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Fall Semester 2014 American History II

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Date & Topic
 Lesson Activities  Due Today
General Resources for the Course  

Mon. 8/25/14

Introduction to Course

Quick Review: American I
  • None

 

Tues. 8/26/14

The Great West & Populism:

Settling the West
  • GIST and SOAPSTone analyses

 

Wed. 8/27/14

The Great West & Populism:

Settlers' Challenges
  • Poster or Pioneers Chart

 

Thur. 8/28/14

The Great West & Populism:

The Plains Indians
  • Little Big Horn document activity

 

Fri. 8/29/14

The Great West & Populism:

The Plains Indians
  • Warm up question: Watch the following video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SFqadRTQ0 What are three points this filmmaker is trying to get across? Are they as successful as yesterday's video? Why?
  • Review as a class the Document Based Activity on The Battle of Little Big Horn
  • Review PowerPoint on The Indian Wars (Accompanying notes should be used to study for the test)
  • Current events tie-in: Read both news articles (#1 & #2) about the use of the name "Redskins" by the NFL franchise in Washington D.C. and complete a SOAPSTone analysis of each article. After assessing both articles, answer the following questions and back up your answers with sound, evidence-based reasoning: 1) Should Congress force the Redskins to change their team name and/or logo? 2) Should the NFL force Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to change the team's name and/or logo? 3) Should the owner voluntarily change the team's name, either due to social pressure or out of cultural sensitivity?
  • Homework: Reading from the electronic textbook at http://www.ushistory.org/us/40c.asp , http://www.ushistory.org/us/40d.asp , and http://www.ushistory.org/us/40e.asp 
  • SOAPSTone of Washington Redskins articles
Mon. 9/1/14 (Labor Day)
  • Enjoy your holiday!
  • None

Tues. 9/2/14

The Great West & Populism:

Technology and the Rise and Fall of the Populist Party
  • Barbed Wire Four-Square

 

Wed. 9/3/14

Populism
  • Warm up activity: Complete the document activity on Populism and the Election of 1896. Honors classes should use the unmodified versions of the documents. Students needing additional background information may consult the accompanying PowerPoint presentation.
  • The Wizard of Oz as a Parable for Populism: If you are unfamiliar with the story of The Wizard of Oz, read this plot summary. Then, using what you have learned so far, hypothesize what each of the characters, places, and objects on this list might represent if The Wizard of Oz is taken as a parable for populism. Once that is done, try to match up each of these descriptions with the characters, places, and objects from the list. When completed, compare your answers to the answer key in this PowerPoint.
  • Populism documents
  • Wizard of Oz parable (group)

 

Thur. 9/4/14

Populism & Unit Review
  • Warm up: In this unit, we have studied the problems faced by Great Plains Native Americans and Great Plains farmers. Based on what you have learned, whose problems were greater? Why? (Turn in)
  • Repeat the Wizard of Oz group activity from yesterday. How much of the parable could you remember?
  • Take the Wizard of Oz & Populism quiz
  • Unit review video with viewing guide: "America: The Story of Us - Heartland" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvSfA4t-M98
  • Warm up
  • Quiz
  • Viewing guide

Fri. 9/5/14

Assessment
  • Warm up: Take 5 minutes to study before we start the unit test
  • Unit Test: The Great West
  • The Great West Test

Mon. 9/8/14

The Gilded Age: Immigration
  • AP PARTS
  • Chinese Immigration documents

Tues. 9/9/14

The Gilded Age: Urbanization
  • Floor plan activity
  • Jacob Riis documents

Wed. 9/10/14

The Gilded Age: Immigrant & Urban Problems
  • DBQ
  • Viewing guide

Thur. 9/11/14

The Gilded Age: The Robber Barons & Big Business
  • Warm up question: In general, how have living conditions for the poor improved since the late 1800s?
  • Review the PowerPoint on the Robber Barons & Big Business (Accompanying notes should be used to study for the test)
  • Horizontal & Vertical Integration activity - Extra Credit
  • Research one of the Robber Barons (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Jay Gould, James Duke) and a modern "robber baron" (Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Paul Allen, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos) and complete a graphic organizer for each
  • Robber Barons graphic organizer

Fri. 9/12/14

The Gilded Age: Labor Unions
  • Warm up question: What rights should workers expect from their employers?
  • Review the PowerPoint on The Rise of Labor Unions (Accompanying notes should be used to study for the test)
  • Individual document activity: The Homestead Strike (more advanced readers should use the unmodified documents)
  • Small group document activity (groups of 4): The Pullman Strike; each group member should read a different one of the four sets of documents and complete the graphic organizer before sharing out with the group (additional information about the Pullman Strike can be found in the accompanying PowerPoint)
  • Homestead documents
  • Pullman documents

