Mrs. Ruland's United States History Class
GT Assignment Log
2nd Quarter
Winter Holiday History "Carol" - Due Dec. 21, 2009 - Must be a 1st Semester topic.
2nd Quarter Bonus due NLT Monday January 11
Date |
Assignment |
Due |
Points |
| 11/5 | HW: Ch 10 sect 1 | 11/9 | 3 |
| 11/9 | Collected HW: News Analysis | ||
| Quiz: Ch 10 sect 1 | 4 | ||
| Return and review Unit 1 Test, Populist and Progressive test, content outlines | |||
| HW: Ch 10 sect 2 HW: Spanish American War Map |
11/11 | 3 26 |
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| 11/10 | Special Presentation: Empire | ||
| Class Notes/Discussion: Causes of Imperialism | |||
| 11/11 | Quiz: Ch 10 sect 2 | 4 | |
| Class Discussion: What was Yellow Journalism and how was it different from Muchrakers? How did Yellow Journalism start the Spanish American War | |||
| HW: Ch 10 sect 3 & 4 | 11/13 | 6 | |
| 11/12 | Class: Video - Hawaii's Last Queen - view and take notes |  |
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| 11/13 | Quiz: Ch 10 sect 3 | 5 | |
| Complete watching Hawaii's Last Queen | |||
| HW: Hawaii's Last Queen - write paragraph answers to each question | 11/16 | 36 | |
| 11/16 | Quiz: Ch 10 sect 4 | 6 | |
| Class: Discussion/Notes: Open Door Note in China; Panama Canal; Big Stick Diplomacy; Dollar Diplomacy; Latin America | |||
| HW: Content Outline Part I and study for test | 11/18 | ||
| 11/17 | Special Presentation: Battle of Manilla Bay, San Juan Hill, Boxer Rebellion | ||
| Class Discussion: Imperialist vs. Anti-Imperialist | |||
| 11/18 | HW Collected: Content Outline Part I | 14 | |
| Imperialism Test | 20 | ||
| HW: Ch 12 sect 1 HW: Europe in WorldWar I Map |
11/20 | 3 24 |
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| 11/19 | Present Unit Project including Annotated Bibliography and rubric | 1/11 | |
| Remind about due dates and Critical Essay | 1/8 | ||
| 11/20 | Quiz: Ch 12 sect 1 | 5 | |
| Discussion: Conditions in Europe before WWI; Causes of WWI Explain Thanksgiving Bonus |
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| HW: Ch 12 sect 2 | |||
| 11/23 | HW Collected: News Analysis | 20 | |
| Quiz: Ch 12 sect 2 | 5 | ||
| Media Center to work on Unit 2 Project | |||
| HW: Ch 12 sect 3 | 11/30 | 3 | |
| 11/24 | Media Center to work on Unit 2 Project | ||
| 11/30 | Quiz: Ch 12 sect 3 | 6 | |
| Return and review graded assignments Review Plagiarism tutorial |
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| HW: Ch 12 sect 4 | 12/2 | 3 | |
| 12/1 | Special Presentation: 2nd Marne | ||
| Class Notes and Discussion: Start of World War I in Europe | |||
| 12/2 | Quiz: Ch 12 sect 4 | 5 | |
| Class Notes and Discussion: Start of World War I in Europe; US Joins the War | |||
| HW: Ch 12 sect 5 | 12/4 | 3 | |
| 12/3 | Presentation: Schenck v. US | ||
| Class Notes and Discussion: US
Joins the War Discussion: Russian withdrawl and Allied condition when US entered war |
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| 12/4 | Quiz: Ch 12 sect 5 | 5 | |
| Class Discussion: Nature of War; total war; stalemate; trench warfare, technology v. tactics | |||
| HW: Students list the changes that affected African Americans, Women, or the American Worker during WWI; label which are temporary and permanent; what is expected for 1920s; create a thesis statement | 12/7 | 10 | |
| 12/7 | Class Notes and Discussion: American Homefront; Civil Liberties in World War I | ||
| Class Notes/Discussion: Armistice, Cost of WWI, Wilson's 14 Points, the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations | |||
| HW: Content Outline -- WWI and Study | |||
| 12/8 | HW Collected: Content Outline - WWI | 12 | |
| Disscussion: Influenza Pandemic | |||
| Test: World War I | |||
| HW: Ch 14 sect 1 | 12/9 | 3 | |
| 12/9 | Quiz: Ch 14 sect 1 | 6 | |
