Mr. Thompson's US History Classes

Textbook:

Prentice Hall United States History - Modern America, California Edition: Modern America (ISBN: 0-13-251635-7)

Monday/Tuesday:

Namecard, syllabus, student and teacher introductions (pair share and present the other to the class), discuss textbook. HW: Parent signature of syllabus (Due: Next Class), materials check: textbook and and set-up portfolio (Due: Tuesday/Wednesday, August 13th/14th), and Chapter 1 Section 2 vocabulary and outline (Due: Friday, August 16th)- use the Reading Strategies (Outlines).doc to complete the outline portion.

Wednesday:

Collect syllabus parent signature, Lecture: Exploration, and Christopher Columbus assignment (CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE INDIANS.doc ) due next class (if needed).

Thursday/Friday:

Discuss and submit Christopher Columbus assignment, begin Lecture: “The English Colonies: Virginia” and worksheet “Three Colonial Sections” in groups due at the end of class.

Monday:

Warm-Up #1 (If Christopher Columbus never stumbled on the "New World", name at least three historical events that would have changed as a result), video: America the Story of Us- Rebels. HW: Materials check for textbook and portfolio next class.

Tuesday/Wednesday:

Warm-Up #2 (America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. Anthony Walton Describe why this is a strength and a weakness.  Do you think we should be a nation of second chances?), Lecture: “The English Colonies: The Pilgrims and Puritans”, and worksheet “Puritans” due at the end of class, and HW: Chapter 1 Section 2 Vocabulary and Outline due next class.

Thursday/Friday:

Five minutes to review, submit and take quiz for Chapter 1 Section 2 Vocabulary and Outline, and Lecture: Causes of the American Revolution with Primary Source Analysis: 1. The Boston Massacre. HW: 1. Major Battles and Events of the American Revolution Chart due: Tuesday/Wednesday August 20th and 21st  2. Chapter 1 Section 3 Vocabulary and Outline due Thursday August 22nd.  Bring technology next class for some time to work on the homework.

Monday:

Warm-Up #3 (Do you think the colonists had a legitimate claim for independence? Why or why not? ), Primary Source Analysis: The Declaration of Independence, online poll about technology, return graded work, and work on the homework.

Tuesday/Wednesday:

Discuss and submit homework: Major Battles and Events of the American Revolution Chart, view CNN Student News #1 and answer questions, video: America the Story of Us: Revolution, and HW: Chapter 1 Section 3 Vocabulary and Outline due next class. ALSO: Preamble Recitation for Extra Credit August 26th.

Thursday:

Five minutes to review, submit and take quiz for Chapter 1 Section 3 Vocabulary and Outline, Lecture: Constitution, and Federalists v. AntiFederalists pair share document analysis. HW: "Federal Government" worksheet for homework due next class and Preamble recitation next class for extra credit.

Friday/Monday:

Warm-Up #4 (What are the goals of the Preamble?  Do not just write what it says, describe in your own words what the stated responsibilities of the new government?), submit federal government homework, extra credit preamble recitation, and Constitution Power Grab Game. HW: Chapter 1 Section 4 Vocabulary and Outline due next class.

Friday/Monday:

Warm-Up #4 (What are the goals of the Preamble?  Do not just write what it says, describe in your own words what the stated responsibilities of the new government?), submit federal government homework, extra credit preamble recitation, and Constitution Power Grab Game. HW: Chapter 1 Section 4 Vocabulary and Outline due next class.

Tuesday:

Five minutes to review, submit and take quiz for Chapter 1 Section 4, Lecture: Early Republic and the War of 1812, and primary source analysis of Hamilton v. Jefferson. HW: Study guide for the Chapter One Test: NOT BEING SUBMITTED BUT HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU USE IT!!! 

Wednesday/Thursday:

CNN Student News #2, Finish Lecture: Early Republic and the War of 1812 (if necessary), ten minutes to work on the study guide, and review game (based on “Three Strikes”).

