Blackstock’s U. S. History Lesson Plans - 2008

Day 1  

(Aug. 25 / Jan. 24) 

Activities: 

Introduce U.S. History course.  Go over: class rules, grading, U.S. History End-of-Course Exam, materials, needed, syllabus.  Distribute books.  Civics Review: Native Americans, the 13 English Colonies, the American War for Independence & its Results
Discussion/ Notes on Domestic Problems Facing Washington: Constitutional Principles, the Bill of Rights, Washington ’s qualifications, precedents set, debt problems and Hamilton’s financial plan; the Whiskey Rebellion, Washington’s Foreign Policy and Farewell Address, the Formation of Political Parties, Election of 1796, the Undeclared Naval War with France,

Day 2

(Aug. 26 / Jan. 25)

Activities:   

Discussion/ Notes on  Election of 1800, "midnight judges", Judiciary Act of 1801, Revolution of 1800,  Jeffersonian Democracy; Louisiana Purchase from France, Lewis & Clark, Sacajawea, U.S. policy of neutrality, impressment, Chesapeake incident, Embargo Act, Napoleon's orders, Non-Intercourse Act, Macon's Bill No. 2, Madison's election, & the War of 1812

Day 3 

(Aug. 27 / Jan. 28)

Activities:  

Discussion/ Notes on the Era of Good Feeling, American System, Henry Clay, 2nd Bank of the U.S., Tariff of 1816 - protective; Adams-Onis Treaty, Andrew Jackson's 1st Seminole War, Monroe Doctrine;

Day 4  

(Aug. 28 / Jan. 29)

Activities:  

Review for Unit One test;

Day 5  

(Aug. 29 / Jan. 30)

Activities:   

TEST on Unit One followed by reading assignment after the test.

U. S. History Unit Two Lesson Plans for Blackstock’s Classes, Days 7-11

                                           Unit Two: “Sectionalism,the Age of Jackson ,& Reform, 1824-1845” 
Competency Goal 2: Expansion & Reform (1801-1850) - The Learner will assess the competing forces of expansionism, nationalism & sectionalism.
2.01   Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission of new states to the Union .
2.02  Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature and language.
2.03  Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to sectionalism and nationalism.
2.04  Assess political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to sectionalism and nationalism.
2.05  Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
2.06  Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery & other social movements/issues.

Day 6  

(Sept. 2 / Jan. 31)

Day 7  

Activities:  

Discussion/ Notes on Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, cotton gin, interchangeable parts, Robert Fulton, steamboat era, New Orleans, John Deere, Samuel Morse, Cyrus McCormick, mechanical reaper, National Road, Lancaster Turnpike, Erie Canal, New York City;  

Day 9  

(Sept. 5 / Feb. 5)

Activities: 

Discussion/ Notes on Deism, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism; Religious Communes: Shakers, Mormons; Univ. of NC; Univ. of VA; Emma Willard; Mary Lyon; Oberlin College;  neo-classical architecture; Thoreau (Walden & "Essay on Civil Disobedience"); Emerson ("Self-Reliance" and "The American Scholar"); Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

Day 10  

(Sept. 8 / Feb. 6)

TEST on Unit Two - The Age of Jacksonian Democracy

                                        Unit Three: “Reform, Manifest Destiny & the Turbulent 1850’s”
Competency Goal 2: Expansion & Reform (1801-1850) - The Learner will assess the competing forces of expansionism, nationalism & sectionalism.
2.01   Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission of new states to the Union .
2.02  Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature, and language.
2.03  Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to sectionalism and nationalism.
2.04  Assess political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to sectionalism and nationalism.    
2.05  Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
2.06  Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery and other social movements/issues.

Competency Goal 3: The Learner will analyze ssues that led to the Civil War, effects of the war, and the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.
3.01  Trace the economic, social, and political events from the Mexican War to the outbreak of Civil War.
3.02  Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War.

