FIFTH SIX WEEKS CALENDAR
DATE
Week One
2/21
DAILY TOPICS for LECTURE/DISCUSSION
CLASS/HOMEWORK
Interactive lecture: The Great Depression and
the Election of 1932
Assign Opposing Viewpoints: Hoover/FDR
(handout)
Read
Bailey Ch. 32-34
Zinn “Self Help in Hard
times and
Opposing Viewpoints:
Hoover/FDR (handout)
2/23
2/24 or 2/24
Block Days
Small Group Seminar: Opposing Viewpoints:
Hoover/FDR and excerpts from “Critics”
JUNIOR COURSE SELECTIONS
W/COUNSELORS
2/25
Finish Small Group Seminar and class
debriefing on the New Deal
Quiz. New Deal activity Part I
Week Two
2/28
3/1 – 5th
and
3/3 – 3rd
New Deal activity Part II (the essay)
Assign Hiroshima
Great Depression – Dorothea Lange and
lecture on effects of GD
3/2
3/4
Week
Three
3/7
New Deal DBQ (in class)
Test over Bailey Ch. 32-34/The Great
Depression, FDR and the New Deal
Road to WWII and America in WWII – N. Africa
and Europe
3/8
Movie (Discovery Education) WWII
3/9 or 3/10
STATE MANDATED PHYSICAL FITNESS
TESTING
Read Bailey Ch. 35 -36
Read “Franklin and
Eleanor” in POA.
Continue Reading
Hiroshima
Read Bailey Ch. 35 -36
Continue Reading
Hiroshima
Read Bailey Ch. 35 -36
Continue Reading
Hiroshima
Read “America and the
Holocaust” in POA.
Read Atomic Bomb
articles in POA.
Read Bailey Ch. 35 -36
Continue Reading
Hiroshima
Quiz – POA readings and discussion: WWII
America on the Homefront
3/11
Assign Opposing Viewpoints: Japanese
Internment
Debate: Japanese Internment
ASSIGN TAKE HOME DBQ
Read Bailey Ch. 35 -36
Continue Reading
Hiroshima
Spring Break: March 14-18
Week Four
3/21
3/22
3/23 or 3/24
Block Days
3/25
Week Five
3/28
TAKE HOME DBQ DUE
WWII Conferences activity
Test over Bailey Ch. 35-56 and Hiroshima
Interactive Cold War Lesson – Computer Lab
Read Bailey Ch. 37-38
Discuss the Cold War and McCarthy Era
1945-1952and perhaps Quiz.
Begin reading Rosa Parks
by Brinkley
Read Zinn “A People’s
War?”
Interactive lecture on Korea and the policies of
the 1950’s
Assign: “Cold War Warm Hearth”
Read “Cold War Warm
Hearth”
Read Rosa Parks by
Brinkley
Read Rosa Parks by
Brinkley
Read Bailey Ch.39
Read Rosa Parks by
Brinkley
Read Zinn ‘Or Does it
Explode?”
Read Rosa Parks by
Brinkley
3/29
Graded Discussion: “Cold War Warm Hearth”
3/30- 3/31
Test Bailey Ch. 37-38/Cold War and
Eisenhower
4/1
Social History of the 1950’s
Week Six
4/4
4/5
4/6 or 4/7
Block Days
4/8
1960’s : Focus on Civil Rights
Read Bailey Ch.39
1960’s : Focus on Kennedy
Read Rosa Parks by
Brinkley
Read Bailey Ch.39
Test on Rosa Parks
Read Rosa Parks by
Brinkley
Read Bailey Ch.39
1960’s : Focus on LBJ, Great Society and
Vietnam
Read Bailey Ch.39
Read POA “Betty Friedan”
and “MLK”
Week
Seven
4/11
1960’s : Focus on Vietnam
Read Bailey Ch.39
Read POA “The
Impossible Victory:
Vietnam” and “The
Nightmare of Vietnam”
4/12
Guest Speaker: Kent State
Read Bailey Ch.39
4/13 or 4/14
Block Days
4/15
Perhaps Quiz. 1960’s: Counter Culture and
Protest
DBQ: 1960’s
Read Bailey Ch.39
Read Bailey Ch.39