Wednesday, May 31, 2017

THURSDAY

US HISTORY
EQ:
How did women and gays/lesbians make advances in social equality in the 1960s?

CW:
finish discussion on women's rights/issues:
Title IX and women's sports
Army Rangers accept women 
Princeton Mom
clip from Miss Representation on women in politics and depictions in the culture
10 hours walking in NYC
misogyny in the media
Women's soccer and pay equity
Unit 7 Quest
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first ten minutes from 1970s--Netflix
timeline of the struggle for LGBT equality
video clips from 1960s DVD:
gays/lesbians struggle for acceptance in the U.S.
Stonewall Riots
Ryan White--AIDS
Matthew Shepard's murder --1998
trans rights--Gavin Grimm
HB 2 in NC
HB 2 repeal

HW:
Read pp. 936--38; 940-41

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

WEDNESDAY

US HISTORY
EQ:
How did women and gays/lesbians make advances in social equality in the 1960s?

CW:
Women's liberation: origins of second wave feminism
1960s note sheet and LGBT timeline
define feminism
male privilege checklist--handout
"The problem with no name...: The Feminine Mystique (1964)
video clip from 1960s DVD--Times, They are a Changin' (00:00--12:21)
Gloria Steinem and the creation of NOW (14:16--17:33)
Griswold vs. CT--1967--access to birth control
reading: Sexual Revolution of the 1960s
clips from Makers DVD-- the pill (10:45--12-ish)
abortion--14:00--20-ish; Roe v. Wade (1973)
Casey vs. Planned Parenthood (1992) 
MS's last abortion clinic 
TX abortion regulations
abortion restrictions and DIY abortions 

HW:
STUDY NOTES FOR UNIT 7 QUEST (QUIZ/TEST--NO ESSAY) 

Friday, May 26, 2017

TUESDAY

EQ:
How did President Johnson attempt to create a Great Society for the US?



 
CW:
finish info on JFK assassination
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background on LBJ
LBJ ordering pants
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The State of America in 1964
vision: "Out FDR FDR"
FDR's Second Bill of Rights speech
Harvest of Shame--1960
May 4, 1964--LBJ's vision of a Great Society (clip from 1964 DVD)
1964 presidential election:
Daisy Ad
results 
Great Society Docs
discussion: questions on poverty
either watch American Winter or Poor Kids

HW:
Read pp. 982-85*
*stop at the ERA section 

Thursday, May 25, 2017

FRIDAY

EQ:
What were the significant foreign and domestic policies of the Kennedy administration (1961-63)?


CW:
Cuban Missile Crisis--Oct 1962--from ppt
clips from 1960s DVD
Nov. 22, 1963--JFK assassinated in Dallas, TX
clips from VHS tape on JFK assassination
Zapruder Film
JFK assassination--clips from 1960s video 

HW:
Read pp. 895--897
Building a Great Society---Stop at the Reforms of the Warren Court

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

THURSDAY

EQ:
What were the significant foreign and domestic policies of the Kennedy administration (1961-63)?

CW:
1960 presidential election: the past vs. the future
TV changes the presidency--TV debates:
Bush Sr. checking his watch in 1992 
Admiral Stockdale--1992
VP Gore in Governor Bush's face in 2000
Rick Perry's "Oops"Moment--2011
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JFK inaugural speech--Jan. 20, 1961 
Marylin Monroe--1962
JFK: Cold Warrior against the USSR
JFK PPT and video clips from The 1960s DVD (5:48--22:45)
April 1961-Bay of Pigs Invasion against Cuba
winter/fall--Berlin Crisis--1961


HW:
REVIEW NOTES
Read p. 880-82 Cuban Missile Crisis
888-89--Tragedy in Dallas

WEDNESDAY

EQ:



CW:
Unit 6 exam


HW:
Read pp. 878-80*
*stop at the Cuban Missile Crisis

Monday, May 22, 2017

TUESDAY

EQ:
What factors led to the end of the CRM in 1968?


CW:
1967: urban unrest grips the nation
video clip--1960s DVD
Kerner Commission Report
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 April 4, 1968: MLK murdered in Memphis, TN
video clip of final speech--EOTP
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CNN Soundtracks episode
video clip of Accidental Courtesy
police shootings
voter ID-NC
Fight to Vote in a Swing State
school re-segreation today
Little Rock, Central from HBOGo
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ESSAY PREP


HW:
study for unit exam

Thursday, May 18, 2017

MONDAY

EQ:
Why did the CRM grow more radical between 1965-68?


