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Today's Agenda

2/28/2019

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Learning Target:
I can explain the causes of the Great Depression, & I can describe its effects on ordinary Americans.

Critical Vocabulary: Recession, Isolationism, Interventionism, Frederick W. Taylor, “Return to Normalcy,” Warren G. Harding, Albert Fall, Teapot Dome Scandal, "Ohio Gang," John Maynard Keynes, Calvin Coolidge, American Legion, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Dawes Plan of 1924, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith, Stock Market Crash of 1929, Speculation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Bonus Army, Election of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Brain Trust," New Deal, Bank Holiday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, "Fireside Chats," “Relief, Recovery, and Reform,” Unemployment Relief Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Federal Emergency Relief Act, Civil Works Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Butler v. U.S., Dust Bowl, Twenty-first Amendment, Securities and Exchange Commission, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Housing Administration, National Recovery Administration, Public Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, Wagner Act, National Labor Relations Board, Social Security Act of 1935, Father Charles Coughlin, Senator Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth," Dr. Francis Townsend, American Liberty League, Alfred Landon, Twentieth Amendment, “Court-Packing” Scheme, Fair Labor Standards Act

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: 
  2. Citizenship Question: What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? 
    1. to vote 
    2. jury trial 
    3. free speech 
    4. to bear arms
  3. Individual Learning: The Great Depression Chart
  4. Reflection Question: 

Homework: The Great Depression Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/27/2019

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Learning Target:
I can explain the causes of the Great Depression, & I can describe its effects on ordinary Americans.

Critical Vocabulary: Recession, Isolationism, Interventionism, Frederick W. Taylor, “Return to Normalcy,” Warren G. Harding, Albert Fall, Teapot Dome Scandal, "Ohio Gang," John Maynard Keynes, Calvin Coolidge, American Legion, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Dawes Plan of 1924, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith, Stock Market Crash of 1929, Speculation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Bonus Army, Election of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Brain Trust," New Deal, Bank Holiday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, "Fireside Chats," “Relief, Recovery, and Reform,” Unemployment Relief Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Federal Emergency Relief Act, Civil Works Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Butler v. U.S., Dust Bowl, Twenty-first Amendment, Securities and Exchange Commission, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Housing Administration, National Recovery Administration, Public Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, Wagner Act, National Labor Relations Board, Social Security Act of 1935, Father Charles Coughlin, Senator Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth," Dr. Francis Townsend, American Liberty League, Alfred Landon, Twentieth Amendment, “Court-Packing” Scheme, Fair Labor Standards Act

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: What do you want to know about the Great Depression. Write three questions.
  2. Citizenship Question: What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? 
    1. to vote 
    2. jury trial 
    3. free speech 
    4. to bear arms
  3. Guided Instruction: The Story of Us: Bust
  4. Reflection Question: What event triggered the Great Depression in October 1929?
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Today's Agenda

2/26/2019

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Learning Target:
I can summarize Harding, Coolidge, & Hoover's fiscal policies, & I can evaluate their effects on the national economy.

Critical Vocabulary: Recession, Isolationism, Interventionism, Frederick W. Taylor, “Return to Normalcy,” Warren G. Harding, Albert Fall, Teapot Dome Scandal, "Ohio Gang," John Maynard Keynes, Calvin Coolidge, American Legion, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Dawes Plan of 1924, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith, Stock Market Crash of 1929, Speculation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Bonus Army, Election of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Brain Trust," New Deal, Bank Holiday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, "Fireside Chats," “Relief, Recovery, and Reform,” Unemployment Relief Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Federal Emergency Relief Act, Civil Works Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Butler v. U.S., Dust Bowl, Twenty-first Amendment, Securities and Exchange Commission, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Housing Administration, National Recovery Administration, Public Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, Wagner Act, National Labor Relations Board, Social Security Act of 1935, Father Charles Coughlin, Senator Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth," Dr. Francis Townsend, American Liberty League, Alfred Landon, Twentieth Amendment, “Court-Packing” Scheme, Fair Labor Standards Act

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for Henry Ford.
  2. Citizenship Question: Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? 
    1. print money 
    2. create an army 
    3. issue passports 
    4. provide public education
  3. Guided Instruction: The Politics of Normalcy
  4. Reflection Question: How did the "return to normalcy" of the 1920s impact American foreign policy? Economic policy?

Homework: The Great Depression Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/25/2019

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Learning Target:
I can summarize Harding, Coolidge, & Hoover's fiscal policies, & I can evaluate their effects on the national economy.

Critical Vocabulary: Recession, Isolationism, Interventionism, Frederick W. Taylor, “Return to Normalcy,” Warren G. Harding, Albert Fall, Teapot Dome Scandal, "Ohio Gang," John Maynard Keynes, Calvin Coolidge, American Legion, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Dawes Plan of 1924, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith, Stock Market Crash of 1929, Speculation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Bonus Army, Election of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Brain Trust," New Deal, Bank Holiday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, "Fireside Chats," “Relief, Recovery, and Reform,” Unemployment Relief Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Federal Emergency Relief Act, Civil Works Administration, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Butler v. U.S., Dust Bowl, Twenty-first Amendment, Securities and Exchange Commission, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Housing Administration, National Recovery Administration, Public Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, Wagner Act, National Labor Relations Board, Social Security Act of 1935, Father Charles Coughlin, Senator Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth," Dr. Francis Townsend, American Liberty League, Alfred Landon, Twentieth Amendment, “Court-Packing” Scheme, Fair Labor Standards Act

Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for the 1920s Presidents.
  2. Citizenship Question: Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? 
    1. print money 
    2. create an army 
    3. issue passports 
    4. provide public education
  3. Guided Instruction: The Politics of Normalcy
  4. Reflection Question: How did the "return to normalcy" of the 1920s impact American foreign policy? Economic policy?

