FRIDAY--APRIL 1

US History
EQ:


CW:
UNIT 3 EXAM


HW:
Read pp. 640-45:
growth of cities
Prohibition
Christian fundamentalism and the Scopes Trial
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How successful was organized labor in its fight for economic justice?

CW:
groups present on labor unrest in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Carlisle will present info on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire--1911
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college athletes attempt to unionize

HW:
544-48

THURSDAY--MARCH 31

US History
EQ:
What was President Wilson's peace plan for the post-WWI Europe?
How did fear of communism impact the US post-WWI?

CW:
security vs. liberty discussion continued
1918 influenza outbreak
video clip: 1918 flu pandemic
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Wilson's 14 Points peace plan (docs)
opposition to Wilson's plan
First Red Scare 1919-20
Great Migration--docs and video clip from Many Rivers
Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong
Claude McKay--"If We Must Die" 
Red Summer--1919
Chicago Race Riot
President Harding (1921-23): "A return to normalcy..."
President Harding's love letters to Carrie Phillips  
Tulsa Race Riot--1921--clip from Many Rivers
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review time

HW:
STUDY FOR UNIT EXAM
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How successful were American workers in their fight against big business for economic justice?

CW:
notes/discussion: the world of work in the late 19th and early 20th century
formation of unions: Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
small group research project: labor unrest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
one group will present

HW:
review notes

WEDNESDAY--MARCH 30

US History
EQ:
How did WWI impact life in the US?


CW:
view best examples of WWI propaganda
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African Americans answer the call to war
Harlem Hellfighters and Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson's Medal of Honor recognition
US forces: 4.3 million men were mobilized for war: 115,000 were killed
War at Home Part II:
question: Should citizens expect to give up their civil liberties during wartime?
handout: Espionage and Sedition Act
security vs. liberty--Apple vs. FBI
response from Apple CEO Tim Cook
examples of anti-German attitudes during the war
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soldiers return changed men: clip from "Wartorn" on shell shock


HW:
Read pp. 604-08
Wilson's 14 Points
Treaty of Versailles
Opposition to the Treaty
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did big business impact American life during the Gilded Age (1877--1900)?


CW:
define the concept of capitalism
the Invisible Hand of the free market Wealth of Nations-Adam Smith--1776
define lassez-faire capitalism
The Visible Hand ppt
Comcast-Time Warner merger called off--2015
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry
read/discuss: Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth and conversation with Carnegie about wealth inequality
wealth inequality in the US today

HW:
How the Other Side Lived




 

TUESDAY--MARCH 29

US History
EQ:
What factors led to U.S. entry into WWI in April 1917?

CW:
WWI: What do you know about the war?
MAIN---->Archduke Franz Ferdinand
warfare in WWI
trench warfare
notes: factors that led to US involvement in WWI
WWI Docs
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War on the Homefront; USG steps up:
Selective Service Act of 1917; Food Admin; RR Admin; Fuel Admin; DST; CPI
examples of propaganda during the war
create a piece of WWI propaganda:
military recruitment; food conservation; anti-German; espionage


HW:
Read pp. 597--98
EXPECT A READING QUIZ!
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did the belief in Manifest Destiny impact settlers and Native Americans in the West?

CW:
notes: Invaders of the West:
Transcontinental Railroad--Central Pacific and the Union Pacific
video clip from The West--episode #5--various clips
Sand Creek Massacre--Nov. 1864--video clip from The West--DVD (1:07:48--1:16:00)
letters from Capt. Silas Soule and Lt. Joseph Cramer
video clip from The West--buffalo slaughter--The West--episode #5 (1:11:58--1:22:47)
buffalo slaughter 
Battle of Little Bighorn--1876
George Armstrong Custer 
primary/secondary source analysis: Who was responsible for the Battle of Little Bighorn? 
1887--Dawes Act
video clips from (The West--Episode 8--24:25---41:30)
Ghost Dance
Wounded Knee Massacre--1890
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Native American issues in the present day:
Life on Indian reservations today
Redskins
Proud to Be

HW:
Text  pp. 485-88
Stop at the Railroad Boom

FRIDAY--MARCH 18--SPRING BREAK BEGINS AT 3:05!!!!!

US History
EQ:
How did America's imperialist foreign policy impact other nations?

