Spring US History Calendar
Date
1/6
1/7
1/9
1/13
1/15
1/17
1/22
1/24
1/28
1/30
2/3
2/5
2/7
2/11
2/13
2/19
2/21
2/25
2/27
3/2
3/4
3/6
3/10
3/12
3/16
3/18
3/20
3/31
4/2
4/6
4/8
4/13
4/16
4/20
4/22
4/24
4/28
4/30
5/4
5/6
5/8
5/12
5/15
5/20 and 5/21
Assignments
1. Syllabus (See Google Classroom)
2. Notes: The Origins of the Cold War
3. Cold War Terms
1. TAI #1: After WWII, Soviet Union was highly concerned about protecting its national security. Look at the map on pg. 743, how does the map illustrate the Soviet desire to protect itself?
2. Notes: The Early Cold War
3. Who caused the Cold War? Activity
4. Work on Cold War Terms
1. TAI # 2: What was the Cold War? How did it develop?
2. Activity: American Politics in the Postwar World: The Moment of Decision
Homework
Finish Cold War Terms
Finish Questions
Work on 1950s Terms
Finish 1950s Terms
Finish Outline
Study for Test
Organize Notebook
Finish Terms
Finish Outline
Finish Presentations
Study for Test
Organize Notebook
Finish Terms
Work on Terms
Finish Vietnam Map
Finish Outline
Finish Counterculture Questions
Prepare Notebook for Check
Study for Test
Finish Outline
Study for Test
Answer Questions for your option
Work with Group Making Google Slides Presentation
Practice and time the Group Activity
3. Atomic Cafe Video Clip: Duck and Cover and Atomic Cafe 10 minutes,
1. Korean War Notes
2. TAI #3: Korean War: You make the call
3. Cold War Video
1. Cold War Terms Quiz
2. Cold War Expands Notes
3. Cold War at Home Questions
4. Atomic Cafe Video Clip: Testing the Bomb" 8 minutes
Block 1: PSAT Test
Block 3 and 4: Atomic Cafe
1. 1950s American Culture Notes
2. Video: 1950s The Century, Happy Daze and Questions
3. 1950s Terms
4. PMA #1: Cold War
1. 1950s Overview Questions
2. Women in the 1950s
3. 1950s TV Show Leave It to Beaver
4. 1950s TV Show Pitch (Example)
1. Video: When America was Rocked and Questions
2. 1950s Terms Quiz
3. 1950s TV Show Pitch (Example)
1. Intro: Happy Days Theme Song
2. 1950s DBQ: Were they really the "Happy Days"?
3. 1950s Politics Notes
4. Cold War/1950s Study Guide
1. Cold War and 1950s Test
2. Civil Rights Terms
3. Introduction to Civil Rights Movement Notes
4. Cold War/50s Notebook Check
1. TAI #1: What are some of the ways people can protest without resorting to violence? What advantages do these tactics have?
2. Notes: Leaders and Strategies
3. Video: Top 10 American Civil Rights Activists
4. MLK's Nonviolent Philosophy
5. Work on Civil Rights Terms
Snow Day!
