February 22, 2016

Creation of the Welfare State: Great Depression & New Deal

Tasks: 

• Review: What are the problems that emerge from the Great Depression?
• High unemployment
• Failing farms, industry, and banks
• Home foreclosures
• Fear among Americans
• Using your notes, How did the Hoover administration respond?
• Write your response to this question in your notes.

How have people come to view Hoover and his actions in response to the Great Depression?

• Listen to the song "We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover" from Annie musical.  
• What is the tone of the song?
• What can we infer about the mood of the country?
• Historian analysis
• What is the argument about Hoover made by the historians, Hofstadter and Jeansomme?
• Are their interpretations of Hoover positive or negative?  What evidence in the text can you use as support? 
• Segue to the Election 1932
• Significance of election 
• Democrats win in landslide victory
• Shifting electorate - African Americans & women vote Democrat
• FDR inaugurated into office, and brings with him enthusiasm & experimentation
• Task: New Deal Program Answers to these questions should be in your notes.  
• Describe the purpose of the "Relief" programs, and explain how ONE piece of legislation fulfilled the intended goal.
• Describe the purpose of the "Recovery" programs, and explain how ONE piece of legislation fulfilled the intended goal.
• Describe the purpose of the "Reform" programs, and explain how ONE piece of legislation fulfilled the intended goal.

February 19, 2016

Creation of the Welfare State: Great Depression and New Deal

Tasks:

• Introduce inquiry: How did the role and function of the federal government change in response to the economic needs of the citizens?
• The Great Depression is unlike any economic calamity the country has ever faced.  As a result, the role and function of the federal government will begin to change.  The inquiry asks you to determine how the government's role and function changes.
• Focus of class today will be Hoover's response: How did Hoover's administration respond to the problems of the Great Depression?
• Source analysis - Today we will work on sourcing documents that moves beyond a simple "SOAPStone."  The College Board expects you to analyze at least 4 documents on the DBQ.  
• Discuss the characteristics of the source analysis using my example for Document 1 in the Hoover text set.
• Work together in small group to complete a source analysis on Hoover primary sources (#2-4).
• Choose ONE component of analysis (POV-CAP), and write your document analysis response on a separate sheet of paper.

February 18, 2016

Welcome, Ms. Grande!  

Today, we will be on an in-school field trip to the library to meet Ms. Grande during periods 5 & 6.

February 17, 2016

Creation of the Welfare State: Great Depression and New Deal

Tasks:

• Use notes to answer: "What was the Republican vision of "normalcy?"
• Identify characteristics of Republican presidents in 1920s - Harding, Coolidge & Hoover.
• Major point: There was much prosperity in the 1920s, as the standard of living improved for many Americans.  However, beneath the surface of the prosperity, significant structural weaknesses existed in the economy.
• What caused the Great Depression?  
• List the causes of the Great Depression.
• How does each cause contribute to a weakening economy?
• Example: Throughout the 1920s, there was an uneven distribution of income.  This disparity between the rich and poor weakens the purchasing power of many Americans.  A weakening purchasing power means that more Americans are unable to purchase the mass produced consumer goods.
• If the stock market crash of 1929 did not cause the Great Depression, then why do so many people remember it?
• The memory of 1929 is dramatic for many Americans because there is a distinct before and after.  People remember the prosperity, and after the stock market crash, there is a distinct difference in American life.

February 16, 2016

Field Trip to Library!

Today, we will be in the library periods 4 - 8 to work on our first meeting with the freshmen.

Use this link to access the agenda for the meeting.

February 12, 2016

February 10, 2016

Continue working on finalizing documents for field trip on Tuesday 2/16.

February 9, 2016

One Book, One Leyden: Immigration Project

TASKS: 

• Tuesday February 16, 2016 we will be having an in-school field trip.  We will be using class time today to prepare for the first meeting with the freshmen.  
• Use this link to communicate your attendance for next week.
• Bring $2 to contribute to the pizza fund.
• Immigration Project - where is your group in completing the following tasks?
• Documents
• Your group should have 4 -5 primary/secondary sources that help answer the question "How did immigration shape the communities at the turn of the twentieth century?"   
• The documents should include source information.
• The documents should be formatted like my example from class.
• Your documents should be ready for me to print at the end of class on Friday 2/12/16.
• Small-group protocol
• Your group should have the speaking roles divided evenly among group members.
• Be prepared with what you are going to say by writing script in the appropriate boxes.
• Need something printed in color?  Let me know ASAP.

February 8, 2016

Rise to World Power: What transformations occurred in America's role on the world stage?

TASKS: 

• Take quiz.
• Wrap-up WWI by answering the question: Why did the United States Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles?
• Set context of documents: 
• 1919 - Wilson travels to Europe to hammer out treaty; arrives with ideals, the wishes he has for peace (self-determination, freedom of the seas, League of Nations)
• Treaty of Versailles must be ratified by the U.S. Senate
• Senators divided on League of Nations = collective security organization, which would, according to some members of the Senate, compromise America's sovereignty and restrict Congress' power to declare war
• Fierce debate ensues in Congress; rivalry between W. Wilson and H.C. Lodge
• Read documents to determine
• Why does Wilson support the League of Nations?
• Why does Henry Cabot Lodge have problems with the League of Nations?
• Return to question: What transformations occurred in America's role on the world stage?  
• Add ideas to list to demonstrate the ways in which the role of the US has changed after involvement in WWI.

February 5, 2016

Rise to World Power: What transformations occurred in the United States' role on the world stage?

TASKS: 

• Use class time to add evidence to chart on the ways in which WWI expanded or contracted opportunities for people on the home front.

• Quiz Monday 2/8: Be prepared for Imperialism/WWI quiz.  Short Answer Question: How did America's involvement in WWI impact the home front?

Reminders: 

• Test Corrections Unit VI due March 1.

February 4, 2016

Rise to World Power: What transformations occurred in the role of the United States on the world stage?

Task: 

• Introduce inquiry for class: How did America's involvement in WWI impact the homefront?
• Discuss what the question is asking
• "Impact the homefront" - what does that mean?
• Contextualize the question by considering whether or not Wilson's war declaration, in which he declares US should help "make the world safe for democracy," extends to people in the US as well.  
• Use the phrases "extend opportunity" and "contract opportunity" as direction to this question.  
• Use this organizer for your notes: 
  
• Work together on first row: Civil Liberties
• U.S. mobilizes for total war
• Mobilization of economy - Federal government exercised unprecedented powers to coordinate and control economic decision-making
• War Industries Board, National War Labor Board, Food Administration
• Mobilization of public opinion - freedom of speech was restricted during WWI add information to chart under contraction column
• Committee on Public Information - propaganda
• Suppression of freedom of speech
• Espionage & Sedition Act
• Schenck v. US (1919)
• Spend the rest of class time using notes to add evidence to the chart. 

February 3, 2016

February 2, 2016

February 1, 2016

January 29, 2016

January 28, 2016