Thursday, November 30, 2017

Dec. 1;3

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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WWI: What do you know about the war?
video clips from WWI DVD:
6:48-ish--8:-ish
MAIN---->Archduke Franz Ferdinand
warfare in WWI
trench warfare
notes: factors that led to US involvement in WWI (see docs below)
WWI Docs

HW:
REVIEW NOTES!
NOTES QUIZ ON WESTWARD EXPANSION AND IMPERIALISM

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Nov. 29-30

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: 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

video clip:
native Hawaiians fight against US occupation
18:2 notes--Spanish-American War (1898)
video clip from The Roosevelts DVD (1:21:00--1:35:38)--covers the S-A War in Cuba
Treaty of Paris--1898
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

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Welcome back from Thanksgiving break--Nov. 27-28

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


CW:
Clash of Cultures on the Frontier:
finish Manifest Destiny ppt
letters from Capt. Silas Soule and Lt. Joseph Cramer
video clip:
Battle of Little Bighorn--1876
primary and secondary source analysis: 
Who was responsible for the Battle of Little Bighorn? (if time)
1887--Dawes Act
video clips from (The West--Episode 8--Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee Massacre)
------------------------------ Native American issues in the present day:
Life on Indian reservations today 
BBC report: Life on the Reservation clip: 
Native American teens dispel Native American myths
Redskins controversy
Proud to Be
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HW:
Read pp. 548--51
Know the four reasons for US imperialism
Why did the US want Hawaii?

Monday, November 20, 2017

Nov. 21-22--THANKSGIVING BREAK

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

CW:
return/discuss Unit 2 exam
preview Unit 3/ Unit 3 study guide
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Manifest Destiny ppt (not doing the entire ppt today; slides 1-18 only)
video clips:
1. segment on the transcontinental RR from The West (Netflix)
2. clips Frontier House


HW:
read pp. 410--14 (stop at Cattle Becomes a Big Business)
REVIEW NOTES

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Nov. 17; 20

EQ:



CW:
Unit 2 exam



HW:
Read pp. 420--21 

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Nov. 14-16

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

Comstock Law
Margaret Sanger primary sources (blue packet)
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"
TRUSTBUSTING
muckrakers:
Lewis Hine and Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act
meat production today
pink slime
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:
discuss the 16th and 18th Amendments
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ESSAY PREP and review

HW:
STUDY FOR UNIT 2 EXAM

Wednesday, November 08, 2017

START OF SECOND QUARTER! Nov. 13-14

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)
ballot measures--2018
primary source analysis: Lewis Hine's photos of child workers (filing cabinet) -------------------
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
REVIEW YOUR NOTES

Monday, November 06, 2017

Nov 7-8--END OF FIRST QUARTER ON NOV. 8!!!

EQ:
What factors led to an increase in immigration to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
How has nativism impacted American political and social life in the past and the present?

CW:
brief overview of life in urban America at the turn of the centur
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notes: history of American imimigration--PPT
video clip: video detailing history of immigration in the U.S.
visual history of Ellis Island
examination of documents related to the nativism 
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VICE story from HBO on Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigration
DACA recipients
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
ESSAY #3

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Nov. 3; 6

EQ:
1. What were the competing visions for racial equality offered by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
2. How did the Jim Crow era (1880-1964) impact the lives of African Americans?

CW:
New black leadership emerges post-Reconstruction:
educational gains for African Americans: (primary source docs)
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
video clip--President Obama speaks out on the Trayvon Martin case
(IF TIME)
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racial stereotyping
code switch 
Key and Peele clip
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notes: voting restrictions faced by AA's in the Jim Crow era
Jim Crow docs--HELPFUL FOR ESSAY #2!
Supreme Court upholds Jim Crow: Plessy decision
video clip from Many Rivers
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LYNCHINGS-RACIAL TERROR
informal rules between whites and blacks in the US
racial violence against African Americans--lynching
map of lynchings across the South
video clip: lynching memorial in Abbeville, SC
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convict leasing in the South--video clip from Slavery by Another Name
video clip from Many Rivers: racist imagery reinforces Jim Crow in the South and beyond
Coon Chicken Inn--Portland

HW:
Read pp. 460-65
factors that brought immigrants to the US
Ellis Island; Angel Island
nativism
anti-Asian sentiment
Chinese Exclusion Act--1882