Date
Topic
Homework
Due next class period unless otherwise
noted
Wed. Aug. 26
* Distribute syllabus and textbooks
Thur. Aug. 27
* Course Work and AP U.S. History requirements,
grading and expectations
* Chapter 1 Vocabulary [Due Sept. 1 ]
* How to take notes from reading
Fri.Aug. 28
Mon. Aug. 31
* Discuss: How to read Primary Sources using
APPARTS sheet
* Read & Discuss ""The Strange Death of Silas
Deane" (Davidson and Lytle xv-xxix)
* Discuss J. H. Perry's observation: "Columbus did * Read Text and Take Notes (pages
not discover a new world. He established contact 19-26)
between two worlds, both already old."
* Read "Ancient America: Before 1492" and
answer comparative questions (Johnson pages 114)…Discuss
* Primary Source Jigsaw
* What ever happened to the Arawaks?
*Discuss Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford
* APPARTS analyzing a primary source picture
Tue. Sept. 1
Wed. Sept. 2
Thur. Sept. 3
* Discuss Johnson Chapter 2
* Read Document Workbook
Chapter 1 handout and answer
questions (1 of 4)
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
32-38)
* Chapter 2 Vocabulary [Due Sept.8 ]
* Read "Europeans Encounter the
New World 1492-1600." Answer
ALL questions for reading and
discussion, and comparative
questions 1-5 on page 36 (Johnson
pages 15-36)
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
39-53)
* 2-1-1 technique for thesis writing--introduce and
practice
* Partner Document Workbook Chapter 2 (pages * Read and Answer Document
Workbook Questions not completed
23-34)
* Discuss Document Workbook Chapter 2
* Rank"What factors allowed the Spanish to
conqure the Aztec empire?
Fri. Sept. 4
* How to Read Primary Sources by
Sara Chapman (Documents
Workbook pages 1-11)
* Introduction For Students
(Johnson xi-xvii)
* Read Text & Take Notes (pages 418)
* Discuss APPARTS worksheets on Columbus and
Cartier
in class
* APPARTS worksheet on
Christopher Columbus letter to
Ferdinand & Isabella
* APPARTS worksheet on Jaques
Cartier: First Contact with the
Indians
* Test Tomorrow
* Map 2-2 on page 40. Map Exploration Question * Chapter 2 Review Questions
* Golden Rules of Writing, and how AP essays are
scored
Tue. Sept. 8
*Multiple Choice Test
* Check and Review Test
Wed. Sept. 9
Extended Learning
* Jigsaw on Discussion Questions
* 2-1-1 technique for thesis writing--practice
Date
Thur Sept. 10
Topic
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
60-84)
* Chapter 3 Vocabulary [Due Sept.
14 ]
* Read Primary source"John
Winthrop Defines the Puritain Ideal
of Communuity 1630" and answer
questions
* Read Winthrop's "A Model of
Christian Charity" and complete
APPARTS wksht.
* Read and Take Notes on Davidson
and Lytle (pages 24-45) [Due Sept.
14 ]
Homework
* Movie: The Crucible
* Read"The Examination of Tituba"
and answer questions
* Movie: The Crucible
* How does Hollywood reflect the Visible and
Invisible Worlds of Salem?
* APPARTS analyzing song "The Devil and the
Farmer's Wife"
* Why was there a law in Jamestown requiring
citizens to plant corn when people were starving?
* Read "Virginia's First Charter"
from 1606 and "Percy Account"
from 1607 and Answer Questions
* Read Davidson and Lytle( pages 1-20)
* Chapter 4 Vocabulary [Due Sept.
17]
Extended Learning
Fri. Sept. 11
Mon. Sept 14
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
92-106)
* What really happened at the first Thanksgiving?
Tue. Sept. 15
Wed. Sept. 16
Thur. Sept. 17
* Race and Slavery Part I Using Virginia Statutes to * Read Text and Take Notes (pages
106-122)
Examine Slavery in the Colonies
* Read about Bacon's Rebellion (Johnson pages 54- * Test Tomorrow
57) and answer discussion questions
* 2-1-1 thesis writing practice
* Answer Chapter 4 Review
Questions
* Multiple Choice Test
* DBQ in-class Test Tomorrow
* Check and Review Test
Fri Sept. 18
* DBQ Test
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
130-145)
Mon. Sept 21
* Jigsaw on Chapter 5 Discussion Questions
* Chapter 5 Vocabulary [Due
Sept.23 ]
* Read Primary Sources and Answer
Questions
A Boston Woman Writes about
Her Trip to New
York in 1704
A Swedish Visitor Tells about
Philadelphia, 1748
A Puritain Preacher Admonishes
His Flocks in
1741
Tue. Sept. 22
Wed. Sept. 23
* Discuss Primary Sources
* Lecture/Discussion "Types of Colonies"
* Enlightenment vs. Puritains using text and the
New England Primer
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
145-157)
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
164-186)
*Chapter 6 Vocabulary [Due Sept.
