May 1-2

EQ:
How successful were President Lyndon Johnson's efforts to create a Great Society?


CW:
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
read: segments of LBJ's Univ of Michigan speech on his vision for a Great Society (Great Society Docs)
1964 presidential election:
Daisy Ad
results
notes: Great Society legislation--see Great Society docs
discussion: questions on poverty
video clips: Poverty and economic inequality in America today:
River Bluff HS

surviving on the min wage
either watch American Winter or Poor Kids

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

April 27; 30

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

April 25-26

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

CW:
return/discuss Unit 6 exam
Unit 7 study guide
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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:
Read p. 880-82 Cuban Missile Crisis
888-89--Tragedy in Dallas

April 23-24

EQ:


CW:
Unit 6 exam


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

MIssed A day (April 18) to due to district meeting--April 19-20

EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in defeating de facto and de jure segregation?


CW:
Dr. King assassinated in Memphis, TN-April 4, 1968
finish clips from King in the Wilderness
Kerner Commission report on urban unrest--1968
document: Civil Rights timeline
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essay prep
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discussion on race at THS and the US today
Tale of Two Schools: school inequality today
Central HS in Alabama
Segregation in Mississippi today
Segregated prom in Georgia
 

HW:
STUDY FOR UNIT EXAM

April 16-17--START OF 4TH QUARTER!!!!

EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in defeating de facto and de jure segregation?

CW:
notes and video clips from the HBO doc, "King in the Wilderness"
guided note sheet
Part I: Watts Riots, Chicago, March Against Fear; Black Power (6-ish---43:47)
Part II: FBI surveillance of MLK
(54:17--59:50)
notes: Black Panther Party--1966 (clips from Eyes on the Prize; (10 Point Platform from CR Packet)
Part III--1967 urban unrest; Poor People's Campaign and Assassination (1:08:00--1:50:00)

HW:
prep for unit exam

April 11-12 END OF THIRD QUARTER!!!

EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in defeating de facto and de jure segregation?

CW:
notes quiz
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finish up discussion on Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
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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
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effects of voter id laws
Fight to Vote in a Swing State 

HW:
Read p.p. 924-25 (Northern segregation and urban violence)
p. 926-27 (Black Power; Black Panthers)
pp. 927-28 (MLK's death and Kerner Commission


 

April 9-10

EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in defeating de facto and de jure segregation?

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
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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)
video clip: 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)
video clip: Dave Dennis speech at JE Chaney's funeral and the trial of Edgar Ray Killen
video clip: Fannie Lou Hamer's speech at the DNC
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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)

HW:
PREPARE FOR NOTES QUIZ

April 5-6

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

CW: 
video clip: sit-in movement and the creation of SNCC-Disc #2, Many Rivers; 28:00-35:00
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 (in big packet)
What? Where? Why?