CW:
President McKinley's Open Door Policy with China
Boxer Rebellion 1900-01
imperialism under TR:
the Panama Canal--video clip from The Roosevelts (30:00--39:00)
Roosevelt Corollary
video clip: voting and citizenship in US territories today
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FRONTIER HOUSE

HW:
Read pp. 583-86
p. 588--Raising an Army
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did the belief in Manifest Destiny impact settlers and Native Americans in the West?

CW:
return/discuss Unit 3 essay exam
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preview Unit 4
notes: Invaders of the West:
Transcontinental Railroad--Central Pacific and the Union Pacific
video clip from The West--episode #5--various clips
Homesteaders head West--Homestead Act--1862
Frontier House

HW:
469--74 (begin at the Fate of the Indians)

THURSDAY--MARCH 17

US History
EQ:
What were impacts of America's imperialist foreign policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

CW:
debate: ANNEXATION OF THE PHILIPPINES!
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notes: the Philippines War (1899--1902)
water cure
Why did some US soldiers treat Filipinos with brutality? (small group activity)
compose a paragraph answering the above question


HW:
Read
pp. 562-63: Open Door Notes in China and Boxer Rebellion
p. 566--TR and the Panama Canal
p. 568--Roosevelt Corollary
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IB HOTA
EQ:


CW:
Unit 3 essay exam


HW:
Read pp.  464-65--section on Homesteaders

WEDNESDAY-MARCH 16

US History
EQ:
Why did the US become an imperialist power in the late 19th century?
What were the impacts of America's new approach to foreign nations?

CW:
Unit 3 study guide
history of U.S. military engagements up to the Spanish-American War
discussion: What role should the U.S. have in global affairs?
notes: roots of American imperialism
annexation of Hawaii--1898
18:2 notes--Spanish-American War (1898)
primary source analysis: Why did the U.S. invade Cuba?
video clip from The Roosevelts DVD (1:20:00--1:23:38)
Treaty of Paris--1898
Annexation of the Philippines? (assign role sheets)


HW:
read role sheet to prep for class debate tomorrow!
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What was the vision for the advancement of African Americans put forth by  Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?


CW:
new era of black leadership in the U.S.:
Booker T. Washington's vision for African Americans--Atlanta Compromise address--1895
W.E.B. DuBois' vision for AAs: talented tenth; liberal arts education
video clip: Du Bois (from Many Rivers)
The Souls of Black Folk--"double consciousness"
Trayvon Martin case--2012
President Obama speaks out on Trayvon Martin--July 2013
video clip--President Obama speaks out on the Trayvon Martin case
racial stereotyping
code switch
Key and Peele clip
K/P: phone call 


HW:
PREP FOR ESSAY EXAM

TUESDAY-MARCH 15

US History
EQ:
How did the belief in Manifest Destiny impact settlers and Native Americans?

CW:
Clash of Cultures on the Frontier:
Map of major tribes of the West 
discuss: cultural and social beliefs of the tribes
Sand Creek Massacre--Nov. 1864--video clip from The West--DVD (1:07:48--1:16:00)
letters from Capt. Silas Soule and Lt. Joseph Cramer
video clip from The West--buffalo slaughter--The West--episode #5 (1:11:58--1:22:47)
buffalo slaughter 
Battle of Little Bighorn--1876
George Armstrong Custer 
primary/secondary source analysis: Who was responsible for the Battle of Little Bighorn? 
1887--Dawes Act
video clips from (The West--Episode 8--24:25---41:30)
Ghost Dance
Wounded Knee Massacre--1890
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Native American issues in the present day:
Life on Indian reservations today
Redskins
Proud to Be

HW:
Read pp. 548--51
Know the four reasons for US imperialism
Why did the US want Hawaii?
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did Southern state governments oppress African Americans in the post-Reconstruction era?


CW:
the Jim Crow era begins--1877--1950s
voting restrictions: poll tax, grandfather clause; literacy tests
Jim Crow laws and racial etiquette in the South
reading/discussion: lynchings in the South
Plessy v. Ferguson decision--1896
video clip from Many Rivers
convict leasing--video clip
video clip: racist imagery of Jim Crow
clips from the Vice episode on federal prisons

HW:
FINISH THE READING ON DUBOIS AND BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

MONDAY--MARCH 14

US History
EQ:
How did manifest destiny impact settlers and Native Americans?

