Lesson Plans

08/24/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday	Intro and begin Reconstruction questions
Thursday	Finish Reconstruction questions
Friday	discuss questions--Plans for Reconstruction, Freedmen's Bureau, Reconstruction Amendments and Black Codes

08/31/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Johnson's Impeachment; Carpetbaggers and Scalawags; KKK; KKK video
Tuesday	finish Reconstruction questions; quiz;
Wednesday	Manifest Destiny picture analysis
Thursday	finish analysis
Friday	begin Farming Game; farmers

09/07/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	NO SCHOOL--LABOR DAY
Tuesday	Farming Game; finish farmers; video clip on Homestead Act; begin ranchers/cowboys
Wednesday	finish Farming Game; finish ranchers/cowboys; video clip over ranchers/cowboys; reading over cowboys
Thursday	notes over miners; reading over miners; video clip over miners; begin Problems with westward migration;
Friday	finish Problems; transcontinental railroad video clip; video clip over buffalo;

09/14/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Dances With Wolves clip; questions from video clip
Tuesday	reading over buffalo; Native American political cartoon; begin notes over Native AmericansSand Creek; reading
Wednesday	video over Sand Creek; Little Bighorn; video clip; Wounded Knee
Thursday	Dawes Act and effects of westward movement on Natives; Life on reservations toda
Friday	TEST

09/21/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Causes of the Industrial Revolution--resources
Tuesday	Inventions; Thomas Edison Cloze
Wednesday	Finish Edison Cloze; other Edison inventions; Transcontinental Railroad; video; Immigration; Government attitudes towards business
Thursday	Rise of Big Business--corporations, Social Darwinism
Friday	Gospel of Wealth; Robber Barons graphic organizer--Carnegie reading and video clip; begin Morgan

09/28/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	finish Morgan and Rockefeller readings and video clips
Tuesday	political cartoon interpretation; Living Lavishly reading; The Other Half Reading; begin Immigration video
Wednesday	continue Immigration video
Thursday	Statue of Liberty; video clip; poem questions; Ellis Island
Friday	HOMECOMING

10/05/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Beneath the Gilt reading; Tenement notes; Tenemant Halls readings; Discrimination notes; citizenship test
Tuesday	Political cartoon analysis; Sweatshop notes; Sweatshop reading; sweatshop political cartoon analysis
Wednesday	Unions; Urban problems; Map and questions; video clips;
Thursday	Politics; Corruption Unbridled; explain Gilded Age symbol
Friday	NO SCHOOL--INSERVICE

10/12/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	"Far and Away"
Tuesday	"Far and Away"
Wednesday	Finish movie; study guide or symbol
Thursday	TEST
Friday	Imperialism; Hawaii reading

10/19/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Other causes of war; Maine evidence; Yellow Journalism worksheet
Tuesday	Bumper sticker project
Wednesday	A Just War worksheet
Thursday	Spanish-American War; video clip over war
Friday	Ruling an Empire; video clip; Open Door Policy; video clip over Open Door Policy and Boxer Rebellion;

10/26/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Panama Canal; worksheet; video clip; Roosevelt Corollary and Mexico
Tuesday	map and questions; finish bumper sticker and/or study guide
Wednesday	TEST
Thursday	"Rough Riders"
Friday	Turn-of-the-Century--New Technology; video clip; Civil Rights; video clip

11/02/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	SHORTENED CLASSES--Black codes worksheet; literacy test example; Jim Crow laws video clip
Tuesday	SHORTENED CLASSES--Leisure time and amusement parks; video clip; ragtime; example
Wednesday	Theater--Who's on First; Spectator sports--Casey at the Bat; Movies--The Great Train Robbery
Thursday	Commercialism; video clip; study guide
Friday	NO SCHOOL

11/09/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	QUIZ; begin causes of World War I
Tuesday	continue causes of WWI
Wednesday	NO SCHOOL--VETERAN'S DAY
Thursday	World War I technology
Friday	finish technology; trench notes

11/16/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Trench warfare simulation; Life in the Trenches reading; assign Letter Home from the Trenches; video clip
Tuesday	American Entry into World War I--Lusitania and Zimmermann Telegram; Decoding activity
Wednesday	Wilson's War Message; Norris' speech; debate
Thursday	American Homefront During War--Espinage and Sedition Acts worksheet; "Over There";
Friday	propaganda and analysis worksheet; video clip over American Homefont;

11/23/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Russian Revolution; video clip
Tuesday	America in the War; video clip; End of the War
Wednesday	finish End of the War; worksheet--Europe after the War; begin "Lost Battalion"
Thursday	NO SCHOOL
Friday	NO SCHOOL

