US History (Period 1/3) Assignments
- Instructors
- Term
- Spring 2010
- Department
- Social Studies
- Location
- Room 223
- Description
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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Dear class,You may access Forms A - E below for your Civil Rights Visual Timeline
TEXTBOOK: THE AMERICANS. (Available on CD)
APA format for textbook and textbook website:Danzer, G., Klor de Alva J,. Krieger, L., Wilson, L. & Woloch, N.(2003).The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st century.McDougal-Littell.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2008). The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21stcentury. Retrieved June 27, 2009 from the Americans Classzone website:http://www.classzone.com/books/americans_rec/index.cfm
Welcome to the class website. Here you will find resources such as rubrics, PowerPoints and articles to assist you.
INDIVIDUAL HISTORICAL ERA PAGES
Dear Students, please use the Social Studies link above to access each subject page.
THE AMERICANS TEXTBOOK WEBSITE
Compare and contrast essay: easy to follow instructions
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THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THE FIFTIES PAGES 641-649
Text pages attached below in pdf format if you don't have a book
Text pages attached below in pdf format if you don't have a book
HW due Monday 100 pts: The American Dream in the Fifties pages 641- 649
1) content organizer
2) skillbuilder page 643
3) Reading notes turn all blue headings into questions and answer them for notes –why are they important?
4)definitions
5) Margin questions C, E
6) page 649 Evaluating #4 and Interpreting #5
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TAKING ON SEGREGATION
USE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER AND PAGES BELOW TO COMPLETE
USE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER AND PAGES BELOW TO COMPLETE
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New Deal for the Arts homework
New Deal art website
Attached is your worksheet for your New Deal art assignment and an example of art produced during this time, in this case The Riveter, by Ben Shahn. During the New Deal, the alphabet agencies and programs were promoted through a wide variety of measures and one of the most important was art. This type of art is very similar to the socialist realism art of communist countries which glorified the working person There are several examples of socialist realism at the link below. The difference is New Deal art did not directly glorify FDR the way Socialist Realism glorified communist leaders such as Stalin but the style and the emphasis on the working class is the same.
Socialist Realism art website
DIRECTIONS: Download the attached worksheet and use the New Deal for the Arts website tp find the information you need.
!) Answer all the preliminary questions after reading the INTRODUCTION.
2) Move through parts 2 - 6 on different purposes and categories of art during this era.
Choose one photo from each section that you like and answer the questions related to that piece of art.
3) Complete Part 7: Tying it all together. You will need to answer these questions on the back or on a separate piece of paper. Be as detailed and specific as you can.
New Deal art website
Attached is your worksheet for your New Deal art assignment and an example of art produced during this time, in this case The Riveter, by Ben Shahn. During the New Deal, the alphabet agencies and programs were promoted through a wide variety of measures and one of the most important was art. This type of art is very similar to the socialist realism art of communist countries which glorified the working person There are several examples of socialist realism at the link below. The difference is New Deal art did not directly glorify FDR the way Socialist Realism glorified communist leaders such as Stalin but the style and the emphasis on the working class is the same.
Socialist Realism art website
DIRECTIONS: Download the attached worksheet and use the New Deal for the Arts website tp find the information you need.
!) Answer all the preliminary questions after reading the INTRODUCTION.
2) Move through parts 2 - 6 on different purposes and categories of art during this era.
Choose one photo from each section that you like and answer the questions related to that piece of art.
3) Complete Part 7: Tying it all together. You will need to answer these questions on the back or on a separate piece of paper. Be as detailed and specific as you can.
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Dear Students,
Attached you will find the homework for this week - You will find unemployment statistics for the current recession and we will compare these to the Great Depression unemployment rates. There is considerable dispute as to how accurate government statistics on unemployment are with more progressive economists putting the current unemployment rate at 16.7%, not the 10% statistic the government claims. In addition, there are many differences between states and regions of states as you will discover when completing this activity.
The site below can be used to answer the questions about who is counted among the unemployed.
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DUE Tuesday 9/8
"When President Franklin Roosevelt did this (spent money on social programs) he put our country into a Great Depression, he tried to borrow and spend and use the Keynesian approach. That's just American History."
MITCH MC CONNELL:
"We know for sure that the big spending programs of the New Deal did not work."
Use the section in the Americans on the New Deal to find more information.
Use the following format:
1st paragraph: Describe the statements without quoting them. What are these two politicians trying to convince us of and why in general are these comments inaccurate
2nd paragraph-4th paragraphs: Three reasons why these statements are not accurate and how knowing historical facts helped you come to this conclusion. Also, did the statements have a bit of truth in them? Explain.
Relevant vocabulary from video:
GOP: The Republican Party also called the Grand Old Party
Stimulus: the law passed by Congress and signed by President Obama that spends money on job creation, unemployment payments and other direct aid to individuals as FDR's New Deal did.
- NOTEBOOK (due 9/7) - with dividers and already put together: 50 points
- CORRECT THE FOLLOWING INCORRECT STATEMENTS BY CONGRESSMAN STEVE AUSTRIA AND SENATE MINORITY LEADER MITCH MC CONNELL OF OHIO AND FIND THREE PIECES OF EVIDENCE THAT SHOW WHY HIS STATEMENT WAS FALSE. TWO CAN COME FROM THE VIDEO AND ONE FROM A WEBSITE OR THE TEXT. 50 points
- Download the latest free Real Player to your computer to view the video attached below.