CW:
return/discuss Unit 2 exam
preview Unit 3
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origins of Manifest Destiny (primary source analysis)
quick recap of the early years of westward expansion
OR Trail; Mexican-American War (1846-47); Donner Party; Transcontinental RR
notes: Homestead Act of 1862
video clips: Frontier House

HW:
read pp. 410--14 (stop at Cattle Becomes a Big Business)
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IB HOTA
EQ:
To what extent was Reconstruction a true social and political revolution?


CW:
video clip: Radical Republicans and the the goals of Congressional/Radical Reconstruction (1866--72)
Congressional Reconstruction:
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Reconstruction Act of 1867
1867--President Johnson impeached
1868:
14th Amendment ratified--1868
U.S. Grant wins the presidency
sharecropping contract--"slavery without the whip" 
Klan Enforcement Acts
1870--15th Amendment ratified
video clip from Many Rivers on the impact on the 15th Amendment
Undoing of Reconstruction
Amnesty Act of 1872
Financial Panic of 1873 and its impact on Northern support for Reconstruction
(video clip from Reconstruction DVD)
Election of 1876
Hamburg Massacre in South Carolina
Compromise of 1877 and home rule for the South
Supreme Court rules against Reconstruction
Redeemers and "the Lost Cause"

HW:
Jim Crow Era reading
Stop reading at DuBois and Washington

















 

FRIDAY--MARCH 11

US History
EQ:


CW:
Unit 2 Exam


HW:
Read pp. 420--21
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What is the legacy of the Civil War?
To what extent was Reconstruction a true social and political revolution? 

CW:
making sense of the Civil War:
discussion: What are the ways to honor soldiers who fought in a war and died for a cause? 
Misplaced Honor article
Chris Rock clip
Images of Dylann Roof
Southerners discuss the meaning of the Confederate flag

removal of the flag from the Statehouse grounds
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Unit 3 test prep sheet
video clip: the significance of Reconstruction
notes: Presidential Reconstruction under Lincoln and Johnson(1865-66):
Dec. 1863: Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction--10 Percent Plan
video clip: Jan--1865--meeting between Sherman, Stanton, and Garrison Frazier in Savannah, GA-Field Order #15
video clips: Presidential Reconstruction under Johnson--video clip
ex-Confederates reclaim political power--video clip
black codes
1866--rise of the Klan-video clip

HW:
finish the rest of this reading

THURSDAY--MARCH 10

US History
EQ:
How successful were Progressives at reforming the United States economically, socially, and politically?

CW:
meat discussion con't:
chicken farming today
pink slime
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video clips:
TR and conservation
TR and the Brownsville riot
William H. Taft (1908-12)
Taft harms TR's legacy
1912 presidential election: TR's New Nationalism (Bull Moose Party) vs. Woodrow Wilson's (Democrat) New Freedom (handout)
Progressive Era Amendments:
16th and 18th Amendments
primary source analysis--the fight for Prohibition

HW:
STUDY/REVIEW NOTES--TEST TOMORROW
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did slavery come to an end in the United States?

CW:
notes/discussion: the end of slavery
1861--contraband slaves--Ft. Monroe, Virginia
policies in Missouri and Kentucky
Robert Smalls' daring escape in South Carolina
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CIVIL WAR OVERVIEW
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video clip: Sherman and Stanton meet Garrison Frazier in Savannah
Dec. 1865--13th Amendment ratified
small group activity--How should we remember slavery?
Whitney Slave Museum in Louisiana

HW:
Call Me Mister--the black experience in Reconstruction
Stop at page 11

WEDNESDAY--MARCH 9

US History
EQ:
How successful were Progressives at reforming the United States economically, socially, and politically?

CW:
Bad Romance parody
Comstock Law
Margaret Sanger primary source on family planning  
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major policies of Teddy Roosevelt (1901-08)
presidency as a Bully Pulpit: (6:00--17:00)
antitrust laws in the Progressive Era "trustbuster"
muckrakers:
Lewis Hine and Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
chicken farming today
protecting the US food supply
pink slime
video clip from John Oliver on Chipotle


HW:
REVIEW NOTES!
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What was the purpose of the Civil War?

