WEDNESDAY--JANUARY 14

US History
EQ:
Has the women’s movement for equality in the United States become a reality or remained a dream?

CW:
finish Rescue Dawn
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notes/discussion:

video clip/reading: The Feminine Mystique and the problem with no name (from 1964 DVD)
the sexual revolution (handout) and the women's liberation movement  (use women's lib docs)
video clips:
1. Makers DVD--sexual revoluation--episode #2 (10:45--12:00-ish)
2. America pre-Roe vs. Wade (14:00--20:00-ish)
discuss: fight for the ERA
video clip: Princeton Mom
Title IX and women's sports

HW:
Text pp. 1008-1013
Watergate break-in
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Honors US History
EQ:
How did America end the Vietnam War?

CW:
1967: anti-war movement grows in strength
video clip: sit-in at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison against Dow Chemical Company
controversy surrounding the draft
 Dec. 1969--Draft lottery
1968:
Tet Offensive--turning point in the war
video clips from LBJ video on Tet and Walter Cronkite's report
March 1968--LBJ announces he will not seek the Democratic nomination
June 1968: RFK killed in Los Angeles
funeral train to Arlington National Cemetary
Aug.--chaos at the Democratic Convention in Chicago
Nixon elected--Nov. 1968
notes/video clips: Mr. Nixon's War (23:00--40:13)
secret invasion of Cambodia--1970------> Kent State Massacre
1971: Vets turn against the war
John Kerry's speech before Congress
NY Times vs. US--Pentagon Papers handout
1973: War ends
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Legacy of the Vietnam War:
POW handout
War's impact on civilians
Agent Orange
last 12 minutes of Dear America

HW:
Text pp. 880--86