Friday, December 16, 2011

12/14-16 1968

1968 Boom Video

1968 Quiz--In Class
1968 Election Wkst. --In Class



****Extra Credit***
Find the Extra Credit for Break in the All Assignments Link. Click on the link and follow instructions.

12/8-13 Student Activism and the CounterCulture

2 Videos in Class

12/5-7 Vietnam Wrap-UP

Vietnam RG--'69-'73 (See All Assignment Link)
Vietnam Wkst. and SE Asian Wkst--In Class Only
Vietnam QUIZ

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

11/30-12/2 Vietnam War Research Assignment

Click on the Vietnam War Research Assignment on the all assignments links and then follow the instructions.
Due on 12/5.

Utilize your time in the library wisely!!!

11/28-29 SE Asia Wkst. and Vietnam RG

11/16-18 Vietnam--Historical Background

11/15 LBJ and Warren Court Quiz

11/10-14 Great Society Article

Great Society Article

Review of the Great Society and the Warren Court

Warren Court Cases Wkst.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

11/8-9 LBJ and Warren Court Internet Assignment

Find the assignment in the links.
Electronically or paper submitted on 11/10.

Monday, October 31, 2011

10/27-31 LBJ and Civil Rts. 1964-68

Civil Rights Manipulatives

LBJ and Civil Rights Video

DeFacto Segregation

10/24-26 1960-63 Civil Rights

Eyes on the Prize
Sit-Ins and Group Dynamics
MLK and "I Have a Dream Wkst"

10/20-21 Civil Rts.

Brown v. Board of Ed.
Eyes on the Prize

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

10/18-19 Civil Rights Research Activity

Click on the Civil Rights Research Activity in the All Assignments Link.

We will have two days to work on this project in the library. It will be due either in class or electronically submitted by 10/20.

10/17 Intro to Civil Rights Lecture

Take notes on Lecture Handout.

Shade U.S. Map of the states of the CSA and the states of the Union during the Civil War.

10/12 Space Race EXAM

10/11 Apollo 11

Documentary of Apollo 11 touchdown.

10/10 Apollo 1 & 8

Lecture and Clips of Video.

10/7 NASA & Technology

NASA & Technology Article and Questions

What are three products mythically linked to NASA?
What are three products that NASA helped to create?

Paragraph of three ways in which the world of technology was enhanced by NASA's push to land a man on the moon.

10/5-6 Space Race--Can we do this?

Collect Space Race Internet Activity

Can We Do This---What will the nation have to do to put a man on the moon.

Earth to the Moon---Part I.

Pass out Wksts--Space Race Timeline in Class

Sunday, October 2, 2011

10/3-4 Space Race Internet Activity

1. Space Race Internet Activity
Find the assignment link under the All Assignments. Complete and turn in either electronically or by hand in the classroom by 10/5.

9/30 JFK Exam

9/29 JFK and 1963

1963 JFK--Berlin Trip
Dallas Trip and Assassination

9/27-28 JFK and the Cold War

9/27 Vienna Trip and Consequences

Berlin Wall

9/28 Cuban Missile Crisis w/ Wkst.

9/26-Camelot

JFK Wkst---Camelot

9/21-23 JFK Notes and Video

9/21--Bio. Myth vs. Reality

9/22--Ch. 1 RG

9/23--JFK Video and 1st Year in Office

Monday, September 19, 2011

9/19-20 JFK RESEARCH

Look at the all assignments link for the JFK Research Assignment. Click on the link and begin working on it. Assignments are due on 9/21 either in class or electronically submitted to me.

9/16 Seeds of 60s EXAM

9/15 Intro Reading Guide

Intro reading guide worked on in class.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

9/14 Matching Activity---Seeds of 60s

9/12-13 Seeds of 60s

Seeds of 60s Video with Overview Notes

9/7-9 First Week

1. Intro to Class
2. Pretest on 1960s Topics
3. Text Search and U.S. Map----Keep for your notebook
4. Seeds of 60s Overview

Thursday, May 12, 2011

5/12-16 Vietnam

1. Hist. Background
2. Start Part III in class.


3. Vietnam War Research Project
Click on this assignment in the All Assignments link
Electronic or Paper Copy Due 5/18.

5/6 Great Society

Great Society Reading
Pinnacle of Liberalism RG

LBJ Video

5/10 LBJ-WARREN COURT QUIZ

1. Wrap Up LBJ and the Warren Court

2. Quiz

3. Intro to Vietnam---Conflict in Indochina Video

5/2 CIVIL RIGHTS TEST

5/4 LBJ/Warren Court--Pinnacle of Liberalism

1. LBJ and Great Society
2. Warren Court Decisions Wkst.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

4/27 CR Wrap-UP

65-68 Questions--Work on and Due

CR Manipulatives---Get it set in your head.

CR Wkst.

Review CR for TEST next period

4/25 Malcolm X

Finish LBJ

Malcolm X

Assign 65-68 Questions. Militancy and the Movement

4/21 64-65 in the Movement

Watch LBJ's handling of the movement.

