US History Calendar – 2nd Semester
Monday
January 7
No School!
Tuesday
8
2nd Semester Begins for
Students!
Wednesday
9
Collect Welcome Back Letters
Signed
Welcome Back Letter
BOE Folders & Reflection
HW: Unit 5 Cover Page
(Imperialism) (Due 1/11)
Return 1st Semester Work
Thursday
10
NO CLASS!
Return Work, if absent
Wednesday
Imperialism Motive
Slideshow/Notes & Exit Ticket.
Turn in for grade.
Update/Organize Notebooks
HW: Unit 5 Cover Page
(Imperialism) (Due 1/11)
14
Check Unit 5 Cover Page
(Imperialism)
American Imperialism
Acquisitions
21
No School!
Friday
11
Collect Welcome Back Letters
Signed
Exit Ticket: Unit 5 Cover Page
15
Update/Organize
Notebook and Table of
Contents
16
Political Cartoons Structured
Reading, Summary, Interpretation
(Practice) & Construction
How to make political
cartoons slideshow &
Project
Description/Rubric (Due:
1/18)
Student Exemplars
Turn in Political Cartoons, if
necessary
HW: Political Cartoons (Due: 1/18)
Imperialism Assessment
22
23
WW1 Causes & Changes in Tactics
Gallery Walk w/Notes
24
NO CLASS!
25
America in WWI Writing
Revisions w/Rubric
No School!
17
NO CLASS!
18
Political Cartoon Exemplar
Gallery Walk w/Rubric
HW: Political Cartoon Revisions
(Due: 1/23)
28
1920s Change vs.
Continuity (Notes – Short
Readings)
29
1920s Change vs.
Continuity (Notes: Long
Readings)
30
1920s Research (Contd.)
31
NO CLASS!
February 1
1920s Synthesis, & Writing
Summary (HW, if necessary)
4
1920s Peer Editing &
Writing Revisions
w/Rubric
5
Collect 1920s Writing
Synthesis
6
Social Effects of Great Depression
w/Notes Organizer
7
NO CLASS!
8
Continue Social Effects of Great
Depression w/Notes Organizer
Return Graded Work
HW: Unit 7 Cover Page
(1920s/Great Depression) (Due:
2/11)
HW: Edit and Revise
1920s Synthesis
11
Unit 7 Cover Page Due
Roots of Great
Depression w/Notes
Organizer
HW: Unit 7 Cover Page
(1920s/Great
Depression)
Update/Organize
Student Notebooks
(Due: 2/11, Units 1-7)
12
Continue Roots of Great
Depression w/Notes
Organizer
13
Roots of Great Depression
Finished
*Essential Questions Answered
Revise/Rewrite Assignments
Update/Organize Student
Notebook (Grade/Check Unit 7
Cover Page)
HW: Unit 7 Cover Page
(1920s/Great Depression)
(Due: 2/11)
14
NO CLASS!
15
Video: Civilian Conservation
Corps & Notes
US History Calendar – 2nd Semester
18
19
No School!
No School!
20
Collect Progress Reports
21
NO CLASS!
Collect Student Notebooks for
Evaluation (Units 1-7)
22
Collect New Deal
Reading/Organizer
Review Final Assessment
Newspaper Project
Introduce Final Assessment
Newspaper Project
Computer Day 1
New Deal Intro Reading and
Analysis w/Essential Question and
Organizer (HW, if necessary)
Alphabet Soup Readings
provided in class (HW, if
necessary)
Alphabet Soup Readings provided
in class (HW, if necessary)
25
Computer 2
26
SGO Reading (Round 2)
Continue Research in
Small Groups
4
America in WWII
(Slideshow/Notes/Gallery
Walk)
28
NO CLASS!
Computer 3 (Periods 3 & 5)
5
America in WWII
(Gallery Walk Contd.)
Mini-Lesson: Evidence
and Rubric
11
27
In-class work day (Period 1)
6
Collect WWII Synthesis
Japanese Internment Camp
Reading, Annotating, and
Summary (HW, if necessary – Due:
3/8)
12
13
TCAP WEEK
Collect New Deal Newspapers
by End of Day
7
NO CLASS!
8
Finish and Collect American
Homefront and JapaneseAmerican Internment
Reading.Summary
14
NO CLASS!
15
5-Paragraph Organizer Racial
Prejudice Introduction: Nisei
Go Back vs. Dimaggio’s
American Homefront Reading,
Annotating, and Summary (HW, if
necessary – Due: 3/8)
WWII Synthesis (HW, if
necessary – Due: 3/6)
TCAP WEEK
TCAP WEEK
March 1
New Deal Discussion/Fish Bowl
5-Paragraph Organizer
Racial Prejudice
Introduction: JapaneseAmerican Internment
Contd. (Thesis and
Annotating – Nisei Go
Back)
5-Paragraph Organizer
Racial Prejudice
Introduction: JapaneseAmerican Internment
Contd. (Thesis and
Annotating – Nisei Go
Back)
No Classes!
18
Wartime Hysteria:
“paranoia”
19
Political Leadership:
Journalistic Perspectives
& When is a Jap (HW, if
necessary)
20
5-paragraph Essay Rough Draft Inclass
21
NO CLASS!
22
Continue 5-paragraph Essay
Rough Draft In-class
25
26
27
28
NO CLASS! –
Spring Break
29
4
NO CLASS!
5
Continue 5-paragraph Essay (if
necessary)
NO CLASS! – Spring
Break
NO CLASS! – Spring
Break
April 1
Continue 5-paragraph
Essay
2
Continue 5-paragraph
Essay
Computer Lab (B121)
Computer Lab (B121)
8
9
NO CLASS! – Spring Break
3
Continue 5-paragraph Essay
NO CLASS! – Spring Break
Computer Lab (B121)
Computer Lab (B121 & Lower
Lab)
10
11
NO CLASS!
12
US History Calendar – 2nd Semester
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16
17
18
NO CLASS!
19
22
23
24
26
29
30
May 1
25
NO CLASS!
2
NO CLASS!
3