Gatsby-Crash Course and Essay

• John Green Crash Course in Literature (11:42)and another one (8:49)
• Gatsby Essay and Outline Info

Gatsby Wrap-up

Agenda:

• Chapter 9 Recap
• Gatsby Symbols
• History Topics Discussion

Gatsby chapter 8

Agenda:

• Chapter 8 Quiz
• Chapter 7 Notes/Quotes
• Chapter 8 Notes/Quotes
• Start chapter 9--finish for homework!
• History topics discussion

Gatsby chapter 7

Chapter 7...AS A PLAY!

• Assign roles
• Script
• Finish chapter 7

Gatsby/twenties

Agenda:

• Quiz on Chapters 5/6
• Chapter 6 notes
• Topics of the twenties
• Film

Gatsby Chapter 5/6

Agenda:

• Review chapter 5
• Start chapter 6
• Discuss topics of the twenties

Gatsby Chapter 4

Agenda:

• Quiz chapters 3-4
• Review chapter 4: Gatsby--lovesick soldier or crooked businessman?
• Read chapter 5
• Wrap-up projects

Gatsby Chapter 3

Agenda:

• Recap/Review Chapter 3
• Start Chapter 4--FINISH FOR HOMEWORK (quiz on 3-4 tomorrow)
• Finish group projects

Gatsby

Agenda:

• Open note quiz chapters 1-2
• Discuss chapter 2
• Start chapter 3 FINISH FOR HOMEWORK
• Continue group projects (hand out self-assessment)

Gatsby/1920s

Background/Historical Context
Pre-Reading Discussion Questions
Reading Schedule
1920s Project
Chapter Questions

WW I Propaganda

WWI Propaganda Activity
PROPAGANDA: The organized dissemination of information to influence thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and actions.

• Set up a document in Google Classroom
• Go to this website: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ww1posters/4963
• Copy and paste your assigned poster into your document
• Analyze the poster, answering these questions:
• Describe the image and text. 
• What is the overall message? 
• What emotions does it play on? 
• What effect would the poster most likely have on American citizens of the time? 
• What is pointed out that YOU can do directly to help the war effort? 
• How are the symbols, images, and words arranged to convey a message?

The US as a World Power

Today's Agenda:

• Intro: the causes of World War I (M.A.I.N.)
• Activity: European Alliances Worksheet
• Finish: Chapter 18 Anthem
• Literature: Ernest Hemingway introduction

Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The US as a World Power

Today's Agenda:

Finish: American Anthem Chapter 17
Discuss: the Spanish-American War
Response to America in the Philippines: "White Man's Burden"
Response to "White Man's Burden": Other "Burden" Poems

The US as a World Power

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter Attack: American Anthem Chapter 17
• Introduce: Author/Historian Howard Zinn: A Peoples History of the United States
• Read/Answer the Questions: "The Empire and the People" 

Immigration and Industrialization

Today's Agenda:


We have technology today to do some research on the Progressive movement.

HERE is the Progressive Project.
HERE is the link to the library research guide that Mrs. Hopkins put together. Check out the Historical newspapers under Primary Sources. There is an entire section devoted to the progressive Movement.

Industrialization and Immigration

Today's Agenda:

Discussion: Introduce the new unit and major topics
Examine: American Anthem Chapter 14 (The Industrial Revolution)

New Unit: Immigration and Industrialization

Today's Agenda:

• Due: Native American Essays
• Preview: the next Unit is Immigration and Industrialization
• 5 facts about illegal immigration today

Native American Assessment

Your assessment of understanding the Native American Experience is a thesis-driven essay.

We have explored what it means to be a Native American through excerpts, videos, short stories, articles, and primary texts. Using these sources, compose an essay of at least five paragraphs that essentially answers this question:

• How and why have Native Americans struggled with their cultural identity? 

Here are some themes, guided topics, and ideas we have discussed in class:

• The Traditional vs. The Contemporary: How do contemporary Native Americans wrestle with their pasts, both personal and in a larger historical context?
• Spirituality: What is spirituality? What role does it play?
• Pride: How important is pride? How has the concept changed over time?
• Warrior: What does it mean to be a warrior? Why is it important?
• Storytelling: What role does storytelling have in the Native American culture?
• Resistance: How have Native Americans and their leaders resisted assimilation? How have they been assimilated?
• Migration: How were Native Americans forcibly relocated? How did this affect their existence?
• Reservation Life-Alcoholism, poverty, and poor health: Why have so many Native Americans fallen victims to alcoholism, live in poverty, and have poor health?