11/30/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	continue "Lost Battalion"
Tuesday	finish "Lost Battalion"
Wednesday	WWI TEST
Thursday	begin Progressive Era project
Friday	continue project

12/07/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	continue project
Tuesday	Computer lab 128
Wednesday	Topics for Progressive Era--Women's Suffrage (Reading); "music" video; Men v. Women in politics
Thursday	Topics--Conservation; Prohibition (Reading and video clips)
Friday	Topics--Breaking Trusts/Monopolies; Pure Food and Drugs ("The Jungle" excerpt)

12/14/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Topics--Political Reforms; Social Gospel; video clip
Tuesday	TEST; begin Twenties Talk
Wednesday	finish Twenties Talk; begin notes; compare/contrast older and younger woman
Thursday	video clip over flappers and Charleston; Prohibition; video clip; flight; movies; video clip
Friday	baseball, Scope Monkey Trial, literature; life in the 1920s

12/21/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	NO SCHOOL
Tuesday	NO SCHOOL
Wednesday	NO SCHOOL
Thursday	NO SCHOOL
Friday	NO SCHOOL

12/28/15	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	NO SCHOOL
Tuesday	NO SCHOOL
Wednesday	NO SCHOOL
Thursday	NO SCHOOL
Friday	NO SCHOOL

01/04/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Sacco and Vanzetti, KKK; immigration quotas, Teapot Dome Scandal, Palmer Raids, Kellogg-Briand Pact
Tuesday	Harlem Renaissance and Great Migration
Wednesday	Causes of the Great Depression; video clip; Results of the Great Depression
Thursday	Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression; FDR and the New Deal
Friday	New Deal; Oppostition to New Deal

01/11/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	finish Great Depression/New Deal
Tuesday	SEMESTER TESTS
Wednesday	SEMESTER TESTS
Thursday	SEMESTER TESTS
Friday	NO SCHOOL

01/18/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Dictator questions
Tuesday	Hitler
Wednesday	Hitler video; begin Holocaust packet
Thursday	read VanderGeest article; Holocaust video clip and finish Holocaust
Friday	Stalin; video clip; Mussolini

01/25/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	finish Mussolini; Fill-in-the-blank notes; Japanese Aggression
Tuesday	finish Japanese Aggression; video clip over Pearl Harbor and the mobilization of the American Homefront during war
Wednesday	notes over Homefront; begin Cartoons Go To War
Thursday	finish Cartoons Go To War; Popeye cartoon as example; Stalingrad; Stalingrad video clip; War in North Africa
Friday	invasion of Italy; D-Day; video clip

02/01/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Battle of the Bulge; Bulge video; End of War in Europe; Midway; video clip
Tuesday	NO SCHOOL--SNOW DAY
Wednesday	NO SCHOOL--SNOW DAY
Thursday	finish War in Pacific; End of War; video clip
Friday	"Hiroshima :Why the Bomb Was Dropped" video

02/08/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	video; research in class
Tuesday	DEBATE--Should we have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan?
Wednesday	World War II TEST
Thursday	Origins of Cold War worksheet; Tensions Mount--Containment Policy, video clip; Iron Curtain speech; Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
Friday	NO SCHOOL--INSERVICE

02/15/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	NO SCHOOL--PRESIDENT'S DAY
Tuesday	Worksheet; Video clip; Berlin Airlift; Worksheet and video clip over Berlin Airlift; Formation of NATO and Warsaw Pact
Wednesday	storyboard project
Thursday	Chinese Civil War; video clip; Korean War
Friday	video clip; Red Scare; bomb shelter worksheet; duck and cover video

02/22/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	bomb shelter activity; HUAC
Tuesday	Hiss and Rosenburg cases; video clip; McCarthyism; video clip; worksheet; Brinkmanship
Wednesday	Eisenhower Doctrine; Sputnik; U-2 Incident; finish storyboard/study guide
Thursday	Cold War TEST
Friday	Civil Rights background; video clip; Brown v. Board of Education; worksheet; Little Rock Nine

02/29/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	video clip; Rosa Parks; video clip; Martin Luther King, Jr.; "I Have a Dream" speech and questions
Tuesday	MLK video clip; sit-ins; video clip; Freedom Riders; video clip over Freedom Riders;
Wednesday	Nation of Islam and Malcolm X; video clip; Stokely Carmichael; Black Panthers; video clip
Thursday	Effects of the Civil Rights Movement; "A Time for Justice"
Friday	CIVIL RIGHTS TEST; introduce 1950s--GI Bill of Rights, Baby Boom and Suburbs; begin Baby Boom worksheet

