Class Update

4/29- We watched most of the Freedom Rides video that was started on Saturday. The video can be found below this post.

4/30- Mr Whitman looked at the Children's crusade in Birmingham and how it influenced America, and then the class listened to MLK's I have a Dream speech

5/1-We looked at the rest of the speech, and went over some of the key points from his speech, including the locations he choose and what the speech meant. I talked about what the March on Washington meant. We also watched a clip from the Cosby Show.

5/2-Students signed up for their transcripts with the guidance office. A few classes watched a clip from the Church Bombings that took place shortly after the march on washington

5/3-Students looked at the other side of America, and how Cesar Chavez influenced rights for Mexican Americans in the US.

5/6-Mr Whitman looked at  the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 24th Amendment. Discussed briefly the Summer of Freedom and how voting was still an issue. Showed a clip from the beginning of Selma where Annie Lee Cooper tries to register and the subsequent 'testing'.

Then I gave the some background on Selma and had them do the roleplay activity.

They Finished up by showing the real footage of Bloody Sunday

5/7-In class we looked at the growing counter to MLK, which was the rise in black nationalism. Malcolm X and the Black Power movement started to give opposing views to MLK.
5/8-Mr Whitman looked at several different events of the late 1960's including the riots in Watts and Detroit, as well as the integration of marriages. 

New Update

April 17-We looked at the end of the Vietnam War and how
April 18-Mr Whitman looked at the Watergate scandal under Nixon and how he was pardoned for his crimes
April 19-It was Spark Rally day-students did a Google Classroom Assignment though on the End of the Cold War
April 22-Students finished the Google Classroom Assignment, then most classes began to look at the start of the Civil Rights Movement during WWII
April 23-We
April 24-We finished looking at Brown vs Board of Education. Students saw the experiment given to help show seperate but equal was unequal. Students then watched a clip on Claudette Colvin and did a quickwrite on what made her story different than Rosa Parks. At the end we just looked at the beginning of Rosa Parks and the busses in Montgomery Alabama.

April 25-We went over Rosa Parks experience the day she stayed seated on the bus. This led to the Montgomery Improvement Association calling for a boycott. Leading to a boycott led by MLK. Students looked at newspaper clips from the boycott and how it worked out. We also watched a short clip of Emmitt Till and what happened in between Claudette Colvin and Parks.

April 26-Mr Whitman discussed the integration of central high school in little rock, the sit in movement that started in NC, and the Freedom Rides of 61. There was a quickwrite on the first day of school.

Update

April 8-11-State Math testing was done in class
April 12-Students had a sub. They looked at documents on the anti vietnam war viewpoint. They had questions to answer that went with it.
April 15 & 16-In class it was block schedule Mr Whitman and me had different periods but we went over the anti vietnam packet. We also did a silent symposium where students had to give their opinion on the Vietnam war and had it countered by other students. We then looked at the beginning of the counter culuture movement and how music and drugs fueled it. We finished class by listening to some of the music of the era.

Update since break

Here is an update of what has been going on since the last update
March 15-We watched some of the video clips from the Cuban Missile Crisis and how the leaders of the countries were trying to keep us out of a nuclear war
March 18-We finished the Cuban Missile Crisis then began to look at the documents for the District DBQ due friday
March 19-We finished the documents, worked on our King High Remember Papers due tomorrow, and on notebooks
March 20-Students turned in their papers and finished preparing for their DBQ. They also could review for test tomorrow.
March 21-Students finished unit 6 by turning in their notebook and taking their test
March 22-Students took the district DBQ
April 1-Mr Whitman talked about JFK's assassination, and then started with LBJ's Great Society Program
April 2-Students finished their great society poster and then presented what it helped
April 3-We finished looking at the Great Society with a quickwrite and began the Vietnam War. We looked at how the Tonkin Resolution began the war
April 4-Mr Whitman talked about how the Vietnam war became a little more controversial. He discussed the difficulty of the enemy and how they would disappear. The most part of the time was spent looking at the draft though. Students had to decide who they would deffer from the draft.
April 5-I finished talking about the beginning of the war and the Tet offensive. Also the Mai Lai massacre. We watched a clip of Inside the Vietnam war and looked at the Tet offensive.