Link to the Essay
Graphic Organizer

Native Americans and the West

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Chapter 13 Attack 
• Continue: The Lone Ranger and Tonto..."The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore" Read and take notes on the quotes; provide context and meaning!
• Battlefield Detectives: Custer's Last Stand  

Native American

Today, we'll look at some articles concerning contemporary Native American life.

Here is the assigment, complete with an exemplar.

Go to our article resource page.

• Read two articles
• Summarize (paragraph for each), integrating at least ONE quote in your summary, citing correctly
• Do a Works Cited right after your paragraphs
• Share/Print, hand in.

Native American Identity

AGENDA:

• Lincoln's execution of 38 Sioux
• "Another Proclamation" by Sherman Alexie
• "Every Little Hurricane" (Questions)

Reconstruction

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 12 Attack (Open note quiz)
Analyze: Reconstruction (Slide Share)
View: The Rise of Jim Crow

Unit-Reconstruction

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: 3 Major problems post-Civil War
• Review: the assassination of Lincoln/President Johnson
• Finish: the Chapter 12 Attack

The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Read/Analyze: Whitman's O Captain, My Captain
• Discuss: the Civil War Summative Assessment

The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

Read: 10 Interesting Facts about the Civil War
View: The Average Soldiers Life
Analyze: the End of the War

• Gen. Sherman's March to the Sea
• The Fall of Richmond

Read/Analyze: more Whitman poetry

The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

Finish: the Civil War narratives
Examine: Civil War Editorials

The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

View: Civil War Map
Civil War Trust: Animated Maps of Major Battles
Civil War 150: Another cool website from History.com

Lecture/Discussion on Major Topics associated with the Civil War

Civil War

Agenda:

• Hand in Secession Speech Evaluation (if you haven't done so already)
• Finish Lecture Notes/"Tale of the Tape"
• Walt Whitman--Why is he important?
• Whitman Poetry

The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Analyzing the Secession of the South
• Create: "Tale of the Tape" chart of the North vs. the South
• Begin: Walt Whitman

Unit-The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

Finish: Analyzing the First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
Complete: Now, you analyze the Secession of South Carolina

Unit-The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

CIVIL WAR:
Evaluating Primary Documents:

• The Secession of South Carolina
• President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
• Alexander Stephens Speech to the Virginia Secession Convention

Pre-Civil War

Agenda:

• Wrap-Up Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Assessment
• Review Key Events
• Crafting a solid response (paragraph writing tips)

Pre-Civil War

Agenda:

• Review chapter 21 of Slave Girl
• Review Dred Scott decision
• Election of 1860
• Read chapter 23 of Slave Girl

The Presidential Election of 1860

Pre-Civil War

Agenda:

• Read: Slave Girl Chapter 15
• Dred Scott decision: How did this Supreme Court ruling affect slavery and the abolition movement
• Video
• Dred Scott Questions
• Finish Textbook Terms

Pre-Civil War America

Agenda:

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Quiz (open note-chapters 1-2 and 5-6)
• History: Textbook work--Chapter 10 Key Terms and People
• Instructions: In small groups, create a Google Doc; split up the terms and define (as it relates to the content of the chapter). Then print a copy for each group member.

Pre-Civil War

Agenda: 

• Finish "America: The Story of Us"
• Discussion: Trends, movements, events that led us to conflict
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Chapter 5

Pre-Civil War America

Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 1 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Read/Discuss: Chapter 2
• View: America-The Story of Us (episode 4: Division)

WELCOME!

This blog was created by Mr. Jolicoeur and Mr. Bujold to help communicate more effectively with students and parents this year in Comprehensive American Studies II. We will be blogging daily with the class agenda, links to assignments, and links to interesting and informative topics that we see on the internet. You will notice there are two additional tabs: "Unit Handouts" and "Resources." These will provide ample support as we journey through the year.

Here is our class expectations sheet.

What does it mean to be an "American"?

The answer to this question is not simple, and has many layers. This is our "Essential Question" for the entire year.

Let's brainstorm!

• What makes up the American Identity? 
• What defines American? 
• What do Americans want? 
• What words, thoughts, opinions, or even images that come to mind when we think of the “American Identity”?

