Weekly Agenda Feb 28-Mar 1

The 20's: Anarchy, Anti-immigration, Fear-Mongering

Monday & Tuesday
Background on Ku Klux Klan

• origins: new and old
  
• membership
• leadership
• political influence
• eugenics: psuedo-science, which emphasized that human inequalities were inherited and warned against breeding the "unfit."
  
• downfall

Define NAACP, ADL, ACLU

1. create know/infer/question
2. read lynching sources and annotate
   
3. Journal Entry on sources and why bill is not passed until 2005

HW Join one of the Civil Rights organization

Wednesday
Map Assignment
-relabel States
-label 1921-1930
HW Cartoon Analysis

Thursday and Friday
DBQ-document-based question
-verge of 20's Background:

• strikes
• racial tension
• Red Scare
• Palmer Raids

Students will read through text and take notes in Reporter's Journal.
What is it and how can it be useful to students of history?
Eugene Debs
-revisit values and historical significance (AV 399)
-excerpt from Echos of Distant Thunder
-revisit Espionage Act language
Sacco-Vanzetti background (AV 407)

• Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1927 quotation
• (AV 416-417)
• Explain ties to Debs and Red Scare
  

HW Prepare for Tuesday a response to "Understanding the Issue" #3

NEXT
Immigration Laws
-National Origins Act
Scopes Trial
New Identities for Women
Prohibition