29 ]
Thur. Sept. 24
(MIdQ1)
Mon. Sept. 28
*Return DBQs and Discuss
* Video Clip: The Last of the Mohicans
* Lecture/Discussion "The Colonies Unite"
* Declaring Independence
* John Locke and Thomas Jefferson
* Jefferson's Rough Draft--What does it mean?
Date
Tue Sept. 29
Topic
* Multiple Choice Test
* Check and Review Test
Wed. Sept. 30
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
186-194)
* Complete Chapter 6 Review
Questions
* Test Tomorrow
Homework
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
202-217)
* Chapter 7 Vocabulary [Due Oct. 5 ]
* Read "The Crisis Comes to a
Head: April 19, 1775" and answer
questions
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
* What did each side have to do in order to win
the war? What were strengths and weaknesses of 217-229)
British and "Americans"?
* APPARTS on American Revolution image
Thur. Oct. 1
*Jigsaw: How did the war affect the lives of
different groups of people?
* Read "Abigail and John Adams
Letters; Abigail Adams Letter to
Mercy Otis Warren" and Answer
Questions
* Answer: How did the experience at
Valley Forge affect the men under
Washington's command?
* Video Clip: The Crossing
Fri. Oct. 2
Mon. Oct. 5
* Shifting British conceptions of the war
* Loyalists vs. Patriots
* 2-1-1 thesis writing practice
* APPARTS on American Revolution image
* The Treaty of Paris
Tue. Oct. 6
* Discuss: What could/could not be done under
the Articles of Confederation?
* Shays' Rebellion
Wed. Oct. 7
* Debate
Thur. Oct. 8
* Divergent reactions to Shays' Rebellion
* Constitutional Convention…What were the
compromises?
Fri. Oct. 9
What would have happened if they
hadn't undergone such a harsh
experience?
* Answer Chapter 7 Review
Questions
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
238-246)
* Chapter 8 Vocabulary [Due Oct.
13 ]
* Prepare for 1787 Debate Role:
What should happen with Articles
of Confederation?
Support your point of view, and find
flaws with opposing points of
view…must be written to be turned in
at the start of class.
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
246-254)
* Jigsaw on "Building a Republic" and answer
comparative questions.
* Jigsaw: "Building a Republic"
(Johnson pages 146-168) Read
YOUR sources & answer ?s
Be prepared to present and answer
questions in class
Read Text and Take Notes (pages
255-262)
* The Struggle for Ratification: Federalists, AntiFederalists, and Ratifying Conventions
Tue. Oct. 13
* Discuss: What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
* Test Tomorrow
* Multiple Choice Test
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
270-285)
* Chapter 9 Vocabulary [Due Oct.
20 ]
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
285-302)
* Check and Review Test
Wed. Oct. 14
* George Washington's Farwell Address
Thur. Oct. 15
* Discuss: Hamilton vs. Jefferson
* "Midnight Judges" and Marbury v. Madison
* Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
* Read "The Journals of the Lewis
and Clark Expidition, 1805" and
answer questions (Johnson pages
205-210)
* Video Clip: National Geographic--Lewis and Clark
Date
Fri. Oct. 16
Topic
* Discuss Lewis and Clark Questions
Homework
* What were Jefferson's policies toward Native
Americans?
Mon. Oct.19
* The War of 1812
* Jigsaw: Republicans in Power documents, and
* Read "James Hamilton's Path to
Enlistment during the War of 1812"
and answer questions (Johnson
pages 195-198)
* Complete Thesis writing
answer comparative questions
Tue. Oct. 20
Wed. Oct. 21
Extended Learning
Thur. Oct. 22
Extended Learning
Fri. Oct. 23
Mon. Oct. 26
*2-1-1 thesis writing pactice
* Why was there so much political conflict during
the "Era of Good Feelings"?
* Rank and Defend: Jefferson's top
accomplishments
* Lecture Notes: Race and Slavery Part II--What
was the impact of cotton?
* APPARTS on slavery image
* APPARTS using slavery primary source
* Discuss APPARTS wkshts.
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
310-335)
* Chapter 10 Vocabulary [Due
Oct.26]
* Complete APPARTS worksheet
using digital history, and be
prepared to present info to class
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
335-340)
* Read "The Confession of Nat
Turner, 1831" and "Letter to an
English Abolitionist, 1845" and
answer questions (Johnson pages
259-267)
* Discussion Questions on yeoman farmers, how
slaves "survived", and how slave holders justified
what they did.
