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