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Today's Agenda

2/28/2020

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AP Learning Objective:
Explain the causes and effects of international and internal migration patterns over time.

Learning Target:
I can discuss the political, social, economic, & religious tensions that divided Americans during the 1920s.

Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: How did the 18th Amendment impact the lives of Americans in the 1920s?
  2. Citizenship Question: What does the Constitution do? 
    1. sets up and defines the government
    2. draws boundaries of congressional districts
    3. sets codes of conduct for obeying local and federal laws 
    4. determines whether citizens are prosecuted to the full extent of the law
  3. Collaborative Learning: 1920s Activity
  4. Reflection Question: How did the lives of women change in the 1920s?​

​Homework: The Roaring Twenties Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/27/2020

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AP Learning Objective:
Explain the causes and effects of international and internal migration patterns over time.

Learning Target:
I can discuss the political, social, economic, & religious tensions that divided Americans during the 1920s.

Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: How did the 18th Amendment impact the lives of Americans in the 1920s?
  2. Citizenship Question: What does the Constitution do? 
    1. sets up and defines the government
    2. draws boundaries of congressional districts
    3. sets codes of conduct for obeying local and federal laws 
    4. determines whether citizens are prosecuted to the full extent of the law
  3. Collaborative Learning: 1920s Activity
  4. Reflection Question: How did the lives of women change in the 1920s?​

​Homework: The Roaring Twenties Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/26/2020

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AP Learning Objective:
Explain the causes and effects of international and internal migration patterns over time.

Learning Target:
I can discuss the political, social, economic, & religious tensions that divided Americans during the 1920s.

Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: 
  2. Citizenship Question: What does the Constitution do? 
    1. sets up and defines the government
    2. draws boundaries of congressional districts
    3. sets codes of conduct for obeying local and federal laws 
    4. determines whether citizens are prosecuted to the full extent of the law
  3. Independent Learning: World War I Assessment
  4. Guided Instruction: Post-War Tensions
  5. Reflection Question: 

​Homework: The Roaring Twenties Reading
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Testing Today!

2/25/2020

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Today's Agenda

2/24/2020

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AP Learning Objective:
Explain the causes and effects of international and internal migration patterns over time.

Learning Target:
I can discuss the political, social, economic, & religious tensions that divided Americans during the 1920s.

Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for A. Mitchell Palmer and Sacco & Vanzetti.
  2. Citizenship Question: What does the Constitution do? 
    1. sets up and defines the government
    2. draws boundaries of congressional districts
    3. sets codes of conduct for obeying local and federal laws 
    4. determines whether citizens are prosecuted to the full extent of the law
  3. Independent Learning: World War I Assessment
  4. Guided Instruction: Post-War Tensions
  5. Reflection Question: What series of events led to the First Red Scare in the United States? How did the government respond?

​Homework: The Roaring Twenties Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/21/2020

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AP Learning Objective:
Explain the causes and consequences of U.S. involvement in World War I.​

Learning Target:
I can describe the events that led the United States into World War I, & I can analyze the war’s impact on American society.

Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age

​Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for Henry Cabot Lodge.
  2. Citizenship Question: What is the supreme law of the land? 
    1. the U.S. Constitution  
    2. the Articles of Confederation
    3. the Emancipation Proclamation
    4. the Declaration of Independence
  3. Guided Instruction: World War I
  4. Reflection Question: Why did Henry Cabot Lodge object to the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations?

Homework: World War I Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/20/2020

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AP Learning Objective:
Explain the causes and consequences of U.S. involvement in World War I.​

Learning Target:
I can describe the events that led the United States into World War I, & I can analyze the war’s impact on American society.


Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What was the Committee of Public Information? How did they achieve their goals?
  2. Citizenship Question: Which of the following includes two rights of everyone living in the United States? 
    1. freedom to work and freedom of speech
    2. freedom to work and freedom to make laws
    3. freedom of speech and freedom of assembly
    4. freedom to make laws and freedom of assembly
  3. Individual Learning: World War I
  4. Reflection Question: What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts? Were they justified during World War I? Explain.

Homework: World War I Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/19/2020

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AP Learning Objective:
Explain the causes and consequences of U.S. involvement in World War I.​

Learning Target:
I can describe the events that led the United States into World War I, & I can analyze the war’s impact on American society.


Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What event finally prompted the U.S. to enter World War I in 1917?
  2. Citizenship Question: What is one responsibility that only applies to United States citizens?
    1. pay taxes 
    2. obey the laws 
    3. serve on a jury 
    4. attend private school ​
  3. Guided Instruction: World War I
  4. Reflection Question: How did World War I impact American society? Explain at least one change that took place because of the war.

Homework: World War I Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/18/2020

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AP Learning Objective:
Explain the causes and consequences of U.S. involvement in World War I.​

Learning Target:
I can describe the events that led the United States into World War I, & I can analyze the war’s impact on American society.


Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Complete the American Imperialism Assessment.
  2. Citizenship Question: What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? 
    1. the military 
    2. the Bill of Rights
    3. checks and balances 
    4. the Federal Reserve
  3. Guided Instruction: World War I
  4. Reflection Question: Do you think the U.S. should have gotten involved in World War I before 1917? Explain.

Homework: World War I Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/17/2020

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AP Learning Objective:
Explain the similarities and differences in attitudes about the nation’s proper role in the world.
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Learning Target:
I can compare and contrast the foreign policies of Roosevelt, Taft, & Wilson, & I can evaluate the consequences of each.

Critical Vocabulary: Imperialism, Great White Fleet, White Man’s Burden, Yellow Journalism, De Lome Letter, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Gunboat Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, Nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, Lusitania, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Zimmerman Note, Fourteen Points, Propaganda, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, Great Migration, Espionage  & Sedition Acts, Schenck v. United States, Treaty of Versailles, War Guilt Clause, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Immigration Acts, Red Summer, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Organized Crime, Twenty-First Amendment, Scopes Trial, Nineteenth Amendment, Flapper, Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age
 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What did the Supreme Court rule in the Insular Cases?
  2. Citizenship Question: What is one promise made when becoming a citizen of the United States of America?
    1. ​to register to vote 
    2. to defend the U.S. Constitution
    3. to join a political party
    4. to get an education
  3. Guided Instruction: American Imperialism
  4. Reflection Question: What three foreign policy goals did the U.S. achieve in the early 20th century?

Homework: American Imperialism Reading
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