* Test Tomorrow
*Answer and Discuss: Review Questions on the
South and Slavery from 1790s-1850s
* Multiple Choice Test
* DBQ Test next class
* Check and Review Test
Tue. Oct. 27
Wed. Oct. 28
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
348-362)
* Chapter 11 Vocabulary [Due
Nov.3 ]
* How did state and territory voting qualifications * Read Text and Take Notes (pages
362-375)
change between 1800 and 1830? Why?
* FRQ Test
* Discuss "The Era of Good Feelings" and Jackson
Thur. Oct. 29
(End Q1)
* How did Jackson transform the presidency?
* Complete APPARTS worksheet
from Jackson-era Image
Discuss: Whigs vs. Democrats
* Read Howard Zinn
http://www.historyisaweapon.org/defcon1/z
innasl7.html
Mon. Nov. 2
What was the "Nullification Crisis"?
* Trail of Tears Documentary
* Does Jackson=Hitler?
* Complete Reaction Paper
Tue. Nov. 3
Date
Wed. Nov. 4
* Read and React: Forgiveness in the Age of
Forgetfulness
* Discuss Rutledge. Agree or Disagree?
Topic
* 2-1-1 Thesis Writing Practice
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
382-399)
* Chapter 12 Vocabulary [Due
Nov.9]
Homework
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
399-411)
* How to use WisCareers website for AP Exam
Thur. Nov. 5
Extended Learning
Fri. Nov. 6
Extended Learning
* Chapter 12 Discussion Question Jigsaw
* Discuss Map Question
* Read "A New England Factory Issues Regulations
for Workers in 1825" and answer questions
* Answer Map Question 12-2 on
page 390 in text
* Test Next Class
* Read "A Young Woman Writes of the Evils of
Factory Life in 1845" and answer questions
Mon. Nov. 9
* Multiple Choice Test
* Check and Review Test
Tue. Nov. 10
Wed. Nov. 11
* APPARTS on Immigration Image
* What led to the growth of cities?
* Where were cities growing?
* What problems did rapid growth cause?
* Movie Clip: Gangs of New York
* Machine Politics: It's not WHAT you know…
* The Second Great Awakening
Thur. Nov. 12
Fri. Nov. 13
Mon. Nov. 16
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
418-434)
* Chapter 13 Vocabulary [Due
Nov.13]
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
435-448)
* Read Charles Finney "What a
Revival of Religion is" (1835) and
answer questions
* Analyze "Religious Camp Meeting"
and answer questions, and write a
journal entry on "your experience"
* Jigsaw: Reformers and Utopian Movements
* Read "Horace Mann on Education
and National Welfare" and answer
questions
* 2-1-1 Thesis Writing Practice
* Read Primary Sources from
Seneca Falls Convention and
answer questions
* Women's Rights Movement
*Race & Slavery Part II (cont.): Anti-slavery and
Abolitionism
*ANSWER: What was the
connection between the abolition
movement and the women's rights
movement?
Tue. Nov. 17
* Read "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes" by
Sarah Gimke (Johnson pages 223-226) and answer
questions
* Read "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the
World" by David Walker (Johnson pages 226-229)
and answer questions
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
* Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
* Going West with the Donner Party
Date
Topic
456-472)
* Chapter 14 Vocabulary [Due Nov.
23]
Homework
Wed. Nov. 18
* Lecture & Discussion: Texans and Tejanos
"Remember the Alamo!"
* Why didn't U.S. initially want Texas as a state?
Thur. Nov. 19
* Lecture/Discussion: Manifest Destiny and "Fifty * Read "We Take Nothing by
Conquest, Thank God" by Howard
Four-Forty or Fight!"
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
472-484)
Zinn found at:
http://www.historyisaweapon.org/defcon1/z
inntak8.html and type a 1 page
reaction paper (What did you read,
and what is your take?)
* Do you believe Polk's explaination on the
Mexican-American War?
* Read "Thomas Corwin, Against the Mexican
War" (1847) and answer questions
Fri. Nov. 20
* Complete APPARTS worksheet
from California Poster Image
* Read "Edward Gould Buffum, Six
Months in the Gold Mines" (1850)
and answer questions
* Map worksheet: How did U.S.
acquire territory?
* How did the US acquire land from sea to shining * Test Tomorrow
sea?
*What headaches came with territiory acqusition?
* Election of 1848
* Review
Mon. Nov. 23
* Multiple Choice Test
* Check and Review Test
Tue. Nov. 24
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
492-510)
* Chapter 15 Vocabulary [Due
Dec.4]
* Missouri Compromise
* Compromise of 1850
….Read "A Dying Statesman Speaks Out Against
the Compromise of 1850" and answer questions.