1. Where do most scientists believe that people first came to the Americas from?
2. How did the arrival of Europeans affect native American society?
3. Which country established a number of colonies along the Atlantic coast?
4. Which new England colonial region offered the most religious freedom?
5. During the 1760s, American colonists rebelled against the British parliament for what reason?
6. Study your notes regarding the articles of confederation
7. Antifederalists did not like the constitution because it did not include what?
8. What major change of the united states took place during the Jefferson presidency?
9. Where did vasco de gama of Portugal reach in 1498?
10. What was the cause of thousands of native american deaths after the europeans came to the new world?
11. What was the goal of the missionaries who came to the Americas?
12. What was the first successful colony established by the English in the new world?
13. Why did the British parliament need the colonists to pay so many new taxes in the 1760s and 1770s?
14. Why did the federalists support ratification of the constitution? What type of government would it make?
15. What did Alexander Hamilton believe a national bank would promote?
16. Which chief justice expanded the powers of the supreme court through such cases as marbury v Madison?
17. What is unique about the war of 1812 regarding war damage?
18. What plant or animal changed the way the Indians of the great plains lived?
19. How did Jeffersons political outlook affect his presidency? Did he believe in limited or expanded federal powers and what action demonstrates this? What did he expand or limit?
20. The fourth of July marks what anniversary?
21. What were and were not powers of the central government under the articles of confederation?
22. What is the United States Congress made up of?
23. "millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute"-what event is this quote referring to?

Terms:
Judicial review
Northwest ordinance
Columbian exchange
The "starving time"
Indentured servitude
Revolution
"common sense"
Amendment
Separation of power
Executive branch
Legislative branch
Federalists
Three-fifths compromise
Great compromise
Marbury v Madison
Clan
Conquistador
Middle passage
Christopher Columbus
House of burgesses
Enlightenment
Great awakening
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
James Madison
Federalism
Check and balances
Sedition act
Impressment
Embargo
Monroe doctrine

Monday: No School

Tuesday: Five minutes to review for the Chapter One Test, take the test, work on Chapter 2 Section 1 Vocabulary and Outline due next Monday, September 9th.

Wednesday/Thursday: CNN Student News #3, handout and discuss "Glory" permission slip, go over "Civil War Presentations" directions, make groups, and work in the library. Chapter 2 Section 1 Vocabulary and Outline due next class. Glory Permission slip due: September 12th/17th

Monday: Submit Chapter 2 Section 1 Vocabulary and Outline, Lecture: Andrew Jackson, and Handout: Native Americans and Westward Expansion.  HW: Chapter 2 Section 2 Vocabulary and Outline due Tuesday/Wednesday (September 17th/18th)

Tuesday/Wednesday: Warm-Up #5, Lecture: Manifest Destiny, PS Analysis: O'Sullivan, and Four Corners Discussion. 

Thursday/Tuesday: Submit "Glory" permission slip, CNN Student News #4, and Library for Work Day #2

Thursday/Tuesday: Submit "Glory" permission slip, CNN Student News #4, and Library for Work Day #2

Tuesday/Wednesday: Submit Chapter 2 Section 2 vocabulary and outline and take quiz, Lecture Abolitionists, and worksheet: Narrative of Frederick Douglass.

Thursday/Friday:  Prepare for presentations and then first four groups present. HW: Chapter 2 Section 3 Vocabulary and Outline due Tuesday/Wednesday.

Monday/Tuesday: Prepare for presentations and then second four groups present.

Tuesday/Wednesday: Submit Chapter 2 Section 3 Vocabulary and Outline, Lecture: Civil War (First Half), and begin watching "Glory"

Thursday/Friday: Continue watching "Glory".  HW: Chapter 2 Section 4 Vocabulary and Outline due Thursday/Friday

Monday/Tuesday: Second half of Civil War Lecture and conclude "Glory".  HW: Chapter 2 Section 4 Vocabulary and Outline and "Glory" questions due Thursday/Friday.

Tuesday/Wednesday: Respect Life Lesson

Thursday/Friday: Submit Glory questions and Chapter 2 Section 4 Vocabulary and Outline, take the quiz, Lecture: Reconstruction, and Reconstruction: Sharecropping activity.

Define the following terms and people:

Freedmen’s Bureau

Civil disobedience

Frederick Douglass

Andrew Johnson

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Gettysburg Address

Sharecroppers

Robert E. Lee

Second Great Awakening

Tariff

John Brown

Popular Sovereignty

Thirteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

Fifteenth Amendment

Compromise of 1850

Total War

Questions:

1.Jackson clashed with the Supreme Court over the rights of what group of Native Americans (Trail of Tears)?

2.How did the South react to such slave revolts as Nat Turner?

3.How would the decision of slavery be determined in Kansas based on the Compromise of 1850?

4.How did Lincoln’s election in 1860 lead to secession?

5.How did the Battle of Gettysburg turn the tide of the Civil War?

