Weekly Agenda May 31-June 3

May 31-June 3

TUESDAY

Finish Propaganda Poster

-present

Atomic Warfare handouts and footage

WEDNESDAY

More about Atomic Warfare and the U.S.’s role in dropping the bomb

WWII comes to an end

Study Guide

HW Prepare for Socratic Seminar

THURSDAY

Whole Group Seminar with Reflection

HW Study for test

Research Paper due June 6th

FRIDAY

Unit Test on the 1940s

Weekly Agenda May 23-26

1940's

Monday
Review and Edit Annotations
NOTES from AV 586-593
"The HomeFront"
-women
-African Americans
-Mexicans
-Racism: Zoot Suit Riots
-Japanese Internment
-Daily Life
HW turn your annotations into turnitin.com by WED at 10pm

Tuesday
PBS' The War
-Pay close attention to the treatment of Japanese Americans
-map AV p595
Internment poetry, cartoons
-primary source analysis

Wednesday and Thursday
Propaganda Posters
-defining propaganda and its role during the war, as a political and social tool
-group will look at posters and analyze their effect on the American ppl during WWII
-groups will create their own propaganda poster on current issues
-create a hyposthesis or DBQ as if you were students analyzing your poster
HW Bring roughdraft for research paper next _________

NEXT:
Sould we have dropped the bomb?
-documentary
-worksheets
-socratic seminar
-DBQ
-UNIT TEST

Weekly Agenda May 16-20

1940's

CST Testing all Week: Classes Meet Twice

DAY 1:

The War by Ken Burns (PBS)

Examining Primary Documents

-Hitler's 'justification'

The Holocaust

-notes and reflections

HW You're working on typing your annotations

DAY 2:

The War by Ken Burns (PBS)

-notes

HW Annotated Bibliography due MONDAY

Weekly Agenda May 9-13

1940's : WWII

Monday

Monday is a library day

-look for primary documents

-documents and DBQ due this FRIDAY

Tuesday-Friday

The World Powers

Worksheet: identify major leaders, their countries and style of governing

AV Notes: 537-539

The American Position AV 539-541

Sequencing Map: WWII Begins

AV Notes: 544-548

The Holocaust

Primary Document Analysis Practice

AV Notes: 550-555

Additionally, we will spend some time working on creating our DBQs.

AND, we will watch excerpts from PBS Home Video The WAR

Weekly Agenda May 2-6

Monday & Tuesday
FDR's "New Deals' Quiz
Jazz documentary excerpts
AV 520-527

• Supreme Court
• Roosevelt recession
• Eleanor Roosevelt: AV p529

-woman's suffrage
-first activist first lady
--kept the public up-to-date on White House activities
--influenced the creation of the National Youth Administration, which provided financial aid and job training
--worked closely with the NAACP
--asst. director of Office of Civilian Defense
After her husband's death, she was a delegate for the United Nations and helped to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• legacy
• Primary sources

Wednesday
Reviewing language and details associated with the 1930's

Thursday & Friday
Study Guide and Test