APUSH Schedule Unit 7: 1890-1945
Notes: This is subject to change at Ms. J’s discretion.
In the event of school cancellation, you are still responsible for the reading!
Date
Feb.
19/20
Topic
American Imperialism
6.1I, 7.3I
Text Covered
Homework
Ch. 21 p. 641-655
Work on DD1
PPT/notesheet: American Isolationism
and Imperialism
Crash Course Video: Imperialism
Open Door Policy sources activity
Feb.
23/24
1898: Turning Point
7.3I
Ch. 21 p. 655-668
Work on DD1
Video: The Spanish-American War (15
minutes)
What caused the Spanish-American War?
investigation
Feb.
25/26
New American Politics
7.1II
Ch. 20 p. 623-638
Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy reading
The Bully Pulpit/Roosevelt speech
reading and TR Foreign Policy video
Comparing turn-of-the-century
Presidents’ policies
Feb. 27/
Mar. 2
Politics and
Progressivism
7.1I, 7.1II
Ch. 20 p. 623-638
The Progressives and Theodore
Roosevelt PPT/notesheet
Finish materials for DD1—due next
class!
Start work on Progressives Project
Challenging the Standard Oil Company
(video clip)
Introduce Progressives Project
Mar.
3/4
Progressives and Social
Change, pt. I
7.2I
Ch. 18 p. 561-564; Ch. 20 p. 611-624
Work on reading/notes
Video/notesheet: Progressive Reforms
Work on Progressives Project
DD1
Muckrakers activity
Short Answer Question quiz
Mar.
5/6
Progressives, pt. II:
Challenging the “status
quo”
6.3I, 7.2III
Ch. 19 p. 597-599; Ch. 20 p. 624-626
Work on reading/notes
Clip from “Rise and Fall of Jim Crow”
(start 1:30)
Work on Progressives Project
Comparison: WEB DuBois, Booker T.
Washington
Life for African Americans
reading/worksheet
Date
Mar.
9/10
Topic
WWI
7.3II
Text Covered
Homework
Ch. 22 p. 674-701; Ch. 23 p. 705-726
Progressives Project due tomorrow!
Video: Causes of WWI/MAIN handout
End of WWI review video
PPT/notesheet: America in World War I
Wilson’s 14 Points activity
Mar.
11/12
Culture Shock: 1920s
7.2I, 7.2II
Ch. 22 p. 674-701; Ch. 23 p. 705-726
Catch up on reading/notes
1920s Lab
Project
due
today!
Mar.
13/16
DBQ Day
Ch. 22 p. 674-701; Ch. 23 p. 705-726
Finish any remaining notes
In-class DBQ: World War I & 1920s Era
Mar.
17/18
The Great Depression
and Inter-War Years
7.1III, 7.2III
Ch. 23 p. 727-733; Ch. 24 p. 738-750
Watch videos on battles of WWII
FDR’s “New Deal” (visual discovery)
Complete reading/notes
The Other New Deal reading/questions
Bombing of Pearl Harbor/”Infamy”
speech (1941)
Mar.
19/20
Mar.
23/24
DD2
WWII: Battles on the
Homefront
7.3III
Ch. 25 p. 774-787
UNIT 7 EXAM
MC Exam
Study for test!
WWII Stations
-Contributions and Challenges of
Minority groups
Start research for Cold War Debate
Project: Atomic Energy
No homework 