December 2015-HW Calendar APUSH
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
(Due-dates & assignments are subject to change)
Thursday
Friday
11/30
-Unit 7 Take Home
Long Essay
-Finish Ch. 32
1- Read ‘From Boom to Bust’
article*; use it & Pageant Ch.
32 to make chart of boom
factors and bust factors in the
1920s
-Pageant Ch. 33 (p. 770-780)
-Rugged Individualism Q’s*
2-early release
-Read ATF ‘Dust Bowl Odyssey’ chapter &
answer Q’s*
-Read Schechter case brief*
3-New Deal Reforms Gallery
Assignment
4- Pageant Ch. 34
7- Read Pageant Ch. 35
8- Read p. 181-191 from
Reading the American Past &
answer all qs*
9
10- Read WWII Conferences
Docs, fill out conferences
chart and answer q’s *
11-Read A-Bomb debate article and answer
Q’s*
Unit 7 SAQs are TODAY
14- Unit 7 Multiple
Choice and LE Test is
TODAY
15- Pageant Ch. 36 & 37 (to
p. 890)
16-Finish reading 8-1 Outline & Ch. 37
- Read thru the 1950s H-O-H Doc Pack and
prep arguments to answer the question below;
you’ll be called on to provide evidence for
your argument:
The postwar era witnessed tremendous economic
growth and rising social contentment and
conformity. Yet in the midst of such increasing
affluence and comfortable domesticity, social critics
expressed a growing sense of unease with American
culture in the 1950s.
Support, refute, or modify the statement and
explain how the decade of the 1950s laid the
groundwork for the social and political
turbulence of the 1960s.
-cite evidence from the docs for support
17- finish reading outline 8-2
18-Pageant Ch. 38: use it for 1960s H-O-H
Assignment*:
Many historians look at the decade of the
1960s and see two different Americas—the
one before 1964 and the rest of the decade.
How was pre-1964 America in many ways a
continuation of cultural and political trends
established during the 1950s? Why could it be
said that America changed dramatically after
1964?
-Group A: Docs 1-6
-Group B: Docs 7-11
-Group C: Docs 12-20
-Group D: Docs 21-27
-Group E: Docs 28-33
-Group F: Docs 34-40
-cite evidence from the docs for support
1/4-Pageant Ch. 39
Great Society Reading &
Qs (*)
1/5 –Letter from a
Birmingham Jail HIPPO
1/6 –Pageant Ch. 40
-Finish reading outline 9-1
-Chavez account of NFWA strike HIPPO (skip
the ‘O’)
1/7- Pageant Ch. 41
1/8-Pageant Ch. 42
-New Conservatism DBQ
1/11
1/12
1/13
1st and 2nd period final exams
1/14
3rd and 4th period final exams
1/15