6.What did Lincoln establish during the Civil War to provide more soldiers for the Union?

7.How was the relationship between the North and South changed by the Nullification Crisis?

8.What increased as a result of the Second Great Awakening?

9.Why did abolitionists want slavery to end?

10.What was the primary goal of women’s rights activists during the first half of the nineteenth century? What right were they trying to obtain?

11.What did the Mexican American war establish regarding Texas?

12.How did the Compromise of 1850 affect the Missouri Compromise?

13.What was the outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? What would determine if they would be free or slave states?

14.What did the outcome of the Dred Scott decision prohibit?

15.What helped Lincoln win the presidency? Hint: Think Democratic party

16.What state first seceded from the Union?

17.What was the North’s main goal in fighting the Civil War?

18.What advantages did the South have early on in the war?

19.What states did the Emancipation Proclamation apply to?

20.Late in the war, the South suffered from what type of shortages?

21.What were some of the major effects of the Civil War?

22.What movement helped bring religious fervor to social reform?

23.Why did Radical Republicans call for the South to be punished?

24.What were the results of Radical Reconstruction regarding African American rights?

25.What did the KKK try to prevent African Americans from doing?

26.What happened to African Americans following the end of Reconstruction?

27.Who disliked Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?

28.What marked the end of Reconstruction?

Monday/Tuesday: CNN Student News #6, Review Game, and discuss exam for next class.

Wednesday: Rally for 11th and 12th Graders

Thursday/Friday: Chapter Two Test and begin hw: Chapter 3 Section 1 Outline and Vocabulary due Monday/Tuesday

Monday/Tuesday: Chapter 3 Section 1 Quiz, Lecture: Growth of Big Business(first half), and Worksheet and Reading of "Robber Barons or Captains of Industry" (due next class if needed).  HW: Chapter 3 Section 2 Outline and Vocabulary due 10/22-23

Wednesday/Thursday: Submit "Robber Barons or Captains of Industry", CNN Student News #7, Lecture: Growth of Big Business (second half), Worksheet: Homestead Strike (in pairs), and exit slip. HW: Chapter 3 section 2 Vocabulary and Outline due next class (October 23rd/24th)

Wednesday/Thursday:  Submit chapter 3 section 2 and quiz, Lecture: Urbanization, and America the Story of Us: Cities

Friday: Work on the Chapter Three (Unit One) Study Guide and Review Game

Use the previous study guides for chapters one and two and the following for chapter three:

Chapter Three Study Guide

Questions:

What do companies form by assigning stock to a board and then combining the stocks into a new organization?

What was outlawed by the Sherman Antitrust Act?

Whose slogan was “Eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, eight hours for what we will”?

What new technologies improved urban life? What was needed for transportation and skyscrapers?

What was Henry Grady’s vision for the New South that was contrasted with the old South?

Susan B. Anthony led the fight for the rights of what group?

Members of the Farmers’ Alliance formed which political party to improve conditions for farmers?

Who was the Scottish-born steel industrialist?

Finding ways to limit competition led to a fortune in the oil business for what individual?

Samuel Gompers was the first president of what group?

Because of their ethnic variety, America’s cities in the late 1800s were usually called what two things?

The Brooklyn Bridge was planned and begun by what individual?

What is one reason for calling cities “mixing bowls” of immigrants rather than “melting pots”?

A major influence aiding the building of skyscrapers was the mass production of what?

Why did immigrants to the United States in the late 1800s settle mostly in the North rather than the South?

Terms:

Dawes Act

Monopoly

Pendleton Act

Andrew Carnegie

Sharecropping

Gospel of Wealth

American Federation of Labor

Trust

Angel Island

John D. Rockefeller

Populist Party

Tenement

Monday/Tuesday: Submit Portfolio and take the Unit One Test. HW: Chapter 4 Section 1 Vocabulary and Outline due next class (Thursday, October 31st)

Thursday: Submit Chapter 4 Section 1 and take the quiz, Peer Evaluation of the Unit One Portfolio, and discuss WWI Project.  HW: Chapter 4 Section 2 Vocabulary and Outline due next class: Monday (November 4th)

Monday: Submit Chapter 4 Section 2 and take the quiz, Lecture Notes: Progressive Era (First Half), The Jungle reading and assignment (finish as homework: due Thursday/Friday), and begin homework. HW: Chapter 4 Section 3 due next class

Tuesday/Wednesday: Submit Chapter 4 Section 3 and take the quiz, Lecture: Progressive Era (Second Half), and primary source analysis (Background on Women's Suffrage).  HW: Chapter 4 Section 4 due Monday/Tuesday

Thursday/Friday: Warm-Up #1 (Triangle Shirtwaist reading and answers), submit The Jungle, discuss the WWI project, and work day in the library for WWI Project. HW: Chapter 4 Section 4 due next class.