CW:
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam (see Malcolm X handout in civil rights packet)
clips from EOTP
discussion of primary source documents (X and Dr. King)
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August 1965: 
Watts Riots
clip from OJ: Made in America-Disc #1 (14:43--21:34)
clips from Still I Rise DVD (6:03--10:26)--MAY NOT USE
1966
June--James Meredith's March Against Fear
clip from Still I Rise
video clip: Black Power/Stokely Carmichael (from Many Rivers)
reading: What We Want
Dr. King turned back in Chicago--from (1960s DVD)
rise of the Black Panther Party--Oakland, CA (clips from Eyes on the Prize or Still I Rise)
1967:
urban unrest in Newark, NJ--(1960s DVD)
April 4, 1968 
Dr. King murdered in Memphis, TN--(1960s DVD)

HW:
prep for unit exam

FRIDAY

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

CW: 
NOTES QUIZ!
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finish Freedom Summer notes
July 1964: Civil Rights Act passsed
1957:
MLK's Give us the Ballot speech--May 17, 1957--Lincoln  Memorial
excerpt of speech (first five minutes)
Jan--Mar 1965: Selma Campaign for voting rights begins 
EXAMPLES OF LITERACY TESTS
clips from EOTP
Feb. 18--Jimmy Lee Jackson beaten and shot--dies eight days later
March 7, 1965--Bloody Sunday (EOTP)
clip from "Selma"
March 9, 1965--Turnaround Tuesday (30:00--39-ish; from EOTP)
--clip from Selma
James Reeb's vicious attack
March 13--Gov. Wallace and President Johnson meet in the Oval Office for three hours
clip from Selma
March 15, 1965--President Johnson calls for a Voting Rights Act --DVD
March to Montgomery---March 21, 1965--DVD
voter ID-NC
Fight to Vote in a Swing State 


HW:
MLK vs. Malcolm X primary source analysis

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

THURSDAY

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


CW:
1963 con't
Medgar Evers in Jackson, MS--clip from 1960s DVD
Governor Wallace's stand at the schoolhouse door in Alabama--1960s DVD
Medgar Evers murdered-June 11, 1963
JFK's speech on civil rights--1960s DVD (all below on 1960s DVD)
Aug. 28, 1963--March on Washington--"I Have a Dream..."
Sept. 15, 1963--16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham
clip from Selma
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guided notesheet
1964:
Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi
June 22, 1964 disappearance/murder of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney
(clip from 1960s DVD--51:18--)
 video clips from Freedom Summer DVD 
1. discuss VEP from Civil Rights documents 
2. MS prepares for invasion/training of FS volunteers (31:06--40:42)
July 2, 1964--Civil Rights Act signed into law--view document
3. volunteers leave for MS and start their work--FS DVD
(46:48--56:00)
Aug--three bodies found--clips from History Channel DVD)
video clip from FS DVD--MFDP

HW:
review notes

WEDNESDAY

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

CW:
May--Nov 1961
Freedom Rides overview
Freedom Rides--1961(watch the film here)
(showing first 30-40 minutes; Fisk students enter the rides: 46:12--54:41; Montgomery Riot: 1:04:00--1:12:12; Parchman, MS: 1:30:00---1:52:00)
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SCLC created in 1957
1962--63
1962: Albany, GA campaign and its failures (short video overview from EOTP)
1963:
April--May
Project C/Children's Campaign in Birmingham (NOTES)
clips from EOTP
Letter from the Birmingham Jail--from packet

HW:
Freedom Summer reading
What? Where? Why? 

Monday, May 15, 2017

TUESDAY

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


CW:
Saving Central
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Montgomery Bus Boycott  (along with clips from Many Rivers)
Claudette Colvin handout 
1957:
Little Rock 9 integrate Central HS (clips from Eyes on the Prize)
1960:
Ruby Bridges in New Orleans (Many Rivers)
 Feb. 1, 1960--lunch counter sit-in movement begins in Greensboro, NC
black college students--Diane Nash-Fisk University--Nashville, TN
lunch counter sit-in movement (Feb. 1960-July 1960)
Greensboro 4


HW:
Freedom Rides from the BLUE Civil Rights packet

Friday, May 12, 2017

MONDAY

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

CW:
origins of the civil rights movement:
Reconstruction
Jim Crow laws; Era of Terror; convict leasing
de jure segregation vs. de facto segregation
early 20th century: W.E.B. DuBois; Booker T. Washington
1920s: Marcus Garvey; UNIA
WWII--the "Double V"
1948: To Secure These Rights-President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights
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1940s and 1950s: fight against racial segregation in public education
video clip: the NAACP builds its case against school segregation and the Plessy decision--Many Rivers clip
doll test
documents:
the Brown decision (1954)
Southern Manifesto (1956)   
White Citizens Councils fight against integration--commie plot
Tale of Two Schools: school inequality today 
1955: catalyst for the movement
the murder of Emmett Till

HW:
Civil Rights reading:
READ the sections on lunch counter sit-ins and the Freedom Ride

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

FRIDAY

EQ:
What was American life like in the 1950s?

CW:
return/discuss Unit 5 exam
preview Unit 6
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1950s: A Transformative Decade in American Life
1950s ppt
dating do's and don't's
handout: How to be a good wife
growth of suburbia
Baby Boom
conformity
Rock and Roll comes of age in the 1950s
conspicuous consumption

HW:
read about the Brown decision and the Southern Manifesto from Civil Rights packet

THURSDAY

EQ:


CW:
UNIT 5 EXAM


HW:

Tuesday, May 09, 2017

WEDNESDAY

EQ:


CW:
essay outlines-small groups
review b-ball


HW:
PREPARE FOR UNIT EXAM

Monday, May 08, 2017

TUESDAY

US HISTORY
EQ:
1. What efforts did President Eisenhower make to contain the spread of global communism (1952-60)?
2. How did the fear of nuclear attack impact American life in the 1950s?

