Week 4/20- 4/24

Monday -D Day   Eisenhower's speech (s)
HW:  Textbook reading: section three war in Europe- due Monday   guided questions
Extra Credit:   Students can complete the map questions about the landing beaches- Operation Overlord

Tuesday    Holocaust Day 1
                 Overview


Wednesday - Friday 
P1 and P2  Math state testing

P8    Band of Brothers  Speilberg's and Hanks NR film about Easy Company- 101st Airborne- during WWII    Episodes: Currahee and Day of Days

Week 4/6 -4/11

Monday - Introduction to World War II- notes packet #1
           HW:     Appeasement reading and questions - due by Thursday 

Tuesday- Notes continued, when completed Germany's Aggression and WWII Timeline (text) - finish as needed.

Wednesday- Entering the War: America's role and bombing of Pearl Harbor/FDR's speech analysis


Thursday-  Notes Packet 2-  War's Impact on America:  The Home Front
Great Depression tests returned.

Appeasement and timeline HW due

Friday-  Japanese Internment- day 1

Extra Credit Option:  Biography and questions of Hitler's early years

Anyone not finishing Great Depression test needs to do so by Wednesday.

End of the 3rd marking period
                                      

Week 4/13- 4/17

Monday - Why were Japanese Americans interned during WWII ? continued.
HW:   Paragraph response to question and completed packet - due by Friday.
Anti-Japanese propaganda- Disney cartoons

Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday

ELA testing for periods 1 and 2
Period 8- computer lab- WWII scavenger hunt

Friday-  Quiz, WWII ABC Booklets started  in class

Week 3/23 - 3/27

Monday- Notes packet:  Alphabet soup agencies, political cartoons, "packing the court",
                critics of the New Deal

Tuesday- Computer Lab Activity-  Life During the Great Depression: Dust Bowl
                Links on blog
               Complete activity as needed and hand in by Friday

Wednesday -Great Depression video and questions

Thursday- Legacy of New Deal/Review

Friday    Test: The Great Depression

Week 3/16- 3/20

Monday-  The Twenties review - Red Work Books in class - pages 85-93

Tuesday -   Roaring Twenties Test   Open Note    Multiple choice and written response


HW:   FDR - How About This?   the early years article from the History of US- due Thursday

Wednesday   Great Depression:  Herbert Hoover's presidency
                                                    Bonus Army fiasco
         
Thursday- FDR presidency notes                                                                 
                    
Friday - Fireside Chat  #1- Fiscal Emergency Solution
              Students will listen to the audio of this famous appeal to the American public
              CNN Student News

             

Week 3/9 -3/13

Monday - Video and guided questions:  Roaring Twenties
                 Fads assigned for tomorrow's group work
             
Tuesday/Wednesday  - Group work on fads- Presentations on Friday

Wednesday  Review/discuss packet-guided textbook notes (assigned last Monday -counts 3xHW)

HW:   Prohibition worksheet questions-due Friday

Thursday - Comparing the 20s to Today:  Graphic Organizer

Friday- Group fad presentations

Due this week:   "Interviews" of famous twenties personality

Next Monday- Open Note test on Roaring Twenties-Review notes

DBQ essays not received need to be turned in to me ASAP-test grade!

Week 3/2 3/6

Monday/Tuesday  - Introduction to the Roaring Twenties  -  Powerpoint presentation (copies            
                                of  presentation provided to students)
                                Project on personalities of the time period passed out/explained

HW:  Due by next Wednesday-  Textbook guided notes from the three sections of  chapter 24  starts on page 748   (Counts 3x)  
   

Wednesday-Friday   Computer Lab research on some of the famous celebrities as well as an "interview" with one of them-student choice.  

2/23 - 2/27/15

Monday - Whole class:  Section 3 notes- America at war and the armistice

                Work on ABC booklets- due by Friday             

Tuesday-  Section four notes: Versailles Treaty, influenza outbreak, and long term impacts of war
                  Pass back quizzes from sections one and two- corrections are an option-due by
                  next Tuesday

Wednesday- Looking at primary sources:  Why did the Sentate reject the Versailles Treaty?

Thursday/Friday  - DBQ Essay World War One (chapter test)
                             


Due Friday- ABC booklets and notes packet                  


Extra credit option:  creative writing piece due by end of week
                  
               

Week 22 2/9- 2/13

  

Monday-  

Snow Day 

Tuesday     Review notes sections one and two/ Mid point Review
                   Listen to song "Over There" which shows American patriotism
                  As time permits begin Reading Like a Historian: Central Question- Were critics of
                  the war anti-American?
                  HW:  Crossword   Woodrow Wilson

Wednesday -Finish Reading Like a Historian sources
                   HW:   Answering the central question -paragraph response using primary sources for
                               supporting details
                 
Thursday-  Open Note Quiz:  sections one and two
                   

Friday-        Section three notes- whole class (Americans at war, Armistice)
                   Work on ABC Booklet (should be finished by next week-after break)



Extra credit option:   Students write a series of journal entries as a soldier in the war or a poem depicting some aspect of the war - due by Feb. 27

Winter Break starts 

 

Week 21 2/2-2/6

The Great War continued.....

Monday -  Continue with section one notes (finish by tomorrow)
                 ABC booklets are on-going
                  Map of Europe is due by tomorrow (from last week)

Tuesday-  Review section one notes- why Europe erupts into war
                 Section Two:  America Enters the War guided notes-
                            finish these notes byThursday
                           

Wednesday-Packet in class including  Zimmerman Telegram, excerpt from Wilson speech
                    due tomorrow                 
                  
Thursday-    Go over the notes for sections one and two
                     Over There song by Berlin

Friday    Video:  The Foot Soldier
             
 Open Note Quiz - sections one and two on Monday

*******Changes due to snow day on Monday****