Sunday, April 24, 2011

Weekly Agenda April 25-29

Monday & Tuesday
-Check Annotations
-In the News Presentations

-Review "New Deal Arts" notes from Friday before break
--what is socialism?
-Hand back unit tests
-Review "New Deal" documents
--Poster Assignment for New Deal Topics
--brainstorming

HW
Record at least one response to discussion topics on the 1930's on turnitin.com. Due May 5th

Wednesday
Official Research Assignment
Poster Work

Thursday & Friday
Complete and Present Posters
Continue Map Work
-how does the New Deal begin to shape how America looks
Jazz documentary excerpts

HW Begin collecting primary sources for research paper.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Weekly Agenda April 4-8

1930's

Monday & Tuesday
Where Hoover Fails, Roosevelt succeeds:
-notes and workbook on
  • Roosevelt's road to office
  • 100 days
  • New Deal
HW Bring 2 possible topics into class for discussion and sharing. Share what inspired the topic, a point in history, a modern event, an special interest, etc. And, share what places one could go to get information.

Wednesday
New Deal
  • Who is against it?
  • Social Security Definition
  • Primary Sources and Different Perspectives
Thursday & Friday
Review Topics and Research Paper
Complete Social Security Questions
New Deal and The Arts

SPRING BREAK

RESEARCH PAPER:
Find one primary source and one secondary sou
rce for your topic. Annotate and write an annotation. Bring in MLA-formatted, typed, annotations for each source.