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American Studies
Assignments and Assessments Calendar
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6 Welcome Back! Course Introduction Getting to Know You wkst |
7 -Binder Set Up-Presentation on doing PresentationsModel Presentation |
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12 Begin 6.1 Immigration Get HIPP (Historically Important Person Project) |
13 Finish 6.1 Immigration Slide Show 6.1 Immigration Guided Notes Based on Textbook pages 214-219 Homework-Complete Family Tree |
14 Library Orientation and Research |
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16 6.2 Urban American Urbanization Slide Show |
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19 Rise of Industrialism Slide Show Homework(Due Wed.)(10 Points)Pretend that you are an immigrant to the United States at the turn of the 20th Century (about 1900). Write a letter back to your home country (or a diary entry) and describe what you see (the good and the bad). Evaluate America’s greatness at the turn of the Century. (About 2 paragraphs). Be creative and show content. |
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23 Quiz on Gilded Age Finish Social Darwinism |
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27 Current Events Class Discussion The Presidential Debates |
28 Finished Vertical and Horizontal Integration |
29 Library "Exit Ticket" |
30 HIP Project (Research essay or presentation) due today! Finish Labor Unions |
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5 Election of 1896 John Philip Sousa Presentation |
6 Election of 1896 Scott Joplin Presentation |
7 Review for Gilded Age Test Gibson Girl Presentation |
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10 Introduction to the Progressive Era Triangle Factory Fire Presentation Homework-Study for Gilded Age Test |
11 Gilded Age Unit Test |
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13 Intro to Progressive Era Continued Nellie Bly Presentation Mother Jones Presentation |
14 Jane Addams Presentation |
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24 Roosevelt and Taft Homework-Complete Across section of Crossword Puzzle |
25 Roosevelt Continued |
26 -Slide Show catch up |
27 Election of 1912 Slide Show |
28 Finish Wilson Presidency -Go over Crossword Puzzle Answers -Begin Segregation Slide Show |
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31 Harry Houdini Presentation -6.3 Segregation -Presentations on Booker T. Washington, WEB Dubois, |
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1 Presentations on DW Griffith, Billie Holiday -Begin Final Review for Progressive Test |
2 Review for Progressive Test -Introduce Imperialism |
3 -TR and Panama Canal Presentation |
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8 10.1 Politics of the 1920s |
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12 10.2 Growing Economy of the Roaring 20s Henry Ford Presentation |
13 10.2 Continued HomeworkComplete |
14 Finish 10.2 Begin 10.3 Flapper Girl Presentation |
15 10.3 Continued Al Capone Presentation |
16 Josephine Baker Presentation |
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19 10.4 Culture of the 1920s Presentations Rudolph Valentino Babe Ruth |
20 10.4 Continued Louis Armstrong George Gershwin |
21 Review for Quest |
22 Quest on 1920s Introduce the Great Depression Cinderella Man |
23 Cinderella Man |
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9 11.2 Hoover Response Bonus Army & Lindbergh Kidnapping presentationHomework-Complete Interpretation Political Cartoon wkst. Question 1-4 |
10 11.2 Life During the Depression PresentationsWoody Guthrie Fred and Ginger |
11 11.2 Continued PresentationsWizard of OzSeabiscuit |
12 Finish up 11.2 Begin 12.1 The First New Deal Presentation |
13 12.1 Continued PresentationsEleanor Roosevelt Marian Anderson |
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16 12.2 The Second New Deal PresentationsAmelia Earhart |
17 12.2 ContinuedPresentationsFather Coughlin Huey Long |
18 Prestnations Joe Lewis v Max Schmeling Jessie Owens |
19 Any Remaining Presentations Begin Review |
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24 Midterm Exam 7:45-9:45 Material covered: Gilded Age to Great Depression |
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21 14.1 and 14.3 Mobilizing for War and Life on the Homefront |
22 Homefront continued |
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2 Holocaust Continued |
3 Schindler's List |
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6 Group Presentations Final Version Due 14.2-14.5 The Pacific Theater |
7 Pacific Theater Continued |
8 Truman's Decision to Drop the A-Bomb |
9 13.4 The Nuremberg Trials and Formation of the UN |
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16 The Cold War Group Presentations begin Marshall Plan |
17 15.1 The Cold War Begins HomeworkGroup Presentations begin Monday-Marshall Plan |
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20 15.1 Cold War Presentation on Marshall Plan |
21 15.2 The Cold War Deepens Presentation on NATO |
22 15.2 Cold War Deepens Korean War |
23 15.3 Cold War and American Society Presentation on Rosenberg's Execution |
24 15.3 Cold War and American Society Presentation on Fallout Shelter |
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28 15.4 Eisenhower and the Cold War Sputnik Presentation on Fallout Shelters |
29 Berlin Wall Presentation Review for Cold War Quest |
30 16.1 The Fifties, The Truman and Eisenhower Years Presentation on Jackie Robinson |
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4 16.2 The Affluent Society Presentation on GI Bill of Rights End of Third Quarter Early Dismissal |
5 16.2 The Affluent Society Presentation on Pete Seeger and "Little Boxes" |
6 16.2 Continued Presentations on Jonas Salk and Dr. Spock |
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18 18.1 Continued Presentation on Little Rock Nine |
19 18.2 Challenging Segregation Presentation on Greensboro Sit-In |
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25 Finish up Civil Rights Dr. Martin Luther King, Mountaintop Speech and Assassination Bobby Kennedy Presentation |
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