Monday 4/29 - Thursday 5/2

Monday & Tuesday
Unit 6: Starter #7  Political Cartoon P. 654
1. Is the artist portraying the hippies in this cartoon sympathetically or critically?
2. Why did some people think of hippies as hypocritical?

DUE TO THE TESTING SCHEDULE: SOME CHANGES
Unit 6: Starters Due Today   – You should have 7 Starters
Discuss Chapter 20 Assignment/Grade Quiz
Pass Back Papers
Unit 6 Test (Open Book and Assignment)
Turn in Chapter 20 Assignment, Chapter 20 Quiz, Starters
Long classes (3rd, 5th & 7th will begin Forrest Gump this class meeting, short classes (2nd & 4th) will begin NEXT TIME

Wednesday & Thursday
Forrest Gump

Thursday 4/25 & Friday 4/26

Unit 6: 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)

Crash Course US History- The 1960s in America

Chapter 20 Section 1, 2 & 3 Assignment & Quiz

Unit 6 Test ~ Wednesday 5/2 & Thursday 5/3

Tuesday 4/23 & Wednesday 4/24

Unit 6: Starter #5  Chart P. 619
1. Who won the election of 1968?
2. What percentage of the popular vote did he get?

Protest music:
I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag by Country Joe and the Fish (Recorded and released 1965. Early war protest song)

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Recorded 1970, released 1971. Later war protest song about the 1970 shooting at Kent State Universtiy, Ohio)

Discuss Chapter 19
Chapter 19 Quiz

Friday 4/12 & Monday 4/22

Unit 6: Starter #4  Chart P. 602
1. List the FIVE causes of the Vietnam War.
2. Which of these do you think was most important?
3. Why?

The Ballad of the Green Beret, an example of pro-military/pro-war music from the 1960s

Video & Study Guide- CNN Cold War, Vietnam

Time to finish Chapter 19 Assignment

Wednesday 4/10 & Thursday 4/11

Unit 6: Starter #3  Timeline P. 594-595
Please copy the questions!
When did French forces surrender to the Viet Minh?
When was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed?
When was the Tet Offensive?

Crash Course Cold War in Asia

Chapter 19 Assignment – The Vietnam War

Monday 4/8 & Tuesday 4/9

Unit 6: Starter #2  P. 570 Chart

Please copy the questions! 

1. List the main parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.2. 

List the main parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

 Crash Course US History- The 1950s and Civil Rights

“I Have a Dream” Speech from the 1963 March on Washington

Discuss Chapter 18

Chapter 18 Quiz

Movie clips from: The Butler*

*The Civil Rights Era as told through the experiences of a White House butler. Based on a true story; he served in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan presidencies. Late 1950s through the early 1980s.

Thursday 4/4 & Friday 4/5

Unit 6: Starter #1  P. 554-555 Timeline
New Starters- New Paper!!! Please copy the questions!
1. When did the US supreme court rule for the desegregation of the public schools?
2. When was the “March on Washington” for civil rights?
3. In what year was an important new civil rights act passed and signed into law?

Chapter 18 Assignment ~ Whole Chapter

Crash Course US History- The 1950s and Civil Rights

Tuesday 4/2 & Wednesday 4/3

Video & Guide: The Century, America’s Time: Poisoned Dreams

Pass Back Papers

UNIT 5 TEST

When you’re done with the test…

On the stacks at the front of the classroom, Turn in:
Test & Bubble Sheet
Chapter 17 Book Assignment
JFK “Ich bin ein Berliner” Speech Assignment
Video Guide
Test and Bubble Sheet