Day 13 

(Sept. 11 / Feb. 11)

Activities:

Discussion/Notes on the Mexican War & results; President Taylor; Sutter's Mill, California’s '49er gold rush; Great Debate of 1850; Compromise of 1850 (5 parts); Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, Stephen Douglas, popular sovereignty,

Day 14  

(Sept. 12 / Feb. 12) 

Activities: 

Discussion/Notes on Fugitive Slave Law of 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom's Cabin, "personal liberty" laws, Kansas- Nebraska Act & "Bleeding Kansas", Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks; the Election of 1856; the Lecompton constitution; Dred Scott decision; Lincoln-Douglas Debates; John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry; the Election of 1860; secession movement; the CSA; Jefferson Davis; the Crittenden Compromise.

Day 15 

(Sept. 15 / Feb. 13)

Activities: 

Review of Unit Three.

Day 16 

(Sept. 16 / Feb. 14)

Activities: 

TEST on Unit Three.

                         Unit Four: “War Between the States & Reconstruction, 1855-1877”, Chapters 4 & 5 
Competency Goal 3: The Learner will analyze issues that led to the Civil War, effects of the war & the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.
3.01  Trace the economic, social, and political events from the Mexican War to the outbreak of the Civil War.
3.02  Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War.
3.03  Identify political and military turning points of the Civil War and assess their significance to the outcome of the conflict.
3.04  Analyze the political, economic & social impact of Reconstruction on the nation and identify reasons why Reconstruction came to an end.
3.05  Evaluate the degree to which the Civil War and Reconstruction proved to be a test of the supremacy of the national government.

Day 18 

(Sept. 18 / Feb. 19) 

Day 19 

(Sept. 19 / Feb. 20)

Activities:   

 Lecture/Discussion/Notes on the Election of 1864, Reconstruction, Radical Republicans vs. Johnson; Tenure of Office Act, the K. K. K.; Force Act; U.S. Grant; corruption, 14th Amendment, carpetbag gov’ts; redeemer gov’ts.; black codes, Jim Crow segregation laws, 15th Amendment, poll taxes, literacy tests.

Day 20 

(Sept. 22 / Feb. 21)

Activities:  

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on Henry Grady & the New South, growth of the textile industry; Grant Admin.; Whiskey Ring scandal; Credit Mobilier scandal; Boss Tweed; Tammany Hall, Thomas Nast; Election of 1876, disputed votes, Electoral Commission, Compromise of 1877

Day 21 

(Sept. 23 / Feb. 22)

Activities:  

TEST on Unit Four - Chapters 11 & 12.

Activities:  

Activities:  

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on:  2nd Industrial Revolution; Communications Revolution; corporations, stock, dividends; industrialization; railroads, safety changes, time zones; inventors: Drake, Bell, Goodyear, Edison,  Westinghouse, Sholes, Duke, Wright brothers, auto pioneers; monopolists: Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, ; holding companies, trusts, pooling; vertical and horizontal consolidation; "robber barons"; captains of industry; Gospel of Wealth;

Day 24 

(Sept. 26 / Feb. 27)

Activities:

Lecture/Notes/Discussion on:  Karl Marx, theory of communism; Knights of Labor, Terence Powderly, Haymarket Square bombing; industrial unions; American Federation of Labor, craft unions; Samuel Gompers, limited goals of AFL; rail strike of 1877; Homestead Strike of 1892; Pullman Strike of 1894; side taken by the fed'l gov't in strikes of the 1800's; wars against Native Americans in the West; the Sand Creek Massacre; the Battle of the Little Big Horn; assimilation policy; Dawes Severalty Act; gold rushes; cultural changes, literature, sports; closing of the frontier;

Day 25 

(Sept. 29 / Feb. 28)

Activities: 

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on Chapter 7, Section 3 & 4:  Cattle Kingdom; farming technological advances; farmers’ problems, the Grange (Patrons of Husbandry), “Granger” laws, Munn v. Illinois &Wabash decisions;  r.r. abuses, farm problems, farmers’ alliances, Morrill Act; Populist party, silver coinage, gov’t reform proposals, Cleveland’s 2nd term, gold standard, Panic of ’93, J.P Morgan, Mark Hanna & Wm. McKinley, Wm. J. Bryan, “Cross of Gold” speech, “The Wizard of Oz” as a political allegory.

