions

I. Note 10: Background Causes of the Great Depression

A. Overproduction: 1st cause of Great Depression

B. Unequal Wealth Distribution (and debt): 2nd cause of Great Depression

II. Note 10: Immediate Cause of the Great Depression

A. Concepts of Stock and Stock Market

B. Stock Market Boom of 1920′s

1. Speculation – why people were so easily drawn up into it all

2. Buying on Margin

C. October 29, 1929 Black Tuesday – events

D. Run on the banks

E. Depression

III. Video: America’s Century: Reality of the Depression

March 4-5, 2013

Lesson 3: Work and Play in the 1920s

Key Q U7L4: How did popular culture change in the 1920s, such that we could call it “the first modern decade”?

I. Video: Modern Times

II. Note 8: Effects of Mass Production on Society

A. More Leisure Time and Cash on hand

B. Consumerism as a result of

1. Cheap Goods

2. Desire for Conveniences

3. Advertising

III. Note 8: Rise of Mass Culture

1. Automobile as a model

2. Elements and Sources

a. Radio

b. Movies

c. Automobiles

d. Celebrities

IV. Note 9: Harlem Renaissance

V. Video H4 from “America’s Century” – 1920s the first modern decade

VI. Quiz 1

February 28-March 1, 2013

Lesson 2: Jazz and Women

Key Q U7L2: Socially and culturally, what made the Roaring 20s roar?

I. Note 00: Study Guide

II. Note 6: Jazz

A. Jazz Era – mood of the 1920′s

B. Roots of Jazz – Old Europe and Old Africa

III. Cultural Changes

A. Flappers

B. Cultural and Generational Reactions to Changes

C. Video H2 – 1920s Women

IV. Jazz Video Wrap-up

V. Review for Quiz 1

February 25-26, 2013

Lesson 1: Return to Normalcy

Key Q U7L1: What were the political and economic situations in the United States immediately after WWI?

I. Note 3: Political Compass

II. Note 00: Study Guide; Note 01: Key Questions

III. Note 4 and 5: Harding and Coolidge Administrations

A. Return to Normalcy:

1. Election of 1920 – opposing visions for America

2. Harding’s Policies

B. Economics: Harding and Coolidge

1. Laissez Faire

2. Booming Economy

3. Consumerism

C. World Affairs: Withdrawal into Isolationism

February 14-15

Imperialism Unit Test today.

Watched and answered questions on Simon Schama’s The Future of American War

February 12-13

Reviewed.  Went over why we do everything we do in social studies, study guide etc. It’s all part of helping students to succeed.
Color coding of study guide, sorting terms into one or more of three conceptual categories.
Answered as much as we could of note 25, review note.
Anything not done was to be completed in study hall or at home if necessary.

February 7-8, 2013

Lesson 7: US at War Challenges at Home and Abroad

Key Q U6L7: What challenges did the US Government and citizens face at home and abroad as it tried to conduct war on such a large scale?

• Warm up: Recruiting Poster propaganda

• Quiz IV: MANIA

• Note 20: Challenges Facing US Government & Propaganda

o Soldiers

o Supplies

o Support

• Notes 21-22: Plan and Reality of the War

o Schlieffen Plan

o Mobilization Defined

o Outline of troop movement up to stalemate

o New technologies and horrors of the war

February 5-6, 2013

Lesson 6: Reasons the United States Entered WWI

Key Q U6L6: Why did the United States break its tradition of isolationism and enter WWI?

• Brief Review of US policy of Non-Intervention in Europe or Isolationism

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• QUIZ 2

• Note 18: 3 big reasons for the United States’ entering the war

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Wilson’s desire to have a say in the peace process

• Review MANIA (ppt)

February 1 & 4, 2013

Lesson 6: Reasons the United States Entered WWI

Key Q U6L6: Why did the United States break its tradition of isolationism and enter WWI?

• Brief Review of US policy of Non-Intervention in Europe or Isolationism

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• QUIZ 2

• Note 18: 3 big reasons for the United States’ entering the war

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Wilson’s desire to have a say in the peace process

• Review MANIA (ppt)

January 28-29, 2013

Lesson 4: Changed Relations with Latin America

Key Q U6L4: How did U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America change after the Spanish-American War?

• HW Quiz on Note 5 readings

• Video: How US Gained the Panama Canal

• Note 13: Outcomes of Spanish American War

• Note 14: Presidential Policies

o TR – Big Stick – The Term INTERVENTION should be emphasized

o Changes after TR

o Big Stick Cartoon

• Panama Canal Video from America’s Century

• Note 15: Panama Canal

• Clicker Review

January 23-24, 2013

Lesson 3: American Imperialism: Spanish-American War

Key Q U6L3: What were the causes of the Spanish-American War?

• Note 8: Background and Immediate Causation

• Quiz I

• Note 9: Causes of the Spanish American War

o Background: Civil War in Cuba as it connects with the 3-Ms

o Immediate: Sinking of the Maine

• Note 10: Yellow Journalism:

• Note 11: Overview of Strategy and Events of Spanish American War

o Atlas of United States history p. 80

o America’s Century “Spanish American War”

o Note 12 HW: Spanish and American War Reading

• Informal Clicker review and assessment

January 18 & 22, 2013

Lesson 2: Reasons for U.S. Imperialism

Key Q U6L2: What were the sources of the imperialist tendencies that arose in the United States in the late 19th century?

• Note 5: Westward Expansion Maps

o Shade and date

o Then label the name (just follow the power point)

• Note 6: 3-Ms

o Explication

o Practice

• Note 7: Imperialism in the Pacific

o Annexation of Hawaii

o China

 Sphere of Influence

 Open Door Policy

• Note 7: Anti-Imperialism

• Clicker Review

January 16-17, 2013

Only the afternoon sections had class.

We watched portions of Food, Inc.
Went over the mid-term exam
Took time for back work.

January 14-15, 2013

Lesson 1: Growth of an Idea

Key Q U6L1: How did our opinion about imperialism change from the beginning of our nation until WWI?

• Note 01: Explain Key Questions are on Note 01

• Warm up: getting involved in other people’s business

• Note 00: Hand out and explain HW (Geography of the Americas Map)

• Note 2: Definitions

o Foreign Policy

o Imperialism

o Expansionism

• Note 3: Presidential Opinions on Imperialism

o Washington

o Monroe

o Roosevelt

• Note 4: Map of Monroe Doctrine

• Answer key Question and Clicker Review (if time)

January 10-11, 2013

Lesson 4: Midterm Exam

• Completed the exam
• Began notes 00 A-C of Unit 6

January 8-9, 2013

Lesson 3: Midterm Review Day III

Key Q U5L3: Am I ready for the midterm? If not, what am I going to do specifically to change that?

1. Quiz 2
2. Note 6 – Review Sheet
3. Focused review – CPS
4. Self evaluations

January 4 & 7, 2013

Lesson 2: Midterm Review Day II

Key Q U5L2: What items on the midterm examination from units 3 and 4 do I need to review further?

I. Quiz 1 – CPS

II. T/F Knowledge Assessment: Unit 3 and 4

III. Note 3: Political Cartoon

IV. Geography

A. Note 4: Continents and Oceans

B. Note 5: Physical Geography of the United States

V. Whiteboard Review with individual check off of items known and circle of those not

January 2-3, 2013

Lesson 1: Midterm Review Day 1

Key Q U5L1: What items on the midterm examination from units 1 and 2 do I need to review further?

I. Explain Midterm (10)

A. Note 00: Hand out study guide and explain format of test

B. Be sure to emphasize quizzes and value of midterm : midterm=30% of quarter grade

II. Pre-Quiz: T/F Knowledge Assessment: Unit 1 and 2 (15-20)

A. Try to get across the room

B. Use colored true or false card to indicate answer to question

C. Outcome:

1. Right answer = 1 step forward (heel to toe)

2. Wrong answer = 1 step backward

III. Note 1: Basic Concepts Reinforcing Worksheet (15)

A. Everyone does step 1 first

B. Then, in pairs do step 2 and 3

IV. Note 2: Industrialized America: Worksheet / Activity (20)

V. Whiteboard Review with individual check off of items known and circle of those not

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December 11-12, 2012

Essential Question: What were the three C’s of President Roosevelt’s Square Deal?

