Thursday, March 21, 2019

April 2-3--WELCOME BACK FROM SPRING BREAK!

EQ:
Who was Emmett Till and how did his murder impact the CRM?
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in securing equal rights for African Americans?

CW:
video clips/notes: the murder of Emmett Till--1955
Money, MS 
Montgomery Bus Boycott--Dec 1955---Dec. 1956
video clip: Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin handout
video clip: Rosa Parks 
video clip: Montgomery Bus Boycott 
1957:
SCLC created in 1957
picture of the Little Rock Nine
Little Rock 9 integrate Central HS (clips from Eyes on the Prize)
excerpt from Melba Patillo Beals' diary
1960:
Feb. 1, 1960
lunch counter sit-in movement begins in Greensboro, NC
black college students
Greensboro 4
video clips from Tell Them We Are Rising (47:36-56:38)
EOTP--Diane Nash-Fisk University--Nashville, TN
lunch counter sit-in movement (Feb. 1960-July 1960)
Nov. 1960: Ruby Bridges enrolled in elementary school in NOLA

HW:
Read 25:2 pp 3-5
Freedom Rides
John Kennedy's stance on civil rights
Violence in Birmingham

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

March 21-22--SPRING BREAK BEGINS FRIDAY!!!!

EQ:
What are the origins of the civil rights movement?
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"
1946: Isaac Woodard police beating in South Carolina
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
CIVIL RIGHTS PACKET--COPY!

video clip: the NAACP builds its case against school segregation and the Plessy decision--Many Rivers clip
video clip: black schools under Plessy
video clip: doll test by Kenneth and Mamie Clark
doll test
documents:
video clip: Brown decision
the Brown decision (1954)
Southern Manifesto (1956)   
White Citizens Councils fight against integration--commie plot
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School inequality/segregation in the present:
discussion questions on racial diversity

 O-W in South Carolina

Central HS in Alabama
Segregation in Mississippi today
Segregated prom in Georgia


HW:
Read 25:1 pp. 4-7
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Crisis in Little Rock
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Read 25:2 p. 1--Sit-in movement

Monday, March 18, 2019

March 19-20

EQ:


CW:
Unit 5 exam



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


Thursday, March 14, 2019

March 15; 18

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

CW:
finish 1950s notes
NOTES: 1950s: A Transformative Decade in American Life
video clip: the plague of polio
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ESSAY PREP
review b-ball (if time)

HW:
STUDY FOR THE UNIT EXAM


Monday, March 11, 2019

March 13-14

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

CW:
NOTES: 1950s: A Transformative Decade in American Life
dating do's and don't's
How to be a good wife
growth of suburbia
video clip: impacts of interstates on cities
video clip: the plague of polio
Baby Boom
conformity
Rock and Roll comes of age in the 1950s
conspicuous consumption

HW:
REVIEW AND PREP FOR THE UNIT FIVE EXAM
A day exam: Tuesday, March 19
B day exam: Wednesday, March 20

March 12--B CLASSES ONLY--SNOW DAY RESET

EQ:
How did the fear of communism impact life in the United States during the early Cold War years?


CW:
small group activity: bomb shelter simulation
debrief groups' choices for their bomb shelter
watch "The Shelter" from The Twilight Zone
watch: "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
small group discussion sheet
EXIT TICKET

HW:
Read 23:2 (just read these sections)
growth of suburbia
baby boom
medical breakthroughs
TV
Rock'n'Roll

Thursday, March 07, 2019

March 8; 11

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

CW:
video clips from Atomic Cafe: Operation Crossroads
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Video clip: How to detect a communist
WHO'S THE COMMIE? 

video clip from The Crucible

notes: The Great Fear/Second Red Scare  
video clip on HUAC
video clip: Alger Hiss case
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)
video clip on McCarthyism
The Rosenbergs arrested in 1950
Truman's response to McCarthy telegram 
video clip: Trump SOTU-2019--Dems are socialists
Declaration of Conscience
video clips from Atomic Cafe
EXIT TICKET

HW:
Read 23:2 (just read these sections)
growth of suburbia
baby boom
medical breakthroughs
TV
Rock'n'Roll

Monday, March 04, 2019

March 6-7

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 
COVERT OPS--CIA
video clips:
Iran: 1953
Guatemala--1954
Sputnik I (show image from Cold War ppt)
Sputnik II
Eisenhower's New Look defense plan--1957
Bomb shelter instructions
document:  Nuclear war scenario
video clip: effects of a nuclear bomb
USG bomb shelters
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

HW:
Read 22:3 pp. 1-5
Loyalty Review Program
HUAC vs. Hollywood
Alger Hiss case
The Rosenbergs
Senator Joseph McCarthy



Friday, March 01, 2019

March 4-5

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 
map of eastern Europe and Soviet domination
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
NATO: Trump views on NATO
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 
Otto Warmbier returns to US, dies 
President Trump on OW's death--Feb. 2019
From North Korea with Dread
What war with North Korea would look like

HW:
Read 22:4
massive retaliation
brinksmanship-Taiwan crisis
Suez Crisis
covert operations--Iran and Guatemala
Sputnik
military-industrial complex