Mon. 9/15/14

The Gilded Age:

Radicals
  • Vocabulary
  • Albert Parsons SAC

Tues. 9/16/14

Assessment &

 
  • Urbanization & Immigration Test
  • Albert Parsons SAC

Wed. 9/17/18

The Gilded Age: Political Corruption
  • Albert Parsons SAC
  • Political Bosses documents

Thur. 9/18/14

The Progressive Era is Born
  • Progressive Social Reformers documents

Fri. 9/19/14

The Progressive Presidents
  • Viewing guide

Mon. 9/22/14

Racism During the Progressive Era
  • 1898 Election documents
  • Plessy documents

Tues. 9/23/14

Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois
  • Three Visions activity
  • Washington v Du Bois docs
  • Garvey docs

Wed. 9/24/14

Assessment
  • Warm up question: Prepare for test
  • Take the test on Gilded Age corruption and Progressive Era reforms
  • Finish any document work not completed from the unit
  • Gilded Age Test

Thur. 9/25/14
  • Teacher Workday - No School!
  

Fri. 9/26/14

New Inventions
  • Marketing question
  • Invention Timeline

Mon. 9/29/14

New Imperialism & The Spanish-American War
  • Maine Explosion documents
  • Spanish-American War documents

Tues. 9/30/14

American Imperialist Diplomacy
  • Foreign Policy Analysis Questions
  • Imperialism Chart
  • Philippine-American War documents
  • Soldiers in the Philippines documents

Wed. 10/1/14

Amnesty Day!
  • Warm up question: Which idea on diplomacy should we use today: the Big Stick, dollar diplomacy, or moral diplomacy?
  • Take the quiz on American Imperialism
  • Finish all document activities from previous three days!
  • Imperialism Quiz

Thur. 10/2/14

The Great War: Causes of WWI
  • Warm up question: Why might imperialism lead to war between nations?
  • Review the PowerPoint on Causes of WWI (Accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Complete the document activity on U.S. Entry Into WWI (More advanced readers should use the unmodified version of the documents)
  • US Entry Into WWI documents

Fri. 10/3/14

Fighting WWI: Technological War
  • WWI Visuals DBQ
  • League of Nations documents

Mon. 10/6/14

The Great War:

The War at Home
  • Sedition in WWI documents
  • The Palmer Raids documents

Tues. 10/7/14

The Roaring Twenties:

Social Movements
  • Chicago Race Riots documents
  • Mexican Labor documents
  • Women's Suffrage documents
  • Anti-Suffragists documents

Wed. 10/8/14

The Roaring Twenties: Prohibition & New Science
  • Prohibition documents
  • Scopes Trial documents

Thur. 10/9/14

Assessment: WWI & The Early 1920s
  • Warm up question: Prepare for the test.
  • Take the test on WWI
  • Finish any document activities from the week
  • WWI Test

Fri. 10/10/14

The Roaring Twenties:

The Jazz Age
  • Warm up question: In the US today, do we still have distinctly "black" and distinctly "white" cultures when it comes to entertainment? If so, give specific examples.
  • Review the PowerPoint on The Jazz Age (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • View America: The Story of Us, episode "Boom" and complete the viewing guide. The video is available online at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL446F1C6BFEC4B0DD.
  • Story of Us Viewing Guide

Mon. 10/13/14

The Roaring Twenties & Great Depression:

Economic Boom & Bust
  • The Dust Bowl documents

Tues. 10/14/14

The Great Depression:

Hoover's Failed Response
  • Warm up question: Would you invest in the stock market today? Why?
  • Review the PowerPoint on Hoover's Failed Response (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Complete the Mini-Q document activity on Why Did Prohibition End?
  • The Dust Bowl mini-DBQ

Wed. 10/15/14

1920s Assessment &

The Great Depression
  • Viewing guide
  • 1920s test

Thur. 10/16/14

The Great Depression:

The New Deal
  • The New Deal documents

Fri. 10/17/14 (early release)

The Great Depression:

Social & Cultural Impacts
  • Warm up question: Was the New Deal worth the cost of becoming a welfare state?
  • Complete the document activity on Social Security, including the historians' viewpoint questions (more advanced readers should use the unmodified documents)
  • All Great Depression activities should be complete before leaving class today!

