Thursday 5/25/17

No Starter

Ultimate Guide to the Presidents: LBJ to Obama
15 Question Assignment

Crash Course: George W. Bush  & Early 2000s

Unit 8 Test ~ Cancelled!

Tuesday 5/23/17

No Starter

The Story of US- Millennium & Video Guide*

9/11 Article and Assignment*

*Video and Assignment DO NOT need to be made up if missed

Unit 8 Test ~ Cancelled!

Grade cut-off for all assignments, late-work, make-up work & extra credit passes is… Wednesday MAY 24th @ 3 PM

Friday 5/19/17

Unit 8: Starter #4 Primary Source P.703
Read the excerpt from the speech…
1. What was the occasion of Reagan’s speech?
2. According to President Reagan, what proved that the Normandy invasion was justified?
3. According to Reagan, what are the things worth “dying for”?

Starters Due- You should have FOUR
Crash Course: Reagan & the 1980s, HW Bush & the Fall of Communism, Clinton & the 1990s

Discuss Chapter 22 Assignment & Quiz

Chapter 23 Open Book Quiz

Wednesday 5/17/18

Unit 8: Starter #3 Timeline P.692-693  
1. Who was the first female Supreme Court justice?
2. When did Gorbachev come to power in the Soviet Union?
3. What important event took place in November 1989?

Crash Course: 1970s Ford and Carter 

Chapter 22 Assignment & Open-Book Quiz

Grade cut-off for all assignments, late-work, make-up work & extra credit passes is… Wednesday MAY 24th @ 3 PM

Monday 5/15/17

Unit 8: Starter #2  Watergate Timeline P. 676-677
1.When did the Watergate break-in happen?
2.What happened  in the 1972 presidential election?
3.When was the “Saturday Night Massacre”?
4.When did the Supreme Court force Nixon to turn over the secret tapes?

Crash Course: 1960s,1970s Rise of Conservatism 

Finish Chapter 21 Assignment & Quiz
Discuss Assignment/Quiz

1970s Video if time permits (no assignment on video)

TURN IN BOOKS ASAP ~ FINES after Friday 5/19/17
Grade cut-off for all assignments, late-work, and make-up work is… Wednesday May 24th @ 3 PM. Passes for Extra Credit accepted until Friday May 26th @ 3 PM

Thursday 5/11/17

Unit 8: Starter #1  Timeline P. 664-665
New Starter: please use a new sheet of paper.
When did the US first land men on the moon?
When did President Nixon make his historic trip to China?
When was President Nixon forced to resign?

Finish Forrest Gump

Begin Chapter 21 Assignment (Whole Chapter) & Quiz

Check in ALL BOOKS!
Grade cut-off for all assignments, late-work, and make-up work is… Wednesday May 24th @ 3 PM. Passes for Extra Credit accepted until Friday May 26th @ 3 PM

Tuesday 5/9/2017

NO Starter

Unit 8 Pre-Test

Forrest Gump

Grade cut-off for all assignments, late-work, and make-up work is… Wednesday May 24th @ 3 PM. Passes for Extra Credit accepted until Friday May 26th @ 3 PM

Friday 5/5/17

No Starter!!!

Review Game For Unit 7 Test

Unit 7 Test

Begin Movie: Forrest Gump

Wednesday 5/3/17

Unit 7: Starter #6  Timeline P. 632-633
1. In what year did the Woodstock Music and Art Festival take place?
2. When was the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) proposed by Congress?
3. When did Saigon (capital of South Vietnam) fall to North Vietnam? (This was the actual end of the Vietnam War)

Unit 7: Starters Due 6 starters X 5 points each = 30/30

Discuss Chapter 20 Assignment & Quiz

CNN Cold War: Make Love Not War

(No assignment; we just watched and discussed elements of the episode)

Unit 7 Test ~ Friday 5/5

Monday 5/1/17

Unit 7: Starter #5  Chart P. 619
1. Who won the election of 1968?
2. What percentage of the popular vote did he get?

2 clips of songs contrasting the differing views of the war early on in the US involvement (Pre-1968)
Pro-War: The Ballad of the Green Berets

Anti-War: Fixin to Die Rag

Crash Course US History- The 1960s in America

Chapter 20 Section 1, 2 & 3 Assignment
Chapter 20 Quiz

Unit 7 Test ~ Friday 5/5