* Kansas-Nebraska Act
* The House Divided (Read Johnson
pages 272-288) and answer questions
Mon. Nov. 30
* Brooks vs. Sumner
* Discuss homework questions
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
511-522)
* Group Work--comparative questions
Tue Dec. 1
* Dred Scott v. Sanford-- background
* Read "Excerpt from: Lincoln,
Abraham. 'Speech in Springfield,
Illinois, June 26, 1857.'"
* Dred Scott v. Sanford- -Judicial Activism?
Wed. Dec. 2
* Harriett Beecher Stowe & the impact of Uncle
Tom's Cabin
Extended Learning
Thur. Dec. 3
Extended Learning
Fri. Dec. 4
(Mid Q2)
* Read excerpt from UTC and discuss
* Discuss John Brown
* Comparison of John Brown Photos
* Why did Lincoln win the election of 1860?
* What was the response to his victory?
Date
Mon. Dec. 7
Topic
*Lecture/Discussion: Resources of Union and
Confederacy
* Strategy of Union & Strategy of Confederacy
Tue. Dec. 8
*Cartoon Analysis
*Discuss Cartoon
Wed. Dec. 9
* Lecture/Discussion: Behind the Emancipation
Proclaimation
* A New Type of Warfare
Thur. Dec. 10
Fri. Dec. 11
* Movie: Glory
* Movie: Glory
* What does Hollywood get right? Wrong?
* Comparative Questions from Johnson
* Jigsaw Review questions
* Read "The Madness of John
Brown" (Davidson and Lytle pages
150-173)
* Support each statement: 1) John
Brown was insane. 2) John Brown
was intense.
* Read John Browns speech from
his trial and answer questions
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
530-549)
* Chapter 16 Vocabulary [Due
Dec.14]
Homework
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
549-561)
* Complete Cartoon Analysis
* Read "President Lincoln's War
Aims" (Johnson pages 289-292) and
answer questions
* Read "A Former Slave's War Aims"
(Johnston pages 292-295) and "New
York Draft Riots" (Johnston pages
295-300) and answer questions
* Read "A Virginia Woman
Confronts Union Foragers"
(Johnson pages 301-304) and
"General William T. Sherman
Explains the Hard Hand of War"
(Johnson pages 304-311) and answer
questions
* Test Tomorrow
Mon. Dec. 14
* Multiple Choice Test
Tue. Dec. 15
* Check and Review Test
Wed. Dec. 16
* Lecture/Discussion: Black Codes
Thur. Dec. 17
* Group Work--What did slaves want from
Reconstruction? To what extent were their
aspirations fulfilled?
* Discuss Black Codes from Mississippi
* Sharecropping, and a typical contract
Fri. Dec 18
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
568-598)
[Due Dec. 17]
* Chapter 17 Vocabulary [Due Dec.
18]
* Read "The view from the Bottom
Rail" (Davidson and Lytle pages 177206)and answer: What were the
differences in the Susan
Hamlin/Susan Hamilton interviews,
and what likely accounts for these
differences?
* Read "Chapter 16:
Reconstruction" (Johnson pages 313333) Answer all Discussion
Questions and Comparative
Questions
[Due Jan. 4]
* Read Mississippi Black Codes
(1865) and answer questions. Then
examine in detail one section of the
code and explain in detail why you
think this portion of the law was put
on the books.
* Answer Map Question 17-1 on
page 576 in text
* Read excerpt of Zinn: Slavery
Without Submission, Emancipation
Without Freedom and write a 1 page
reaction paper (What did you read,
and what is your take?) Due Jan. 4
* To Forgive or to Punish?: Lincoln & Johnson vs.
the Radicals
* Lincoln's Assasination
* Test Next Class
* Johnson's Impeachment
* Why Reconstruction Ended
* Success and Failure of Reconstruction
Date
Topic
Mon. Jan. 4
* DBQ Test
Tue. Jan. 5
* Push & Pull factors for westward expansion
Homework
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
606-625)
* Chapter 18 Vocabulary [Due Jan.
8]
* Read Carslile vs. Army excerpt at
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the
_bonus/09/27/carllisle/index.html
* Homestead Act
Wed. Jan. 6
* Morill Act
* April 22, 1889
* Video Clip: Far and Away (?)