The last month(sorry)

2/19-Looked at the end of the war in Europe and how D-day was the beginning of the end
2/20-Finished up the war in europe
2/21-We did an activity  looking at the Manhattan Project. Everyone was given a different role, this secret project helped make the bomb a reality. We also looked at how Japan refused to surrender in the Pacific.
2/22-We started looking at America using the nuclear bomb to help resolve the end of the war against Japan. When nothing else worked america dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan.
2/25-We started prep for King High Remembers
2/26-Continued
2/27-Continued
2/28-Continued
3/1-King High Remembers
3/4-Finished atom bomb work and wrote rough drafts for Thank you Cards
3/5-Completed thank you cards and reviewed next steps as well as covering atom bomb
3/6-We began to look at the Cold War and how the iron curtain fell across Europe. Students had a short assignment that went with some primary source documents. Both sides were partly responsible for what happened.
3/7-We looked at the Berlin airlift in class and Mr Whitman talked about containment. He showed how while it is impossible to fix all the problems, it was somewhat easy to keep it from spreading if we used our resources in the right way.
3/8-We began to look at the red scare and how things like mccarthysm and HUAC went after Americans who could be communists. We played a card game where people accused others of being communist and you had to root out the actual commies.
3/11-We finished looking at the red scare. I talked about the fear that came along with it, and how people were worried about a nuclear disaster.
3/12-Mr whitman looked at the 1950's and how the culture was for the time period. It was filled with entertainment and rebellion.
3/13-Finished talking about the 1950's culture and how it was in America at the time. I finished class by looking at the Korean War, There was a short assginment at the end discussing why it is a forgotten war.
3/14-Read through the Bay of Pigs assignment. Talked about Cuba and the Cuban takeover and then began to look at the Cuban Missile Crisis

2/11-2/14

2/11-In class we finished up the lesson from Friday. Students finished their online assignment then I briefly went over the programs the people were involved in. These people represented bigger things going on in America.
2/12-We looked at propaganda cartoons from WWII. Some of them are below. There was an assignment that went with them.

2/13-

Mr Whitman dove into America's Japanese Internment. In a racist move/safety issue/protect American citizens/protect American Japanese. Japanese americans on the west coast were moved to internment camps while the war was taking place. Students looked at what reasons it could possible be. 

2/14-It was an assembly day. Students were able to make up work from the semester. Students finished yesterday's work on the Internment and then worked on a final war on the home front assignment. 

Tuesday-Friday

2/5-We finished up the isolation lesson and looked at how the America First Committee tried to keep us out of the war, while interventionists like FDR and Dr Seuss wanted us in. We looked at 5 cartoons of Dr Seuss and how he thought America needed to get involved.
2/6-Mr Whitman finished up the isolation discussion as well as reading Roosevelt's 4 freedoms speech. Roosevelt was giving America a standard that all people all over the world deserved the same rights and freedoms that us Americans do. After that students began to look at causes for Japan desiring to attack America at Pearl Harbor
2/7-Mr Whitman finished the lesson on Pearl Harbor by looking at the attack and the reaction by America. He compared FDR's reaction to George Bush after 9/11. There are many similarities between the events that left America confused and sad.
2/8- I briefly went over Pearl Harbor and how America enters the war. As well as looking at the war in the pacific. The loss in the Philippines was one of America's worst in History. Things turned around at the battle of midway though. We finished class by looking at a little of what was taking place in America.There is a handout to go with the link On the Home front link

2/4

We finished the rising threat video clip from friday. We then started Unit 6 WWII and it's Aftermath. The first quickwrite was:

•How should FDR balance what he views as a growing power, with a nation that is uninterested in war? How should he prepare for war(video said 17th largest military) while not implying America is preparing for war? Should the President even care what the people think, if he is doing the right thing?

We then finished with a reading on American isolationism

Jan 28-Feb 1

Jan 28-Today we continued on with the New Deal. We went over some of the things that the New Deal actually did. This included some of his programs that provided jobs to Americans. We watched a clip on the CCC and how they were just an example of the millions of jobs invented by the government at the time.
Jan 29-Mr Whitman today just looked at if the New Deal was effective. There were a lot of pro's and some con's but at the end of the day at least FDR was trying.
Jan 30-We finished up Unit 5. The main things we looked at in class were the problems of the New Deal. The main ideas were it cost a lot, it put America into debt, it caused insanely high taxes, the President stretched the rules of the presidency to do what he wanted, and at the end of the day it didn't fully work. We finished by looking at Social Security.
Jan 31-We took our test for unit 5
Feb 1-We began WWII toward the middle of class. Students had to take a 3 question quiz to finish yesterday. They also turned in notebooks. After talking about WWII Students watched part of The World Wars which focused on what was happening before WWII

Jan 22-25

The website will just be weekly updates now with overviews for those who were absent. If you need anything more substation like notes or assignments check with me.

Jan 22-I was back after being sick the end of last week. We reviewed all of the perfect storm of the great depression. We also looked a little at Hoover and his choices. The other thing we read together was about the Business cycle and how they go up and down. Due to spending on credit it went higher than it should of though, which led it to crashing as well.

