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.