Modern American History

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 32 Attack
View: the 1980s MTV Decade

Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 29 Attack
• Finish: Things They Carried
• View: Vietnam in HD: Tet Offensive

Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 29 in American Anthem
• Continue: reading Things They Carried
• View: Vietnam in HD, the Tet Offensive (Episode 3)

Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

Finish: Vietnam in HD Episode 1 (14 minutes left)
Discuss: Background info. on Vietnam
Finish: the Chapter Attack for Vietnam (29)
Continue: reading Things They Carried

Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

Complete: the 2 maps of Vietnam and Southeast Asia
Here is a short interview that Tim O'Brien did on "War Stories."
Read the rest of Chapter 1 in Things They Carried/Answer the Questions
Begin: On the Rainy River

Unit-Vietnam/Things They Carried

Today's Agenda:

Introduce: the Vietnam War (What do we know? What do we need to know?)
Introduce: Tim O'Brien and Things They Carried
Vietnam War Statistics

Civil Rights

MLK--March on Washington (speech video) and "I Have a Dream"

"I Have a Dream" analysis

Other ways of protest: Same goal, different approach--Black Panthers

Malcolm X and "The Ballot or the Bullet"

Comparing the speeches

Unit-Civil Rights

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: Racial Inequality in America
• View: Race Relations in America
• Analyze: Brown vs. Board of Education
• Emmett Till: the 14 year old martyr of the Civil Rights Movement
• Discuss: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts (1955)
• Introduce: Martin Luther King Jr. 
• Discuss: the Little Rock Nine/Read Daisy Bates narrative

Slate article: Are We in the Midst of a New Civil Rights Era?

Death of a Salesman/Post War America

Today's Agenda:

• Finish Chapter 27: The New Frontier and the Great Society
• Finish: the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Discuss: the Assassination of John F Kennedy
• Smithsonian: What does the Zapruder film really tell us?

Death of a Salesman/Post-War America

Today's Agenda:

• Continue: Death of a Salesman
• Discuss: the election of President Kennedy in 1960
• Analyze: the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Finish: the Cuban Missile Crisis

Unit-The Cold War/Death of a Salesman

Today's Agenda:


Continue: Death of a Salesman (Act 1)
Read: CIA agent John Downey, the longest held American captive of war
Video: The Korean War

Research Paper/Post-War America/Death of a Salesman

Agenda:

• Research Paper Reminders/Conferences (Library on Tuesday-Work on it this weekend-Due next Friday)
• CITATIONS!
• Questions on 1950s: A Retrospective
• Continue Death of a Salesman

Unit-Post War America/Death of a Salesman

Today's Agenda:

• Continue acting out the play/Act 1 still
• The American Family: the 1950s stereotype portrayed on television
• The American family today
• The 1950s: A Retrospective View

Post-War America

Amidst the "Post-War Optimism," there was a pervasive feeling of unease that was bubbling under the surface. Our next unit, where we study American life in the late 40s/early 50s, will explore these ideas; as well as thoughts on the "perfect American family," the "American Myth," and American consumerism. This will be done through reading Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, a play that ushered in a new era of theatre.

• Class brainstorm concerning themes, concepts, and vocabulary of the play
• Some Historical Context of the play
• A biography of Arthur Miller
• Analyzing the opening stage directions
• Death of a Salesman questions
• Track symbols in the play

Some more context: The Century: America's Time Best Years-1946-1952

Research Paper: Thesis, Outline, MLA

As we move forward, remember these:

• Thesis needs to be a claim, not a fact!
• Organize your information in a clear way--create your outline!
• Check out a terrific example of the whole process HERE.
• Here is an example of an outline.

As many of you are about to dive into the actual writing of the research paper, there are some important things to remember...

• In-text citations are a way to flag ideas that are not necessarily your own to connect to your Works Cited page. There are a few ways to integrate information. Online Writing Lab at Purdue breaks it down quite nicely.
• In addition, check out a full-exemplar of a *perfect* research paper from one of our Comp. classes a couple of years ago. That student received a 100%.

RESEARCH PAPER

Numerous resources available to you!

