Today's Agenda:

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

Modern American Presidents

Today's Agenda:

Here is a cheat sheet for Monday's Summative Assessment:
Modern American President/Events Questions

Modern America

Today's Agenda:

Here is the Modern American Presidents Project

Vietnam/Things They Carried

Today's Agenda:

Finish: Vietnam in HD Episode 6 (Peace with Honor)
Review: Vietnam, The Final Analysis
The Legacy of Vietnam

Time Permitting: Protest Songs of the 21st Century

Vietnam

A true war story is not about the “happening truth” but the “emotional truth.” Sometimes fiction can actually feel more true to life than an account of the simple facts. Consider a strong emotion that you have felt about something in your life. Write a fictionalized personal narrative essay using a powerful image or event that possibly never happened, but represents or expresses the emotions you felt in the real moment. In some ways, this is like a tall tale, where you exaggerate or alter the truth to help your reader understand what it really felt like, since they weren’t there and can’t understand the truth.

• Personal Narrative Assignment
• Exemplars

Vietnam/Things They Carried

Today's Agenda:

American POW Experience
Muhammad Ali's reaction to being drafted in Vietnam
My lai Massacre: Survivors recall the atrocities

Recent history: Mitt Romney in NH (2011)

Vietnam

Today's Agenda:

• Continue: reading Things They Carried "On The Rainy River"
• View: Vietnam in HD, the Tet Offensive (Episode 3)

Vietnam/Things They carried

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Anthem Chapter 29
• Continue: reading Things They Carried
• Analyze: Vietnam Statistics

Vietnam/Things They carried

Today's Agenda:

Watch: Vietnam in HD Episode 1
Complete: the Chapter Attack for Vietnam (29)
Continue: reading Things They Carried

Vietnam/Things They Carried

Today's Agenda:

• Last Call: Anthem Chapter on Vietnam
• Introduce: Tim O'Brien and Things They Carried
• Read: Chapter 1-The Things They Carried
• Vietnam War Statistics

From the Atlantic: How young millennial Vietnamese view the war today.

Unit-Vietnam/Things They Carried

Today's Agenda:

• Class is only 45 minutes long (Early Dismissal Day)
• Geography Activity: Map of Vietnam
• Anthem Chapter 29-Vietnam

Post War America: the Cold War & Civil Rights

The  next few days we will cover the sixties through significant speeches: Two from John F. Kennedy, one from Martin Luther King, Jr., and one from Malcolm X. Your assessment will be to analyze ONE of those speeches in an on-demand essay.

First, some "Cold War" context...

Documents and links:

• Speech Analysis Worksheet
• Kennedy's Inaugural--TEXT and VIDEO
• Kennedy's address on the Cuban Missile Crisis--TEXT and VIDEO
• MLK's "I Have a Dream"--TEXT and VIDEO
• Malcolm X's "Ballot or the Bullet"--TEXT and AUDIO

World War II and Research Paper Revisions

Today's Agenda:

1. Research Paper revisions are due Friday (This is the only day with technology, the rest is on your own)

2. The WWII Summative Assessment is tomorrow. Organize all of the documents/resources that you may use.

World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Japanese Internment (Share info. with your partner)
• Complete: Decision to Drop the Bomb (linked on the Blog)
• Review: the Summative Assessment is on Wednesday
• Decision to Drop the Bomb
• Japanese Internment
• D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy
• Film: Civilians at War
• Anthem Chapter 24
• Film: Over the edge
• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Involvement or Neutrality
• Anthem Chapter 23
• Unit Vocab

World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Maus Summative is due today
• Analyze: Japanese Internment
• Analyze: Decision to Drop the Bomb

World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Half the class is testing NECAP
• Students that tested on Tuesday-complete the D-Day assignment
• Due tomorrow/Friday: the Maus Assessment

World War II

Today's Agenda:

• View: Civilians at War
• Finish: Reading Maus and Answer the Questions
• Analyze: D-Day and the invasion of Normandy

World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Anthem Chapter 24
• Continue: reading Maus Chapters 3 and 4
• Answer: the questions for Chapters 3 and 4
• Quiz tomorrow

World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Begin reading: Maus
• Review: World War II slideshare
• Complete:  the Chapter 24 Attack.

