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Daily Agenda

4/14/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will explain and give examples of how after WWII, America experienced economic growth (e.g., suburban growth), struggle for racial and gender equality (e.g., Civil Rights Movement), the extension of civil liberties (e.g., desegregation, Civil Rights Act) and conflict over political issues (e.g., McCarthyism, U.S. involvement in Vietnam).
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Learning Target:
I can summarize the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, & I can evaluate the impact of each.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King.​​
  2. ​Movie: Murder In Mississippi
  3. Reflection Question: Why did Martin Luther King believe that it was essential for protesters to remain non-violent in spite of the actions of others?
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Daily Agenda

4/13/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will explain and give examples of how after WWII, America experienced economic growth (e.g., suburban growth), struggle for racial and gender equality (e.g., Civil Rights Movement), the extension of civil liberties (e.g., desegregation, Civil Rights Act) and conflict over political issues (e.g., McCarthyism, U.S. involvement in Vietnam).
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Learning Target:
I can summarize the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, & I can evaluate the impact of each.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King.​
  2. Notes: The Civil Rights Movement
  3. ​Movie: Murder In Mississippi
  4. Reflection Question: Why did Martin Luther King believe that it was essential for protesters to remain non-violent in spite of the actions of others?
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Daily Agenda

4/12/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will explain and give examples of how after WWII, America experienced economic growth (e.g., suburban growth), struggle for racial and gender equality (e.g., Civil Rights Movement), the extension of civil liberties (e.g., desegregation, Civil Rights Act) and conflict over political issues (e.g., McCarthyism, U.S. involvement in Vietnam).
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Learning Target:
I can summarize the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, & I can evaluate the impact of each.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King.​
  2. Notes: The Civil Rights Movement
  3. Reflection Question: Why did Martin Luther King believe that it was essential for protesters to remain non-violent in spite of the actions of others?
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Daily Agenda

4/11/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will explain and give examples of how after WWII, America experienced economic growth (e.g., suburban growth), struggle for racial and gender equality (e.g., Civil Rights Movement), the extension of civil liberties (e.g., desegregation, Civil Rights Act) and conflict over political issues (e.g., McCarthyism, U.S. involvement in Vietnam).
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Learning Target:
I can summarize the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, & I can evaluate the impact of each.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Complete the EOC Practice #5.
  2. Activity: Post-War Timeline
  3. Notes: The Civil Rights Movement
  4. Reflection Question: What was the significance of the Plessy v. Ferguson case? Brown v. Board of Education?
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Daily Agenda

4/10/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will explain and give examples of how after WWII, America experienced economic growth (e.g., suburban growth), struggle for racial and gender equality (e.g., Civil Rights Movement), the extension of civil liberties (e.g., desegregation, Civil Rights Act) and conflict over political issues (e.g., McCarthyism, U.S. involvement in Vietnam).
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Learning Target:
I can summarize the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, & I can evaluate the impact of each.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King.​
  2. Video: The Story of Us - Superpower
  3. Activity: Post-War Timeline​
  4. Reflection Question: What was the significance of the Plessy v. Ferguson case? Brown v. Board of Education?
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Daily Agenda

3/29/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will explain and give examples of how after WWII, America experienced economic growth (e.g., suburban growth), struggle for racial and gender equality (e.g., Civil Rights Movement), the extension of civil liberties (e.g., desegregation, Civil Rights Act) and conflict over political issues (e.g., McCarthyism, U.S. involvement in Vietnam).
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Learning Target:
I can discuss the origins of the Cold War, & I can evaluate the methods used by the United States to contain communism.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Harry Truman, Robert Oppenheimer, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy.
  2. Notes: The Early Cold War 
  3. ​Activity: The Cold War Chart
  4. Reflection Question: How successful were the Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower Doctrine, and New Frontier in fighting the Cold War? Explain.
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Daily Agenda

3/28/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will explain and give examples of how after WWII, America experienced economic growth (e.g., suburban growth), struggle for racial and gender equality (e.g., Civil Rights Movement), the extension of civil liberties (e.g., desegregation, Civil Rights Act) and conflict over political issues (e.g., McCarthyism, U.S. involvement in Vietnam).
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Learning Target:
I can discuss the origins of the Cold War, & I can evaluate the methods used by the United States to contain communism.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Complete the EOC Practice #3 Quizziz Activity.
  2. Activity: The Cold War Timeline
  3. Notes: The Early Cold War 
  4. Reflection Question: How successful was the Truman Doctrine in fighting the Cold War? Explain.
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Daily Agenda

3/24/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will evaluate how the Great Depression, New Deal policies and World War II transformed America socially and politically at home (e.g., stock market crash, relief, recovery, reform initiatives, increased role of government in business, influx of women into the workforce, rationing) and reshaped its role in world affairs (e.g., emergence of the U.S. as an economic and political superpower).
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Learning Target:

I can explain the opportunities & hardships the war created for Americans on the home front.

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Which battle(s) marked the turning point in each of the following wars? Why? American Revolution, Civil War, World War II
  2. Notes: The War at Home
  3. Reflection Question: ​Summarize the ways in which World War II impacted life on the American home front. How did that compare to World War I?
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Daily Agenda

3/23/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will evaluate how the Great Depression, New Deal policies and World War II transformed America socially and politically at home (e.g., stock market crash, relief, recovery, reform initiatives, increased role of government in business, influx of women into the workforce, rationing) and reshaped its role in world affairs (e.g., emergence of the U.S. as an economic and political superpower).
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Learning Target:
I can analyze the military strategies the United States & its allies pursued during World War II.
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Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Define each of the following:
  2. Activity: Use the War in Europe and the War in the Pacific Notes to complete the map activity.
  3. Reflection Question: 
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Daily Agenda

3/16/2017

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Content Standards:
Students will evaluate how the Great Depression, New Deal policies and World War II transformed America socially and politically at home (e.g., stock market crash, relief, recovery, reform initiatives, increased role of government in business, influx of women into the workforce, rationing) and reshaped its role in world affairs (e.g., emergence of the U.S. as an economic and political superpower).
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Learning Target:
I can analyze the military strategies the United States & its allies pursued during World War II.
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Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for George Marshall.
  2. Notes: The War in Europe​
  3. Reflection Question: Complete the EOC Practice #2 Quizziz game.
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    • Unit 1
  • Study
    • New Deal Breakout
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    • Trading Cards
    • US History Flashcards
    • US Presidents Flashcards
  • Et Cetera
    • Class Toolbox
    • Crash Course Videos
    • iTunes U >
      • US History to 1877
      • US History since 1877
    • Khan Academy Videos >
      • US History Overview 1
      • US History Overview 2
      • US History Overview 3
    • Pinterest Boards
    • U.S. History Timeline