Designing America 2024-25
This is where you will find everything for the class...please email with questions or problems: erine@school-one.org
This is where you will find everything for the class...please email with questions or problems: erine@school-one.org
Trimester I
Columbus, Indians and Human Progress
Due Thursday September 12, 2024
Drawing the Color Line
Due Thursday September 26,2024
Persons of Mean and Vile Condition
Due Thursday October 10, 2024
Tyranny is Tyranny
Due Thursday October 24, 2024
A Kind of Revolution
Due Thursday November 7, 2024
The Intimately Oppressed
Zinn Chapter 6 is due Monday 12/16/24
Zinn Chapter 7 is due Wednesday January 15, 2025
Zinn Chapter 9, part I is due Wednesday January 29, 2025
Zinn Chapter 9, part 2 is due Wednesday February 12, 2025
Zinn Chapter 10 : The Other Civil War is due Wednesday February 26, 2025
Zinn Chapter 11: Robber Barons and Rebels is due Thursday March 27, 2025
Zinn Chapter 13: The Socialist Challenge is due Thursday April 10, 2025
Zinn Chapter 15: Self Help in Hard Times is due Wednesday May 7, 2025
America and The Holocaust:
Please watch this documentary at home and complete the editorial assignment below. See Erin if you have any questions or problems. The link to the documentary on Youtube is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLCy4NrMIis
Each student, after watching America and the Holocaust, as the Editor of a city newspaper in 1938, must write an editorial discussing whether or not the United States should accept Jewish Refugees from Europe. You can either take the opinion that we should accept the Refugees or we should not accept the Refugees. The object is to convince your readership of your opinion. This is due Thursday May 15, 2025.
Zinn Chapter 17: Or Does It Explode is due Thursday May 22, 2025.
The final extravaganza will be held in class on Wednesday May 28, 2025.