Monday/Tuesday: Submit Chapter 4 Section 4 and take the quiz, Lecture: Roosevelt and Wilson Presidencies, and work on the study guide.

Wednesday: CNN Student News #1, 10 minutes to work on the study guide, and review game.

Thursday/Friday: Ten minutes to review and Chapter Four Test.  HW: Chapter Five Section One Vocabulary and Outline due next class.

WCTU

W.E.B. Du Bois

Woodrow Wilson

Gifford Pinchot

settlement house

NAACP

Square Deal

Booker T. Washington

Margaret Sanger

Clayton Antitrust Act

Federal Reserve Act

NAWSA

muckrakers

Ida B. Wells

Guiding Questions:

1. What is the name of the reformer who outlined the Social Gospel in a book entitled Christianity and the Social Crisis?

2. What social problem did Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle describe?

3. Through Social Gospel, what should be at the basis of social reform?

4. What reforms resulted from the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaiste Factory?

5. Many Progressive reformers targeted city officials who built corrupt organizations called…

6. Factory/Industrial workers were constant danger due to their use of what?

7. Progressive women reformers worked to change what? (besides attainment of suffrage)

8. What did the Nineteenth Amendment enact?

9. Which woman founded the National Association of Colored Women to help African American families and those who were less fortunate?

10. What was the decision/outcome of the 1903 Muller v. Oregon Supreme Court Case?

11. What was one goal of the Americanization movement during the Progressive Era? Who were they trying to make more loyal and moral citizens?

12. W.E.B. Du Bois was an outspoken critic of who?

13. What event led to the formation of the NAACP?

14. What group formed the Anti-Defamation League to defend itself against verbal attacks and false statements?

15. A 1913 California law forced Japanese Americans to do what?

16. The efforts of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union eventually led to what change?

17. What legislation gave the government the authority to set and limit shipping costs?

18. Theodore Roosevelt supported powerful corporations as long as they did what?

19. The National Reclamation Act directly affected the management of which natural resource?

20. Under President William Howard Taft, the federal government brought lawsuits against who?

21. Why did Roosevelt run for the Presidency in 1912?

22. Which political party did Woodrow Wilson represent in the 1912 presidential election?

23. Why did the United States banking system need to be reformed in the early 1900s?

24. How did Progressives differ from Populists? (Hint: what type of people made up each group?)

25. Wilson’s New Freedom worked to improve what aspect of society?

26. How did Wilson compensate for the reduced government income resulting from his lowering of tariffs? What did he create?

27. How did President Roosevelt respond to the 1902 coal miners’ strike in Pennsylvania?

28. What resulted from the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887?

29. In 1914, Congress formed the Federal Trade Commission to do what?

Monday/Tuesday: Submit Chapter Five Section One and Quiz, Lecture: Imperialism, and Analysis of Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden" (Finish as homework if needed: Due Thursday/Friday).  HW: Chapter Five Section Two Outline and Vocabulary due next class.

Wednesday/Thursday: Submit and take quiz for Chapter Five Section Two, Lecture: Causes of the Spanish American War, and Primary Source Analysis: Causes of the Spanish American War.

Thursday/Friday: CNN Student News #2, Imperialism Stations (finish as homework: Due Monday, December 2nd)

Monday/Tuesday: Submit "Imperialism Stations", CNN Student News #3, Presidential Diplomacies, and Political Cartoon Analysis.  Next class, students will report out on what they discovered about their political cartoon.

Tuesday/Wednesday: Meet in discussion groups and discuss political cartoon analysis, groups present out on Political Cartoon Analysis, and Four Corners Discussion about Imperialism.  HW: WWI Project

Thursday/Friday: Warm-Up #2, Lecture: 1914-1918: The World at War: Causes, Isolation, and US Entry", and primary source analysis: Why did the US enter WWI?  HW: WWI Project

Friday/Monday: Warm-Up #3, Lecture: WWI- Homefront and Conditions of the War, trench warfare activity.

Friday/Monday: Warm-Up #3, Lecture: WWI- Homefront and Conditions of the War, trench warfare activity.