* APPARTS on Image
* Chief Joseph
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
625-639)
* Discuss Dawes Act
Thur. Jan. 7
* Return DBQ Exam
* Return and Review Semester Final
Fri. Jan. 8
Video Clip: Dances With Wolves
* How the West was Won
* Chapter 18 Review Jigsaw
Mon. Jan. 11
* Read Helen Hunt Jackson, from A
Century of Dishonor (1881) and
answer questions
* Read Tragedy at Wounded Knee
(1890) and answer questions
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
648-659)
* Chapter 19 Vocabulary [Due Jan.
12]
* Lecture/Discussion: Robber Barrons or Captains * Make a comparison Chart: What
were the key differences between
of Industry?
the Knights of Labor and the AFL?
Tue. Jan. 12
* Consolidation/Integration
* APPARTS on Cartoon
* Discuss AFL vs. Knights of Labor
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
659-677)
* What happened at Haymarket Square?
* 2-1-1 Thesis Writing Practice
* APPARTS on Address by George Engel,
Condemned Haymarket Anarchist (1886)
Jan. 13-15
Tue. Jan. 19
Semester 1 Final Exams
* Discuss: The text refers to the South as an
"internal colony" of the North. What does this
mean?
* Read "The Gilded Age" (1880) and discuss
questions
* Test Tomorrow
* Defend each position: 1) Cities became a more
desireable place to live. 2) Cities became a less
desireable place to live.
Wed. Jan. 20
* Multiple Choice Test
* Check and Review Test
Semester Final Study Preparation
* Using WisCareers website for AP Exam
Semester Final Study Preparation
Date
Topic
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
684-700)
* Chapter 20 Vocabulary [Due Jan.
27]
* Study for Final
* Study for Final
Homework
Thur. Jan. 21
Fri. Jan. 22
* Why did farmers organize the Alliance?
* Read the following primary
sources and answer discussion
questions:
* Oliver H. Kelley & the Grange
….E.L Godkin, A National Disgrace,1877
* The Rise of the Populist Party
….Roscoe Conkling, Offense of the Spoils
System
….Scientific Management (1919)
* What were the goals of the Populist Party?
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
700-715)
* L. FrankBaum's The Wonderful Wizard Wizard of
Oz as a parable on Populism
Mon. Jan25
Tue. Jan. 26
Wed. Jan. 27
Extended Learning
Thur. Jan. 28
Extended Learning
Fri. Jan 29
Mon. Feb. 1
Tues. Feb. 2
* Movie Analysis: The Wizard of Oz
* Movie Analysis: The Wizard of Oz
* Examine the case of Plessy v.
Ferguson and answer questions
* Discuss: Oz IS a parable on Populism
* Discuss Plessy Case…focus on Harlan's dissenting * Complete Spanish American War
worksheet using text and websites
opinion
* Reasons for Imperialism
* Alfred T. Mahan
* Discuss: "A Splendid Little War"
* What were the results of the Spanish American
War?
* Comparison of Philippines at the start of the
20th century, and Iraq at the start of the 21st
century…do you agree or disagree?
* Were "we" better off?
* Welcome to The Jungle
* Lecture/Discussion: TR--The First Modern
President
* Jigsaw discussion questions
* Election of 1912
* Who is the most progressive?
* 2-1-1 Thesis Writing Practice
* Multiple Choice Test
* Check and Review Test
* Read William McKinley, “Decision
on the Philippines” (1900) and
answer question. Be prepared to
discuss next class
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
722-736)
* Chapter 21 Vocabulary [Due Feb 2]
* Read "The Man with the Muck
Rake by Theodore Roosevelt" (April
15, 1906) and answer questions
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
736-755)
* Test Tomorrow
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
762-778)
* Chapter 22 Vocabulary [Due Feb 8]
* Read Theodore Roosevelt, Third Annual
Message to Congress (1903) and answer questions
* Philippe Bunau-Varilla=Frank Abagnale Jr.
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
778-794)
* Lecture/Discussion: Foreign Polcy at the start of
the 20th Century…Big Stick, $, and Moral
Diplomacy
Date
Wed. Feb. 3
Topic
* Lecture/Discussion: Causes of WWI
Homework
* Read "The Great War" and answer
questions
* The Powder Keg Explodes
* Was the United States a neutral power in the
years leading up to it's entry into the war?
Thur. Feb. 4
Fri. Feb. 5
Fri. Feb. 12
* Tipping Points: The Lusitania & Zimmermann
Note
* You choose a WWI homefront
"propoganda" image, and complete
APPARTS worksheet
* Jigsaw on WWI discussion questions
* Lecture/Discussion: The War on the Homefront * Read George Creel's "How We
* Read Newton D. Baker, “The Treatment of
German-Americans” and answer questions
* Discuss Trench Warfare
Advertised America" (1920) and
answer questions
* Read Letters Home and complete
APPARTS worksheets
* Read "Woodrow Wilson, The
Fourteen Points" (1918) and answer
questions
* Video Clip: Legends of the Fall
* The Great Migration…Read "Letters from the
Great Migration" (1917) and answer questions
Mon. Feb. 8
* Cliff's Notes on the End of WWI
Tue. Feb. 9
* Discuss: Why didn't the United States join the
League of Nations? Would the U.S. have been
better off if it had?