Jan 23-24-Students worked on a google classroom assignment wed and most of thursday. It is the classroom assignment on the depression. If you turn it in late I will need to know as it has been graded.
The second half of class on thursday I talked about what happens next. Hoover obviously was a disaster and America wanted somebody else. FDR leads america to this idea of the only thing we have to fear is being stuck from doing something. He will push us forward.

Jan 25-Mr Whitman briefly discussed the Bonus Army, Then he talked about the New Deal and how it presented solutions to help with the depression. Some were short term, some were long term, but he set out to solve some of the problems.

Second Semester

Hey below is just a brief recap of things we covered since the break.

1/7-Back from break we briefly reviewed the time before the break. We then began to discuss the Red scare in America and how communism was the fear after WWI had ended.
1/8-We finished the lesson from the day before with Sacco and Vanzetti and how their trial captured America, we finished class by talking about another trial the scopes trial
1/9-America was largely becoming divided between fundamentalism. Part of America held on to the values of the past, as well as the new laws of prohibition. The other half(mostly cities)took to speakeasies and clubs and rebelled against the traditions of the past.
1/10-Mr Whitman looked at what the early part of prohibition looked like. Students watched a simpsons episode where prohibition took place.
1/11-We covered how the video related back to what was happening in real life. Then we started talking about why the 21st amendment was passed ending prohibition
1/14-We continued on looking at why prohibition ended. We went through 4 documents. At the end students had to answer among the 6 reasons which they thought was most important, as well as 1 positve for prohibition.
1/15-Mr Whitman introduced the Harlem Ren and its importance on America. Here is a link to the pictures that students looked at(there was a work page that went with it) and a clip showed in class.
harlem renaissance

1/16-We finished up talking about the Harlem Ren and what it meant to civil rights in America. It was a story of 2 steps forward one step back. It didn't fix anything long term but it did help progress the culture in America. I also quickly went through the presidents of the day and how they were very conservative.
1/17-Students were with Mr Whitman. They looked at the increase in purchasing on credit and its impact on Americas. (I was out sick). If you buy stuff on credit the problem is you will eventually have to pay for that stuff. We will talk about this all next week.
1/18-I was still out today and students were looking at the start of the Great Depression. It was in a small sense a perfect storm. Everything happening at the same time that pushed America into a terrible depression economically. Students read chapter 14.1 and filled out the assignment, as well as Hoover and his reaction to the crisis. There were questions that were done on a separate paper for him.

11/12-12/5

11/12-holiday
11/13-.Mr Whitman looked at Theodore roosevelt and his square deal as well as progress under him.
11/14-Briefly recapped yesterday and then looked at social gospel movement
11/15-We finished looking at progress in social gospel and settlment houses, students did a short dbq on it
11/16-This was the last day before break. It was a really weird schedule. A few classes had an extra credit assignment but the rest just worked on their Progress Results assignment.
11/26-We transitioned to the power portion of this unit. Students also turned in their progress results. America will go from being a middle of the pack nation to a world power in about 20 years. We started this by looking at the Spanish American War. Students worked on newspaper of the Maine Controversy
11/27-Students finished their newspapers. I then talked about the Spanish American War and how it was won, and what America got out of it.
11/28-The Spanish American War led to the Philippine American War. This war would lead hundreds of thousands to die in a war to continue to the occupation of America.
11/29-We looked at political cartoons from the time of the Philippine American War. Students looked at the cartoons below and then answered questions on it.

They can be found here

11/30-We reviewed the cartoons from yesterday. We also did quickwrite # 3 on why nations do military parades. I finished class looking at the Panama Canal.
12/3-We reviewed Progress Results handout. We then transitioned from Imperialism to WWI. Students had a short handout on imperialism in hawaii, panama, China, and Alaska.
12/4-We began to look at causes of WWI for America. We did look a little at how the war began but mainly why america joined.
12/5-Mr Whitman reviewed the causes for the WWI at the end of class they were looking at propaganda and students made there own propaganda posters.

Friday 11/9

We looked at the triangle shirtwaist fire. This tragic incident killed 146 workers in manhattan. Most were women. This helped paved the way for progress in areas like safety for workers.

11/8

Students put their notebook together. Here is the order:

•Title Page-Name, Period, Unit 3, The Gilded Age, A Fondant Cake, Grilled Rib, Like a Monet

•Quickwrites-There were 5(but one is on the back of the political machine paper)

•Notes

•Work:

•Things of the Gilded Age(good and bad)

•The New Colossus

•Urbanization

•Temperance Movement

•Plunkit of Tammany Hall

•Chinese DBQ

•Captains of Industry or Robber Barons

•Childhood Lost Packet

•Questions in notebook discussing Coal Strike of 1902

•Booker T and WEB Poem

•Sub Work-lynchings and Plessy vs Ferguson

After this we started our next unit Progress and Power: The first thing we looked at was muckrakers. They are journalists who try to improve things. They existed at the time, and still today.

