US Studies II
Daily Class Assignments and Activities
3/12-3/16
Mr. Janig
Room 115
OGT WEEK!
Day 1
Assessment 14.1 & 14.2 Due
YouTube Student Video – Aces High
Day 2-5
OGT Prep
Film: Life is Beautiful
US Studies II
Daily Class Assignments and Activities
3/19-3/23
Mr. Janig
Room 115
March 19
Appeasement Example – A kid and a cookie jar!
The Rise of Totalitarian States in the 1930s
NTSG 14.1
Map: Hitler’s Aggression in the 1930s.
March 20
Map: Hitler’s Aggression in the 1930s Due
Begin Video: Fatal Attraction of Adolph Hitler (Notes)
March 21
Continue Video: Fatal Attraction of Adolph Hitler (Notes)
March 22
Quiz: Video Fatal Attraction
Cartoon: Nazi Aggression
Video: America’s Time 1930’s or PowerPoint Pre WWII
March 23
War Erupts in Europe and America Enters.
Read pp. 451-459: Complete Assessment 14.3 p. 459, #s 1, 4, 5, &
6
US Studies II
Daily Class Assignments and Activities
3/26-3/30
Mr. Janig
Room 115
March 26
American Foreign Policy in the 1930s (From Isolation to
Intervention) Neutrality & Lend-Lease – PowerPoint Pre- WWII
1939-41b
Roosevelt’s Quarantine Speech Analysis (Home)
March 27
Discuss American Quarantine Speech
Outline Map WWII – European Theater
March 28
FDR’s Four Freedoms Speech, p. 451
PowerPoint WWII 1939-41b
The Road to Pearl Harbor and Early War in the Pacific
NTSG 14.3
Pearl Harbor – The Movie – First 15 Minutes (The Attack)
March 29
NBC Learn Video Report– Attack on Pearl Harbor
NBC Learn Video Report– Eyewitnesses Attack on Pearl Harbor
PowerPoint – The Janigs at Pearl Harbor
Speech – “Day of Infamy”
March 30
Speech Presentation – Day of Infamy
NBC Learn – Streaming Video Report – Day of Infamy
US Studies II
Daily Class Assignments and Activities
4/2-4/5
Mr. Janig
Room 115
April 2
Chapter 14 Quest & Word Search
April 3
Review Totalitarian Dictatorship/Can it happen here? (Discuss)
Overview – The Holocaust
NTSG 15.4
NBC Learn Streaming Video ReportJewish-American Students Travel to the Nazi Death Camps
The Nuremberg Laws
Read pp. 492-497 Assessment 15.4, p. 497, #s 1, 4, 5 & 6
April 4
Assessment 15.4 Due
Continue “Can it happen here?” Discussion
Movement from Homes to Ghettos and from Ghettos to Camps.
Schindler’s List Scene 5 and Scene 13 – Discuss
Readings and Questions:
Transfer of Lodz Jewry to Ghettos
A Jewish Family Leaves Home
April 5
Holocaust Readings Due
Forms of Resistance During the Holocaust (Discuss)
NBC Learn Streaming Video Report – The Germans Who Resisted
Hitler
Decision Making Tree - Holocaust
US Studies II
Daily Class Assignments and Activities
4/16-4/27
Mr. Janig
Room 115
Mon., April 16
A Tribute to the Women of the Holocaust
DVD – One Survivor Remembers – The Story of Gerda
Weissmann
Tue., April 17
Groups – Discussion/Artifact Analysis/Map Final Solution - One
Survivor Remembers
The Poetry of Hanna Szenes and the Theme of Hope
Wed., April 18
America Mobilizes for War
DVD - Patton - Opening Clip
DVD – Iron Maiden – These Colors Don’t Run
Read pp. 466-478, Assessment 15.1, p. 472 and 15.2, p. 479 # 1
Thur., April 19
NTSG 15.1 (ICue: Midway Island Then and Now) & 15.2
The Internment of Japanese Americans (PowerPoint)
Music Video Kenji by Fort Minor
NTSG 15.3 & 15.5
Read pp. 482-491, Assessment 15.3, p. 491 # 1
Fri., April 20
D-Day NBC Learn Introduction – The Importance of D-Day
Ike’s D-Day Speech Analysis
Map Analysis Operation Overlord (Questions)
Band of Brothers – Day of Days – Parachute Drop over France
Read pp. 498-503, Assessment 15.5 # 1, p. 503
Mon., April 23
Saving Private Ryan – Opening Scene
Discuss Significance of Operation Overlord
NBC Learn: President Reagan speaks at Normandy
D-Day 60th Anniversary Ceremonies
Tue., April 24
Band of Brothers – Why We Fight - Episode 9 Liberation of a
Concentration Camp
Wed. April 25
Truman’s Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb
NBC Learn: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Decision Making Tree on this Decision
NBC Learn: Enola Gay Cockpit view of Hiroshima Bombing
Hiroshima: The Aftermath
Hiroshima Survivors
Thurs., April 26
Assessment for Chapter 15.1, 15.2, 15.3 & 15.5 Due
Test Review
Fri., April 27
Test – World War Two/Holocaust
Start of Unit on Cold War
April 22
Introduction to the Cold War (PowerPoint: Origins of the Cold
War)
ICue Streaming video: Duck and Cover Drill
NTSG 16.1
Read pp. 509-516 Assessment 16.1, p. 516 #s 1, 4, 5 & 6
April 23
Assessment 16.1 Due
PowerPoint: Cold War Tensions Mount 1 & 2
ICue Streaming video reports:
The Ideological Battle Between US & USSR
Origins and Effects of Berlin Blockade
Truman Doctrine Breaks Isolation
Analysis Truman Doctrine. p. 517
NTSG 16.2
Read pp. 518-523 Assessment 16.2, p. 523 #s 1, 4, 5 & 6