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April 8: Working Backwards......

Today we'll talk about the importance of Memphis in rock and roll history and watch a film about the Beat poets, and Elvis.

Monday: Korean War lecture, w/ map and notes. Eisenhower dvd segment.
Friday, April 4: Fear of Communism in the 1950s
Wednesday April 2 and Thursday, April 3: The potential for nuclear destruction in the 1950s. Cold War Vocab sheet.

Mea Culpa!

Okay..... I've been a little lame in my latest posting efforts. So, I've decided to turn the page and start fresh. Basically we've been studying WWII for that last few weeks. I'll be collecting packets today and there is a WWII test today as well.

Tomorrow we start post WWII America and the 1950s.

March 11, 12, 13 ,& 14

March 11: 3rd period played review Jeopardy, zero period discussed the legacy of the New Deal.

March 12: Test on the 1920s and 1930s. WWII worksheet assigned.

March 13: Students registered for next year's classes.

March 14: We began the unit on WWII by discussing interventionism and isolationism. Students looked at some Dr. Seuss cartoons about the subject and drew one of their own.

March 5,6,7 and 10

In backwards order:

March 10: I lectured about the legacy of the New Deal. Reading guide was assigned. Test and packets due on Wednesday.

March 7: We watched Riding the Rails and students wrote fictional letters from the perspective of a teen riding the rails during the depression.

March 6: Students presented on the New Deal agencies they'd been researching.

March 7: Students worked on the the written and visual elements of the New Deal agency that they then presented to class.

Feb. 27 - Mar. 4

During the course of the last 5 class periods we have:

1. Listened to a Fireside chat about banking.
2. Watched a portion of the presidents dvd about F.D.R.
3. Discussed the dust bowl and did a handout about the devastation it caused.
4. Read an article and taken notes on how the legacy of F.D.R. affects America today.
5. Worked on the causes of the Great Depression spoke diagram.

Feb. 25 & 26

Feb. 25:

Zero: 1930s unit objectives. Students prepared a "brief" explaining Hoover's response to the Great Depression.

Third: We discussed how stocks work, and the stock market collapse of 1929.

Feb. 26:
Zero: We discussed how stocks work, and the stock market collapse of 1929. Reading Guide: Chapter 14, Section 1.

Third: We discussed the 6 causes of the Great Depression. Reading Guide: Chapter 14, Section 1.

Feb. 13, 14 and 15

Students continued working on the Harlem/Blues project. Project elements (visual and written) should be done and turned in.

Feb. 7, 8, 11 & 12

Feb. 7: I assigned a reading guide on the Harlem Renaissance and collected the 1920s packets.

Feb. 8: 3rd period attended a Spare Change assembly, zero period was assigned the reading guide.

Feb. 11: Students performed the blues songs that they'd written, and I introduced the Harlem/Delta culminating project (due Friday).

Essential Questions for Project:
1. How was black culture in the Mississippi Delta in the 1920s different from black culture in Harlem in the 1920s?
2. How did the jazz and blues music of the time reflect that difference?

Feb. 12: Students worked on Harlem/Delta project.

Feb. 5 and 6

Feb. 5: Students took notes about the blues and answered questions from a dvd about the blues. 3rd period had homework about Super Tuesday.

Feb. 6: Students wrote their own blues songs. We discussed Super Tuesday. Chapter 13, Section 4 (Harlem Renaissance) reading guide was assigned. Due on Thursday.

Feb. 4

Today students presented the 1920s biographies.

Jan. 31 and Feb. 1

Jan. 31: Students created a photoshop/powerpoint biography of a famous figure from the 1920s.

Feb. 1: Continued work on 1920s biographies.

Jan. 30

Today, half the class began work on preparing the visual for their "1920s Hall of Fame" inductee. The other half of the class worked on finishing the 1920s political cartoons.

Jan. 28 and 29

Jan. 28: We watched a dvd segment on Herbert Hoover. Students then analyzed political cartoons of the 1920s. 

Jan. 29: We watched a video segment about women, the K.K.K. and sports heroes of the 1920s. Students answered questions as they watched. The class then continued the political cartoon assignment from Monday. 

Jan 24

Today we began class by watching a dvd segment on President Harding (students took notes on a temporary "Presidents Grid"). Students then paired up and began work on a visual representation of the "Red Scare" using photoshop. The final image needs to feature the color red, include the words "Red Scare" and illustrate what Americans were afraid of during that time (1919-1920).

Jan. 23

Today we reviewed and defined the slang terms from the 1920s. I gave a brief lecture on post WWI paranoia and the Red Scare. Students then did a handout about the Red Scare and the resurgence of the K.K.K.

Jan. 22, 2008

Today in 3rd period I returned the finals. I discussed the objectives of the next unit: the 1920s. Students then watched a segment from Our Century, and answered questions from the video.

Tonight's homework: Define the slang words from the 1920s.

Jan. 9, 2008

Today we discussed the results of the N.H. primary. The we watched short dvd selection about President Taft and then students continued working on the American Imperialism .ppts.

Presentations Tomorrow.

Jan. 8

Students were assigned a term/topic from the era of American Imperialism (late 1800s-early 1900s). Student teams are creating power-point presentation on the term they were given. Presentations will occur on Thursday. 

Homework: Analyze the results of the New Hampshire primary. 

Jan. 7, 2008

Today we examined the foreign policy perspectives of Isolationism and Imperialism. Students read scenarios and placed them on a foreign policy perspective worksheet.