Assignments are listed as documents when you open up this post. In case you missed it. This is the outline of the major events I plan to cover this year. I am *hoping* we get to everything.
Unit 1 Topics Review Day 1 - Introduction (Socrative/Bubble/MasteryConnect) / Columbian Exchange/Source Analysis Day 2 - Revolution/Government Day 3 - Manifest Destiny/Civil War Day 4 - Reconstruction/Review (warrant support w/ evidence) Day 5 - Assessment (9/1) Unit 2 Mini Topics Industry Day 1 - Pre-Assessment Day 2 - Rise of Industry Day 3 - Big Business Day 4 - Newsies Day 5 - Factory Workers; Child Labor Day 6 - Labor Unions Day 7 - Immigration Day 8 - Assessment (9/25) Unit 3 Mini Topics Progressive Day 1 - Progressive Era, Project: assign groups- choose individual, research. Homework: Profile Pages. Day 2 - Followers/Friends- Work on Tweets Day 3 - Making their Twitter Feed (Posters) - Come up with main points of topic. Day 4 - Twitter Stalking, Q&A Day 5 - Finish Progressive, Election Reform Day 6 - Assessment (5 Paragraph Essay) End of First Term (10/23) Unit 4 Mini Topics Imperialism Day 1 - Pre-Assessment, Imperialism: Open door policy Day 2 - Cause of WWI Day 3 - US Involvement - Trench Warfare, Technology Day 4 - End of WWI Day 5 - Treaty of Versailles - Simulation stolen from Josh. Day 6 - US Post WWI/Red Scare Day 7 - Assessment (11/12) Unit 5 Mini Topics Roaring 1920’s Day 1 - Pre Assessment Harlem Renaissance. Roaring Twenties- Jazz, Music, Art, Etc. Day 2 - Changing Woman, Prohibition, Organized Crime. Impact of the Automobile. Day 3 - Mass Media, Rise of Sports, Rise of Celebrity, Consumerism Day 4- Week of Thanksgiving wiggle room. Day 5 - Assessment (12/3) Unit 6 Mini Topics New Deal, Great Depression Day 1 - Pre-Assessment, The Stock Market Crash and Immediate impact. Day 2 - Beginning of the Depression and Hoover’s response. Bonus Army Day 3 - Roosevelt, New Deal Day 4 - Dust Bowl, End of the New Deal Day 5 - Assessment (12/18) Connections Project: 1/4 - 1/12 Pick a Topic: Research, Become an Expert, Ask a Question and Answer. (5 Minutes to Present) End Second Term Unit 7 Mini Topics WWII Day 1- Pre Assessment, Rise of Hitler, Mussolini, Japanese Aggression, Beginnings of WWII Day 2- US isolation vs intervention, Neutrality Acts, Alliances, Pearl Harbor Day 3- US involvement- Homefront, Mobilization, Role of Women, Role of Minorities (Zoot Suit Riots, Detroit Riots) Day 4- European Movement, Holocaust Day 5- Pacific Movement, Internment Camps, Atomic Bombs Day 6- Impact of the War, Suburbanization, Post War Culture Day 7- Assessment (2/10) Unit 8 Mini Topics Beginnings of the Cold War-Korean War Day 1- Pre Assessment, Foreign Policy (Containment, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan), Red Scare- Communism Day 2- Asia, Fall of China, Korean War Day 3- Russia, UN, Arms/Space Race, McCarthy- HUAC Day 4- Cuban Missile Crisis Day 5- Assessment Unit 9 Mini Topics Civil Rights, Vietnam War, Counterculture Day 1- Pre Assessment, Protest Posters/Project Intro Day 2- Civil Rights Movement Day 3- Civil Rights impact, Build Up to Vietnam War Day 4- Vietnam War - Homefront, Student Protests Day 5- Counterculture Day 6- Project Presentations Day 7- (3/31) Assessment End Third Term Unit 10 Mini Topics 70’s and 80’s Watergate Detente with China and Soviet Union Iran Hostage Crisis Oil Crisis Carter vs. Reagan Conservative America We didn’t start the fire Unit 11 Mini Topics 90’s and 2000’s Tech Revolution Bush and Clinton Administration Rodney King, OJ Simpson 90s Culture Gulf War Interview a parent or someone on life Pre and Post 9/11 Unit 12 Mini Topics Present Day Interview two peers about an event in their lifetime (social, economic, political issues) and answer their own questions asked in the interview. MOAT (mother of all tests, aka final) Connections Project 2nd Semester procon.org Choose a topic that has happened within the Student lifetime. |
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