Week 5/4- 5/8

Monday -   Continuing with the packet/question from Friday:  Should we have dropped the bombs
                   on  Japan?  Students will work with partners, looking at primary sources to help them
                  answer that  question.    
                 After completing the graphic organizer, students will respond with a written 
                 paragraph response.   Due tomorrow

Tuesday-  Powerpoint notes/discussion on aftermath of war including Nuremberg Trials

Wednesday- Red Work Books review of WWII/ HW:  Study and organize notes

Thursday- Chapter test- open note

Friday- Begin Early Cold War Years - Chapter    Textbook, section one  

Week 4/27- 4/31

Monday - Hitler's Final Solution
ABC Booklets

Tuesday-  Holocaust continued


WednesdayThursday -V-E Day,  War in the Pacific. Answer guided questions using textbook

ABC Booklets

Friday- Should we have used the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?  Using primary sources



Next Thursday- WWII test

Extra credit:  Story of SS St Louis

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