Thursday, October 31, 2013

6.1 A

6.1 Learning A: WWII Begins Notes (11)

  • Mr McDonald was gone, but students used the videos below to add three pieces of notes per slide
Practice: Compare US Entry into WWI to WWII in as many ways as possible. (use your textbook or internet for guidance)

6.2 Learning B: Home front Video notes (12)

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Great Depression Exam

Unit 5 Exam (Great Depression)

  • Email or talk to Mr M to schedule a time for exams. 
  • Exam revisions will be next week.

Mr. McDonald was gone...Notebook grades TBD

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Finish 5.2 C & Review for Exam

Turn in 5.2 Homework
  • You need to turn in & have completed the following: 
    • 5.2 A
    • 5.2 B
    • 5.2 Homework
  • You DO NOT need to have 5.2 C completed as we are working in class on it today.

Finish: 5.2 C: Second New Deal Markup

  • Complete this activity from yesterday
  • We reviewed the following terms from the reading
    • WPA
    • SSA
    • Wagner Act
    • CIO
    • REA
    • Court Packing
    • John Maynard Keynes
    • Fair Labor Standards Act
  • See Mr McDonald with questions

Review for Exam (you will not be taking it if you were absent on the review day)

  • We discussed the 7 possible Big List terms using THIS PRESENTATION.
  • Some added notes to the big list itself, some on a different paper, some did nothing.
  • Prepared for the essay.  Below is the basic rubric for the question:
    • What were the causes and the proposed solutions of the Great Depression?




Monday, October 28, 2013

5.2 B & 5.2 C

Finish: 5.2 B: Critics of the New Deal (7)


Review:

  • As a class we listed the basic complaints that each of the 7 authors of the documents had
List from 3rd Block when reviewing each critique of FDR's New Deal Programs or FDR himself.

5.2 C: The Second New Deal Markup (8)


5.2 Homework is Due tomorrow!!!
(5.2 C does NOT need to be complete to turn in 5.2)

Friday, October 25, 2013

5.2 A & B

Finish 5.2 A: The New Deal (6)

  • Completed the 5.2 A: New Deal activity from yesterday with your island...
  • If you were gone, I'd like you to attempt it and check with your island or me.

The Great Depression Exam (Unit 5) is now next WEDNESDAY!

5.2 B: Critics (7)

  • Use the New Deal Document Based Activity Packet.
  • Read the documents and answer the questions on the packet IN COMPLETE SENTENCES
  • You do NOT need to write an essay like the instructions say
  • We nearly finished this...we will complete it Monday in class. 

5.2 Homework handed out (9)




Thursday, October 24, 2013

5.2 A

5.1 "Quiz" (Homework grade...revisable)

  • IF 5.1 A, B, C & D are completed, students took a 10 question quiz over the terms listed in yesterday's blog post
  • If you did not take this quiz, please complete 5.1 and schedule a time with Mr. M to take it (after school now works b/c football is over!)
  • If you did not take the quiz because you were absent yesterday or did not complete the sheets, schedule with Mr M as well. 

Review 5.1 D: Hoover's Reaction

  • Class discussion.  Highlighted each of Hoover's reaction
  • See Mr McDonald if you 'd like to get information we covered in this discussion.

Presidential Videos

  • As a preparation for the next activity, we watched the following short videos about Hoover & Roosevelt.  You do not need to write anything down, but you MUST watch these!

5.2 Learning A: The New Deal

  • On your own piece of paper....using information from the previous videos, 5.1 and after READING (not skimming) pages 698-703 in your textbook, complete the following:
    1. Define the following terms IN YOUR OWN WORDS
      • Public Works
      • Emergency Banking Act
      • The New Deal
      • Hundred Days
      • Relief, Recovery & Reform
    2. Compare HH & FDR in these ways:
      • Political Philosophies
      • Communication with the Public
      • 3 Laws or Responses to the Great Depression
Suggestion: Use the Chart type of comparisons.  See Mr. McDonald with questions

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

5.1 C & 5.1 D

Finish 5.1 C: Hard Times Notes (4)


