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