US History (Period 3) Assignments
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- Spring 2019
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- Social Studies
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ATTENTION PARENTS AND STUDENTS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, IS A STUDENT HELP OPPORTUNITY FROM 7:40-8:40 AM. STUDENTS WHO NEED TO MAKE UP AN ASSIGNMENT OR TEST CAN DO SO DURING THIS TIME ONLY, BUT THEY MUST BE PRESENT IN MY CLASSROOM TO DO SO.
MAY 15, 2019 WILL BE THE LAST DAY TO HAND IN LATE ASSIGNMENTS.
NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE TAKEN AFTER MAY 15. NO EXCEPTIONS.
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Final Review Assignment: Page 652 Standards Assessment 1-16
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Read The End of the Cold War (639-634). Complete section assignment.
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Read Foreign Policy After the Cold War (645-649). Complete section assignment.
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Read The Reagan Revolution (pages 633-637) and complete the Section Review Handout.
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Read The Conservative Movement Grows (pages 628-632) and complete the Section Review Assignment.
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TEST--CHAPTER 18
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Review Chapter 18--Page 622 Standards Assessment 1-15. There is also a review crossword puzzle. Test tomorrow.
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Read Foreign Policy Troubles (pages 615-619) and complete the section review assignment.
Video: The Camp David Accords
Video: The Iran Hostage Crisis
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Read The Ford and Carter Years (pages 607-613) and complete the Section Review assignment.
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Read Nixon and the Watergate Scandal (pages 598-605) and complete the Section Review Assignment.
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Review assignment for Chapter 17: Page 594 1-16
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TEST: CHAPTER 17
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Read The Environmental Movement (pages 586-591) and complete the Section Review Assignment.
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Read The Rights Revolution Expands (pages 580-585) and complete the Section Review handout.
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Read The Women's Rights Movement (pages 574-578) and complete the Section Review handout.
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Read The Counterculture (pages 570-573) and complete the Section Review Handout.
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TEST CHAPTER 16
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Chapter 16 Review: Page 566 1-16
Also, there is a crossword puzzle review.
Test tomorrow.
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Read Nixon and the Cold War (pages 560-563) and complete the Section Review Assignment.
Video: Nixon in China
Video: SALT
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WRITING ABOUT DATA FROM THE VIETNAM WAR
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Read The War's End and Impact (pages 552-559) and complete the Section Review Assignment.
Video: The My Lai Massacre
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The Vietnam Experience in Music
(See attached assignment. The links below are used for this assignment.)
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Galveston |
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Last Train to Clarksville |
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/monkees/lasttraintoclarksville.html |
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The Ballad of the Green Beret |
https://genius.com/Barry-sadler-ballad-of-the-green-berets-lyrics |
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The Dawn of Correction |
https://genius.com/The-spokesmen-the-dawn-of-correction-lyrics |
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Ohio |
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Gimme Shelter |
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Read The War Divides America (pages 544-551) and complete the attached assignment.
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Today, students are analyzing four short video clips and responding to questions and cost/benefit analyses of French colonialism in Vietnam. (See attached assignment.)
Video 1: French Conquest of Indochina
Video 2: French Pacification Program
Video 3: Geneva Conference Accords
Video 4: A Country and People Divided
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Origins of the Vietnam War and US Involvement in Vietnam--Notes. There is no additional assignment today.
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Read US Involvement Grows (pages 537-543) and complete the attached assignment.
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Writing about history: The Tonkin Gulf Resolution (attached).
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Read Origins of the Vietnam War (pages 532-536). See attached assignment.
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QUIZ CHAPTER 15
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Read Johnson's Great Society (pages 516-524) and complete the Key Terms/Section Review Questions.
THERE WILL BE A SHORT QUIZ ON CHAPTER 15 TOMORROW
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Read Kennedy's New Frontier (pages 511-515) and complete the Key Terms/Section Review Questions
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Writing about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Read Kennedy and the Cold War (pages 504-510) and complete the Key Terms/Section Review Questions handout.
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Today is a make-up day in all classes for students who have missed tests prior to going away for spring break.
Students who are all caught up will be given an extra credit-opportunity assignment. This assignment is only for students who are present in class today. It will not be counted against students who are not present, and cannot be made up at any other time.
ENJOY YOUR SPRING BREAK. WE WILL RESUME THE COURSE CURRICULUM WHEN WE RETURN APRIL 8, 2019.
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TEST--CHAPTER 14
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Page 500 Standards Assessment 1-14
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Read New Successes and Challenges (pages 488-496) and complete the Key Terms/Questions for the section.
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Read The Movement Gains Ground (pages 477-484) and complete the Key Terms and Questions chart for the section.
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Read Early Demands for Equality (pages 468-475). Complete the Key Terms Chart and Section Review Questions
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Today, we begin looking at The Civil Rights Movement. There is no assignment due to the minimum day.
Video: Brown v. Board of Education
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Read Dissent and Discontent (pages 455-459) and complete the key terms and questions chart for the section.
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Today, we will be viewing the 1950s Commercial Projects submitted by the class. Be sure to have a completed storyboard with all group member names to hand in at the start of class today.
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1950s Commercial Project
See attached file and storyboard template.
