'Sup Spring Breakers?

Happy Easter.

Greetings person/two-three people who view the blog. I hope your spring break was relaxing because we're back to work tomorrow. Only nine days remain in the third quarter. If you want to help your grade, PARTICIPATE by commenting on the blog and taking an active role in CLASS DISCUSSION. 

Coming Attractions:
IB US History
We wrap up Unit 9 Monday and Tuesday. Your exam is on Wednesday. Trackletes, if you have a meet that day, please let me know ASAP. We begin the Great Depression unit on Thursday. 

Psych:
We begin one of my favorite units, Social Psych tomorrow. Get ready for great class discussion and intriguing readings and videos. 

That's about it. See you in April. 

March 22---SPRING BREAK!!!!!

IB US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
notes: Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict
handout: anti-immigrant legislation
discussion/readings/video clips: religion in public schools
evolution vs. intelligent design--Dover, PA
Jessica Ahlquist


HW:
Robert Moats Miller reading on the Klan (from the reader)

March 21

IB US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
notes: Business-Gov't Partnership of the 1920s
notes/readings/discussion:
social changes of the 1920s
1920s slang quiz
general information on the 1920s

HW:
Text pp. 681-92
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Psych (21-22)
Focus:


CW:
Unit 2 exam


HW:
Social Psych RG
pages 1-4

March 20

IB US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
test prep sheet #9
discussion: Why were millions of Americans supportive of Prohibition?
video clips: Ken Burns' Prohibition

HW:
READ: pp. 673-77; 680-81
SKIM: pp. 666-70; 672-73

Read. Think. Comment.

Ten years ago today, Operation Iraqi Freedom began. See the economic costs of this war. 

Human costs:

See some amazing photos from ten years of war:
Photo set #1
Photo set #2

If you know a veteran who served in this conflict, please thank them for their service. 

March 19

IB US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
notes: the Red Scare
video clips: Sacco and Vanzetti


HW:
primary source analysis: Why did millions of Americans support Prohibition?
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DOCUMENTS
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Psych (19-20)
Focus:
Personality theory

CW:
discuss trait theory
prospective personality traits of a romantic partner activity
marshmallow test
video clips: OCEAN and personality traits
personality test

HW:
STUDY
BRING BOOK ON TEST DAY

March 18

IB US History
Focus:
WWI

CW:
notes: An Uncertain Peace
primary source analysis: Why did Congress reject the Treaty of Versailles?
new countries from the treaty
Wilson's 14 Points and provisions of the Treaty of Versailles
discussion: Is peace without victory" possible?

HW:
Text pp. 660-62
666-70; 672-73

Congrats to Allison Burke on being named a Rose Festival Princess!

Read. Watch. Think. COMMENT!!!

Looking for more information on the flu epidemic of 1918, check out this and this. 

Meanwhile this is happening today:

March 13

IB US History
Focus:
WWI

CW:
primary source analysis: Were anti-war protestors anti-America?
video: Influenza 1918
discussion: The Next Pandemic

HW:
1. graded discussion reading/questions
2. Text pp. 655; 658-60**
**reading at Labor Strife, Racial strife...
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Psych (13; 18)
Focus:
Personality theory

CW:
discuss psychosocial stages vs. psychosexual stages
discuss:

• criticisms of Freud's theories
• the humanistic approach to personality development
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs handout

projective personality test

HW:
RG-Trait theory--ALL

Preparation for Tomorrow

Some scary stuff is lurking out there in nature. 

March 12

REGISTER FOR PCC CREDIT (8 CREDITS!!)

HST 202:   24852

HST 203:   24854
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IB US History
Focus:
WWI

CW:
notes: War on the Homefront
primary source analysis: Were critics of WWI anti-American?
handouts/discussion:

• wartime intolerance
• Schenck vs. U.S. 
• wartime propaganda

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discussion/video clips: Is the president's use of drone attacks on U.S. citizens legal? 

clip #1

from Colbert Report (from March 2012)

HW:

reading: The Next Pandemic 

If you ever wanted to ice climb but were afraid to because of the risk involved, please don't watch this video.