Wed 11/7

We took our test

Tuesday 11/6

Students finished their project. Then I finished class by talking about the populist party. This small minority party showed that regular people can rise up and make an impact in politics.

The test is tomorrow

11/5

Students did an assignment on google classroom, This time period had an insane amount of innovation. Students were looking at one of these inventions.

Here is the study guide for wed's test.

Study Guide

Rundown since 10/24

Sickness has derailed updates for the last 8 school days. But below is what has taken place each day.

10/24-We talked about the Chinese Exclusion Act and how America chose to kick the Chinese out.
10/25-We  finished the Chinese Exclusion and Students had to do a DBQ paragraph using the documents.
10/26-I began talking about business leaders. We looked briefly at how Rockefeller created an empire. The main part was by taking out his competitors. We also looked at how these individuals were both "Robber Barons" and "Captains of Industry"
10/29-Mr Whitman taught about monopolies and big business and how they were able to take over industries. Vertical and Horizontal Integration were methods to increase their wealth. Rockefeller's and Carnegie's gained enormous wealth by controlling everything it took to make empires.
10/30-We started to look at how workers were the ones making these wealthy men so much money. It was their hard labor and cheap pay that helped. We looked at how workers finally began to stand up for themselves. We watched a clip from the homestead strike at the end of class.
10/31-We finished looking at the Pullman strike after the Homestead strike. Both of these strikes resulted in dead workers. Despite these strategies it would pave the way for future progress. The Coal strike of 1902 was the homework to finish up. It showed just in 10 years how American strikers went from dying and getting fired, to making some progress.
11/1-In class we looked at Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois and how they paved African American rights through education. They also garnered massive fame in promoting equality and earning equality. We had a quickwrite on them as well and then read some of there viewpoints.
11/2-I was out, Students looked at lynchings and the effort to bring that to the attention of America, and the court case of Plessy vs Ferguson that will begin separate but equal in America.

Tuesday 10/23

Mr Whitman taught today on political machines. Periods 2-5 had quickwrites in their notebook. Period 1 did theirs on the back of the paper.

Notes and Quickwrite
work

Monday 10/22

In class we went over friday's work on problems in cities. I talked a little bit about how conditions were made worse by massive immigration and urbanization. That led into the problem of water. Because a lot of water caused sicknesses, many people resorted to using a cheap alternative in the form of alcohol. This led to massive drinking in America. The temperance movement will come from this alcohol consumption.

Temperance reading and work if you need it

Friday 10/19

We finished the poem from yesterday and then talked about urbanization. It means people moving to cities because that is where the jobs were. At the end of class students had a short handout on problems in cities.

handout

Thursday 10/18

We finished the video from tuesday. Students had a quickwrite on Fievel and what the video clip showed about cats, streets filled with cheese ect. I talked a little on Ellis Island and Angel Island as well as immigration. We read the poem below that was put on the Statue of Liberty. It highlights what America means and what the statute of liberty symbolized. 

New Colossus Reading

Wed 10/17

No class for Parent Teacher Conferences

Tuesday 10/16

We began looking at Unit 3-The Gilded Age Students had a short handout to give an overview of the time period. Basically it is a time period where things seemed nice from the outside and everyone wanted to come to America, and yet once people got here they realized many of its problems.
We finished up class watching a clip from The American Tail. It was a mouse coming to America.

Friday 10/12-Monday 10/15

We took the Unit 2 test, monday we had to take the district first quarter writing assessment as well.

Thursday 10/11

We finished up unit 2 and briefly looked over the Reconstruction from when I was out tuesday. Students then put together their unit 2 notebook. Test is tomorrow

10/10 wed

Today is a college and career day. No students had regular class.

10/9

Students looked at the aftermath of the Civil War. Particularly the 13-15th amendments. After that they looked at the Reconstruction in America and how there were both good and bad for freed slaves. I was out sick so I am not sure where everyone got to by the end of the period.

Monday 10/8

We finished looking at the Emancipation Proclamtion then we transitioned to the Gettysburg address.
We watched this video clip: https://www.pbs.org/video/the-civil-war-the-civil-war-the-gettysburg-address/

We then talked about the speech and it how focused on America actually "giving birth" to a new country of liberty. We finished out the CIvil war after that and students had the last quickwrite of the unit.

Final Quickwrite:
What problems would America face now that close to 4 million slaves are suddenly free in the South?
What problems do you think you would have as a freed slave?
How could the North punish the South to avoid another succession? (keeping in mind they are also welcoming them back to America)