May 31-June 1

EQ:


CW:
UNIT 8 EXAM


HW:
Read 1040-44

May 29-30

US HISTORY  
EQ: How did Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter impact the presidency?
 

CW:  
FORD--->CARTER POWERPOINT NOTES--IT'S A BIG FILE    
Carter presidency: 1977--1981 ppt
clips from 1970s on Netflix streaming The State of Our Union is Not Good
clip #1: Ford pardons Nixon (1:54--6:03)
clip #2: Stagflation/WIN, 1976 pres election (6:03--11:57)
clip #3 Ford-Carter debate (13:04--15:01)
clip #4 Carter takes overseas trip (18:00--20:00)
video clip: 1977 Camp David Accords
clip #5 Iranian revolution; gas crisis continues; hostage crisis, "Malaise speech" (22:22--32:55)
clip #6 Hostage rescue failure (34:31--35:56)
clip #7 Reagan 1980--Make America Great Again (38:08--   

HW: REVIEW FOR UNIT EXAM!

May 24-25

EQ:
What were the major accomplishments of the Nixon administration (1969-73; 73-74)?

CW:
Vietnam notes quiz
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results
Pres. Nixon ppt
Nixon's Southern Strategy
Nixon's Enemies List 
1972 presidential election results 
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Watergate slideshow--use
Watergate ppt
video: Watergate break-in June 17, 1972
 October 1973--Yom Kippur War oil embargo
Watergate timeline--handout
Watergate summary 
Nov. 1973--"I'm not a crook...
video clips
Watergate video clips (beginning--26:00); White House tapes--39:04---41:05; aftermath--43:25--45:00
Nixon farewell address 

HW:
Read pp. 1018-23
Jimmy Carter wins the presidency
Energy crisis
Economic crisis
Carter and human rights
Camp David Accords
hostage crisis in the Middle East

May 23-24

EQ:
How did the Vietnam War end?
What is the legacy of the Vietnam War?

CW:
Episode #9-The Vietnam War 
1.  re-entry of soldiers--(00:00--9:32)
2. low morale/drug use by soldiers--(17:52--21:41)
3. Vietnam Veterans Against the War (29:13--41:26)
4. Pentagon Papers--1971 (41:30--51:44)
5. 1972--Nixon's re-election and napalm photo in S.V. (1:17:17--1:22:07)
6. Jane Fonda (1:26:16--1:28:51)
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1973: War Powers Act; draft ends

Episode #10--The Vietnam War
1. 00:00---7:55--was the war worth the sacrifice?
2. April 1975-Fall of Saigon (47:10--57:45)
3. PTSD---(1:15:00--1:17:00)
4. 1981--Vietnam War Memorial design contest/selection; Maya Lin--(1:17:00--1:28:00)
5. Legacy of the war--(1:34:11--1:44:00)

HW:
VIETNAM NOTES QUIZ NEXT CLASS

May 18; 21

EQ:
How did President Nixon go about ending the Vietnam War?
What is the legacy of the Vietnam War?

CW:
video from VHS: Hugh Thompson
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guided note sheet #4 
review 1968 presidential election:
Episode #7--Nixon's interference peace talks with S.V. (49:43--54:00)
President Nixon's "secret plan to end the war"
Episode #8: 
POWs--(8-ish--12--ish)
"Peace with Honor"; "Vietnamization of the war" (18-ish--26:00)
Fortunate Son
1969-early 1970:
Episode #8: Black and Latino soldiers; fragging--(30:44---40:42)
Nov. 1969--anti-war march and Silent Majority speech (47:48---58:40)
April 30--May4, 970:
invasion of Cambodia; Kent State and Jackson State Massacres (1:31:25---1:45:55)
"Ohio"  The Day Nixon Cracked 


HW:
REVIEW NOTES!
VIETNAM NOTES QUIZ COMING SOON

May 16-17

EQ:
How did combat in the Vietnam War impact American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians?

CW:
guided note sheet
booby traps in Vietnam
discussion: A System of Suffering
video clips from Dear America-- combat soldiers; search and destroy mission
clips from The Vietnam War--episode #5
combat in Vietnam (beginning---20:47)
Tiger Force and anti-war protest in D.C (42:56--53-ish)
Agent Orange in Vietnam
video clips from My Lai documentary
Hugh Thompson returns to My Lai (if time)
(or VHS)

HW:
Read pp. 960-67

May 14-15

EQ:

How did events in Vietnam affect the political and social life of Americans (1966-68)?

CW:
1966: Ballad of the Green Beret
1966-67: Anti-War Movement Grows in Strength
video clip Muhammad Ali takes a stand against the draft--1966
video clip:
April 1967--Dr. King begins speaking out against the Vietnam War
1967: anti-war movement grows on college campuses
clips on student protests against Dow Chemical at the University of Wisconsin
public opinion on Vietnam War
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1968: A Year of Shocks
clips from 1960s DVD:
begin with clip from 1968 DVD--Evel Kinevel 
January--Tet Offensive--clip from Hearts and Minds--1:02:30---1:10:04
February--Walter Cronkite's report from Vietnam--CNN-1968-DVD
March--LBJ announces he will not seek a second term
April--MLK assassinate--1968 DVD
June--RFK murdered in L.A--1968 DVD
RFK's funeral train--NYC--->Arlington Nat'l Cemetery
Aug--violence at the Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago--1968 DVD
1968 campaign ad--Nixon (third ad)
1968 presidential results
Nov.--Richard Nixon wins the White House

HW:
Kill Anything That Moves

May 10-11

US HISTORY
EQ:
What factors led to U.S. military intervention in Vietnam?
 
CW:
Unit 8 Study Guide
notes: Into the Quagmire: 1945-66:
guided note sheet
origins of US involvement in Vietnam--lecture and clips from The Vietnam War--Ken Burns
Episode #1
video clip/notes:
Battle of Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Accords-1954 (50:10--1:03:24)
NLF and Vietcong (1:15:31--1:17-ish)
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U.S. policy in Vietnam under JFK (1961-63)
Episode #2:
Buddhist crisi and assassination of Diem
59:13--1:20:00
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U.S. policy under LBJ--1963-66 
1964: Gulf of Tonkin incident
Episode #3 (46:00--55:00)
Gulf of Tonkin incident

Operation Rolling Thunder  
March 1965--first American ground forces arrive in Vietnam
(1:17:00--1:49:00)
Battle of the Ia Drang Valley
anti-war protests begin

HW:
Read pp. 948--53
the draft and the anti-war movement
hawks vs. doves

Wed--May 9--Not at school due to district meeting

May 7-8

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

CW:
Unit 7 Quest
finish discussion on women's rights/issues:
male privilege checklist

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 
MeToo era--harassment in the workplace
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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
LGTQ pop in US today
legal protections for gays and lesbians
video clip: transgender students in high schools

HW:
Read pp. 936--38; 940-41 

May 3-4

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)
Iowa abortion bill
video clip: Could Roe be overturned?  
abortion restrictions and DIY abortion
clips from Showtime documentary--Jackson
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video clip: MS's last abortion clinic 
TX abortion regulations



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