Activities: 

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on & Chap. 8, Sec. 1: Gilded Age, laissez faire, Credit Mobilier scandal, spoils system, Republican "Stalwarts" vs. "Halfbreeds", "waving the bloody shirt", civil service, Garfield’s assassination, Pendleton Act; Grover Cleveland, rebates. 

Day 27 

(Oct. 1 / Mar. 3)

Activities:  

Lecture/Discussion/Notes on Chap. 8, Sec. 2: "Granger" laws, Munn v. Illinois (1877),  Wabash Railway decision (1886), Interstate Commerce Act (1887), Benjamin Harrison, the Homestead strike, Cleveland's 2nd term, gold standard, Pullman strike, Amer. Railway Worker's Union, Election of 1896; Old vs. New Immigration (characteristics/location/religions); Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Activities:  

Day 29 

(Oct. 6 / Mar. 5)

Activities:  

Review for Unit 5 Test (Chapters 6-8)

Day 30 

(Oct. 9 / Mar. 6)

Activities:  

TEST on Unit Five (Chapters 6-8)

Unit Six (Chapters 9 & 11).  "Life at the Turn of the Century and the Progressive Era" 

Competency Goal 5: The learner will describe innovations in technology and business & assess their impact on economic, political and social life..
5.01  Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life
5.02 Explain how business and industrial leaders accumulated wealth and wielded political and economic power.
5.03 Assess the impact of labor unions on industry and the lives of workers.
5.04 Describe the changing role of government in economic and political affairs.

Competency Goal 7:  The learner will analyze the economic, political and social reforms of the Progressive Era.
7.01  Explain the conditions that led to the rise of Progressivism.
7.02 Analyze how different groups of Americans made economic and political gains in the Progressive Period. 
7.03 Evaluate the effects of racial segregation on different regions and segments of the United States' society.
7.04 Examine the impact of technological changes on economic, social and cultural life in the United States . 

Day 31 

(Oct. 10 / Mar. 7)

Activities:  

Begin Unit Six (Chapters 9 & 11).  "Life at the Turn of the Century and the Progressive Era" 
Discussion/Lecture/Notes on: improved transportation; Frederick Olmstead, Elisha Otis, Louis Sullivan; urban problems; dumbbell tenements; Social Gospel Movement; Salvation Army & Y.M.C.A.'s; settlement houses; Jane Addams & Hull House in Chicago; Lillian Wald & the Henry St. Settlement House in NY City; temperance movement:  Anti-Saloon League & W.C.T.U.; public schools, one-room schoolhouses, high schools, "Americanization" of immigrants, segregated schools, the 3 R's, McGuffey's Readers, black colleges, women's colleges, Vasser, discrimination against females, Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Dubois; professional sports, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, basketball & football, Trolley Parks, the circus, McClure's, Cosmopolitan, & Collier's; writers: Mark Twain, local-colorists, Bret Harte, Willa Cather; yellow journalism
Reading Assignment - Read Chap. 9, Sec. 1-4.

Day 32 

(Oct. 11 / Mar. 10)

Activities:  

Review Chap. 9, Sec. 1.  Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 9, Sec. 2-4.   Socialists: Henry George, Edward Bellamy; muckrakers:  Jacob Riis; Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, John Spargo, David Phillips, Frank Norris; female reformers:
Carrie Nation & the W.C.T.U.; Florence Kelley & the Nat'l Consumers' League; Mother Mary Jones & union organizing;
Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911 - led to workplace safety laws; local gov't reforms:  "home-rule", commission form
of gov't (Galveston TX after hurricane of 1900), council-manager form of gov't (Dayton, OH after a flood); reform mayors -
regulated monopolies that provided water, natural gas, electricity, etc.; state election reforms:  initiatives, referendums,
direct primaries; recall elections, 17th Amendment; workplace reforms: workmen's compensation laws, minimum wage laws,
laws regulating hours for women, laws prohibiting child labor; Robert LaFollette & reforms in Wisconsin
Reading Assignment – Read Chap. 11, Section 2 & 3.

Day 33 

(Oct. 12 / Mar. 11)

Activities: 

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 11, Sec. 1.  Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal; 1902 coal strike, Northern Securities decision, 1904, the "Trustbuster", Hepburn Act, "good trusts" and "bad trusts"; The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, FDA; Conservation movement, Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902, Gifford Pinchot as head of Forestry Service, first nat'l parks - Yellowstone and Yosemite; the Three C's of the Square Deal:  control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation
Reading Assignment – Read Chap. 11, Section 4.