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Read Mass Culture and Family Life (pages 448-453). Complete the Key Terms and Questions handout.
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Read A Society on the Move (pages 440-447) and complete the Key Terms Chart/Section Review Questions
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Read An Economic Boom (pages 434-439) Complete the graphic organizer/key terms/questions handout.
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Writing Wednesday--Women in the 1950s.
Read and annotate the provided documents. Complete the graphic organizer and formulate a thesis sentence. Then use that thesis sentence to write a 6-sentence Claim Paragraph citing evidence from both documents in which you address the central question:
Was the popular image of the 1950s happy housewife an accurate portrayal of what life was like for women in America during the 1950s?
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TEST: CHAPTER 12
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Chapter 12 Review: Page 430 1-14. Also, there is a crossword puzzle review that is not to be handed in; it is for students to use as a study guide.
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Read The Cold War At Home (pages 418-427) and complete the Key Terms/Questions Chart for the section.
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Analyzing Primary Source Documents on The Origins of the Cold War (see attached assignment).
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Read The Korean War (pages 406-411). Complete the Problem/Solution Chart and Key Terms/Questions handout.
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Read The Cold War Begins (pages 398-404) and complete the Key Terms/5 Questions Chart.
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TEST--CHAPTER 11
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Students who have not submitted their 3rd-quarter essays yet may still access the submission portal on turnitin.com, however points will be deducted for late submissions.
Review Chapter 11: Page 394 1-15
There is also a study guide for the test, which will be administered tomorrow.
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3rd Quarter Essay Assignment: The Bomb and WW2
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Read Effects of the War (pages 386-391) and complete the terms and questions handout for the section.
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Today is the third and final day for students to work on their essay on dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. Please note the following:
- ESSAYS MUST BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY THROUGH TURNITIN.COM
- ESSAYS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY MIDNIGHT, MONDAY NIGHT (FEB. 18), AFTER THIS THE SUBMISSION PORTAL WILL BE CLOSED AND NO LATE ESSAYS CAN BE ACCEPTED (LATE/MISSING WORK WILL RECEIVE A ZERO)
- A HARD COPY OF THE ANNOTATED DOCUMENTS MUST BE HANDED IN TO THE CLASSROOM ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
- ALL NECESSARY FILES ARE AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE
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ALL STUDENTS MUST ENROLL IN THE CORRECT CLASS ON TURNITIN.COM IN ORDER TO SUBMIT THEIR ESSAYS ELECTRONICALLY.
GRADING RUBRIC FOR 11TH-GRADE ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS DISTRIBUTED.
SEE ATTACHED FILES FOR SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND RUBRIC
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Read The Holocaust (pages 380-385), and answer questions 1-6, page 385
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Read Victory in Europe and the Pacific (pages 370-379) and complete the 2-column chart and respond to the 4 questions attached.
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Read pages 370-379 and complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.
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Read the information on Korematsu v. U.S. (1944) on page 367, and write a complete paragraph citing evidence in which you either defend or oppose the Court's decision on the case.
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Read The Home Front (pages 361-366). Complete the Key Terms Chart/Questions for the section.
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Read The Home Front (pages 361-366). Complete the graphic organizer for the section and respond to the Focus Question in a complete paragraph.
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Read The Allies Turn the Tide (pages 354-360) and complete the handout on Key Terms/Questions
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Read The Allies Turn the Tide (pages 354-360). Complete the Graphic Organizer and respond to the Focus Question in a complete paragraph.
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TEST: CHAPTER 10
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Finishing the Close to Home--Looking at High School Yearbooks from WW2 assignment today in class. Additionally, there is a follow-up writing assignment on analytical paragraphs for the topic.
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Review Chapter 10: Page 350 Standards Assessment 1-16. This is a graded assignment and must be handed in.
There is also a review crossword puzzle that is a study guide. It is not graded and not to be handed in.
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Read America Enters the War (pages 340-347) and complete the worksheets from the section.
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Web Activity: Close to Home: Looking at High School Yearbooks from WW2
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Today, we watched the first 10 minutes of the History Buffs Video on Dunkirk.
Then, students responded to questions 2, 4, 5, and 6, page 338
We began covering Section 3 of Chapter 10, America Enters the War, pages 340-347
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Writing Wednesday: FDR's Fireside Chat of December 9, 1941; Writing a FATT Thesis Statement; Sentence Writing Assignment (see all attached PDF files)
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Read From Isolation to Involvement (pages 331-338). Complete the Key Terms Chart for the section.
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Welcome back to school! The Spring 2019 course syllabus for US History is attached here as a PDF. Please print and complete the Course Orientation Agreement (page 7) and return to me by Friday, January 18.
THIS IS A GRADED ASSIGNMENT.
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Periods 4 and 5: Complete the graphic organizer Dictators and War
All classes: Read Americans Debate Involvement (pages 335 - 337) and create a T-Chart with one column labeled "Isolationism" and the other labeled "Intervention." In each column, write 3 Arguments for the Position, and at the bottom of each column list 2 Facts or Events that could be used to Justify the Argument.
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Read pages 324 - 330. Complete the Key Terms Chart for the section, as well as the graphic organizer Dictators and Wars