1. The Struggle Intensifies Worksheet
2. Civil Rights Terms Quiz
3. Historical Question: Montgomery Bus Boycott
1. Civil Rights Terms Quiz
2. The Struggle Intensifies Questions
3. Notes: The Political Response
4. MLK "I Have a Dream Speech"
1. Video Clips of Civil Rights Movement
2. MLK Speech Excerpts and Questions
3. Notes: The Political Response
4. MLK "I Have a Dream" Speech
5. Read and Outline Ch 29 Sec 4 pg. 836-840
1. PMA #2
2. Finish: Notes, The Political Response
2. Video:Selma and Video Questions
3. Read and Outline Ch 29 Sec 4 pg. 836-840
1. Read and Outline: Ch 29 Sec 4
2. Video: Selma
3. MLK Speech Excerpts and Questions
1. Quiz Ch 29 Sec 4
2. Malcolm X Speech Quotes and Discussion Questions
3. Malcolm X Video and Questions
4. Notes: Other Social Movements
5. New York Protest Movement
1. Work on Other Social Movement Group Activity
2.. Other Social Movements Presentations
3. Other Social Movement Quiz
3. Study Guide for Civil Right Test
4. Organize Notebook
1. Civil Rights Test
2. Civil Rights Notebook Check
3. Kennedy and Johnson Terms
1. Video: The Presidents; JFK
2. JFK Notes
3. JFK in his Own Words
4. Cuban Missile Reading and Questions
5. Finish Kennedy and Johnson Terms
1. Review Cuban Missile Questions
2. Kennedy/Johnson Terms Quiz
2. Notes: Cuban Missile Crisis
3. Cuban Missile Group Option Activity
1. Present Group Option Activity
2. Finish Cuban Missile Crisis Notes
3 TAI # 1 Document Based Question
4. Video: Cuban Missile Crisis (46 minutes)
Snow Day
1. Create 1960s Political DBQ
1. Kennedy Assassination Theories Article and Questions
2 Notes: LBJ, Great Society
3. Questions: LBJ's Great Society and Foreign Policy
1. Video: The Presidents, LBJ
2. Was the Great Society a success?
4. Study Guide for Test
5. List for Notebook Check
1. Kennedy/Johnson Test
2. Vietnam War Terms
3. Kennedy/Johnson Notebook Check
4. Vietnam War Map
1. Vietnam Introduction Notes
2. Read "Vietnam Deepening American Involvement" pg. 873-877
3. Discussion Questions
4. The War in Vietnam in Pictures and Questions
1. Vietnam: The Brutality of War Questions
2. Video: Choosing Sides, Fields of Fire and Video Questions
3. Vietnam Terms Quiz
1. TAI #1 Vietnam Political Cartoons
2. Finish Video: Choosing Sides (40 minutes)
3. Anti-Vietnam War Movement Analysis
4. Read and Outline Ch 31 Sec 3 pg. 882-885 Due 4/12
Scan Section 31.3
1. Voices of Vietnam Reading and Questions
2. Video: Choosing Sides: The War at Home
Video Questions
3. Finish Reading and Outline Ch 31 Sec 3 pg. 882-885 Due 4/12
Scan Section 31.3
1. Quiz Ch 31 Sec 3
2. Comparison of Early and Late Beatles Music
3. Counterculture in Pictures Activity Answer Sheet
4. 60s Counterculture Questions
1. Notes: US in Crisis 1968
2. Video 1968 and Questions (60 minutes)
Vietnam War Guest Speakers
1. Vietnam: The End of the War Questions
2. Tragedy at Kent State and Vietnam Experience Reading and Questions
3. Finish Video 1968 and Finish Question (45 minutes)
4. Review for Vietnam War Test
1. Vietnam War Test
2. Modern US History Terms
3. Vietnam War Notebook Check
1. Video: The Presidents, Nixon (10 minutes)
2. Notes: Nixon and Watergate
3. Vietnam Vets Writing Assignment
4. 1970s Culture Review Activity
1. Video: The Presidents, Ford and Carter
2. Ford and Carter Notes
3. 1970s Culture Review
4. Modern US Terms Quiz
1970s Culture Presentations
1. Video: The Presidents, Reagan
2. The Conservative Revolution Notes
3. The Century:1980s Video Questions (43 minutes)
1. Video: The Presidents, Reagan and George H. W. Bush
2. Read and Questions: Ch 34 Sec 4 pg. 970-974
3. Start Video: Forrest Gump (Gump Timeline)
1. Kahoot on Modern America
2. Video: The Presidents, Clinton
3. Notes: Clinton
4. Video: Forrest Gump (45 minutes)
1. Video: The Presidents, George W. Bush
2. Notes: George W. Bush
3. 9/11 Reading and Questions
4. Video: Forrest Gump (45 minutes)
5. Study Guide for Modern US Test
1. Modern US Test
2. Review Sheet for Final Exam
3. Modern US Notebook Check
4. Video: Forrest Gump (35 minutes)
1. Finish Forrest Gump
US. HIstory Final Exam