 

 
  • Social Security documents

Mon. 10/20/14

WWII:

Rise of Totalitarianism
  • Warm up question: How much power should a government have over its the daily lives of its citizens?
  • Review the PowerPoint on The Rise of Totalitarianism (accompanying notes should be used to study for the next test)
  • Activity: Describe how Knightdale High School fits the description of a totalitarian state
  • Activity: Totalitarianism lotus diagram
  • Lotus Diagram
  • KHS as a totalitarian state analysis

Tues. 10/21/14

WWII:

American Neutrality
  • Causes of WWII DBQ

Wed. 10/22/14

The Great Depression:

Unit Assessment
  • Warm up question: Prepare for test
  • The Great Depression test
  • Students who finish the test may begin working on the Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor Mini-Q
  • Test

Thur. 10/23/14

WWII:

The War at Home
  • Warm up question:
  • Finish the Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor Mini-Q
  • Mini-Q

Fri. 10/24/14

WWII:

The U.S. Enters the War
  • Viewing guide
  • Zoot Suit Riots document activity

Mon. 10/27/14

WWII:

The Home Front
  • Warm up question: What provoked the Zoot Suit Riots - patriotism or racism?
  • Review the PowerPoint on The War at Home (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Complete the Japanese Internment document activity, including watching the video at https://archive.org/details/Japanese1943 and filling in the graphic organizer.
  • Supreme Court Case Study: Korematsu v U.S. (1944)
  • Watch the Crash Course: U.S. History episode on the American Home-front in WWII
  • Japanese Internment documents

Tues. 10/28/14

Amnesty Day!
  • Warm up question: How did historically discriminated against minority groups help the US win WWII?
  • Last day of the quarter - all students will be given a chance to turn in late or revised work.
  • Late work
  • Revisions
Wed. 10/29/14 (Teacher Workday)
  • Enjoy Your Day Off!
  • None

Thur. 10/30/14

WWII:

Fighting the War
  • Warm up question: Given your first quarter grade, what might you do differently 2nd quarter?
  • Review the PowerPoint on Fighting WWII (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • View selected clips from the film Saving Private Ryan
  • Complete the document activity on The Atomic Bomb, including viewing the images.
  • Atomic Bomb documents

Fri. 10/31/14

The 1950s:

The GIs Come Home
  • WWII Lotus Diagram

Mon. 11/3/14

The 1950s:

The Early Days of the Cold War
  • Warm up question: What do we owe American soldiers when they return home from war?
  • Review the PowerPoint on the Early Days of the Cold War (accompanying notes should be used to study for the next test)
  • Complete the document activity on the Cold War (Students wanting a quick background on the documents should view this PowerPoint; more advanced students should use the unmodified documents)
  • Cold War documents

Tues. 11/4/14

WWII Test
  • Warm up question: Prepare for test
  • Take the WWII Test
  • WWII test

Wed. 11/5/14

The 1950s: The Truman Years
  • Warm up question: Why didn't the U.S. return to a policy of isolationism after WWII like it did after WWI?
  • Review the PowerPoint on The Truman Years (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Complete the document activity on the Korean War (additional background information available here)
  • View the video clip from The Presidents: Truman at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL2gyEuQ-YU 
  • Korean War documents

Thur. 11/6/14

The 1950s: The Truman Years
  • Warm up question: Was America's involvement in the Korean War justified? Why?
  • Complete the document activity on Truman and MacArthur (additional background information available here)
  • Complete the Lotus Diagram on Harry Truman using note sets #29 & #30 (Early Cold War and The Truman Years)
  • Truman and MacArthur documents
  • Lotus Diagram

Fri. 11/7/14 (early release day)

The 1950s:

Early Feminism
  • Warm up question: Why do you think Truman refused to consider using atomic weapons against China?
  • Complete the document activity on Women in the 1950s and fill in the graphic organizer. Students needing more background information should consult this PowerPoint.

 
  • Women in the 1950s documents

Mon. 11/10/14

The 1950s:

Eisenhower & The Cold War
  • Guatemala documents
Tues. 11/11/14 (Veteran's Day)
  • Enjoy Your Holiday.... and Thank a Veteran for Their Service!
  • None

Wed. 11/12/14

The 1950s:

Eisenhower & Civil Rights
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Brown v Board

Thur. 11/13/14

Amnesty Day!
  • Missing assignments

Fri. 11/14/14

The 1950s: Unit Assessment
  • Warm up question: Prepare for test
  • Test on Truman & Eisenhower
  • Test

Mon. 11/17/14

The 1960s:

JFK & The Cold War
  • Warm up question: Should Eisenhower be considered a great president? Why or why not?
  • Complete test corrections for the Truman & Eisenhower test
  • Review the PowerPoint on The Kennedy Years through the Cold War material (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Test Corrections