• SHS Library LibGuide
• The basics
• Topic Choice Sheet
• Process Rubric
• In-Text Citations

Sample: Topic Choice /Questions sheet

Our Timeline:

• Mon. 3/13: Topic Choice and Find Sources (Minimum 3-MLA) 
• Tues. 3/14: Sources/Note-Taking 
• Wed. 3/15: Note-Taking 
• Thurs. 3/16: Note-Taking/Form Thesis 
• Fri. 3/17: Outline 
• Mon. 3/20: Intro 
• Tues. 3/21: Body Paragraphs 
• Wed. 3/22: Body Paragraphs 
• Thurs. 3/23: Conclusion
• Fri. 3/24: Paper Due at end of class

Unit-World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: viewing Saving Private Ryan
• The Inspiration for the film
• Turn in: the viewing guide
• Finish: the end of WWII/Top Ten Events of the War
• Lecture: the lasting effects of WWII
• Review: Summative assessment is tomorrow (Study the two chapter attacks for 23 and 24)

Unit-WWII and Maus

Today's Agenda:

Complete: the Chapter 24 review (Open Note)
Discuss: major elements of American involvment in WWII
View: How did we miss this? 
View: Iconic Photos from WWII

World War II/Maus

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Maus
• Complete:  the Chapter 24 Attack.
• Continue: reading Maus

World War II

Today's Agenda:

• View: 1936-1941-Over the Edge
• Evaluate: the Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Read: FDR asks Congress to Declare War 

Optional: introduce Maus

New Unit-World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Brainstorm: What do we already know about WWII, and what do we what/need to know?
• Chart: American Casualties in Major Wars
• Discuss: Popular vs. Unpopular Wars, what's the difference?
• Analyze: Foreign Policy in the 1930s (Historical Hypothetical Question: Could the United States have prevented the Holocaust if acting sooner than 1941?)

Optional: Why is Republican Presidential candidate being compared to Nazi leader Adolph Hitler? Is that a fair comparison? 

Unit-The Great Depression

Agenda:

• Due: the Dorothea Lange creative writing assignment submitted on Google Classroom.
• Analyze: The New Deal using the Living New Deal website
• Assignment/Requirements: The Living New Deal document

Your assignment should be submitted via Google Classroom.

Creative Writing!

Take your photo that you analyzed and write a vignette!

Unit-The Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Steinbeck's Breakfast
• Finish: Chapter 22 Attack in Anthem (If you have not already done so)
• Watch: America The Story of US-"Bust"

Unit-The Great Depression

Agenda:

• Finish Chapter Attack (chapter 22)
• Steinbeck's "Breakfast" is a great little vignette that has many themes which are shown through the setting, characters, word choice, and imagery.
• Read the piece here, and then and answer the questions.

Unit-The Great Depression

Agenda:

• Review Chapter 21 in American Anthem
• Introduce FDR: 1st inaugural address/Fireside chats 
• Chapter Attack: American Anthem Ch. 22
• Review: The Turtle by John Steinbeck

Unit-The Great Depression

AGENDA:

• Quiz on Chapter 21 of Anthem
• Your task today is to choose a Dorothea Lange photograph to analyze. You can find one at the The History Place.
• Once you have chosen a photograph, open a Google Doc (name and share it with us immediately) and paste the photo in. Then go through the three steps of visual analysis. Each step should be about a paragraph.
• For step three, the "formal" analysis, use the elements and principles of composition to help you.
• For full instructions for this activity, go HERE.

Unit-The Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: the American Anthem Chapter 21
• The Election of 1932
• If there is time...Photography analysis & Dorothea Lange

Unit-The Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

• View: the Century series on the 1930s
• Discuss: The Stock Market Crash of 1929. What impact did this event have on the economic conditions of the 1930s?
• President Hoover's response to the economic difficulties. Anthem Chapter 21
• The Election of 1932
• If there is time...Photography analysis & Dorothea Lange

The 1920s and the Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• Complete: the 1920s History Summative Assessment
• Organize: Unit Summatives for review and study
• Prepare: the Mid-Term Exam is scheduled for Friday

1920s and the Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:
Split class today:

1. Library=write the Gatsby essay
2. Classroom=Discuss the 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance

1920s/Gatsby

• Finish Presentations
• Chapter 9 Notes & Quotes
• John Green Crash Course in Literature and another one
• Gatsby Essay and Outline Info

The 1920s and the Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• Continue: 1920s presentations
• Complete: the group's quizzes
• Review: Chapter 8 of the Great Gatsby

The 1920s and the Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 7 of the Great Gatsby
Begin: 1920s Group Presentations
Assess: Finish group quizzes

Welcome Back!

Today's Agenda:

• Pass back quizzes
• Review: Gatsby Chapter 5
• Begin: Gatsby Chapter 6
• Finish: 1920s Project Presentations (Begin on Thursday)