MONDAY
2/23
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
2/24
Read p.746-756 (34)
2/25
Read p. 756-768 (34)
Video: “Modern Times”
Read docs:
“Babbitt” excerpt
Margaret Sanger v TR
Imperialism Debate
3/2
THURSDAY
2/26
Read p.771-782 (35)
3/3
Read p.795-806 (36)
No School
Consider: Compare and
contrast Hoover’s economic
policies with those of F. D.
Roosevelt.
Introduce review projects
3/4
Read p.806-822 (36)
Consider: To what extent did
Roosevelt’s first New Deal
favor business while his second
New Deal favored labor and
farmers?
Multiple Choice Quiz
3/5
Read docs
“Was the New Deal
Revolutionary or
Conservative?’
Due Unit Summary 20
Unit Summary question:
“Conservatives criticize the
New Deal for attempting too
much while liberals criticize it
for not doing enough.” Assess
the validity of this statement..
FRIDAY
2/27
Read p.782-793 (35)
DUE Unit Summary 19
Unit Question: The 1920’s
were a period of tension
between new and changing
attitudes on the one hand and
traditional values on the other.
What led to the tensions
between old and new and in
what ways was the tension
manifested?
Read Depression DBQ
documents
Faculty Bell Schedule
3/6
Multiple Choice Test
(Ch. 31-36)
3/9
-Read p.825-833 (37)
Video:
Cartoons go to war
“The Century”
3/16
Read doc “The Decision to Use the
Atomic Bomb”
3/10
-Read p.833-845 (37)
Read docs:
“Charles Lindbergh Argues for
Isolation”
“The New York Times Rejects
Isolationism
3/11
MIDDLE MARCH
Read p.847-859 (38)
Consider:
Evaluate the impact of WWII
on minority groups on the
homefront
3/17
Read p.891-906 (39)
3/18
Read p.918-924 (40)
Read “Containment Policy”
Read docs;
“Secretary John Foster Dulles
Warns of Massive Retaliation”
Watch “Atomic Café” movie clip
-Images of the Cold War overheads
after school review project
meetings begin
3/23
Read p. 908-918 (40)
Read docs:
“The Court Rejects Segregration”
and “One Hundred Representatives
Dissent”
3/24
Read p.924-934 (40)
“A Silent Generation?”
Consider: Analyze the relative
Unit Summary due (23/24)
Watch video “Peter Jennings
The Century: 1950’s”
3/25
ESSAY TEST: Ch. 39-40
3/12
Read p.860-877 (38) and p.
887-891 [Ch. 39 – “Yalta:
Bargain or Betrayal”]
3/13
.
Multiple Choice Quiz
(Ch. 37-38)
Due Unit summary 21/22
Unit Question: Compare and
contrast the goals of:
a. The Treaty of Versailles
b. The Potsdam Conference
c. The Yalta Conference
3/19
Read doc:
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
Consider: Discuss the
consequences of two of the
following on Cold War
tensions:
a. Geneva summit meeting
b. Sputnik
c. U-2 incident
d. Castro/Cuban Revolution
3/20
Read p.878-887 (39)
Read doc: “Levittowns”
Consider:
“World War II had a greater
positive impact than the New
Deal.” Assess the validity of
this statement in light of:
a. economics
b. social relations
3/26
3/27
Read ch. 41
No Classes
End of Quarter
Read and discuss documents:
excerpt from “Lies My Teacher
Told Me”
Faculty Bell Schedule
influence of African-Americans
and the federal government in two
of the following civil rights cases:
a)Brown v. Board of Education,
b)Little Rock Central High School,
c)Montgomery Bus Boycott
3/30
Read p.964-976 [42]
Unit Question: To what extent
were the 1950’s an era of
conformity and complacency?
3/31
4/1
Read p.990-1004 [43]
Read p. 976-988 [42]
Read p.1004-1022 [43]
Watch two historical
interpretations of Vietnam War
(video). Discuss the
importance of varying
interpretations of war in the
context of current events
Unit Summary Due (25-28)
Unit Question:
4/2
AP Mock !!!!
Details to follow
4/3