5.1 D: Hoover's Reaction (5)



Review for 5.1 Quiz tomorrow 

  •  This is your homework score...you may revise this...
  • A,B,C & D must be completed to take the quiz
  • Be prepared to answer questions about a handful of these terms from 5.1 A,B,C and D:
    1. GNP
    2. Welfare Capitalism
    3. Distribution of Wealth
    4. Black Tuesday
    5. Bank Run
    6. Hobo
    7. Bread line/ Soup Kitchen
    8. Hooverville
    9. Dust Bowl
    10. Bankruptcy
    11. Rugged Individualism
    12. RFC
    13. Bonus Army


Tuesday, October 22, 2013

5.1 B and C

Issued Essay Question for the unit Exam next week


Reviewed 5.1 Learning B: Stock Market Crash Worksheet

  • Ensure that you know each of the following terms from the top of the worksheet:
    • Gross National Product
    • Welfare Capitalism
    • Manufacturing 
  • Finished 5.1 Learning B: Stock Market Crash Worksheet


Discussed graphic organizer on page 677 from textbook about causes of the crash 

Began 5.1 C: Hard Times Notes(4)

  • We will finish this tomorrow
  • Complete video will be posted tomorrow

NEW QUARTER!!

Handed back Final Exams

  • If you were absent come see Mr M to look at your exam
  • New Quarter = starting over with grades

You may empty your notebook (except for anything that is #1)

These papers were handed out and go as the 1st Sheets in your notebook: 


5.1 Learning A: Stock Market Basics notes


5.1 Learning B: Stock Market Crash Worksheet

  • Use your textbook to begin 5.1 B worksheet
  • Most students got through the 2nd or 3rd question
  • We will complete tomorrow.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013


Worked on and Turned in Project

Prepared for Final Exam tomorrow

Here are the basic outlines we discussed for each essay

#1
#2

 #3



Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Final Project Work day

Here are the possible Essay questions on the final

  • You get to use a piece of paper with a list of vocab terms (evidence) on the exam. 
  • YOu cannot answer the question on your cheat sheet, but you may have a list of words

Went to library

  • Project is due tomorrow!
  • Show Mr. McDonald your notes & Bibliography!!

Monday, October 14, 2013

Bibliography Template....Follow the directions on the sheet!!

We went to library to work on the project.

Goal:

  1. Have All initial research completed
    • Indented notes
    • Separated by source
    • Info for Bibliography
    • MORE information than we learned in class
  2. Complete Bibliography
  3. If you get to the point where you are working on your actual project you are ON THE RIGHT PACE!!

One more work day in class: tomorrow!

Friday, October 11, 2013

Library/Project Work

Today we just worked on the Project (Due Wed)

Goal: Complete the research in the textbook and two books by the end of class.

Bibliography "training" will be Monday.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

4.1 B & C

Finish 4.1 B: Roaring Economy in Charts (39)


  • Discussed & answered questions on 4.1 B Presentation
  • Include this info at the bottom of your sheet


4.1 C: Conservative Presidents (40)



4.1 Homework (41) Handed out:  Due Friday

Monday IN CLASS is the LAST day for Revisions from Units 1-3

Introduce Final Project  Due Next Wed. Oct. 16th

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Finish 4.1 A

Finish 4.1 A: Postwar Tensions & Society Notes (38)


Handed back Exams

  • Revision days:
    • Wed, Thurs & Friday 730-825AM
    • Friday 330-430PM
    • Or by appointment with Mr. M

Big List Work

  • Just like yesterday, 5 new words: 
    • Battle of Little Bighorn
    • Dawes Act
    • Homestead Act
    • Social Darwinism
    • Vertical and Horizontal Integration

Begin 4.1 B: Roaring Twenties Economy in Charts (39)

  • Began these notes.  I will attach and create a video for tomorrow when we finish this.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Begin 4.1 A

New Unit, New Seating Chart!!  See Mr M for you new spot if you were gone

Big List Practice

  • To Prepare for the final, we will begin working on Big List words every day
  • As an Island, come up with a level 2, 3 & 4 answer for each of the following words:
    • Executive Branch
    • Judicial Branch
    • Foreign Policy
    • 14th Amendment
    • 15th Amendment
  • Put the sheet as the first one in your notebook (#0)

4.1 Learning A: Postwar Tensions & Society Notes (38)

  • Use the printout of 4.1 Learning A to add three additional pieces of information per slide
  • I'll make the video tomorrow, so you can use it to catch up if you were gone
  • We will finish 2nd half of notes tomorrow.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Exam

We took the Unit III (World War I) Exam today
We turned in our notebook s and got them back today.
You need to complete both of these as soon as possible if you were gone.

I promised two people to put this link on the blog today.  If you are not one of those people do not worry about them:

2.1 Learning A Notes Sheet
2.1 Learning A Notes Video

Thursday, October 3, 2013

3.2 C, Quiz, & Review

3.2 C: 14 pts & the Treaty of Versailles (36)

  • We completed the in class activity yesterday...answering questions as islands and a class from the 14 Points & Treaty of Versailles Reading
    • Read 25.4 & Reservationists Seek Changes from page 320
      • KIM Ratification
      • What two reasons did Republicans have to oppose the treaty? 
    • Read Irreconcilables Reject the Treaty, Internationalists Support the Treaty and President Wilson Takes His Case on pages 320-321
      • KIM Irreconcilable
      • KIM International
      • Did Wilson Support the Treaty for the same reason as Internationalists did? 
    • Read 25.5 A Divided Senate Decides the Treaty's Fate and Partisanship Defeats the Treaty on page 322
      • KIM Partisanship 
      • KIM Amendment
      • What happened to the Treaty? 
      • What DO YOU THINK the main cause of the Treaty's fate was? 
    • Read The 1920 Election Becomes a Referendum
      • KIM Referendum
      • Do you agree that the 1920 Election was a Referendum for the Treaty? 

3.2 "Quiz"

  • If you you have 3.2 A & 3.2 B completed, you were eligible to take the 3.2 Quiz today.  Many were not completed with those in class activities, so their grade became a 5/10 until they are eligible to take the "quiz"

Unit III Review (37)

  • Unit III exam is TOMORROW
  • Your Review Activities:
    • Big List KIM sheet from last week
    • Big List Comparison Sheet
    • Essay Template

UNIT III EXAM IS FRIDAY!

3.2 C

3.2 C: 14 pts & Treaty of Versailles (36)

  • Complete the following activities on YOU OWN PAPER while reading 14 Pts & Treaty of Versailles
    • 25.1: Introduction
      • Who was Woodrow Wilson treated when he came to Europe and why DO YOU think he was treated that way? 
    • 25.2: Wilson's Vision for World Peace & Fourteen Points to End all Wars
      • K.I.M.: Ambitious & Self Determination
      • Why do you think Wilson's 14 Points could have been successful?
      • Why do you think Wilson's 14 Points could fail?
    • Wilson's Unusual Decisions
      • KIM: Delegate
      • How would you redescribe Wilson's decisions (other than "unusual")
    • 25.3: Ideas Versus Self-Interest at Versailles
      • KIM: clause & compensation
      • Why do YOU THINK the European leaders wanted such different things than the 14 Points? 
    • Self-Determination Survives, But only in Europe & Wilson Pins His Peace Hopes on the League of Nations
      • KIM: Charter
      • Why do YOU THINK self-determination only happened in Europe? 
    • All of 25.4: The Great Debate About Ratification (320-321)
      • KIM: Collective, irreconcilable
      • Why was there even a debate about the Peace treaty?
      • Which side DO YOU THINK was right? 
UNIT III EXAM IS FRIDAY!

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

3.2 B

Finish: 3.2 A: Gov't Control (34)

  • Finish Vocab stuff from yesterday

3.2 B: America Fights Markup (35)
  • Mark up 3.2 B: America Fights:
    1. Circle Vocab terms
    2. Underline MOST important phrases
    3. 1-4 word margin summary for EACH paragraph
    4. 5 K.I.M. vocabulary words from text...defined and memory cue sketched

Dont forget: WWI Exam is FRIDAY