The Week Ahead

Reality hits in less than 48 hours. I hope you're enjoying what's left of your spring break. Monday is going to be extremely action packed.  The readings on Henry Ford and the automobile and the textbook are both fair game for a reading quiz. As always, read carefully.


On Wednesday, some of you will register for the ACT while others will do homework or meditate quietly at their desks. Your multiple choice exam is on Thursday and your essay exam is on Friday. I will most likely distribute the essay questions on Tuesday. Or Wednesday.


There are only nine days left in the quarter to improve your participation grade. That is all. 


May the odds be ever in your favor. 

Ever Wonder Where Your Tomatoes Come From?

Reflect on the push-pull factors of immigration that we discussed a few weeks ago when you watch this. Thoughtful comments are welcome as they can enhance your participation grade.



Lupe Gonzalo: Episode 96 of The Perennial Plate from Daniel Klein on Vimeo.

March 23-SPRING BREAK BEGINS!!

IB US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
Causes and Effects of Prohibition
primary source analysis (from Stanford curriculum site)
video clips: Prohibition (Ken Burns)

HW:
Text pp. 673-77; 680-81
ABSENT STUDENTS: PRINT AND READ THE DOCUMENTS BELOW!!!
handouts:
automobiles #1
automobiles #2
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US History
Focus:
Reconstruction

CW:
Ch. 11 lotus
video clip: Sherman's meeting in Savannah, GA--1864--Field Order #15
discuss 12:1 RG (Presidential Reconstruction)
video clip: Radical Republicans
discuss 12:2 RG (Reconstructing Society)
12:3 notes (The Demise of Reconstruction) if time
video clip: KKK
ID terms list

HW:
STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY
THINK THINK THINK THINK THINK THINK THINK
READ READ READ READ READ READ READ

IB NEWSFLASH--SPREAD THE WORD

TONIGHT'S READING ASSIGNMENT WILL BE DUE AFTER SPRING BREAK. TOMORROW'S CLASS WILL FOCUS SOLELY ON PROHIBITION. THAT IS ALL. 

Foreign Policy Discussion Continues

Really informative article about the impacts of a pre-emptive strike on Iran. Feel free to share your thoughts about U.S. foreign policy in the comments for this post. Thanks to everyone who took part in the discussion today. 

March 21

IB US History
Focus:
WWI

CW:
notes: Post War Peace
graded discussion: Wilson's 14 Points and his vision for the post-war world

HW:
Text pp. 666-70; 672-73
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US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
discuss 11:2 (Politics of War)
handout: Lincoln's civil rights abuses
discuss 11:3 RG (Life During Wartime)
video clip: Andersonville
Sullivan Ballou's letter
photographic analysis of Civil War dead

HW:
11:4-5 RG
12:1 RG

This could be in YOUR future as you enter the "real world". 

March 20

IB US History
Focus:
WWI

CW:
video: Influenza 1918
handout: major flu outbreaks in the US
discussion on possible global pandemics

HW:
finish graded discussion work
Text pp. 655; 658-62
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US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
review notes
ID prep/review
Civil War slang
handout/discussion: Civil War healthcare
video clips: Dances With Wolves and CASH unit from Iraq
letter from Sullivan Ballou
discuss 11:2 RG--The Politics of War

HW:
review notes

Head's Up--IB US HISTORY

There will be a brief reading from the textbook Tuesday night. Just wanted to let you all know that since I told you there were no reading assignments until Wednesday night.


Also, for those of you missing class at the end of the week, the class will continue without you. We will be covering important content that will be on your next exam. Please make sure you are able to get the notes from a classmate. I will have most of the handouts you will need by Wednesday. 


That is all. 

One More Terrifying Story

I'm speechless. 

What Happens to Civil Liberties During Wartime

The NSA is doing some pretty scary stuff right now.

The Colbert Report
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March 19

IB US History
Focus:
WWI

CW:
return old work
review notes
notes: War on the Homefront
handouts/discussion: 

• wartime intolerance
• Schenck vs. US 
• Eugene Debs speech
• wartime propaganda

HW:
graded discussion work (all due Wednesday)
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US History
Focus:
Civil War

CW:
review causes of the Civil War
discuss 11:1 RG (war begins)
handouts: 

• Jefferson Davis and Lincoln's views on the purpose of the war
• resources of the North and South; Anaconda Plan

video: Battle of Antietam

HW:
review notes

(WWUST?)

What Would Upton Sinclair Think?




I wonder what TTSD will choose??

March 14

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era---->WWI

CW:
review notes/wrap up the Progressive Era (graphic organizer)
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notes: US entry into WWI
primary document analysis: Wilson takes the US to war
video clip: shell shock from Wartorn

HW:
Text pp. 647-55
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US History
Focus:
Disunion

CW:
review notes
handout/discusion: antebellum sectionalism: myth or reality?
discuss 10:4 RG
primary source analysis: Was John Brown a Misguided Fanatic?
discussion of direct action protests
Ch. 10 lotus
handout: resources of the North and South

HW:
11:1---->11:3 RG

Old people and technology don't always mix, however, this video proves otherwise.

March 13

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
finish press conferences
notes: The End of the Progressive Era
handout: major Progressive Era legislation
handout/discussion: The Jungle


HW:
Text pp. 638-47
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US History
Focus:
Disunion

CW:
discuss Unit 2 exam
grade reports
discuss the 10:1 RG
discuss the 10:2 RG
video clip: Fugitive Slave Act and the Comp. of 1850
video clip: John Brown and "Bleeding Kansas"

HW:
10:4 RG

A Few Things

Some of the presentations were really good and some could have been better.  Read carefully tonight.