Tues. 11/18/14

JFK &

Civil Rights
  • Warm up question: Why didn't Kennedy do more to support Cuban rebels?
  • Complete the document activity on The Cuban Missile Crisis (more advanced students should use the original documents)
  • Review the PowerPoint on The Kennedy Years through the Civil Rights material (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis documents

Wed. 11/19/14

JFK & Vietnam
  • Warm up question: Why did Kennedy so strongly support civil rights?
  • Finish the PowerPoint on The Kennedy Years through the Vietnam War (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Complete the mini-Q on Berlin, Korea, and Cuba: How Did the US Contain Communism?
  • Cold War mini=Q

Thur. 11/20/14

The 1960s:

LBJ's Great Society
  • Great Society documents
  • Civil Rights Act documents

Fri. 11/21/14

The 1960s:

LBJ & Civil Rights
  • Warm up question: Was the Great Society a success or a failure? Explain.
  • Review the PowerPoint on The LBJ Years through the Counter-culture material (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Politics or Principle: Why Did LBJ Sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964? mini-Q
  • Civil Rights Act documents

Mon. 11/24/14

The 1960s:

LBJ & Vietnam
  • Warm up question: Why was the US so willing to fight in Vietnam?
  • Finish the PowerPoint on The LBJ Years (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Complete the document activity on The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (more advanced students should use the unmodified documents; students needing more background information should look here)
  • Gulf of Tonkin documents

Tues. 11/25/14

The 1960s: 1968
  • Video Guide

Wed. 11/26/14 to Fri. 11/28/14

(Thanksgiving Break)
  • Enjoy Your Holiday!
  • None

Mon. 12/1/14

Nixon & Vietnam
  • Anti-Vietnam War Movement documents

Tues. 12/2/14

Nixon & Civil Rights
  • Warm up question: Did Nixon make the right decision in escalating the war in Vietnam as a strategy for ending the war more quickly?
  • Review the PowerPoint on Nixon through Roe v Wade (accompanying notes should be used to prepare for the next test)
  • Complete the Mini-Q on Cesar Chavez
  • Cesar Chavez documents

 

Wed. 12/3/14

Nixon's Foreign Policy & Watergate Scandal
  • Viewing guide

 

Thur. 12/4/14

JFK test

Closeout of Nixon
  • Warm up question: Prepare for test
  • Take the test on the Kennedy administration
  • Complete the Supreme Court Case Study: U.S. v New York Times
  • Complete the Supreme Court Case Study: Roe v. Wade
  • Complete the Supreme Court Case Study: U.S. v Nixon (1974)
  • JFK test
  • US v New York Times
  • Roe v Wade
  • US v Nixon

Fri. 12/5/14

LBJ Test
  • Warm up question: Prepare for test
  • Take the test on the Johnson administration
  • LBJ test 

Mon. 12/8/14

Ford & Carter
  • Bakke case
  • Gregg case

Tues. 12/9/14

The Reagan Years:

Social Ills
  • None

Wed. 12/10/14

Test: Nixon, Ford, Carter
  • Warm up question: Prepare for test
  • Take the test on Nixon, Ford, & Carter

 
  • Test

Thur. 12/11/14

The Reagan & Bush Years
  •  

Fri. 12/12/14

Amnesty Day
  • Amnesty Day - complete test corrections and make up work!
  • Test corrections
  • Make up work

Mon. 12/15/14

The Clinton Years
  •  

Tues. 12/16/14

9/11
  •  

Wed. 12/17/14

George W. Bush
  •  

Thur. 12/18/14

Post-Cold War America:

9/11
  • Warm up question:
  • Today's Vocabulary:
  •  
  •  

Fri. 12/19/14

Post-Cold War America:

The War on Terror
  •  

Mon. 12/22/14  to Fri. 1/2/15

(Winter Break)
  • Enjoy Your Break!
  • None

Mon. 1/5/15

Post-Cold War America:

G. W. Bush's Domestic Policies
  • Warm up question:
  • Today's Vocabulary:
  • Supreme Court Case Study: Kelo v City of New London (2005)
  •  

Tues. 1/6/15

Post-Cold War America:

The Obama Years
  •  

Wed. 1/7/15

Post-Cold War America:

Unit Assessment
  • Warm up question:
  • Today's Vocabulary:
  •  
  •  

Thur. 1/8/15

REVIEW DAY

    

Fri. 1/9/15

REVIEW DAY

    

Mon. 1/12/15

EXAMS

    

Tues. 1/13/15

EXAMS

    

Wed. 1/14/15

EXAMS

    

Thur. 1/15/15

EXAMS

    

Fri. 1/16/15 (End of Semester)

EXAMS

    

 

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