A.G.B.U Vatche & Tamar Manoukian High School
Instructor: Miss. Movsisyan
US History One Month Schedule – Quarter Two
November 12 – December 20 (Semester 1).
Instructor: Miss Movsisyan
11.4 Students trace the rise of the United States to its role as
a world power in the twentieth century.
11.5 Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological,
and cultural development of the 1920s.
Date
Anticipatory Set:
Instruction/Guided Practice/ Closure/
Objective & Bellwork
Independent Practice
M 11/12
Veterans Day
No School
Tu 11/13
Students analyze decisions made at the Paris
Peace Conference; Explain why the US Senate
refused to ratify the treaty ending WWI
W 11/14
Students describe the problems American’s
faced directly after the War
Th 11/15
Students analyze how problems after the war
lead to the Red Scare; Understand how the
war changed America’s role in World Affairs
Warm-Up: Warm-up Quick Write: How did
American involvement help the Allies win
WWI? (See pg 189-192)
Direct Instruction: Chapter 6.3: Wilson,
War, and Peace, lecture
Teacher Guidance: Introduce Classwork
Student Application: Woodrow Wilson “Peace
Without Victory” (pg 737) & Should the US
joint the League of Nations? (Quick
write/debate)
Closure: Reminder: Tech Project
Warm-Up: Review: Peace Treaties &
“Problems With Peace” (pg 195)—What
problems did the peace treaties solve? What
problems did they create?
Direct Instruction: Chapter 6.4: Effects of
the War, lecture
Teacher Guidance: Review Knowledge Chart
Student Application: Complete “Knowledge
Chart” about what they learned about WWI
(10 points)
Closure: Students share their New
Knowledge/ Reminder: Tech Proj.
Q2 Technology Project Due
Warm-Up: Describe the economic situation
after the war. How did it lead to labor
unrest?/What other effects did the war have
Assignment
Q2 Technology
Project:
benchmark- show
me what you have
so far.
Ch 6 section 4
assessment
Ch 6 Reading
Response
on the United States?
Direct Instruction: Complete Ch 6.4
interactive lecture
Teacher Guidance: Introduce assignment
Student Application: Viewpoints “The Red
Scare” (pg 25 teaching resources)/ Pass Out
Chapter 6 Study Guide—Students Begin
Closure: Review Student Answers/ Ch 6 Test
Next TUESDAY!!
F 11/16
Students analyze how problems after the war Direct Instruction:
lead to the Red Scare; Understand how the
Teacher Guidance: Introduce assignment
Seniors to
Student Application: Interpreting a political
Midnight Mission war changed America’s role in World Affairs
cartoon & Primary source analysis (workbook,
24-26
Closure: Review for chapter – test A
(p.30-31)
Have a BEAuuutiful Weekend.
Chapter 6 Study
Guide:
M 11/19
Prepare for TEst
Study
Tu 11/20
Ch 6 test
Tech project.
W 11/21
Evaluate Propaganda posters
Quarter 2
Project Due in
print and
digital, latest
by 12:20 pm.
Th 11/22
NO SCHOOL
Student Application: explain propaganda posters they
created for their technology projects.
F 11/23
Happy Thanksgiving
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." –
Epictetus
“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have a BEAuuutiful Weekend.
M 11/26
Tu 11/27
W 11/28
9th Grade to
USC
Jigsaw tech project posters: cooperative learning
Students explain the impact of the Automobile; Analyze
the consumer Revolution and the Bull market of the 1920s
Student Application:
In partners: for each poster determine…
a. Title
b. Message
c. Success in persuasion
d. Grade out of 100- explain why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7wKHIYysjY
Direct Instruction: Ch7: The Twenties, Section 1: A
Booming Economy, interactive lecture
Warm-Up: Kings of Jazz (pg 211)—Videos of Louis
Teacher Guidance: Introduce assignment
Armstrong/Ain’t We Got Fun?—Students describe the
Student Application: Notebook: Graph Skills (pg
attitude and tone of the musicians—If this music embodies 213)/Impact of the Automobile (pg 214)
the 1920s, what can you predict about the 20’s era?
Closure: Review Student answers
Students compare the different effects of the economic
Direct Instruction: Complete Chapter 7.1, A Booming
Economy
boom on urban and rural America
Teacher Guidance: Introduce idea of concept web
Student Application: Concept web: Economy of the
Warm-Up: Review Questions: What do you think was so
1920s (NB)
appealing about driving?/What changes took place as a
Closure: Review student ideas & discuss
result of the growing popularity of automobiles?
Read Ch 7 Sec 1
Answer:
assessment
questions
Read Ch 7 Sec 1
Answer:
assessment
questions
Read Ch 7 Sec 1
Answer:
assessment
questions
Due today
Th 11/29
Marine Bio
Students analyze how the policies of President’s Harding
and Coolidge favored business growth; Discuss the
significant scandals during Harding’s Admin.
fieldtrip
Warm-Up: Quick Write: Historically, why is Henry Ford
seen as one of the chief makers of the modern world?
F 11/30
Students explain the role of the US in the world during the
1920s
Warm-Up: How did Harding’s personality symbolize the
“Jazz Age”?/What were the causes and effects of the
Teapot Dome Scandal?
