Gatsby

QUIZ CHAPTER 5!
Chapter 5 Discussion/Notes
Gatsby Film...

The 1920s and the Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• Last day for research in the Library
• Presentations will begin after the holiday break.
• Continue (or start) reading Gatsby

1920s/Gatsby

Split

• Projects
• Quiz-chapters 3-4
• Chapter 4 notes

The 1920s and the Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

Split today:

Research: Library today transitioning our research to final product
Finish: Gatsby Chapter 3
Begin Chapter 4

Unit-the 1920s and the Great gatsby

Today's Agenda:

Split class

• Continue: research in the library, goal is to finish annotated bibliography
• Discuss chapter 2 of Gatsby
• Start chapter 3--FINISH FOR HOMEWORK

Unit-the 1920s and the Great Gatsby

Agenda:

• Half the class will work on projects while the other half works on Gatsby.
• Research, Research, Research in the library! Become an expert on your topic.
• Evaluate sources for the Annotated Bibliography.
• Check out some visual interpretations of the "Valley of Ashes"

Unit-The 1920s and the Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• Continue/finish chapter 1 of Gatsby--Character quotes
• Here's are some great slides for a point of visual reference to the world of the novel
• Organization of groups for twenties projects/presentations Here is the sign-up and a libguide!

Resources: Check out a list of allusions in the book, as well as pertinent vocabulary!

1920s/The Great Gatsby

• Collect Hemingway paragraphs
• Background/Discussion of new unit
• Talking points
• Calendar
• The Great Gatsby chapter 1!
• Gatsby chapter questions

 

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Rights Managed / For Education Use Only

Unit-The US as a World Power

Today's Agenda:

Complete: the Summative Assessment for the Unit.
Finish: the Questions for Hemingway's Soldiers Home

Unit-The US as a World Power

Today's Agenda:


Read: Hemingway's Soldier's Home
Discuss: WWI Propaganda
Finish: Chapter 18 Anthem

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?

World War I/Ernest Hemingway

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

In this unit, we will be reading two short stories by Ernest Hemingway, who is an American literary giant. Check out a biography of Hemingway here.

In Another Country

World War I was the largest, international conflict people had ever seen, and it caused people to change their view of the world. People became full of despair, delusional, horrified that everything would fall apart, and it made them lose faith. In Hemingway’s "In Another Country," there is one character in the story who is known as Major. He is a smaller part of the story, but a  perfect example of the kind of “loss of faith” that people were beginning to experience because of the war.

Here are some questions for this story.

Soldier's Home

This story is very ironic in its title and storyline. Hemingway doesn’t bother to tell people why Krebs is the last to return home or what happened in the meantime, but Harold simply comes back late and cannot find his place when everyone else is already settled. It is a great tale that speaks to “fitting in” as well as being “left behind.”

Here are some questions for this story.

"Ernest Hemingway in uniform 1918;" Photo Researchers/Universal Images Group and

"Hemingway;" Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Universal Images Group

Unit-the US As A World Power

Today's Agenda:

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

Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The US as a World Power

Today's Agenda:

Today we are going completely digital. If you have not joined the google classroom invite to our digital classroom you need to do that first.

The assignment is titled "Yellow Journalism"

You need to read and follow the directions to complete the assignment and submit your work.

Good luck!

The US As a World Power

Today's Agenda:


Finish the Zinn Article
Response to America in the Philippines: "White Man's Burden"
Response to "White Man's Burden": Other "Burden" Poems

Unit-The United States as a World Power

Today's Agenda:

• Review questions: Conflicts in American History
• Introduce: Author/Historian Howard Zinn: A Peoples History of the United States
• Read/Answer the Questions: "The Empire and the People" 

The Progressiv Movement

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: the Progressive Group presentations
• Finish: the American Anthem Chapter 16 illustrations analysis
• Continue: the Unit Summative assessment (due tomorrow)

Unit-Industrialization, Immigration, and the Progressive Movement

Today's Agenda:

Due Monday: the Progressive Presentations
Review: American Anthem (Chapter 16)
Analyze: Chapter 16 Illustrations (Maps, charts, political cartoons, etc.)

Unit-Industrialization, Immigration, and the Progressive movement

Today's Agenda:


We are in the library today to do some research on the Progressive movement.

HERE is the Progressive Project that you received yesterday.
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.

Immigration, Industrialization, Progressive Movement

Agenda:

• Go over chapter 3 excerpts
• Chapter 5 & questions
• Progressives Project

Industrialization and Immigration

Agenda:

• Finish 30 Days & discuss
• Chapter 3 excerpts of The Jungle

Unit-Industrialization and Immigration

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Chapter 2 in the Jungle
• View: 30 Days "Immigration"

Unit-Industrialization and Immigration

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: Election results
• Compare: Today's Immigrants versus Yesterday's Immigrants (review of Friday's work)
• Read: chapter 2 in the Jungle & chapter 2 questions

Unit-Industrialization and Immigration

Today's Agenda:

This assignment is very similar to the paragraphs that you wrote for the Native American articles.