* Discuss: How did the automobile transform
American Society?
* The text refers to a "new mass culture." What
was it?
Wed. Feb. 10
* APPARTS worksheet on Sacco and Vanzetti
* What were the causes of this case? What were
the effects of the conviction
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
802-823)
* Chapter 23 Vocabulary [Due Feb
12]
* Read "Advertisements" (1925,
1927) and answer questions
* Read "Jesus Christ as a
Businessman" (1925) and answer
questions
* Read and Take Notes "Sacco and
Vanzetti" (Davidson and Lytle pages
262-286)
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
824-837)
Thur. Feb. 11
Fri. Feb. 12
Mon. Feb. 15
Tues. Feb. 16
* Read Statements at Sentencing (1927) aloud in
class
* Chapter 23 Review Questions--discuss in class
* DBQ Test
* Lecture/Discussion: Causes of the Great
Depression
* Lecture/Discussion: Herbert Hoover--The right
man at the wrong time?
* Test Tomorrow
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
846-869)
* Chapter 24 Vocabulary [Due Feb.
23]
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
870-881)
* Read "Meridel Le Sueur, Woman
on the Breadlines" (1932) and
answer questions
* Read Herbert Hoover, Speech at New York City
(1932) and answer questions
* The Election of 1932--Map Question 24-1 on
page 853
Date
Wed. Feb. 17
Topic
* Suffering during the Great Depression
Homework
* Read FDR's "First Inaugural
Address" and answer questions
* Video Clip: Cinderella Man
* APPARTS worksheet on Depression images
Thur. Feb. 18
(Mid Q3)
Mon. Feb.22
* Documenting the Depression
* Return DBQ Exam
* Read "Share the Wealth" by Huey
Long and “A Third Party” by Fr.
Coughlin and answer questions
about those who opposed FDR
* The New Deal & Priming the Pump
* The New Deal and the 4 R's
* Was the New Deal "socialistic?"
* What were the key differences between the first
and second New Deal
* Test Tomorrow
* Opposition to FDR: Long, Coughlin and the
resistance to court-packing and the party purge.
* Was the New Deal a watershed for African
Americans? Read Mrs. Weddinton's Letter to FDR
and The victims of the Ku Klux Klan
* Debate: Was the New Deal moderate change or
radical change?
Tue. Feb. 23
* Multiple Choice Test
* Check and Review Test
Wed. Feb. 24
* Lecture/Discussion: Revisiting Ferdinand Foch
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
888-909)
* Chapter 25 Vocabulary [Due Mar.1]
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
910-922)
Extended Learning
* Why were Americans opposed to playing an
active role in foreign affairs?
* Make a timeline of key turning
points in the African and European
Theaters using text and map 25-1
* What did FDR do despite the opposition? Is this * Read and Take Notes "The
Decision to Drop the Bomb"
okay?
(Davidson and Lytle pages 317-342)
[Due Mar.1]
Thur. Feb. 25
Extended Learning
* War on the Homefront
* Women and Minorities in WWII
* Video Clip: Band of Brothers
* Japanese Internment and Korematsu v. United
States
Fri. Feb 26
* Pacific Strategy
* Discuss veterans See
propoganda images
Above and
* Summarize one of the veteran
stories at
http://connections.smsd.org/vetera
ns/pacific.htm
* APPARTS on image from
http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/post
ers.html
* Read Einsten's letter to FDR and
answer questions
* Read FDR's letter to Oppenheimer
and answer questions
* Japanese and Bushido
Date
Mon. Feb. 29
Topic
* Manhattan Project
* Truman's Options
Homework
* Read "A People's War?" by
Howard Zinn
* Reaction Paper--What did you
read, and what is your take?
* Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the USS Indianapolis
Tue. Mar. 1
* Debate: Do you agree with Truman's decision?
* 2-1-1 Thesis Writing Practice
* Discuss Zinn
* Chapter 25 Key Words and Terms
Wed. Mar. 2
* Video: White Light, Black Rain
Thur. Mar. 3
* Video: White Light, Black Rain
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
930-948)
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
930-948)
debreif
Fri. Mar. 4
The Cold War--International
* What was the role of the Soviets in WWII?