Direct Instruction: Chapter 7.2: The Business of
Government, interactive lecture
Teacher Guidance: Explain the idea of History Comics
Student Application: History Comics: The Teapot Dome
Scandal worksheet (classwork notebook)
Closure: Introduce HW
Read Ch 7 Sec 2
Direct Instruction: Complete Chapter 7.2: The Business
of Government, interactive lecture
Teacher Guidance: Model classwork assignment
Student Application: Ch 7, Sec 2 Assessment (pg 222)
Qs 1, 4-6
Closure: Review Student Answers
Read Ch 7 Sec 2
Answer:
assessment
questions
Answer:
assessment
questions
Due today
M 12/03
Students compare economic and cultural life in rural America to
urban America
Warm-Up: Warm-up: Read Primary Quote, “Billy
Sunday,” (pg 223)—Summarize & Who would not agree
with Sunday’s message?
T 12/04
Students discuss the changes in US immigration policy in
the 1920s; Analyze the goals and motives of the Klu Klux
Klan
Warm-Up: Why do you think the Scope’s trial was
emotionally charged? Why do you think the conflict over
evolution continues today? Do you think the school
handles this issue well? Explain
W 12/05
Students discuss the successes and failures of the 18th
Amendment
Direct Instruction: Ch 7.3: Social and Cultural Tensions,
lecture
Teacher Guidance: Introduce classwork assignment
Student Application: Scopes Trial Worksheet
Practice an introduction paragraph—Context and thesis:
How did the Scopes trial illustrate the urban-rural split of
the 1920s? (use pg 224)
Closure: Review student answers/Introduce HW
Direct Instruction: Continue Ch 7.3: Social and Cultural
Tensions (Restricting Immigration), interactive lecture
Teacher Guidance: Teacher guides students through
work
Student Application: US Immigration Policy “Debate
the Issue” (p 226): Student discussion and Debate
Closure: Remind student’s of HW
Direct Instruction: Continue Ch 7.3: Social and Cultural
Tensions (Prohibition and Crime), interactive lecture
Read Ch 7 Sec 3
Answer:
assessment
questions
Read Ch 7 Sec 3
Answer:
assessment
questions
Due today
Read Ch 7 Sec 4
Warm-Up: What new laws changed the US immigration
policy in the 1920’s? Why do you think millions of
Americans joined the Klan? Why has the Klan eventually
decreased in importance?
Teacher Guidance: Guide student’s through activity
Student Application: With class: Create a “pros” and
“cons” chart for Prohibition (consider eachs’ goals and
values): Students take a side as someone from the 1920s, and
write a newspaper editorial about which argument they support
Th 12/06
Analyze the effects of the prohibition movement on
American Society.
Warm-Up: what lead to the prohibition?
Closure: Student’s share opinions
Direct Instruction: Lecture on Prohibition.
Teacher Guidance:
Student Application: notes
Closure: begin to form arguments for both sides of fish
bowl debate tomorrow.
Answer:
assessment
questions
Read Ch 7 Sec 4
Answer:
assessment
questions
Due today
Also prepare for
fishbowl.
F 12/07
Fishbowl
today
Conduct a fish bowl debate to determine the relative
success or failure of the prohibition movement.
Warm-Up: organize position papers.
Direct Instruction: review the rules.
Teacher Guidance: Fish bowl
Student Application: debate
Closure: determine winners based on provided evidence.
Read Ch 7 Sec 5
Answer:
assessment
questions
Due today
Also
Find a current event
news article about the
issue of immigration—
summarize the article,
and share your opinion
(3 paragraphs)—Due
Monday – will share in
class.
M 12/10
Students trace the leisure time of the 1920s; Analyze the
development of popular culture; Discuss the
advancements of women in the 1920s
Warm-Up: Review—Students share their current event
on Immigration
Keeping in mind what you learned from the Roarin’ 20s
presentations, what do you already know about mass
media during the 1920s? What do you already know
about the challenges some Americans faced?
T 12/11
Students analyze the racial and economic philosophies of
Marcus Garvey; Trace the development and impact of jazz;
Discuss the themes explored by Harlem Renaissance Writers
Warm-Up: Warm-up: Two Poems by Langston Hughes
(pg 247)
W 12/12
Students analyze how film reflects the 1920s Era
Direct Instruction: Chapter 7.4: A New Mass Culture,
lecture
Teacher Guidance: Introduce Quickwrite using Handout
“The New Women”
Student Application: Quick write: Why do you think the
flapper became a major symbol even though relatively
few women became flappers?/ How was culture changing
throughout the 1920s?
Closure: Discuss student answers
Direct Instruction: ALL: Chapter 7.5: The Harlem
Renaissance, interactive lecture
Teacher Guidance: Introduce Quick Write
Student Application: QuickWrite: Compare the mass
culture of today with the mass culture of the 1920s.
Consider what technologies form part of the mass culture,
and what role they play in our lives.
Closure: Discuss student’s answers
Teacher Guidance/Student Application: 1920s mass
media and entertainment: Charlie Chaplin’s Modern
Times
Ch 7 Reading
Response
Due today
Study Guide
*Students write: How does this movie reflect the
themes of the 1920’s Era?
Th 12/13
Review for Final Exams
Exam Study Guide
Study Guide
F 12/14
Review for Final Exams
Exam Study Guide
Study Guide
M 12/17
Review for Final Exams
Study
Tu 12/ 18
Final Exams
Study
W 12/ 19
Final Exams – Do not forget your binder (including
notes)
Th 12/ 20
Holy Communion
Have A Beautiful Break!!!
PERFECT TIME FOR
REVIEW, RE-READ,
AND PRACTICE. 
School Reopens, Tuesday
January 8.
Study
Get familiar with
the world map.