Sunday, February 13, 2011

Weekly Agenda Feb 14-18

WWI

MONDAY & TUESDAY
Notes
  1. President Woodrow Wilson (last week)
  2. The Mexican Revolution
  3. Outbreak (Alliances-see map)
  4. Neutrality
  5. Draft and women, in war
  6. Suspicion and limits on free speech
HW due Thursday, find one fact about WWI trench warfare. Make sure you know the credentials and bias of your source.
HW due by next Monday, answer questions under discussion on turnitin.com (10pts to HW category)

Wednesday
Geography Map Work-due next Tuesday
  • New York: Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire
  • Massachusetts: American Woolen Co. strike
  • D.C.: 16th Amendment
  • Michigan: Ford creates the assembly line
  • Colorado: Ludlow War (Coal Miners strike)
  • Mexico: WW orders occupation of Vera Cruz
  • Panama Canal opens
  • New York: Margaret Sanger is arrested
  • Nevada: grants divorces
  • Georgia: Leo Frank is lynched
  • Utah: Joe Hill executed
  • New Mexico: Mexican nationalist, Pancho Villa, crosses U.S. border
  • Mexico: Zimmermann Telegram
  • D.C.: League of Nations
  • Illinois: "Black Sox" indictment
Plot and Label events
HW Prepare for Graphic Organizer Quiz: factors leading to WWI and Am. Involvment


Thursday & Friday
Trench warfare
British Blockade
Web Quiz on Friday about "the factors contributing to WWI

The War's Impact
  • race
  • red scare
  • President Harding and "a return to normalcy"
HW Finish map for Tuesday.

NEXT
Extended Lessons: League of Nations
Unit Test: FEB 25th