WEDNESDAY

US History
EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in securing equal rights for African Americans?

CW:
return Unit 5 exam
preview Unit 6
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1950s overview:
growth of suburbia
Baby Boom
conformity
Rock and Roll
conspicuous conusmption
How to be a Good Wife handout
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origins of the Civil Rights Movement:
Reconstruction
W.E.B. DuBois
UNIA
the "Double V"
video clip: the NAACP builds its case against school segregation and the Plessy decision
handout:
the Brown decision (1954)
doll test
Southern Manifesto (1956)

HW:
Civil Rights overview reading: read the sections on the lunch counter sit-ins and the Freedom Rides
DUE FRIDAY
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Honors US History
EQ:
What factors/events led to an Allied victory in WWII?

CW:
Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945)
video clip: Firebombing of Dresden
April 12, 1945--FDR passed away
April 30, 1945: Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin
discuss: The Everlasting Shame of Mankind
Holocaust handouts
examples of Nazi medical experiments
video clip: "It Happened"
video clips from Band of Brothers--"Why We Fight"
May 8, 1945--V-E Day-WWII in Europe is over!!

HW:
Text pp. 771-76