* The Division of Europe
* Warsaw Pact vs. NATO
* The United Nations
Jigsaw of Key Concepts
...Long Telegram
...Containment
...The Truman Doctorine
...The Marshall Plan
* Chapter 26 Vocabulary [Due Mar.
11]
Mon. Mar. 7
The Cold War--International
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
948-961)
* The Berlin Blockade (1948-1949)
…Silent Debate on Berlin Blockade
* Bikini Atoll (1946…) and Atomic Diplomacy
Tue. Mar. 8
The Cold War--International
* Read Hollywood Ten Article from
truthdig.com, and take notes
* The "Loss" of China (1949)
* The Korean War (1950-1953)
Wed. Mar. 9
The Cold War--Domestic
* The 1948 election
Thur. Mar. 10
* The National Security Act of 1947
* Loyalty Oaths and the HUAC
* The Hollywood Ten 1946
* Video Clip: Guilty by Suspicion
The Cold War--Domestic
* Read Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
and Atomic Espionage Background
* Read "The Rosenberg Trial
Testimony Excerpts"
* Answer Discussion Questions
* Read The Bomb for my Pillow and
take notes
* Espionage and the Cold War
…The Venona Project and KGB Files
…Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss
Date
Topic
Homework
Fri. Mar. 11
The Cold War--Domestic
* "Tailgunner Joe" and McCarthyism
* Role Play: How correct was McCarthy? Has he
violated civil liberties?
* Backyard Bomb Shelters and "Duck and Cover"
* Test Tomorrow
Tue. Mar. 15
* Multiple Choice Test
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
970-987)
* Chapter 27 Vocabulary [Due
Mar.23]
* Oral History: "What Do You
Remember About Your First TV?"
* Check and Review Test
Wed. Mar. 16
* Newspaper account of sporting event/concert
you attended
Extended Learning
* Text Cover Analysis--Lies My Teacher Told Me
Thur. Mar. 17
*Lecture/Discussion Living-Sha'sha-Zimani
* Lecture/Discussion: The Funiture That Didn't
Behave Like All the Others
* Discuss Oral History
* Read "Devil Music: Race, Class,
and Rock And Roll"
* Finish American Pie Analysis
Extended Learning
* I Love Lucy…how does TV reflect society?
* Read and Take Notes "From Rosie
to Lucy" (Davidson and Lytle pages
346-370) [Due Mar. 23]
* American Pie Analysis
Fri. Mar. 18
* Movie: Quiz Show
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
987-1004)
Mon. Mar. 21
* Movie: Quiz Show
* What technology can't you live
without?
Tue. Mar. 22
* Discuss Quiz Show, Impact of TV, and Slime-BagO-Meter
* Evaluating JFKs Presidency
* Evaluating the Eisenhower Presidency
* Ikes Decisions
* APPARTS Worksheet on Debate
* Election of 1960
Wed. Mar. 23
(End Q3)
Tue. Mar. 29
JFK
* Test Tomorrow
* Inaugral Address
* Video: Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missle Crisis
* Discuss Evaluation of Presidency
Wed. Mar. 30
* DBQ Test
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages 10081024)
* How did WWII influence the development of the civil
rights movement?
* What changes occurred in the black community?
* Chapter 28 Vocabulary [Due Apr. 6]
* "Read Brown vs. Board of Education,
1954" and answer questions
* What changes occurred in the white community?
* Read Martin Luther King JR., "Letter from a
Birmingham Jail, 1963" and answer questions
Date
Thur. Mar. 31
Topic
Homework
* Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas * Reaction Paper: Why did Martin
Luther King Jr. emerge as a great
civil rights leader? What qualities
did he possess?
Fri. Apr. 1
Mon. Apr. 4
* Jigsaw Discussion: Evaluate the roles of
Eisenhower, Kennedy & Johnson in the civil rights
movement
* Read "Voices of the Boycott"
* Movie: The Long Walk Home
* Movie: The Long Walk Home
newspaper… Choose 2 articles
from each section and summarize
[Due Apr. 10]
* Read "Chapter 27: The Politics
and Culture of Abundance 19521960" (Johnson pages 230-250)
Answer all Discussion Questions
and Comparative Questions
Discuss Hollywood's version of Montgomery
* Complete Chapter 28 Review
Questions
* Similar Goals, Different Methods
<--Use: http://tinyurl.com/similardifferent
Tue. Apr. 5
* Test Tomorrow
* Return DBQ Exam
* Discuss Similar Goals, Different Methods
* Beloved Community, or Black Separatism Martin
Luther King and Malcom X
Wed. Apr. 6
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
1050-1069)
* Chapter 29 Vocabulary [Due Apr.