Tuesday/Wednesday: Submit WWI Project,  Lecture: Outcome and Aftermath, and Primary Source Analysis: Why did Congress reject the League of Nations?  Next class: Submit Unit Two Portfolio and take the "Imperialism and WWI" Test

Wednesday/Thursday: Submit Unit Two Portfolio and "Imperialism and WWI Test"

Friday/Monday: Peer Review of Unit Two Portfolio and discuss Winter Break Work (Chapter 7 Sections 1 and 2 Vocabulary and Outline).

Spanish American War

1898

Cuban prison camps

USS Maine

Yellow Journalism

Panama Canal (how did we get to use the land for the canal?)

Roosevelt Corollary

Lusitania (what was it and why was it sunk)

Zimmerman Telegram

Isolationism

“The Spark”

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

No Man's Land

Propaganda

Woodrow Wilson's 14 points (Be able to identify which one is not included in the 14 points)

1) What is the Monroe Doctrine? What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

2) Describe “yellow journalism” and explain its effect upon American involvement in the Spanish American War?

3) What two events provoked America into the Spanish American war?

4) Describe why and how the method of warfare on the western front led to a stalemate during World War I and what were the results?

5) What stimulated/caused US imperialism?

6) What territories were forced to submit to the United States’ authority in 1898?

7) Why was it difficult to gain an advantage over the enemy in trench warfare?

8) What were the effects of the United States entry into World War I?

9) What goal for the postwar peace was shared by British and French leaders alike?

10) What nations represented the "Big Four" at the Paris peace conference?

11) Who said the quote "peace without victory”?

Review the political cartoons and imperialism stations!!!

20 Multiple Choice Questions

4 Short Answer Questions- You pick 2

1) What is the Monroe Doctrine? What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

2) Describe “yellow journalism” and explain its effect upon American involvement in the Spanish American War?

3) What two events provoked America into the Spanish American war?

4) Describe why and how the method of warfare on the western front led to a stalemate during World War I and what were the results?

2 Political Cartoon Analysis- You pick 1

Point value: 50

Monday/Tuesday: Submit Chapter 7 Sections 1 and 2 and take the quiz for section two, discuss research paper, and work on Chapter 7 Section 3 in class. Complete Chapter 7 Section 3 as homework due Thursday/Friday. Research Paper Assignment: Preliminary Topic Selection Worksheet due January 16th.

Wednesday: Guest Speaker: FIDM Institute on the “History of Modern American Dress”.  Chapter 7 Section 3 due next class.

Thursday/Friday: Submit Chapter 7 Section 3 and take the quiz. Primary Source Analysis: Scopes Monkey Trial (in pairs), and begin HW: Chapter 7 Section 4 Vocabulary and Outline: Due next class

Monday: Turn in Chapter 7 Section 4 Vocabulary and Outline and take the quiz, Lecture: 1920's and Jazz Age, Assignment: 1920's Fears Reading and Chart (Due at the end of class) . HW: Chapter 7 Section 5 Vocabulary and Outline: Due next class

Tuesday/Wednesday: Turn in Chapter 7 Section 5 Vocabulary and Outline and take the quiz, Video: America the Story of Us: Boom, and work on HW: Chapter 7 Study Guide

Thursday: Submit Preliminary Topic Selection Worksheet, Chapter 7 Test, and begin working on HW: Chapter 8 Section 1 Vocabulary and Outline: Due next class. Research Paper Assignment: Developing an Essential Question & Working Thesis due January 23rd/24th

Friday/Tuesday: Turn in Chapter 8 Section 1 Vocabulary and Outline and take the quiz, Lecture: Causes of the Great Depression (view/listen to "Brother Can You Spare a Dime"), and begin working on HW: Chapter 8 Section 2 Vocabulary and Outline: Due next class

Terms and Names:

mass production

bull market

Andrew Mellon

Sigmund Freud

Ku Klux Klan

The Jazz Singer

Dawes Plan

Langston Hughes

Harlem Renaissance

Prohibition

A Farewell to Arms

Scopes Trial

21st Amendment

Questions:

1. As the 1920’s progressed, what happened to farm incomes?

2. African Americans in the 1920’s faced discrimination, especially where?

3. How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?

4. What was the condition of America’s economy following World War I?

5. What was a major result of Henry Ford’s innovative manufacturing techniques?

6. Buying stock on margin remained profitable as long as…

7. How were American farmers as a group doing economically?

8. What did President Warren G. Harding do to regulations on businesses?

9. What did President Coolidge believe that the creation of wealth did?

10. In the 1920’s, how did most national leaders hope to go about avoiding war?

11. Why was formal education more important for urban Americans than rural Americans?

12. At its heart, the Scopes Trial was a clash between what two things?

13. Why were nativists opposed to immigration?

14. How was Henry Ford able to reduce the sale price of the Model T

15. Why did so many African Americans migrate north throughout the 1920’s?

16. What was/is jazz?

17. What did the literature of the Harlem Renaissance focus on?

18. What elements of society did women want to change in the 1920’s?

Friday/Tuesday: Turn in Chapter 8 Section 1 Vocabulary and Outline and take the quiz, Lecture: Causes of the Great Depression (view/listen to "Brother Can You Spare a Dime"), and begin working on HW: Chapter 8 Section 2 Vocabulary and Outline: Due next class

Wednesday: Turn in Chapter 8 Section 2 Vocabulary and Outline and take the quiz, finish the lecture, and Video: America the Story of Us: Bust.

Thursday/Friday: Submit Research Paper Assignment: Developing an Essential Question & Working Thesis. Students will do a peer evaluation of the worksheet and remain in those groups to complete the Primary Source Analysis: The Dust Bowl. Lastly, the class will discuss the next assignment for the research paper: Revised Essential Question and Thesis Worksheet (Due on January 30/31).  HW: Chapter 8 Section 3 Vocabulary and Outline due next class.

Monday/Tuesday: Turn in Chapter 8 Section 3 Vocabulary and Outline, take the quiz, and Primary Source Analysis in groups: "The Presidential Election of 1932: How Should the Federal Government Respond to the Great Depression?".  HW: Chapter 9 Section 1 due next class.

Wednesday: Turn in Chapter 9 Section 1 Vocabulary and Outline and take the quiz, primary source analysis: How were people affected by the Great Depression, and HW: Chapter 9 Section 2 Vocabulary and Outline: Due Monday

Thursday/Friday: Submit Revised Essential Question and Thesis Worksheet after a peer evaluation, discuss the "Analyzing Primary Sources" (Two Total) assignment, New Deal in Ten Minutes video with notes (quiz will follow after), and Court Packing reading and questions. Due at the end of class.

Monday: Turn in Chapter 9 Section 2 Vocabulary and Outline, take the quiz, and go to the library and work on the research assignment: "New Deal Programs" due February 10.

Tuesday/Wednesday:   CNN Student News #1 and go to the library to continue working on the research assignment.  If students finish before the conclusion of class, they should begin preparing for the Socratic Seminar, work on the Unit 3 Study Guide, or work on their "Analyzing Primary Sources" assignment.

Thursday/Friday: Submit "Analyzing Primary Sources" (Two Total), discuss "Analyzing Secondary Sources (Two Total), read and answer questions from chapter nine section four- questions on page 314 due at the end of class.

Monday: Complete Answers from Page 305 in the textbook and New Deal Socratic Seminar

Half of the students sit in a circle on the floor. The rest of the students observe and grade the students talking. Grading students mark points for how many times someone responds to a question, how many times they challenge, whether or not they were dominating the discussion, and whether or not they were disrespectful. Students switch halfway through. The teacher asks guiding questions and moderates the discussion.

1. Should the government help the poor?

2. Should the government go into debt in order to help the poor?

3. Why do you think people did not welcome the migratory workers?

4. Do you think that the jobs programs helped people?

5. Why do you think people continued to strike during the Depression?

6. How do you think most people reacted to the new programs?

7. What new deal programs have lasted until today? Which programs do you believe were most successful?

8. Do you think that people have the expectation that the government will help the poor in tough economic times?

Tuesday/Wednesday: CNN Student News #2 and review game for Unit Three Test.

Thursday: Submit "Analyzing Secondary Sources" (Two Total) and discuss "Research Paper Outline", submit portfolio, take the Unit Three Test, and begin homework "Rise of Dictators" due next class.

Friday/Monday: Submit homework "Rise of Dictators", peer evaluation of the portfolios, and Lecture: Start of WWII.  HW: Chapter 11 Section 1 due next class.

Friday/Monday: Submit homework "Rise of Dictators", peer evaluation of the portfolios, and Lecture: Start of WWII.  HW: Chapter 11 Section 1 due next class.

Tuesday: Submit chapter 11 section 1 and take the quiz, watch America the Story of US: WWII and hw:

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Thursday/Friday: