Exam Review!!

Exam is Tomorrow!!
Notebook is Due tomorrow!! Here is the Table of Contents

Essay prep: Here is the Essay question you got last week & that we worked on today

Chronology practice To help with the exam

To Library: Begin working on Big List Presentation...must create a slide for each of the Big List Terms (only beginning this today....due on the day of the final!)

• Must Include Level 2 definition (no regurgitation)
• Must Include Level 3 definition
• Must include one visual
• Here is an example

7.2 F

Turn in 7.2 Homework

• 7.2 A, B, C, D & E must all be completed as well

Reminder: Unit 7 Exam is Tuesday after break!!

7.2 Learning F: Vietnam (28)

• Zinn
• Read this selection of Howard Zinn's A Young People's History of the United States
• Use this presentation and answer the questions on it
• Notes
• Use Vietnam: the Basics Notes to complete the Fill in the blank sheet
• Video

Some items for the extended weekend to prepare:

• Make sure to complete 7.2 if you did not!
• Use quizlet.com (cmcdonald135) to study the big list
• Exam essay & rubric for the exam Tuesday....feel free to email me with your essay outline if you are unsure of its correctness!

7.2 D & 7.2 E

Reminder: 7.2 Homework due tomorrow
Unit 7 Exam is moved (again, sorry) to NEXT Tuesday
Here is the Essay Question for that Exam
1st & 2nd Blocks: 
Finish: 7.2 E: Johnson's Great Society (27)

• Add three notes to 7.2 E
• Use THIS VIDEO

Begin 7.2 F: Vietnam

• Answer the following questions after reading the assigned pages from Howard Zinn's chapter on Vietnam  Here is the entire set of questions.
• 1st 2 paragraphs on page 297
• Predict, based on ONLY these two paragraphs, what Zinns narrative (opinion) about the Vietnam War will be in 2-3 sentences
• 297-299
• In what ways is the information in this reading similar to the Spanish-American War? 

3rd Block:
 Completed 7.2 D: Civil Rights Exploration (from last Thursday)
Completed 7.2 C: A Time for Justice video

• Bay of Pigs & Berlin Wall 
• Cuban Missile Crisis

Finish 7.2 A, B, C

So each of the three blocks are in different places.  Here is the basic outline for what we were supposed to do with a short explanation at the end about the variances:
Finish: 7.2 A: Bay of Pigs & Berlin Crisis (23)

• Make sure you have completed BOTH short answer questions

Finish: 7.2 B: Cuban Missile Crisis (24)

• Make sure to have answered ALL questions in this packet

Finish 7.2 C: A Time for Justice (25)

• We finished this video and the questions that go along with it.
• If you missed any part of it, borrow the DVD from Mr M.... Its not on the internet!

Finish 7.2 D: Civil Rights Movement Exploration (26)

• We began this internet activity yesterday.  
• See yesterday's post for instructions and questions

Begin 7.2 E: Assassination & Johnson's Great Society (27)

• CRAZY!  Today was the 50th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination and we LEARNED ABOUT IT today in order!
• We just began these notes.  We will finish them Monday

Handed out 7.2 Homework (28) Due Tuesday.  Cross out 1st Level 3 question.  You do not need to do that one.

1st Block: Completed the activities as described above
2nd Block: Completed the activities as described above
3rd Block: We did not do 7.2 D or 7.2 E because we watched videos about JFK's Assassination.  ANYONE can see the links below for some really interesting videos (even by students' account!)

NOVA Ballistics and general summary of events: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/cold-case-jfk.html
CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/jfk-assassination/

7.2 D: Civil Rights Exploration

Civil Rights Exploration Activity 

I. Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v the Board of Education  

Read pages 15 & 16 from the Supreme Court Cases packet 

1. Answer the following questions:  

• How are Plessy and Brown related to each other? 
• What do you think Justice Harlan meant when he said that our Constitution is color blind? 
• What do you think Justice Warren meant when he wrote "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal? 
• Do you think our schools are segregated at all today?   

II. Read or view the following documents about the Little Rock 9 Documents 

1. http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_little_rock_school_desegregation_1957/ 

2. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0904.html#article 

3. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0925.html#article 

4. Mayor of Little Rock to the President  

1. http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/civil_rights_little_rock/1957_09_24_Mann_to_DDE.pdf 

5. The Little Rock Photo 

• http://aam.govst.edu/projects/mwysocki/images/littlerock/lr9.jpg 

6. Protest Photo 

• http://aam.govst.edu/projects/mwysocki/images/littlerock/statecap.jpg 

7. Escort Photo 

1. http://aam.govst.edu/projects/mwysocki/images/littlerock/Little_Rock_Nine_Escorting.jpg 

8. Eisenhower's message 

• http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/civil_rights_little_rock/Statements_by_DDE_and_Faubus.pdf 
• 9.Eisenhower's Message about results 
• http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/civil_rights_little_rock/1957_09_21_Statement_by_President.pdf

Answer the following questions:  

• What were three examples of how the students were treated? 
• How did the president respond to the crisis? How is this an example of federalism? 
• How does this show the weakness of the Supreme Court?  

III. The March on Washington  

Watch the following video: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plsZoBRAxoI 

• Take notes during the video to assist you, then write a paragraph answer for each of the following questions.
• What was the March on Washington and what was its role in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964?  Read your textbook's version on page 923 to assist you in answering this in a paragraph 
• What was the narrative that William P. Jones (the guy being interviewed) about the March?  

7.2 A & 7.2 B

I had a sub today, but the following activities were carried out: 


Finish 7.2 A: Bay of Pigs & Berlin Wall

• We completed the "competition" from yesterday (Clued Recall) and we answered the questions at the bottom of the Clued recall sheet.  

7.2 B: Cuban Missile Crisis Activity

• This is a packet filled with primary sources that we answered with our islands.
• See Mr. McDonald to get one & Complete.

7.3 C: A Time for Justice Video

• This is a DVD that I have....You'll need to schedule a time with me to make up this.

7.2 A

Reminder: 7.1 A, B, C & D are due with 7.1 Homework tomorro

7.2 Learning A: Berlin Wall & Bay of Pigs (23)

• Watch the Truman & Eisenhower Videos & Questions
•  Harry S Truman (D) 1945-1953
• Evaluate Harry Truman's important decisions (a.k.a. the excellence/weakness of decisions)
• Atomic Bombs
• Containment/Marshall Plan/NATO
• Civil Rights
• Shocks of 1949
• Korean War
• Vietnam
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) 1953-1961
• How did Eisenhower successfully promote Peas in the US?  Where did he fail? 
• Korean War
• Downsizing Military
• Federal Highway Act
• Brown v Board 
• Vietnam
• Soaring Economy
• Sputnik
• Cuba/Castro
• Military Industrial Complex--Eisenhower warned against war businesses and the military controlling the government
• Bay of Pigs & Berlin Wall Clued Recall
• Catch up by reading pages 880-881 in your text and answering the following question:
• What factors played a role in the disasterous execution of the Bay of Pigs Invasion?