CW:
register for PCC credit
return/discuss Unit 2 exam
preview Unit 3
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discussion/notes:
What was the Civil War about?
primary source review/discussion
video clip from Netflix---C. Handler clip

HW:
The Blood Red Ironies of God

TUESDAY--MARCH 8

US History
EQ:
How successful were Progressives at reforming the United States economically, socially, and politically?

CW:
discuss: What reforms would you make at Tigard High School?
discuss: economic and social problems of the US at the turn of the century
origins of the Progressive movement: Who? When? Why?
discussion on Progressive political reforms (initiative, referendum, recall)
Oregon ballot initiatives from 2014
possible ballot measures 2016
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origins of the women's rights movement from the mid-19th century
suffrage and the fight for family planning:
anti-suffrage arguments--primary source handout; anti-suffrage postcards
the fight for women's suffrage
video clips from Iron Jawed Angels--Silent Sentinels and Alice Paul's hunger strike
Bad Romance parody
Comstock Law
Margaret Sanger primary source on family planning 

HW:
Read 525--trustbusting
p. 526--Railroad regulation; Health and the Environment--Meat Inspection Act
p. 528--Pure Food and Drug Act; efforts to protect the environment
REVIEW NOTES

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IB HOTA
EQ:


CW:
Unit 2 exam


HW:
Reading: Secession Docs
JUST READ THE FIRST TWO PAGES AND COME READY TO DISCUSS THE ANSWER TO QUESTION #1 UNDER QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT

MONDAY--MARCH 7

US History
EQ:
How has nativism impacted American political and social life in the past and the present?

CW:
examination of documents related to the nativist response
video clip: illegal immigration and its economic impact--clip from VHS tape
VICE story from HBO on Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigration
Senator McCain: complete the 'dang' fence ad
video clip: Donald Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants from June 2015
clip of Jorge Ramos interview with Ann Coulter
perils of crossing the border: Bodies on the Border
Jose Vargas--Define American
small group discussion on illegal immigration---->large class discussion

HW:
Read pp.  512-15
516: Protecting Children
518: entire page
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What were societal expectations for women in the mid-19th century?


CW:
notes/discussion: cult of true womanhood
first women's rights movement: Declaration of Sentiments
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essay prep/test review

HW:
STUDY

FRIDAY--MARCH 4

US History
EQ:
What factors contributed to the growth of American cities in the late 19th century?
What were social impacts of urbanization?

CW:
Unit 2 study guide 
notes: immigration to America
small group research: life in urban areas at the turn of the century


HW:
REVIEW NOTES
ESSAY PREP
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What were the social, economic, and political impacts of slavery?

CW:
1856 presidential election--John C. Fremont vs. James Buchanan 
1857--Dred Scott decision and video clip from The Abolitionists on its impact
1858--Lincoln-Douglas Senate debates in Illinois
1859--John Brown's failed raid on the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA
video clip from The Abolitionists
discussion: use violent tactics to achieve political/social ends
Nov. 1860 presidential election: Lincoln elected
Dec: SC secedes
Feb. 1861: CSA formed--Jefferson Davis--first and only president
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small group discussion: memorializing slavery
 Why America Needs a Slavery Museum

HW:
Cult of True Womanhood reading

THURSDAY--MARCH 3

US History
EQ:
How have criminal justice policies established in the Jim Crow era impacting African Americans today?

CW:
Unit 2 study guide
video from Vice/HBO on prison


HW:
Read pp. 460-65
factors that brought immigrants to the US
Ellis Island; Angel Island
nativism
anti-Asian sentiment
Chinese Exclusion Act--1882
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What were the economic, social, and political impacts of slavery?

CW:
review notes on abolitionists on Mexican-American War (1846-47)
video clip: war with Mexico and the Compromise of 1850
video clip from Many Rivers--Underground RR
notes/discussion: McPherson reading--resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin and its social/political impacts
video clip/reading from The Aboltionists--What the Fourth of July Means to a Slave--Frederick Douglass
Anthony Burns' return to slavery (1854)
notes: Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and its impact on the slavery debate
birth of the Republican Party--1854
1856: "Bleeding Kansas"--clip from The Abolitionists
video clip from Many Rivers--Margaret Garner's horrible decision

HW:
Read pp. 390-94
Start the reading at the Election of 1856
READ AND COMPLETE THE QUESTIONS ON THIS DOCUMENT