Very interesting survey data out on the next two states with Republican primaries. SERIOUSLY, READ THIS. NOW. Share your thoughts. 


Finally, I hope to receive a letter like this one day.
The picture that accompanied the letter is below:

March 12

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
Press conferences

HW:
Text pp. 591-600
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US History
Focus:

CW:
Unit 2 exam

HW:
10:1 RG
10:2 RG

Where are the comments??? You don't get participation points for looking. Are you all too busy preparing for your speeches or what? 


Neffendorf knows that the non-IB US History students can't be bothered to comment here. Come on!!! 

OnlineSchools.org presents Japan One Year Later

THINK BEFORE YOU TWEET.

Advice

Food for thought:


Do:



Don't:



Do and Don't

March 9

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
prep for press conferences
video: Basil Marceaux

HW:
prep for press conference
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US History
Focus:
Jacksonian Era

CW:
Donner Party video clip
discuss 9:3 RG (TX Revolution)
9:4 notes: War with Mexico
Ch. 9 lotus
essay prep
review

HW:
STUDY

Your mission for the weekend

Search for a piece of food that resembles William Henry Harrison!

Progressive Era Links

Amazing resource. Use it to gather information on your Progressive Era figure. 

Drug Tests for Poor People (3rd period discussion today)

At Operation Breakthrough, which provides day care services to low-income women here in Kansas City, Nicole, 22, who asked to be identified only by her first name, began to cry as she described trying to provide for her three children on a monthly welfare check of $342, plus $642 in food stamps.

Her electricity was cut off that morning, she said, which meant she could be evicted from her subsidized housing. The struggle to make ends meet while pursuing a health care degree was so consuming that the idea of taking drugs seemed ridiculous, she added.

Today is International Women's Day

Since we discussed the plight of Alice Paul and her fellow suffragettes in class today, I thought you would enjoy this video. It's really, really well made, the actor portraying President Woodrow Wilson even looks like Wilson. Enjoy.

March 8

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
RQ
notes: Interview with Alice Paul and her experiences as a suffragette
Structured Academic Controversy: Progressive Social Reformers
instructions on Progressive Era Press Conferences and group formation (if time)

HW:
review notes
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US History
Focus:
Jacksonian Era

CW:
discuss women's rights (8:3 RG)
handout/discussion: Declaration of Sentiments
cult of domesticity
Ch. 8 lotus
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discuss 9:2 RG on Manifest Destiny
video clip: Donner Party

HW:
9:3 RG
Skim section 9:4 in your book

Pause before you post.

I want this for my birthday.

March 7

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
Healthy Teen Survey

HW:
Interview with Alice Paul from the reader (Robert Gallagher is the author)
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US History
Focus:
Jacksonian Era

CW:
discuss 8:2 RG on abolitionists
Nat Turner's Rebellion video clip
HTS

HW:
9:2 RG

March 6

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
notes: Feminism as a Radical Ideology
reading/discussion: Margaret Sanger's views on birth control
video clips and discussion on the issue of contraception:
Health insurance mandate and birth control
Congressional hearing about the mandate (women excluded)
Obama's remarks about the health insurance mandate
Rush Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke
Foster Fries comments

HW:
Alice Paul reading**
DUE THURSDAY
READ CAREFULLY
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US History
Focus:
The Jacksonian Era

CW:
notes: The Slave South: A Distinctive Society
slavery fact sheet
discuss data on slavery
video clip: Louis Hughes
Roots (if time)

HW:
8:2 and 8:3 RG

Recall Election in Wisconsin

Here's Governor Walker defending himself against a recall. 





If the recall is successful, Walker would be only the third governor in U.S. history to be recalled. 

March 5

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
return old work
discuss Unit 8 exam
Unit 9 preview
discussion: problems that America faced at the turn of the century
notes: Origins of the Progressive Era

HW:
O'Neil reading from the reader: Feminism as a Radical Ideology
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US History
Focus:
The Jacksonian Era

CW:
Ch. 7 lotus
Ch. 7 quiz (trade and grade)
8:1 notes: Reforming American society
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slavery fact sheet
analyze data on slavery in the South (from IB handouts)

HW:
8:2/8:3 RG**
DUE WEDNESDAY!!!

I heard that our crack school security team is going to buy one of these. Can't wait. 

March 2--FRIDAY, SWEET, SWEET FRIDAY

IB US History
Focus:

CW:
Unit 8 exam

HW:
Text pp. 574-79; 582-87; 589-91
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US History
Focus:
Jacksonian Era

CW:
review  notes
discuss the 7:4 RG (Jackson vs. the BUS)
discuss Blankets for the Dead
video clips: Trail of Tears

HW:
Read pp. 238-45

Why is Herman Cain Watching a Girl Kill a Fish?

Can you figure out the political message in this ad?

March 1

IB US History
Focus:
The Gilded Age

CW:
small group activity: primary source analysis of presidential foreign policies
discuss the historiography of imperialism
found poetry activity

HW:
STUDY
EMAIL DEADLINE FOR YOUR OUTLINE IS 9:00 PM.
I WILL NOT REPSOND TO EMAILS SENT AFTER THAT TIME. 
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US History
Focus:
The Jacksonian Era

CW:
review notes
finish discussion of 7:1 RG (regional difference)
discuss 7:2 RG
video clip: cotton gin to Missouri Compromise (Slavery in America)
7:3 notes: Jackson's presidency

HW:
1. 7:4 RG
2. Read Blankets For the Dead and answer questions