* Check and Review Test
20]
* Create a timeline of important events
in the Vietnam Conflict
* Why did LBJ get the US so deeply into Vietnam? * Read and Take Notes "Where
Trouble Comes" (Davidson and Lytle
What could he have done to avoid the
pages 400-428)
"quagmire"?
Extended Learning
* Multiple Choice Test
* The Chain to Vietnam--> Loren Baritz
Thur. Apr. 7
Extended Learning
Fri. Apr. 8
* The Tonkin Gulf Incident
* US and World Opinion over the situation in
Vietnam, 1963
* The "Rambo" view of the war
* 1960's Music--Read "Teen Spirit" Article
Mon. Apr. 11
* Video Clip: Feb. 1964 debut
* Discussion: Mainstream vs. Counterculture
* Discuss 1968 Articles
* Laugh-In…how does TV reflect society?
Tue. Apr. 12
* Background to Woodstock
* Video Clip: Woodstock
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
1070-1087)
* 1968--It's the End of the World…
* Read and Take Notes "Breaking
into Watergate" (Davidson and Lytle
pages 374-396)
* Read Woodstock primary source
* Joan Baez Lyric Analysis
* Read Nixon's Statement from
August 15, 1973 and answer
questions
* Woodstock Statistics
Date
Topic
Wed. Apr. 13
* The Nixon Presidency: Election and Successes
Thur. Apr. 14
* Lecture/Discussion: Watergate--What Did You
Know and When Did You Know It?
Fri. Apr. 15
Homework
* Read House Judiciary Committee,
Conclusion on Impeachment
Resolution (1974) and answer
questions
* Reaction Paper: Was Watergate
an aberration, or part of a pattern?
What was the historical impact of
this event?
* Video: Incident at Oglala
* Read Indian Wars & The Battle of
Wahington
Tue. Apr. 19
* Video: Incident at Oglala
* Analysis of Leonard Peltier's Case
Wed. Apr. 20
Extended Learning
Thur. Apr. 21
Extended Learning
Fri. Apr. 22
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
1094-1128)
* Discuss Leonard Peltier
* Read Tribune Articles
* Letter to the editor about mascots
* 444 Days and the United States of Amnesia
* Video: Iranian Hostage Crisis
* All in the Family theme lyrics analysis
* Video Clip: All in the Family
Tue. Apr. 26
Discuss All in the Family
Wed. Apr. 27
* Chapter 31 Review Questions
Thur. Apr. 28
* Multiple Choice Test
Mon. May 2
Tue. May 3
Wed. May 4
Thur. May 5
FRI. MAY 6
Mon. May 9
Tue. May 10
Wed. May 11
Date
Thur. May 12
* Chapter 30 Review Questions
* Discuss Ch. 30 Review Questions
Mon. Apr. 25
(Mid Q4)
* Chapter 30 Vocabulary [Due Apr.
28]
* Read Text and Take Notes (pages
1136-1171)
* Chapter 31 Vocabulary [Due May
28]
* Chapter 31 Review Questions not
finished in class
* Test Tomorrow
* Check and Review Test
* AP Exam Prep
* AP Exam Prep
* AP Exam Prep
* AP Exam Prep
* Exam Fri. May 6
* Exam Fri. May 6
* Exam Fri. May 6
* Exam Fri. May 6
* Exam Fri. May 6
AP U.S. History National Exam
* Presidential Final Four seeding meeting
* Presidential Final Four seeding meeting
* Presidential Final Four tournament
Topic
Homework
* Video: Forrest Gump
Fri. May 13
* Video: Forrest Gump…Senior Exams?
Mon. May 16
Video: "9/11" by the Naudet Brothers
Tue. May 17
Video: "9/11" by the Naudet Brothers
Wed. May 18
*Debrief on 9/11 documentary
pages of 9/11
* What scenes need to be added to
Forrest Gump?
* NOTE: SENIOR EXAMS 16-18.
Your history exam date not yet
determined
* NOTE: SENIOR EXAMS 16-18.
Your history exam date not yet
determined
*Front
* NOTE: SENIOR EXAMS 16-18.
Your history exam date not yet
determined
Thur. May 19
Fri. May 20
* Final Exam Review
*Debrief on 9/11 documentary
* Prepare video Presentation (?)
*Student Video Presentation
* Study for Final Exam
* Final Exam Review
Mon. May 23
*Student Video Presentation
* Lyric Analysis of 80s
Songs…Bruce Springstein and
Grandmaster Flash
* Study for Final Exam
Tue. May 24
*Student Video Presentation
* Study for Final Exam
Wed. May 25
*Student Video Presentation
* Study for Final Exam
May 26-June 1
(End Q4)
Semester 2 Final Exams