Day 34

(Oct. 13 / Mar. 12)

Activities: 

Review Chap. 11, Sec. 1 & 2.  Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 11, Sec. 2.  Notes on Taft & Wilson:  upset Progressives when he fired Gifford Pinchot, opposed limiting the power of the Speaker of the House, and signed Payne-Aldrich Tariff bill;
set aside more land for conservation and did more trustbusting than TR but got little credit; the return of TR, the Election of 1912, the Bull Moose Progressive party, Wilson's New Freedom vs. TR's New Nationalism; results of the election; reforms under Wilson: Federal Reserve Banking Act; Clayton Anti-Trust Act & Fed'l Trade Comm.; Underwood Tariff & 16th Amend.

Day 35

(Oct. 16 / Mar. 13)

Activities:

Review of Unit Six, Chapters 9 & 11.

Day 36

(Oct. 17 / Mar. 14)

Activities:

TEST on Unit Six (Chapters 9 & 11).  "Life at the Turn of the Century & Progressivism".

                                    Unit Seven (Chapters 10 & 12). "Imperialism and The Great War"
Competency Goal 6: The learner will analyze the causes and effects of the United States emergence as a world power.
6.01  Examine the factors that led to the United States taking an increasingly active role in world affairs.
6.02  Identify the areas of the United States military, economic and political involvement and influence.
6.03  Describe how the policies and actions of the United States government impacted the affairs of other countries.

Competency Goal 8: The learner will analyze U.S. involvement in World War I & the war's influence on internat'l affairs during the 1920's.
8.01   Examine the reasons why the U.S. remained neutral at the beginning of World War I but later became involved.
8.02  Identify political and military turning points of the war and determine their significance to the outcome of the war.
8.03  Assess the political, economic, social and cultural effects of the war on the United States and other nations.

Day 37

(Oct. 18 / Mar. 17)

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 10, Sec. 1 & 2:  tests of the Monroe Doctrine, Alaska’s acquisition; Hawaii’s takeover, Queen Liliuakalani, to annex or not?; jingoism: Alfred Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge; Cuban Revolution, Spanish misrule, U.S. interests, “watchful waiting”, Hearst, Pulitzer & “yellow journalism”, the U.S.S. Maine, De Lome’s letter; Dewey & the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo, San Juan Hill, “Rough Riders”, Santiago Bay; Treaty of Paris, 1898,  annexation of the Philippines, Anti-Imperialist League, Social Darwinist opposition, support for annexation, Josiah Strong, Rudyard Kipling & “the White Man’s Burden", 

Day 38

(Oct. 19 / Mar. 18)

Activities:  

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 10, Sec. 3 & 4 :  Aguinaldo’s rebel forces, Gov. William H. Taft, “benevolent assimilation” programs; “Insular Cases” decisions, Platt Amendment, Teller Amendment, protectorate, yellow fever, Leonard Wood, Walter Reed, Puerto Rico;Election of 1900, TR, “Big Stick” diplomacy, the U.S.S. Oregon, Panama’s Revolution, the U.S.S. Nashville,  the Panama Canal, debt problems, Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine; China, spheres of influence, John Hay’s “Open Door” policy, Boxer Rebellion; Treaty of Portsmouth, the Gentlemen’s Agreement; Nobel Prize; Dollar Diplomacy; relations with Mexico, 1870-
1917: Diaz, Madera, Huerta, moral diplomacy, occupation of Vera Cruz, ABC Powers, Carranza, Pancho Villa, John J. Pershing

Day 39

(Oct. 20 / Mar. 19)

Activities:  

Review of Unit 7a (Chapter 10 only)

Day 40

(Oct. 23 / Mar. 20)

Activities:  

Test on Unit 7a (Chapter 10)

Day 41

(Oct. 24 / Mar. 21)

Activities:  

Test Correstions

Day 42

(Oct. 25 / Mar. 31)

Activities:  

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 12, Sec. 1 & 2: WWI begins, US neutrality, u-boats, Britain's blockade, the Lusitania, the Election of 1916, unrestricted sub warfare, Wilson's response, the Zimmerman note, declaration of war Pershing & the AEF, doughboys, victory gardens,

Activities:  

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 12, Sec. 2 & 3.  George Creel & the Committee on Public Information, Hoover & the Food Administration, Taft & the War Labor Bd., victory & liberty bonds, voluntary compliance, victory gardens, Sedition Act, Schenck v. U.S.; Nov. 11, 1918, Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Versailles Treaty, the Big Four, 

Day 44

(Oct. 27 / Apr. 2)

Activities:  

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 12, Sec. 3 & 4.  Wilson 's compromises, League of Nations, war guilt clause & reparations, Article X, "Irreconcilables" & "Reservationists", Henry Cabot Lodge, Wilson 's tour and stroke, Lodge's Fourteen Reservations, votes in the Senate, the Election of 1920 

Day 45

(Oct. 30  / Apr. 3)

Activities: 

Review of Chap. 12: 

Day 46

(Oct. 31 / Apr. 4)

Activities: 

TEST on Unit 7 b: Chapter 12 / Begin Chapter 13 after the test.

                          Unit Eight  (Chapters 13-16), "The Roaring '20's & the Depression"    Read pages 450-563.
Competency Goal 8: The learner will analyze U.S. involvement in World War I & the war's influence on the internat'l affairs during the 1920's.
8.03  Assess the political, economic, social and cultural effects of the war on the United States and other nations.

Competency Goal 9:  The learner will appraise the economic, social and political changes of the decades of "The Twenties" and "the Thirties".
9.01   Elaborate on the cycle of economic boom and bust in the 1920's and 1930's.
9.02  Analyze the extent of prosperity for different segments of society during this period.
9.03  Analyze the significance of social, intellectual and technological changes on lifestyles in the U.S.
9.04  Describe challenges to traditional practices in religion, race and gender.
9.05  Assess the impact of New Deal reforms in enlarging the role of the federal government in American life.

Day 47

(Nov. 1 / Apr. 7)

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chapter 14 - Politics and Prosperity: the 1919 strikes, 1st "Red Scare"; Palmer Raids, Election of 1920, "Return to Normalcy", Washington Naval Conference & the Five Power treaty; Harding's Cabinet, the "Ohio Gang"; Fordney-McCumber Tariff, mergers encouraged by Hoover, Teapot Dome Scandal; Calvin Coolidge, Election of 1924, Kellogg-Briand Pact; flappers; split in rural-urban America; the Great Migration of African-Americans; 1920's immigration laws; Prohibition: goals, 18th Amendment, Volstead Act, speakeasies, bootleggers, organized crime, Al Capone, J. Edgar Hoover; Lindbergh & Earhart; sports heroes; Hollywood: Demille, silent film stars, The Jazz Singer, KDKA, advertising, jazz music/musicians;

Day 48

(Nov. 2 / Apr. 8)

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes: Chapter 13 - Postwar Social Change: 1920's writers: S. Lewis, E. O'Neill, the Lost Generation, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway,  F. Fitzgerald, rejection of materialism & disillusionment; the Harlem Renaissance: James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke & The New Negro, Zora Hurston, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes; fundamentalism, Billy Sunday, the Scopes Trial, Clarence Darrow, Wm. J. Bryan, impact; racial tensions: "red summer", new KKK; black leadership: Marcus Garvey; new industries of the 1920's: radio, advertising, tourism, suburbs, electric appliances; Election of 1928, Herbert Hoover & "Rugged Individualism", Al(cohol) Smith, rural-urban split, radio; "buying on the margin", "Black Thursday" and "Black Tuesday"; the crash of the stock market,

Day 49

(Nov. 3 / Apr. 9)

Activities:

Review for Unit 8 a Test (the 1920's).