1. PowerPoint and notes on TR’s domestic policies
2. Video Clip
3. Reading with questions

December 7 & 10, 2012

Essential Question: Name and explain two Acts which created economic reform during the Progressive Era.

1. Readings on economic reform legislation with questions
2. PowerPoint with notes
3. Video clip.

December 5-6, 2012

Essential Question: Were there too many reforms during the Progressive Era? Provide two examples why or why not.

1. PowerPoint notes on temperance, and the 18th and 21st Amendments.
2. Movie Clip from Prohibition
3. People of Prohibition

December 3-4, 2012

Essential Question: How are the reforms from the Progressive Era still relevant today?

1. Quiz
2. PowerPoint and video clip on fight for woman’s suffrage.
3. Readers Theater

November 29-30, 2012

Essential Question: How are the actions of the reformers we read about still relevant today?

1. Quiz Review – note sheet to be filled out using previous notes
2. Reading and Questions – on their own; in group to form consensus; stations to get other group’s answers
3. Power Point with notes

November 20 & 26, 27-28 2012

Essential Question: What was your reformer’s contribution to society?

1. Computer lab to gather information
2. Make posters
3. Present and critique

November 16 & 19, 2012

Essential Question: How did yellow journalism and muckraking contribute to Progressive Age Reforms?

1. Notes – Power Point
2. Ida Tarbell Outline
3. Jacob Riis Video and Questions

November 14-15, 2012

Essential Question: What changes or reforms took place in the food industry because of Upton Sinclair’s book?

1. Quiz
2. Reading and Questions on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
3. Video and questions on Upton Sinclair and the meat packing industry

November 9 & 13, 2012

Essential Question: Explain two negative effects of Tammany Hall on society.

1. Reading and questions
2. Political Cartoon of the Senate
3. PowerPoint with notes and Video on governmental reform
4. Review for Quiz

November 7-8, 2012

Essential Question: Using two examples from the information provided, how did cartoons create reform?

1. Spoils system reading and questions
2. Thomas Nast and ecouragement for reform through pictures
3. Political cartoons

November 5-6, 2012

Essential Question 1: What were two forms of corruption that characterized Tammany Hall?

1. Quiz for Unit 3 – Urbanization and Immigration
2. Reading and Notes on Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
3. Video on Boss Tweed
4. Progressive Reform Defined
5. Essential Question Answered

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November 1-2, 2012

Lesson 3: Responses to Immigration

Primary Objective U3L2: Describe 2 ways Americans responded to the waves of immigration during the industrial era.

I. Note 7: Reading a Political Cartoon: Refusing to Admit Immigrant Past

II. Note 8: Push-Pull Factor Case Studies – Review

III. Notes 9-10: Responses to immigration

A. Assimilation – reality of the melting pot, including class differences?

B. Nativism – make connection with struggle for jobs and cultural biases

C. Chinese Exclusion Act

D. National Origins Quota Act of 1924

II. Note 11: Review

October 30-31, 2012

Lesson 2: Local and National Patterns of and Reasons for Immigration

Primary Objective U3L2: Explain, using two examples, why immigrants came to the USA during the industrial period.

I. Immigration Defined: Note 6

II. Immigration to Little Falls

III. Historical Patterns of Immigration

IV. Push Pull Factors Explained

October 26 & 29, 2012

Lesson 1: Good and Bad of Urban America

Key Q U3L1: Using two details from the notes, describe how life changed as a result of urbanization.

I. Note 3: Urbanization

A. Chart showing the trend toward Urbanization (warm up)

B. Urbanization defined

II. Note 4: Contrasting Cityscapes:

A. Living conditions for immigrants and others in Urban America

1. Tenements

2. Review class differences and assimilation via talking about neighborhoods

B. Skyscrapers – Lack of Land

III. Note 5: Cultural Changes of Urbanization

A. Schools

B. Sports and Leisure

1. Baseball, Basketball, Football

2. Vaudeville

C. Reading of Mass Produced Books and Papers