Monday, May 9, 2011

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

Sunday, May 1, 2011

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

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.