World War II

Today's Agenda:

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

World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Unit Vocab for World War II
• Analyze: Neutrality or Involvement?
• Complete: Anthem Chapter 23-WWII Erupts
• Begin reading Maus by Art Spiegelman

New Unit-World War II

Today's Agenda:

• Brainstorm: US Foreign Policy
• Read: How does the US Spend its Foreign Aid?
• 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?)
• Lit: Begin Maus

Research Paper

Today's Agenda:

• Research papers are due today.
• Print out a clean copy with the Works Cited
• Attach the Rubric

Research paper

Today's Agenda:

After 1 week in the books, here is where we should be:

• Research should be completed (min. of 3 sources)
• Next step: Thesis Statements and Outlines
• Reminder: Make sure you have your research checked by the end of the day on Friday.
• MLA--Library Resource
• In-Text Citations
• Research Paper Full Exemplar

Research Paper

Agenda:

• Great Depression Summative
• Research Paper Topics
• Topic Choice (10 points)
• Due Dates
• Sources (10 points)
• Thesis and Outline (10 points)

The Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Anthem Chapter 22 (The New Deal)
• Prepare: Unit Summative Assessment is tomorrow
• Tomorrow: Intro. Research Paper Topics

The Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

Finish: Writing your Vignette
Begin: Anthem Chapter 22-The New Deal

The Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: The Living New Deal Evaluation
• Begin: reading John Steinbeck

• The Turtle
• Breakfast and worksheet
• Write your own vignette!

The Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

• Analyze: The New Deal using the Living New Deal website
• Assignment/Requirements: The Living New Deal document

The Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

• Welcome Back! News Worthy Stories over the Break?
• Review: 
• Great Depression Photo Analysis
• Great Depression Economic Statistics
• Intro: John Steinbeck
• The Turtle
• Breakfast and worksheet

Great Depression Photo Analysis

Go over to the classroom and click on the assignment, and create a doc. Follow the directions!
Here is an exemplar.

The Great Depression

Today's Agenda:

• Anthem Chapter 21: The Great Depression Begins
• View: the Century series on the 1930s
• There are the questions for the video

New 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
• Election of 1932

Gatsby: The End

• Chapter 8 Notes/Quotes
• Chapter 9 Recap
• Gatsby Symbols
• John Green Crash Course in Literature (11:42)and another one (8:49)
• Gatsby Essay and Outline Info

The Great Gatsby

Chapter 7...AS A PLAY!

• Assign roles
• Script
• Finish chapter 7

The 1920s and the Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

• Finish (60 min.): the 1920s Digital Lessons (today is the last day to complete all 10)
• Complete (30 min.): the Google Form (summary of all 10)
• Tomorrow: Chapter 7 of Gatsby (performed as a play)

Gatsby/1920s

Agenda:

• Chapter 6 quiz
• Chapter 6 notes
• Digital lessons day 2
• Thursday: Chapter 7

Gatsby/1920s

Agenda:

• Gatsby 5 Notes
• Gatsby 6--Quiz tomorrow
• Google classroom modules/quizzes

1920s Digital Lessons: The first 5 lessons are posted on google classroom. Be sure to complete the google form at the end of each.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Gatsby/1920s

Today's Agenda:

First Half of the Block:

• Chapter 3 Quiz
• Notes Chapter 3
• Notes Chapter 4

Second Half of the Block:

• Continue Working on 1920s Project
• Create that module and quiz (Google Forms)

The Great Gatsby/1920s

Today's Agenda:

First Half of the Block:

• Read Chapter 2 of Gatsby
• Discuss chapter 2

Second Half of the Block:

• Continue Working on 1920s Project
• Research and Collaborate

The Great Gatsby/1920s

Today's Agenda:

First half of the Block:

• Read/Analyze the Great Gatsby
• Finish Chapter 1/Answer the Questions
• Gatsby's World
• Chapter 2 notes

Second Half of the Block:

• Begin Research-1920s Topics
• Keep track of sources
• Link to the Digital lesson on Google Classroom

New Unit-The 1920s and The Great Gatsby

Today's Agenda:

Background/Historical Context
Pre-Reading Discussion Questions
Reading Schedule
Chapter Questions

Mid Term Review/ Prep

Today's Agenda:

• Mid Term Review Activity
• Mid Term Outline

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are devoted to prepping the Mid term. Friday you will write the 5 paragraph essay in class.

The Harlem Reniaissance

Today's Agenda:

• Analyze: 3 Langston Hughes Poems
• Finish: The Roaring 20s  in the American Anthem Textbook
• View: Jazz by Ken Burns Episode 2-The Gift

The Harlem Renaissance

Today's Agenda:

Read/Analyze: Langston Hughes The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Finish: American Anthem Chapter 20 "The 1920s"

The 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance

Today's Agenda:

We have technology scheduled today and tomorrow for our Harlem Renaissance Projects.
The goal is to be able to present these on Monday.

Here is a link to the project sheet.

New Unit-The 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance

Today's Agenda:

• Welcome Back-Give back the last Summative Assessments.
• Game: Famous People of the 1920s (How many do you know already?)
• Introduce: the 1920s Crossword Puzzle 
• View: an Overview of the 1920s (Crash Course)