Here is the link to the articles on immigration

• Summarize (paragraph for each), integrating at least ONE quote in your summary, citing correctly. 
• Compare the experience between yesterday's and today's immigrants. Are there any similarities? What are some differences? (last paragraph)
• Do a Works Cited right after your paragraphs 
• Share/Print, hand in.

Ellis Island

Industrialization and immigration

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

• Pre-Reading discussion questions
• Small group discussion protocol and rubric
• The Jungle chapter 2 and questions

Unit-Industrialization and Immigration

Today's Agenda:

Finish; American Anthem Chapter 14
View/Answer Questions: America, the Story of US: Cities

Unit-Industrialization and Immigration

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit-Native Americans

Today's Agenda:

• Due: Native American Essays
• Finish: Smoke Signals
• Preview: the next Unit is Immigration
• 5 facts about illegal immigration today

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

Begin writing the essay. You have half the block today with technology

• Immediately share your Google Doc with Jolicoeur and Buj so we can give feedback as you write
• Remember, you need three sources, one of which is Sherman Alexie's book. Cite correctly! Check out the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University for reference on how to cite correctly.
• Follow the organizational structure:
• M--Main idea/topic sentence
• E--Evidence--quote/citation (don't forget to integrate those quotes fluently)
• A--Analysis--relate your example to your thesis
• E--Evidence
• A--Analysis
• L--Last line/transition to next paragraph

We will watch Smoke Signals for the other half of the block.

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Quiz: "Indian Education" (open note)
• Analyze: The Wounded Knee Massacre
• American Carnage: Wounded Knee
• Intro: the Native American Experience Essay

Check this out: Upworthy article on Native Americans Protesting Big Oil Pipeline

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Read: Bio on Chief Joseph
• Read: article from the Atlantic, "How America's Past Shapes Native Americans Present.:" and leave a comment (short paragraph) on this blog
• "The Great Emancipator's Mass Execution" and "Another Proclamation" by Sherman Alexie
• College-level essay and Looking at Academic Voice
• Sherman Alexie: Indian Education (READ FOR HOMEWORK)

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Recap: Battlefield Detectives: Custer's Last Stand
• Review: Chapter 13 Attack
• Read: "The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore"

Sitting Bull

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 13 Attack (Open Note Quiz)
• Due: Questions for Every Little Hurricane and A Drug Called Tradition
• Battlefield Detectives: Custer's Last Stand  

Unit-Native American Resistance

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Chapter 13 attack (linked 2 nights ago)
• Pass in: 2 summaries from yesterday if you have not done so
• Finish the questions for Every Little Hurricane and A Drug Called Tradition for Monday
• Optional: Watch video/read article from the Guardian  on Violence against Native American protesters. Leave a comment on this blog below.

Native American Unit

AGENDA

• Let’s read an article together
• Here is a summary that integrates quotes from the article: 
• Then 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.

Unit-Native Americans and the West

Today's Agenda:

Our first story that we will read is "Every Little Hurricane," (check out the notes and quotes) followed by "A Drug Called Tradition." (notes and quotes) Keep in mind where we are headed--how do Native Americans wrestle with their identity, and why?

Answer the questions for both stories.


Complete: American Anthem Chapter 13

Native American Identity/Resistance

• Our next unit explores the Native American Identity. Some questions to guide us through the unit: Who are they as people? How has their identity been formed? What was it in the past and what is it now?
• We will read some contemporary fiction from Sherman Alexie, a humorous, poetic writer, and these stories from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven all revolve around one reservation, and the way of life there.
• As for history, well, essentially our mistreatment and near eradication of Native Americans will be looked at, and how that has also formed the Native American Identity.
• A nice introduction to contemporary reservation life is a 20/20 special, "Children of the Plains."
• Sherman Alexie is charming on the Colbert Report...And again.
• From the Atlantic: How the Legacy of Native American's Force assimilation Lingers Today

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

Wrap up and Review the Unit on Reconstruction (Any questions?)
Intro: Summative Assessment

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

• Finish/Review: The Aftermath of Reconstruction
• Analyze: Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Examine: the role of the Supreme Court and the Court today
• 21 of the Most Important Supreme Court decisions
• Current Controversy: President Obama''s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

Review: Huck Finn Chapters 15 and 16

• Moral development, internal conflict, and dramatic irony
• "Stuck in a fog"--Literal (actual) vs. Figurative (deeper meaning)
• How is Huck figuratively stuck in a fog?
• Why does Huck trick Jim?
• How does Jim react?
• What is Twain showing us about Jim?
• How does Huck feel after?
• Dramatic irony--When the reader knows something the character does not
• What is ironic about this chapter?
• Conflict--Internal vs. External
• Man vs. Self, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society/Ideas
• What is Huck's internal conflict?
• What does Huck do? Why?

Evaluating Reconstruction: The Aftermath

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Reconstruction Discussion/Notes

• Huck Finn
• Review questions on chapters 5 and 6
• Need to know: chapters 7-14
• Read: chapters 15 & 16 FINISH FOR HOMEWORK
• Discuss: the Southern Reaction to Reconstruction
• The Jim Crow Museum

Unit-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

Today's Agenda:

• Reconstruction under Presidents Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Need to Know, chapters 1-4
• Read chapters 5 & 6 FINISH QUESTIONS FOR HOMEWORK

Unit 3-Reconstruction and Huck Finn

• Hand in Whitman project
• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan/Assassination of Lincoln
• Intro Mark Twain! Why is this guy important?
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Need to Know, chapters 1-4
• Read chapters 5 & 6

Whitman Activity

Agenda:
Work day to finish those Whitman projects!
Test corrections on the chapter attack quizzes...

Walt Whitman

First, some reminders about writing, concerning your Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl paragraphs...

Then...WALT WHITMAN!


The Importance of Whitman
Poetry/Photograph Activity

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

Unit 2-The Civil War

Book work quiz today! Open note.

Unit 2-The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

Civil War Project Presentations:

• President's speeches on secession
• Political/Military Leaders
• Maps
• Newspaper Editorials
• Personal Narratives

Unit 2-The Civil War

Today's Agenda:

We have access to more technology today and tomorrow. Use your time wisely to transition from research to "final product."

Some are:

• writing speeches
• preparing presentations
• creating maps
• writing editorials
• writing historical fiction (narratives)
• preparing bio's

Unit 2-The Civil War

Agenda:

• Yesterday we wrapped up Slavery with our unit assessment
• Today, we kick off the Civil War with a Group Project!
• Here is a link to resources available to us
• Here is a research source organizer
• The Civil War Infographic
• We have scheduled technology Wednesday through Friday of this week

Unit 1 Summative Assessment

Today's Agenda:

Finish: Paragraphs on Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Complete: 1850-1860 Summative Assessment
Intro the new unit(2): The Civil War

Unit 1-Pre-Civil War America and Slavery

Agenda:

• Prep for assessment!
• Review History
• Paragraph Writing

Unit 1-PreCivil War America and Slavery

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Slave Girl Chapters 29 and 30
• Review questions for Slave Girl should be completed/Handed in
• Election of 1860
• Review Unit 1 (History and Literature)

  

  The Presidential Election of 1860

Unit 1-PreCivil War America and Slavery

Today's Agenda:

• Slave Girl Quiz
• Examine: the Rise of Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln Reenactment
• John Brown: Radical Abolitionist
• Quotes
• Read (Homework): Chapters 21 and 23 in Slave Girl

Unit 1-PreCivil War America and Slavery

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Slave Girl chapters 5 and 6
• Dred Scott decision: How did this Supreme Court ruling affect slavery and the abolition movement
• Video
• Dred Scott Questions
• Read: Slave Girl Chapter 15

Unit 1-PreCivil War America

Agenda:

• Kansas-Nebraska Act: How did what happened in Kansas serve as foreshadowing for the Civil War?
• Here is a video/lecture
• Slave Girl: Recap 1 & 2; start chapters 5 & 6 (questions) 
• HOMEWORK: Finish reading/questions

Unit 1-Pre Civil War America and Slavery

Today's Agenda:

• Compromise of 1850: What impact did it have on slavery?
• Map Activity: What did America look like in 1850? Page 326 of textbook
• Intro Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, read chapters 1 & 2
• NO HOMEWORK!

What is an American?

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”?

Welcome to Comp!

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.

Political Scandals and the Media

Today's Agenda:

• CNN article on Vietnam
• Research: Political Scandals Project

Unit-Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

• Discuss: the End of the conflict in Vietnam
• Continue: Things They Carried
• Finish today's story "In the Field"

Quiz tomorrow!

Unit-Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

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

Unit-Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

Finish: the Chapter Attack for Vietnam (29)
Continue: reading Things They Carried

Unit-Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

Here is a short interview that Tim O'Brien did on "War Stories."
Read the rest of Chapter 1 in Things They Carried

Unit-Vietnam

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

Unit-Civil Rights Movement

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter 28 in Anthem: Summative Assessment
• Turn in Test correction for the Cold war Exam
• Have a great Spring Vacation!

Unit-the Civil Rights Movement

Today's Agenda:

• Watch: Civil Rights in the 1960s
• Discuss: Racial tension today: What is the deal with Ferguson, Mo?
• Slate article: Are We in the Midst of a New Civil Rights Era?