Here's the story on the video. 

March 11

IB US History
Focus:
WWI

CW:
notes: The Great War (1914-18)
reading: "Moral diplomacy vs. real politik
video: Armenian genocide and real politik
primary/secondary source analysis: Why did the U.S. enter WWI in 1917?

HW:
Text pp. 647-55
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Psych (11-12)
Focus:
Personality theory

CW:
Unit 2 study guide
discuss Erikson's stages of development (from textbook reading) before each stage is shown on "Everybody Rides the Carousel"
video: Everybody Rides the Carousel
discuss: critics of Freud (if time)

HW:
RG: finish the reading guide

IB US History
Focus:


CW:
HTS


HW:
Text pp. 638-47

In a few days Japan will mark the second anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami. 

Check out these photographs for a before and after view of the tsunami and its incredible impact on Japan.  

The Food We Eat

Pink Slime:

March 7

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era


CW:
Modern day muckraking
discussion: Fast Food Nation
ABC report on "pink slime"
video clips: Fast Food and Obesity in America
reading from NY Times Magazine article on the food industry (Lunchables)
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Progressive Party Platform 1912 and major Progressive legislation handout
complete Progressive Era graphic organizer

HW:
TEXT pp. 638-47
DUE MONDAY
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Psych (7-8)
Focus:
Personality theory

CW:
practice with defense mechanisms (handout)
discuss: Freud's psychosexual stages of development
video overview
discuss: criticisms of Freud's theories
illustrate the psychosexual stages of development

HW:
read and complete the questions on Erikson's psychosocial stages

March 6

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
PCC registration info
Lewis Hine and the fight to end child labor
notes: Progressivism and National Politics
reading: The Jungle
public health reform: Typhoid Mary (TBD)


HW:
reading Fast Food Nation/questions

If you're wondering what life is like after you make an incredible last second shot and become a media sensation, read this. 

March 5

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
review notes
Powerpoint: History of Woman Suffrage (from Stanford site)
primary source analysis: Why were Men and Women Opposed to Woman Suffrage?
anti-suffrage propaganda
notes: Interview with Alice Paul
Suffrage Parade from March 3, 1913
video clips from "Iron Jawed Angels"

HW:
Text pp. 591-600
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Psych (5-6)
Focus:
Personality Theory

CW:
defense mechanism skit
defense mechanism quiz
grade quiz

HW:
RG-
Freud's Psychosexual stages
Freud's Critics

March 4

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era


CW:
review notes on Prog. Era
discussion: what is feminism?
notes: Feminism as a Radical Ideology
reading: Margaret Sanger and the fight for birth control
excerpts from Family Limitation by Margaret Sanger
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Affordable Care Act and free oral contraception/debate:
Obama's remarks about contraceptive services (2012)
Rush Limbaugh's remarks about Sandra Fluke
Foster Fries remarks 


HW:
Interview with Alice Paul from the reader

One More Basketball Post

One of the most amazing endings to a basketball game I've ever seen.

Tough night for the men's team on Friday but the women's team pulled out a tough win on Saturday. Special shout out to Psych student Julia Santos!

Meant to post this last week. I took a brief trip down to Latin America for a little bike competition. Enjoy.

THIS LOOKS AMAZING!!!

March 1

IB US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
return old work
return/discuss Unit 8 exam
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discussion: problems facing the U.S. at the turn of the century
notes: An Era of Reform

HW:
O'Neil reading from the reader: Feminism as a Radical Ideology
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Psych (March 1; 4)
Focus:
Personality Theory

CW:
review notes
discuss: divisions of the mind
read: Cat in the Hat
handout/discussion: defense mechanisms

HW:
review all notes