Day 50

(Nov. 6 / Apr. 10)

Activities:

TEST on Unit Eight a (Chapters 13-14)

Day 51

(Nov. 7 / Apr. 11)

Activities:

Notes on Chapter 15, Crash and Depression; theories about the causes of the Depression; "prosperity is just around the corner"; opposition to direct relief; Hawley-Smoot Tariff; Reconstruction Finance Corporation, "trickle-down" economics;  Hoover's "Rugged Individualism"; "Hoovervilles"; eviction of the Bonus Army; direct gov't relief vs. private charity; high levels of unemployment; the Election of 1932; FDR's optimism, the forgotten man, bold experimentation,  Hoover's heartlessness, pessimism; 1932 election results; lame-duck period, 20th Amendment;

Day 52

(Nov. 8 / Apr. 14)

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on  Chapter 16 - The New Deal:  banking crisis; bank holiday; special session of Congress, Hundred Days' Congress, FDIC; Glass-Steagal Act; creation of the S.E.C.; Fed'l Emergency Recovery Admin. & direct dole payments - The New Deal :  Second New Deal, higher taxes on the wealthy; the AAA, Social Security Act, Tenn. Valley Authority, Nat'l Industrial Recovery Act & the Nat'l Recovery Admin., demagogues: Huey Long & his "Share Our Wealth" proposals, Father Charles Coughlin & "Social Justice";  Dr. Francis Townsend; losses for the New Deal in the Supreme Court: Butler v. US and Schecter v. U.S.; the Works Progress Admin.; Fed'l Writers Project
Fed'l theatre Project; Fed'l Arts Project

Day 53

(Nov. 9 / Apr. 15)

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes: Finish Chapter 16 - The New Deal :  gains for labor:  Section 7a of the N.I.R. Act;  the Wagner Act or Nat'l Labor Relations Act; Fair Labor Standards Act- 1st minimum wage law; movies & books during the Depression:  Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, King Kong, Snow White & the Seven Dwarves; The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; the Dust Bowl; rising deficits, the continuing Depression & the increasing nat'l debt; Alf Landon, Election of 1936; FDR's "court-packing scheme"; conservative Democrats & Republicans block more New Deal spending after 1937;

Day 54

(Nov. 13 / Apr. 16)

Activities:

Review for the Unit 8 b test (1930's).

Day 55

(Nov. 14 / Apr. 17)

Activities:

TEST on Unit 8 b (Chapters 15-16)

Day 56

(Nov. 15 / Apr. 18)

Activities:

Test Corrections and REVIEW for 2nd/5th SIX WEEKS EXAM :  Federalist Era to New Deal (1789-1942)

Day 57

(Nov. 16 / Apr. 21) 

Activities:

EXAM on Second/Fifth Six Weeks

                        Unit 9 (Chaps. 17-18):  "The 2nd World War & the Early Cold War"  Read pages 450-563.
Competency Goal 10:  The Learner will analyze U.S. involvement in W.W. II & the war's influence on internat'l affairs in following decades.
10.01  Elaborate on the causes of World War II and reasons for U.S. entry into the war.
10.02  Identify military, political and diplomatic turning points of the war and determine their significance to the outcome and aftermath of the conflict.
10.03  Describe and analyze the effects of the war on American economic, social, political and cultural life.
10.04  Elaborate on changes in the direction of foreign policy related to the beginnings of the Cold War.

Competency Goal 11:  The Learner will trace economic, political and social developments and assess their significance for the lives of Americans during this time period.
11.01  Describe the effects of the Cold War on economic, political and social life in America .
11.02  Trace major events of the Civil Rights Movement and evaluate its impact.

Day 58

(Nov. 19 /Apr. 22)

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 17, Sec. 1-4.  FDR's foreign policy:  recognition of the USSR , Good Neighbor policy,  the rise of Fascism & Communism in Europe , 1930's background events leading to WWII, Neutrality Acts of 1935 & 1936 Sept. 1, 1939, blitzkrieg, sitzkrieg, Dunkirk, the fall of France, Neutrality Act of 1939, (Our Century hosted by Peter Jennings). 

Day 61

(Nov. 26 /Apr. 25)

Activities:

Discussion/Lecture/Notes on Chap. 18, Sec. 3 & 4.  War Production Bd., Baruch, Office of Price Admin. & rationing and price controls, detention camps, Korematsu v. U.S., Nisei, 442nd Regt., "Rosie the Riveter"; Quiz on Chapter 18.

Day