03/07/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	finish Baby Boom worksheet; video clip over suburbs; cars and business; video clip;
Tuesday	gender roles; consumerism; reading; worksheet
Wednesday	media; video clips; begin music activity
Thursday	finish activity
Friday	criticisms of Rock-n-Roll; Beat Movement; problems of the 1950s

03/14/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	EARLY DISMISSAL (CONFERENCES)--begin "American Graffiti"
Tuesday	EARLY DISMISSAL (CONFERENCES)--continue "American Graffiti"
Wednesday	"American Graffiti"
Thursday	1950s TEST; Election of 1960; video clip
Friday	NO SCHOOL (COMP DAY)

03/21/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	video clip of inauguration; JFK; video clip; Berlin Wall video clip; Crisis in Cuba worksheet
Tuesday	finish worksheet; Cuban Missile Crisis; video clip;
Wednesday	EARLY DISMISSAL (SNOW)--The New Frontier; begin JFK Assassination;
Thursday	EARLY DISMISSAL (SPRING BREAK)--finish Assassination; video clip; LBJ and Great Society
Friday	NO SCHOOL (SPRING BREAK)

03/28/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	NO SCHOOL (SPRING BREAK)
Tuesday	Successes and Criticisms of the Great Society; review sheet
Wednesday	QUIZ; video clip intro to Vietnam
Thursday	Vietnam map; background of Vietnam; Geneva Accords; Ho Chi Minh Trail; Ho Chi Minh Trail worksheet
Friday	Ngo Dinh Diem; video clip; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; video clip; first song of music activity (Ballad of the Green Berets);

04/04/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Frustration Mounts; Draft; video clip--Search and Destroy
Tuesday	video clip review from "The Sixties"; song--For What It's Worth; Tet Offensive; Opposition to War Mounts; video clip from "The Sixties"
Wednesday	Opposition--Democratic Convention; "The Sixties" video clip; song--Blowin' in the Wind; finish Opposition and students;
Thursday	video clip; song--Ohio; Counterculture; video clip; Venn Diagram (20s and 60s);
Friday	song--White Rabbit; song--Okie From Muskogee; finish Counterculture; video clip over Woodstock; song--Southern Man;Song--Sweet Home Alabama

04/11/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	process songs from Friday; Feminist movement; video clip; song--Respect; Native movement; song--Indian Reservation
Tuesday	The End; Legacy of Vietnam; Timeline Project
Wednesday	"We Were Soldiers"
Thursday	Guest Speaker-Mr. Dan Couch
Friday	"We Were Soldiers"

04/18/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Work Day--Timeline and/or review sheets
Tuesday	STATE TESTING
Wednesday	STATE TESTING
Thursday	VIETNAM TEST
Friday	Nixon and Watergate--Watergate reading

04/25/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	finish Watergate; video clip over Watergate; video clip over Nixon;
Tuesday	Ford and Carter; video clip over Ford; begin Carter--Three Mile Island
Wednesday	finish Carter--Iran Hostage and Camp David video clips; Carter video clip; study guide
Thursday	1970s quiz; Reagan and video clip; Conservative Revolution
Friday	Reaganomics; Problems with Reganomics; Federal Deficit worksheet ; Begin 1980's music activity ("Livin' on a Prayer")

05/02/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Reagan and the Courts; Social Problems; AIDS video clip; PSA commercials; Crack video clip;
Tuesday	song-- "The Message"; finish Social Problems; song--"Rockin' in the Free World"; Life in the 80s;
Wednesday	song--"Material Girl"; Reagan Doctrine
Thursday	video clip over Iran-Contra Scandal; ; International Change; video clips over Tiananmen Square and fall of Berlin Wall
Friday	song--"Russians"; First Gulf War; video clip over war; Bush's Downfall; video clip over Bush; review sheet

05/09/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Quiz; video clip over Clinton
Tuesday	Fill-in-the-blank notes; Election of 1992 and Bill Clinton; video clip of Perot commercial; begin Clinton's presidency; Columbine; video clip
Wednesday	Oklahoma City bombing; video clip; 9/11; video clip; Kosovo; video clip
Thursday	NAFTA; video clip; Monica Lewinsky scandal; video clip;
Friday	Election of 2000; video clips; Afghanistan; Patriot Act video

05/16/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Iraq; Bush video clip; begin Obama presidency
Tuesday	Obama presidency and video clips
Wednesday	ACADEMIC AWARDS ASSEMBLY; finish video clips
Thursday	Forrest Gump
Friday	Forrest Gump

05/23/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday	Forrest Gump
Tuesday	study for semester test
Wednesday	SEMESTER TESTS
Thursday	SEMESTER TESTS
Friday	SEMESTER TESTS

05/30/16	What we do in class	Due Today
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday