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US History Assignments

*****All dates and assignments subject to change at teacher’s discretion*****
During Mid-term weeks

2B Class
Jan. 17 - Exam Review
Jan. 19 - Exam
     HW: Read and WS: Ch. 12:3-4

Jan. 23- Notes on the Gilded Age
       CW: WS:Timeline/Reading:Lets Talk
          HW: Read & WS Ch. 13:1-2
            NB: Create a magazine ad for an invention 

Jan. 25 - continue notes
        CW: Reading: Pullman Strike
          HW: Read & WS Ch.13:3-4
             NB: Picket sign for strike
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4B Class 
Jan. 17 -  Notes on the Gilded Age
       CW: WS:Timeline/Reading:Lets Talk
          HW: Read & WS Ch. 13:1-2
            NB: Create a magazine ad for an invention
Jan. 19 - continue notes
        CW: Reading: Pullman Strike
          HW: Read & WS Ch.13:3-4
             NB: Picket sign for strike
Jan. 23- Exam Review

Jan. 25 - Exam
     HW: Read and WS: Ch. 12:3-4
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Both Classes

Jan. 30 - continue notes
          HW: Read & WS Ch. 16; Readings with questions
	    Study for test - Ch. 14,15, 16
             NB: Letter from an immigrant

Feb. 1 - continue notes
           CW: Readings: Lynching and DuBois
            HW: Immigration Reading and Pie Graphs
               NB: Acrostic: Segregation

Feb.  3 - Quiz
  Video and worksheet: The Gilded Age
       HW: Test Review
          NB: FC

Feb. 7 -  Test – The Gilded Age - Ch. 12,13 
         HW: Read & WS Ch. 14:1-2
            

Feb. 9- Begin notes: Imperialism
         HW: Ch. 14:3/15:1
              NB: Yellow Journalism
          
Feb. 13- Continue Imperialism notes
        CW: Political Cartoon: Big Stick Diplomacy
          HW: Read & WS Ch. 15:2-3
             NB: Political Cartoon on Imperialism

Feb. 15- Finish Imperialism notes
          Quiz: Imperialism
            Video: Imperialism
             NB: 
          
Feb. 17- Notes: Progressive Movement
          HW: Reading: Susan B. Anthony
          HW: Study for test 
               NB: Free Choice

Feb. 20-  Test Imperialism & Progressive Movement
        - HW: Read & WS: Ch. 16:1-2

March 1 - Student Assessment (Return with parent signature for grade)
          CW: WWI Map
           HW: Read & WS: Ch. 16:3-4

March 5 - Video: The Great War
           CW: WS: Weapons/R: Wilson's War Message
            HW: Read & WS Ch.17:1-2
              NB:Comic Strip on WWI

March 7 -Notes: WWI
                Quiz: WWI
                CW: Linking Past & Present/Table
           HW: Read & WS Ch. 17:3-4
                   NB: FC

March 9 - Notes: 1920s
            CW: R: Flapper
              HW: Read & WS Ch. 17:5/R: Langston Hughes
                 NB: 

March 13 - Notes
        Quiz
          CW: Jazz Age/1920s
             HW: Review
              NB:

March 15: Test: WWI & 1920s
      ****Notebooks due****
           HW: Read & WS: Ch. 18:1-2

March 19 -Notes: The Great Depression
           HW: Foldable Project: New Deal Agencies (due 3/23)
              Read & and WS: Ch.18:3-4
             NB: Mind notes

March 21 - notes
       HW: Read & WS: Ch. 19:1-2
         NB: Annotated Caricature: Hoover

March 23 -Finish Notes
           Quiz: The Depression
             HW:Study for the TEST!!
            NB: Create an advertisement for an agency

March 27 - Test: The Great Depression
    ***Notebook due for grade***
          -HW: Read & and WS: Ch. 20:1-2, 20:4, 21-3

March 29- Notes: WWII
         CW: FDR- Roosevelt and the Isolationists
          HW: Read & WS:  Ch. 21:1-2, 21:4
            NB: Illustrated timeline

April 2-Notes: WWII
         CW: Japanese Internment and Linking Past/Present- WASPs
          HW: Read & WS: Ch. 20-3, 21-5
            NB: WWII Propaganda poster
April 4- Video: From Blitzkrieg to Bomb
          CW: Video Worksheet
           HW: None
          NB: Letter home as if you were a WWII allied soldier

April 16-Notes: WWII (Holocaust)
           CW: Terrible Things worksheet
            NB: Free Choice


April 18- Notes: 
          NB: Illustrated dictionary entry- Geneva Conventions
           HW: STUDY FOR TEST!!!


April 20-Test: World War II
        ***Notebook due!***
         HW: Read and WS: Ch 22-2, 22-3, 22-4


April 24-Notes: The Cold War
         CW: Joseph McCarthy political cartoon worksheet
          NB: Acrostic- Cold War
         HW: Read and WS: Ch. 23-1, 23-2, 23-3

April 26- Notes: The Cold War (Postwar America)
         CW: Impact of the Automobile
          NB: If...Then. (If Brown v. Board of Education had been 
              decided differently, how would life be different today?)

April 30- Library Visit- Hampton Roads Naval Museum presentation

May 2- Block 2B- Notes: The Cold War (Postwar America and JFK)
          NB: Mind notes- JFK

May 2- Block 4B- Notes: The Cold War (Postwar America) and Video: Remembering 
JFK
         CW: Video Worksheet on Remembering JFK
           NB: Mind Notes- JFK

May 4- TEST: Cold War/JFK
        ****Notebooks are due!!!****
       HW: Review WS: SOL 2&3

May 8 - Notes: Civil Rights Movement
          HW: Review WS: SOL 4&5
            NB: Opinion Stmt: What would your movement be?

May 10 - Continue notes
          Video: Emmitt Till/Worksheet
             HW: Review WS: SOL 5 & 6
                NB: Reaction Statemt to video

May 14 - Continue notes
           HW: Review WS: SOL 6&7
             NB: Journal entry by sit-in participant

May 16 - Discuss SOL Review sheets
          HW: Review WS: SOL 7&8 
        
May 18 - SOL Review Packet

May 21 - VA/US History SOL Test - GOOD LUCK!!

May 22 - Continue notes
         -WS: Civil Rights Organizations
             NB: Poster for Civil Rights group

May 24 - Continue notes
         -WS: Civil Rights Timeline
          -NB: Acrostic: Civil Rights

May 29 - Finish notes
          -Quiz
            HW: Test Review
              NB: Opinion Statement: Have we truely achieved equality?

May 31 - Test: Civil Rights
            ***Notebook due for grade***

June 4 & 6 - Movie: Sins of the Father

June 8 - Exam Review

Have a great summer!
  

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