We started the day off today by finishing up the remaining stations from yesterday's 1920's tradition v. modernity activity. We followed this up with a brief discussion over the major causes of the Great Depression, followed by an examination of the human toll in particular regions of the country through a combination of regional summaries and primary source letters to President Roosevelt or the First Lady in 1932.
Don't forget that Monday is the observance of Veteran's Day. First established as a day to remember those who served and in WWI and later expanded to honor the sacrifices of American veterans of all conflicts and peacetime defense. The holiday is always on November 11, in remembrance of the cease fire ending WWI which occurred on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. We will not be in school on Monday to to the official observation of this holiday. When we return to school on Tuesday, Chapter 26 will be due, followed by Chapter 27 On Wednesday. Following these chapters, you will need to pay close attention to the class calendar as we will spend a couple of weeks reading selected portions of the next three chapters instead of one chapter at a time. H
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The 1920's were the topic of conversation today. We started class by using your textbook notes to complete a graphic organizer of 6 different lenses through which the events and developments of the 1920's may be viewed. We followed this by SKIPPING out DocBlock for the day! :) We ended the day by examining the 1920's through one last lens: the conflict between tradition and modernity. We did this by firct analyzing some images of women from 1910 and comparing them to images from the 1920's. We then looked at five other examples of the conflict in stations about Prohibition, Mexican American issues, the Palmer Raids, the Chicago Race Riots, and the Scopes trial.
Chapter 25 is due tomorrow, so be sure you have that ready to go as we move on to talking about the beginnings of the Great Depression. H Today we covered WWI, focusing primarily on the home front. We used a graphic organizer to pull together evidence on a set of topics about how the war affected Americans and how Americans participated in the war. We followed this with a more traditional set of notes on the causes of the war followed by a brief examination of documents from Woodrow Wilson and historian Howard Zinn on the reasons the United States joined the war. We ended the day with a look at the Sedition Act and how the courts interpreted its restrictions on First Amendment rights.
Chapter 24 is due tomorrow as we move on along the timeline of history to the 1920's! H Today we held our third scored discussion , this one over American Imperialism using a chapter from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn as the primary text. You will need to complete the normal online discussion follow-up and one of the points of focus for that discussion might be to more explicitly compare and contrast the differing interpretations of Imperialism you encountered in our in-class historiography exercise to the selection from Zinn. The online portion is due next Monday by 11:59 pm.
Chapter 23 is due tomorrow and you should make certain you check out the most recent changes on the class website regarding chapter due dates since we shifted the DBQ essay to next Friday. H Today's focus was imperialism once again, as we began the day with a DocBlock analysis over Alfred Mahan's Sea Power in World History, a document with serious historical implication in the expansion of America's overseas empire during the late 1800's and early 1900's. We followed this with an extended look at the Philippine War, specifically, the reasons for the brutalities exercised in that war. We finished the day by looking at a set of documents representing the debate between imperialists and anti imperialists during that time period.
Tomorrow is your scored discussion over the topics covered the past few days. Make sure you have your pre-write completed for the Zinn chapter that is the main document for the discussion. H We started exploring the topic of American Imperialism today with an in depth analysis of extended readings from four different historians, each of whom differed in their interpretation of the period and its legacy. We conducted an analysis of each selection followed by a historiographical comparison of the conclusions reached by each.
Monday we will continue our discussion over imperialism, followed by a summary scored discussion on Tuesday of next week. The primary reading selection for the discussion comes from Howard Zinn once again, but you should consider all of the historians we analyzed today fair game in your conversations on Tuesday. As usual, you need to complete the pre-writing assignment for this scored discussion as well. H We started with a quiz over Chapter 22 today, followed by our last day of discussion on the Gilded Age. We focused on three primary areas of historical inquiry and examined each with a specific case study. We started by discussing the African American Civil Rights movement by reading excerpts from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. We followed this up with an analysis of the Anti-Suffragist movement and ended with a discussion over the legacy of the Seneca Falls convention.
The reading selection for next Tuesday's scored discussion is now posted under Period 7 on the website. Make sure to complete the usual pre-write activity as well. H |
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