Homework: The Great Depression Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/22/2019

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

Critical Vocabulary: Mitchell Palmer, “Red Scare,” General Intelligence Division, “Soviet Ark,” “Palmer Raids,” Emergency
Quota Act of 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, John Dewey, John T. Scopes, “Monkey Trial,” Clarence Darrow, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, “Speakeasies,” “Bootleg,” Al Capone, “Jazz Age,” Nineteenth Amendment, League of Women Voters, “New Woman,” “Flappers,” “Duke” Ellington, Cotton Club, “Harlem Renaissance,” Marcus Garvey, “Back to Africa Movement,” Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Ford Motor Company, Model T, Frederick Taylor, “Babe” Ruth,
The Jazz Singer, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow

 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create your Adobe Spark page and add the Activity Questions.
  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 American popular culture change in the 1920s?

​Homework: The Roaring Twenties Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/21/2019

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

Critical Vocabulary: Mitchell Palmer, “Red Scare,” General Intelligence Division, “Soviet Ark,” “Palmer Raids,” Emergency
Quota Act of 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, John Dewey, John T. Scopes, “Monkey Trial,” Clarence Darrow, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, “Speakeasies,” “Bootleg,” Al Capone, “Jazz Age,” Nineteenth Amendment, League of Women Voters, “New Woman,” “Flappers,” “Duke” Ellington, Cotton Club, “Harlem Renaissance,” Marcus Garvey, “Back to Africa Movement,” Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Ford Motor Company, Model T, Frederick Taylor, “Babe” Ruth,
The Jazz Singer, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow

 
Today's Agenda:
  1. Background Question: Create your Adobe Spark page and add the Activity Questions.
  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 American popular culture change in the 1920s?

​Homework: The Roaring Twenties Reading
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Today's Agenda

2/20/2019

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

Critical Vocabulary: Mitchell Palmer, “Red Scare,” General Intelligence Division, “Soviet Ark,” “Palmer Raids,” Emergency
Quota Act of 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, John Dewey, John T. Scopes, “Monkey Trial,” Clarence Darrow, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, “Speakeasies,” “Bootleg,” Al Capone, “Jazz Age,” Nineteenth Amendment, League of Women Voters, “New Woman,” “Flappers,” “Duke” Ellington, Cotton Club, “Harlem Renaissance,” Marcus Garvey, “Back to Africa Movement,” Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Ford Motor Company, Model T, Frederick Taylor, “Babe” Ruth,
The Jazz Singer, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow

 
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

2/19/2019

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

Critical Vocabulary: Mitchell Palmer, “Red Scare,” General Intelligence Division, “Soviet Ark,” “Palmer Raids,” Emergency
Quota Act of 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, John Dewey, John T. Scopes, “Monkey Trial,” Clarence Darrow, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, “Speakeasies,” “Bootleg,” Al Capone, “Jazz Age,” Nineteenth Amendment, League of Women Voters, “New Woman,” “Flappers,” “Duke” Ellington, Cotton Club, “Harlem Renaissance,” Marcus Garvey, “Back to Africa Movement,” Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Ford Motor Company, Model T, Frederick Taylor, “Babe” Ruth,
The Jazz Singer, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow

 
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. Guided Instruction: Post-War Tensions
  4. 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

2/18/2019

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

Critical Vocabulary: Mitchell Palmer, “Red Scare,” General Intelligence Division, “Soviet Ark,” “Palmer Raids,” Emergency
Quota Act of 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, John Dewey, John T. Scopes, “Monkey Trial,” Clarence Darrow, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, “Speakeasies,” “Bootleg,” Al Capone, “Jazz Age,” Nineteenth Amendment, League of Women Voters, “New Woman,” “Flappers,” “Duke” Ellington, Cotton Club, “Harlem Renaissance,” Marcus Garvey, “Back to Africa Movement,” Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Ford Motor Company, Model T, Frederick Taylor, “Babe” Ruth,
The Jazz Singer, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow

 
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. Guided Instruction: Post-War Tensions
  4. 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

2/15/2019

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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: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Central Powers, Allied Powers, U-boat, Lusitania, Sussex Ultimatum, Election of 1916, Charles Evans Hughes, “peace without victory,” unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman Telegram, Committee on Public Information, George Creel, Food Administration, Herbert Hoover, Fuel Administration, War Industries Board, Bernard Baruch, National War Labor Board, Espionage Act of 1917, Sedition Act of 1918, Industrial Workers of the World, Eugene V. Debs, William D. Haywood, Schenck v. U.S., Oliver Wendell Holmes, “clear and present danger,” American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing, “doughboys,” Battle of the Argonne Forest, Fourteen Points Address, Big Four, League of Nations, League Covenant, collective security, “war-guilt” clause, reparations, Treaty of Versailles, Henry Cabot Lodge, “reservationists,” “irreconcilables,” “Lodge Reservations,” Election of 1920, “return to normalcy,” Warren G. Harding
 
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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