CW:
notes: Cold War years under Eisenhower (1952-60)
Eisenhower and the Cold War ppt
Iran: 1953
CIA in Guatemala
Guatemala--1954--stop at 5:09
Sputnik I (show image from Cold War ppt)
Sputnik II
Eisenhower's New Look defense plan--1957
Eisenhower Doctrine
MAD; fear of the bomb
Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia (first 10 minutes)
video clips from Atomic Cafe
Nuke Map
video clip:
President Eisenhower warns against the military-industrial complex

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video clip: Vice; season 4; episode #14 on America's nuclear arsenal
ESSAY PREP/REVIEW


HW:
PREPARE FOR UNIT 5 EXAM!

Friday, May 05, 2017

MONDAY

US History
EQ:
How did anti-communist hysteria impact life the United States during the 1940s and 1950s?

CW:
Video clip: How to detect a communist
WHO'S THE COMMIE? 

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notes: The Great Fear/Second Red Scare
Truman establishes LRBs
HUAC
26:3--The Cold War at Home (OVERHEAD NOTES--USE THEM IF ABSENT!)
GREAT LINK FOR COLD WAR AT HOME INFO
McCarthyism
McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, WV--1950
(first 18 minutes; then pick up at 22:30 for McCarthy's downfall)
rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy (elected in 1946; re-elected in 1952)
The Rosenbergs
Truman's response to McCarthy telegram 
Declaration of Conscience  
video clips from Atomic Cafe

HW:
review notes for a Cold War notes quiz
QUIZ WILL COVER ALL OF YOUR COLD WAR NOTES

Thursday, May 04, 2017

FRIDAY

EQ:
What efforts did President Truman take to stop the spread of communism?


CW:
PART ONE OF ESSAY THREE!
Cold War begins (1947)
map of Germany post-WWII  
notes:  CONTAINMENT OF COMMUNISM
Containment Docs
National Security Act--1947
video clips from The Cold War
clip #1--Truman Doctrine--(first five minutes)
clip #2--Marshall Plan in Greece (23:21--27:50)
map of Berlin
Berlin Airlift--1948
notes: The Cold War Heats Up--Korean War (1950-53)
The Korean War (1950-53)
video clips from Presidents series (Truman)
origins of the war and UN/American troops on the ground
(1:08:22---1:26:30)
stalemate achieved and MacArthur is fired (1:35:16---1:41:17)
MacArthur vs. Truman in public opinion
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North Korea today:
video clip: life in North Korean prison camps
North Korea's horrible human rights record 
March 2016--American college students sentenced to 15 years hard labor
Dennis Rodman visits North Korea (from Vice)

HW:
Read pp. 822-27
Loyalty Review Boards
HUAC
Alger Hiss; The Rosenbergs
Senator Joseph McCarthy's hunt for Commies! 

Wednesday, May 03, 2017

THURSDAY

EQ:
Why did the United States use atomic weapons on Japan? 


CW:
video clip: U.S.S. Indianapolis (from The War)
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Atomic Bomb Debate
video clip from The War--bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945) 
small group activity: How should we remember the dropping of the atomic bomb? 
V-J Day--Aug. 15, 1945
White Light & Black Rain (42:33---53:10)
President Obama visits Hiroshima 
discussion on Japanese and German occupations post-WWII
Nuremberg Trials
UN created in 1945
Operation Crossroads--1946
video clip: atomic vets

HW:
Read pp. 810-14
containment; Cold War; Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Berlin Airlift; NATO 

Tuesday, May 02, 2017

WEDNESDAY

EQ:
How did the U.S. and its Allies re-take the Pacific from Japan?

CW:
video clips/notes:
Japanese decoys in the Pacific 
Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon
Ketus Go!
Battle of Okinawa--April 1---June 22, 1945 (from The War)
Okinawa clips from The Pacific
Manhattan Project locations 
July 16, 1945--Trinity Test in New Mexico


HW:
Finish atomic bomb docs

Monday, May 01, 2017

TUESDAY

MONDAY


EQ:
How did the U.S. and its Allies re-take the Pacific from Japan?

CW:
map of the Pacific Theater of Operations (1942-45)
no surrender mindset of the IJA
video clip from The War--Guadalcanal--intro to Syd Phillips
video clip from The Pacific--combat on Guadalcanal (1942)--Alligator Creek (18 mins)
video clip from The War-Sept. 1944--Peleliu
clip from The Pacific--bunker scene on Peleliu
video clip from The War--Iwo Jima (Feb-Mar 1945)
video clip from Victory in the Pacific (22:31--31:09) firebombing of Tokyo--Mar 9, 1945
Firebombing of Tokyo; effects of destruction;

HW:
atomic bomb documents
DUE TOMORROW!