Assignments
American Studies -3rd Quarter
January 3rd - Economic Collapse - Isolationism
January 4th - The Great Depression
January 7th - Video: Hitler and Stalin - Roots of Evil
January 8th - Fascist Party and Nazi Party - Rise of Fascism
January 9th - The Rise of Dictators: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin; Complete Rise of Fascism
January 10th - Nazism, Fascism, Totalitarianism, Communism, Socialism
January 11th - The Road to WWII
January 14th- WWII: Blitzkrieg and the Phony War
January 15th - Video: Hitler's Flying Blunders; Battle of Dunkirk
January 16th - Hitler invades the Soviet Union - Battle of Stalingrad
January 17th - The Holocaust
January 18th - Movie: The Diary of Anne Frank
January 21st - No School
January 22nd - Movie: The Diary of Anne Frank
January 23rd - Movie
January 24th - The Final Solution, Concentration Camps
January 25th - Bombing of Pearl Harbor - Day of Infamy
January 26th - Battle of Midway, Island hopping, Guadalcanal, Bataan Death March
January 28th - District Reading Acuity Test
January 29th - WWII Biographies - Wireless Computer Lab
January 30th - WWII Biographies - Wireless Computer Lab
January 31st - WWII Biographies and Posters
February 1st - Poster Project
February 4th - Propaganda, Rationing, War Bonds, Japanese Interment, Code Talkers
February 5th - D-Day; Battle of the Bulge, VE Day
February 6th - Manhattan Project, Einstein's Letter, Atomic Bomb, VJ Day
February 7th - Nuremberg Trials; United Nations
February 8th - Review for WWII Exam
February 11th - Survey
February 12th - WWII Exam
February 13th- Make-up Day
February 14th - Persuasive Writing
February 15th - Persuasive Writing
February 19th - Cold War Era Notes; Persuasive Writing DUE!!!
February 20th - Soviet Expansion in Europe; Cold War Map
February 21st - Movie: The Building and the Tearing Down of the Berlin Wall
February 22nd - The Soviet Union Causes Problems in Berlin
February 25th - Cold War Programs & The Red Scare and McCarthyism
February 26th - The Red Scare and McCarthyism; Epidemic of Fear
February 27th - Communism and the Middle
February 28th - Korean War
February 29th - Korean War
March 3rd - Eisenhower and the Cold War
March 4th - Eisenhower and the Cold War - Life in the 50's
March 5th - Kennedy and the Cold War - Pay of Pigs Invasion
March 6th - Kennedy and the Cold War - The Space Race
March 7th - The Cuban Missile Crisis
March 10th - Vietnam War - Map
March 11th - Vietnam War - Tet Offensive - Begin Study Guide
March 12th - Vietnam War - Tonkin Resolution- Study Guide
March 13th - Review
March 14th - The Cold War Exam
Fourth Quarter - American Studies
March 24th - Civil Rights Movement: Civil War Amendments, African Americans during Reconstruction - Lesson 26 We The People
March 25th - Voting Rights - Civil Rights Era Map, Plessy v. Ferguson
March 26th - Brown v. Board of Education
March 27th - Little Rock Nine, Tinker v. Des Moines
March 28th - Freedom Summer
March 31st - Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965
April 1st - Martin Luther King, Jr.
April 2nd -Martin Luther King, Jr
April 3rd - Malcolm X, Black Power, Black Panthers
April 4th - Women's Rights
April 7th - AIMS Testing - Separate But Equal
April 8th - AIMS Testing - Separate But Equal
April 9th - AIMS Testing - Separate But Equal
April 10th - AIMS Testing - Separate But Equal
April 11th - AIMS Testing - Separate But Equal
April 14th - Other Groups Seeking Rights: Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Americans with Disabilities
April 15th - 1950's
April 16th - Review
April 17th - Unit Test - Civil Rights
April 18th - America in a Changing World - Map skills Nixon Administration, PLO, OPEC
April 21st - Watergate
April 22nd - Ford and Carter
April 23rd - The 1970's Video - Nixon, Watergate, Munich Olympics
April 24th - The 1980's Video - Reagan Era
April 25th - April Break - No School
April 28th - Carter's Foreign Policy
April 29th - Ronald Reagan and Conservative Ideas
April 30th - Reagan and Foreign Policy
May 1st - George H.W. Bush
May 2nd - Persian Gulf War
May 5th - Clinton's Presidency
May 6th - Clinton's Presidency
May 7th - George W. Bush
May 8th - September 11th Terrorist Attacks
May 9th - War in Iraq
May 12th - Globalization
May 13th - Natural Disasters
May 14th - Study guide for final
May 15th - Class Final
May 16th - Essay Portion of district final
May 19th - Multiple choice portion of district final
May 20th - National Treasure II - Book of Secrets