"When President Franklin Roosevelt did this (spent money on social programs) he put our country into a Great Depression, he tried to borrow and spend and use the Keynesian approach. That's just American History."
MITCH MC CONNELL:
"We know for sure that the big spending programs of the New Deal did not work."
Use the section in the Americans on the New Deal to find more information.
Use the following format:
1st paragraph: Describe the statements without quoting them. What are these two politicians trying to convince us of and why in general are these comments inaccurate
2nd paragraph-4th paragraphs: Three reasons why these statements are not accurate and how knowing historical facts helped you come to this conclusion. Also, did the statements have a bit of truth in them? Explain.
Relevant vocabulary from video:
GOP: The Republican Party also called the Grand Old Party
Stimulus: the law passed by Congress and signed by President Obama that spends money on job creation, unemployment payments and other direct aid to individuals as FDR's New Deal did.
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HW due Monday: pages 252 - 259: The Americans
- Interact with history
- Reading notes
- Terms and names (in your own words)
- #5: Evaluating
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HW due Thursday: The Americans pages 104 to 105
· Create a timeline of voting rights. Make sure you list the appropriate amendments
· Answer questions 1 and 2 under Thinking Critically
Choose California and one other state to answer question 2. Blue stands for Democrats and Red for Republican. You may also want to search under Exit Poll data.
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Homework: From the blue Americans textbook
Read pages 52- 53 and take reading notes + margin questions F and G
Answer this question: Do you think we are able to live out our "natural rights" today? Why or why not? Explain.
DUE: Monday July 27th
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The "Good War?"
DEAR STUDENTS: Please read and take BRIEF NOTES on the following sections to prepare for our council meeting question:
WAS THE WAR WORTH IT?
Homework due tomorrow: pages 604-606; 634- 649 One page of notes TOTAL for all pages geared toward council question
DEAR STUDENTS: Please read and take BRIEF NOTES on the following sections to prepare for our council meeting question:
WAS THE WAR WORTH IT?
Homework due tomorrow: pages 604-606; 634- 649 One page of notes TOTAL for all pages geared toward council question
Think about the fate of Eastern Europe, Marshall Plan, Cold War, GI Bill, social and racial issues, 1950's American Dream
50 million people were killed in WWII, 1/2 of them civilians. Hitler was stopped, but an "iron curtain" separated the Communist east from the democratic west. For the next 45 years, two superpowers would wage a struggle to control the globe and millions would live under the tyranny of communist regimes. The Jews would eventually find a homeland, but controversy and war would follow.
Now that you have walked in the shoes of Allied Commanders, it is time for you to make your own judgement as to whether this truly was "The Good War"
50 million people were killed in WWII, 1/2 of them civilians. Hitler was stopped, but an "iron curtain" separated the Communist east from the democratic west. For the next 45 years, two superpowers would wage a struggle to control the globe and millions would live under the tyranny of communist regimes. The Jews would eventually find a homeland, but controversy and war would follow.
Now that you have walked in the shoes of Allied Commanders, it is time for you to make your own judgement as to whether this truly was "The Good War"
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The Americans text: The Holocaust
HW: due Thursday pp. 542-549
HW: due Thursday pp. 542-549
· Reading notes: no more than one sentence per paragraph in own words
· Terms and names: ALL
· Margin questions A, B and C
· page 545 Skillbuilder
· Page 549: Analyzing motives
· Bonus extra credit question: Who first used the term Final Solution and in what context was it used?
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DIRECTIONS:
Obtain clear images of each of the terms in the worksheet using the web pages provided. Provide a definition in your own words and explain how each is important to WW II. Follow the directions in the worksheet. Web pages are listed here for your convenience and also in the worksheet.
WEBSITES
Obtain clear images of each of the terms in the worksheet using the web pages provided. Provide a definition in your own words and explain how each is important to WW II. Follow the directions in the worksheet. Web pages are listed here for your convenience and also in the worksheet.
WEBSITES
WW II general sites
http://www.teacheroz.com/wwii.htm great portal site!
http://www.history.com/content/worldwartwo
WW II timeline
http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/timeline/
Japanese – American Internment
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/index.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
Port
http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/pc/
Rosie the Riveter and women during WW II
http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/home.htm
Holocaust
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143
Founding of
http://www.pbs.org/jewishamericans/jewish_life/homeland.html
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Americans textbook pages 474 - 479 DUE MONDAY 3/16
- Reading notes
- complete content vocabulary + people and terms to identify
- geography skills page 477
- page 479: #5, #6, #7 and #8
- page 481 - #2 Critical Thinking
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THE AMERICANS TEXTBOOK: THE NEW DEAL pages 486- 494
1) Reading notes
2) Interact with History: answer four questions
3) Read timeline
4) terms and names: define in own words
5) ALL margin questions: A, B, C, D, E
6) Analyzing political cartoons: read background to the cartoon and complete the
skilbuilder. Use complete sentences.