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?

Civil Rights

Agenda (2 days)

• 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-The Civil Rights Movement

Today's Agenda:

• 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?

Finish the Cold War/Intro. the Civil Rights Movement

Today's Agenda:

• Unit Exam on the Cold War
• Discuss: Racial Inequality in America
• Analyze: Brown vs. Board of Education

Unit-The Cold War

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

Unit Exam(the Cold War) on Monday

The Cold War

Today's Agenda:

Review: President Eisenhower and the Cold War
Discuss: the election of Kennedy in 1960
Analyze: the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Death of A Salesman/1950s

Today's Agenda:

• Examine: Who was Joseph McCarthy, and what was McCarthyism?
• View: HUAC/Congressional Hearings
• Arthur Miller and the Crucible
• Contemporary Analysis: article for the guardian on President Obama and "New McCarthyism"

Death of A Salesman/the Cold War

Today's Agenda:

Examine: The Korean War "The Forgotten War"
Read: CIA agent John Downey, the longest held American captive of war
Video: The Korean War

Death of a Salesman

Agenda:

• Symbols and images in Death of a Salesman: HERE is a list. Keep track of each time Miller uses them in the play. Write down the page number and the line of dialogue/stage directions through which the symbol or image appears. FINISH FOR HOMEWORK
• Begin Act II
• Discuss: the Cold War
• Check out the time lapse video of atomic bombs, 1945-1998