Do Questions 1964-65 of movement

4/19 I Have a Dream

Q's 1960-63 in CR Assigned and Due.

I Have a Dream Wkst. ---Due

Watch Movement 1960-1963

4/14 Eyes to 1963

4/12 Brown v. Board ---Sit-Ins

U.S. Map--CR Cities.

Finish Lecture with Packet

Packet of CR Timeline
CR Groups

1954-1960 in the movement

4/8 CR Lecture

Lecture on Historical Foundations of Modern Civil Rights Movement with Packet for Notes

Monday, April 4, 2011

4/4-6 SPACE RACE EXAM/Intro to CR

1. Exam
2. Intro to Civil Rights----Move to the Library.

Look in the All Assignments link for the Civil Rights Research Project. Ctrl and Click and begin.

3/31 Apollo 11 and 13

Go over Apollo 11 and 13--Watch Documentary.

Space Race Reading---Why did we go to the moon? Was it worth it?

3/29 Apollo 1 & 8

1. Earth to the Moon---Apollo 1 and 8
2. Lecture/Notes on these two missions

3/18 Can We Do This?

1. Space Race Timeline
2. Earth to the Moon---Mercury to Gemini
3. Space Race Quiz

Sunday, March 13, 2011

3/14-16 The Right Stuff

Q's
Right Stuff Video Questions

1. Why was Chuck Yeager famous?
2. Why wasn’t Yeager, clearly the best test-pilot alive at the time, not included in NASA’s Mercury selections?
3. What is the Right Stuff?
4. What were three of the strange tests that NASA put the astronauts through?
5. How was selection to the Mercury 7 lucrative for the selectees?
6. What were problems with NASA’s first efforts to put rockets up?
7. Why was Glenn upset with the astronauts? How does this altercation bring them together?
8. What was a problem with Alan Shepard before the launch? What was the solution?
9. What happened on the next flight, Gus Grissom’s suborbital flight?
10. What was unique about Glenn’s flight?

3/9 Intro to Space Race

3/7 JFK EXAM

3/3 JFK--Camelot and Review

3/1 JFK Worksheets

2/25-Cuban Missile Crisis

Work on CMC worksheet. Due after weekend.

Friday, February 18, 2011

2/18-23 JFK Study Guide

1. Myth vs. Reality of JFK

2. In Library----JFK Research Study Guide. Click on All Assignments and do the Study Guide. Due in class either electronically or hard copy.

2/16 Ch. 1 --Intro to JFK

1. Intro to JFK
2. Ch. 1 RG----Time in class to complete.

3. JFK Video Intro

2/14 Seeds of 60s Exam

1. Seeds of 60s Exam
2. Intro to JFK

Friday, February 11, 2011

2/10 1945-60 Matching

1. Syllabus Turned In
2. Intro RG--Go over and Turn In.

3. 1945-60 Matching---Go over Timeline, Complete Wkst. and Turn In.

2/8 Intro Chapter RG

1. Finish Seeds of 60s
2. Intro RG---start.

2/4 Video/Cornell Notes Seeds of 60s

2/2 Syllabus/Seeds of 60s

1. Syllabus passed out.

2. Seeds of 60s Lecture

2/1 60s Pretest

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

1/26-28 FINAL EXAM

1/24-25 Watergate & Legacies

1. Watergate Wkst.
2. Legacies of the 1960s--Politically, Culturally, Socially, Foreign Policy, etc.


3. Review for Final Exam

1/20-21 Presentations

1. Students take notes on Presentations
2. PowerPoint Presentations

1/18-19 1968

1968 Video on the Year's Importance

Monday, January 10, 2011

1/11-14 Semester Powerpoint Project

1. Random Selection and choose topic for Semester Powerpoint

2. Work in the library on the Project---Find requirements in the all assignment link

1/7-10 Music of the 1960s

1. Finish the Counterculture and Answer the following:

Counterculture---
Explain who was involved in the counterculture? Was all of mainstream America in the Counterculture?
What were the reasons for people dropping out of the mainstream society? What were aspects of the lifestyle?
What was a negative aspect of the counterculture? What was a positive aspect of the counterculture?


2. Intro to Music of the 1960s---SmartBoard Presentation of 2 main influences on the music.

1/5-6 CounterCulture

1. Beats---Lead to Counterculture.
2. Making Sense of 60s #3.---counterculture with notes handout.

1/3-4 Warren Court Cases--Intro Beats

1. Supreme Court Cases Wkst.

2. Intro to the Beats.

12/16-17 LBJ

LBJ Video

Intro to Great Society Legislation and Warren Court Cases.


Have a great Break. Extra Credit Available---See all Assignment Link

12/14-15 Wrap Up Vietnam

1. Vietnam Wkst.
2. Vietnam Quiz.

3. Intro Great Society

12/10-13 Vietnam

Research on Vietnam Due.

Conflict in Indochina--Video.