| Presentation: Ragtime; Great Gatsby; Woman of Independent Means; Eyes Watching God; The Big Money | |||
| Class: 1920-1929 Video | |||
| HW: Ch 14 sect 2 | 12/11 | 3 | |
| 12/10 | Class: 1920-1929 Video | ||
| 12/11 | Quiz: Ch 14 sect 2 | 5 | |
| Class Notes and Discussion: Introduce 1920s topic; Isolationist policy of 1920s; role of Russian Revolution and Socialism, Communism, Anarchism | |||
| HW: Ch 14 sect 3 | 12/14 | ||
| 12/14 | Quiz: Ch 14 sect 3 | 6 | |
| Class Notes and Discussion: Socialism, Communism, Anarchism; Intolerance in 1920s; 1920s Consumerism | |||
| HW: Ch 13 sect 1 & 3 | 12/16 | 6 | |
| 12/15 | Presentation: Hammer; Bailey; Adkins | ||
| Class Discussion: Prohibition Cause and Effect; Prohibition Exercise - interpret quotes of the time, decide probable stance given certain characteristics | |||
| 12/16 | Quiz: Ch 13 sect 1 | 7 | |
| Class group activity - graphic organizer showing Changes: Women in the 1920s and reflecting lifestyle, family, jobs | |||
| Discussion: Women in the 1920s and the Double Standard - real progress? | |||
| HW: Ch 13 sect 2 | 12/18 | 3 | |
| 12/17 | Class activity - small groups create a time line of popular culture and then decide in which ways did mass media and mass culture help Americans develop a sense of national community in 1920s. | ||
| HW: Students are assigned a different research topic concerning African Americans in Nothern cities 1900-1930: (1) job opportunities; (2) political participation; (3) education; (4) race relations; (5) literary contributions; and (6) jazz/art/film - basis for class activity on 12/18&21; any absent students should research any one of the above. | |||
| 12/18 | Quiz: Ch 13 sect 2 | 7 | |
| Class discussion: African American experience, Great Migration, Marcus Garvey, Harlem Renaissance | |||
| HW: Study and Content Outline, Part III and IV | 12/22 | ||
| 12/21 | Due: Winter Holiday History “Carol” | ||
| 12/21 12/22 12/23 | Snow Days! | ||
| 1/4 | HW Collected: Content Outline Part III and IV | 22 | |
| Return and review materials | |||
| 1920s Take Home Test | 1/11 | 60 | |
| HW: Ch 15 sect 1 | 1/6 | 3 | |
| 1/5 | Class: The Great Depression CD | ||
| 1/6 | Quiz: Ch 15 sect 1 | 6 | |
| Class Discussion: Causes of Stock Market Crash and Causes of Great Depression | |||
| HW: Ch 15 sect 2 | 1/8 | 3 | |
| 1/7 | Class Activitiy: Impact of Depression on America | ||
| 1/8 | Due: Critical Essay | ||
| Quiz: Ch 15 sect 2 | 6 | ||
| Class Activitiy: Impact of Depression on America | |||
| HW: Ch 15 sect 3 | 1/11 | 3 | |
| 1/11 | HW Collected: News Analysis | 20 | |
| Quiz: Ch 15 sect 3 | 7 | ||
| Unit 2 Project Due Class presentation of unit 2 project posters |
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| HW: Ch 15 sect 4 | 1/13 | 3 | |
| 1/12 | Class Group Activity: Prepare an outline for a 5 paragraph essay that addresses the question What was the effect of the Great Depression on American Labor. Your group must have at least 3 specific factual details to support and explain each of the 3 body paragraph topic sentences | ||
| Class: As groups are presenting, individuals do peer assessment: 1 point for each specific factual detail with up to 3 points per paragraph and 10th point for a thesis that addresses the question and indicates the areas of interest in the outline | 10 per group graded | ||
| 1/13 | Quiz: Ch 15 sect 4 | 4 | |
| Finished group activity from 1/9 and presented results | |||
| HW: Study and Content Outline, Part IVB and V | 1/20 | ||
| 1/14 | Class notes and discussion: Responses to the depression, Hoover's philosophy; 1932 election and FDR | ||
| 1/15 | Review for Exam | ||
| 1/19 | Review for Exam | ||
| 1/20 | HW Collected: Content Outline, Parts IVB and V | ||
| MIDTERM EXAM (includes Unit 2 test) |
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