Due Mon. 5/6:
1. Dialectical Journal on "Operation Wetback". That is, two columns with 10 entries. First column are events that happened in reading. Second column are things that might or should have happened (not what did happen, but additional possible results from the events in first column that you are speculating about). For example:
What happened What might/should have happened as a result
1. in early 20th century, 1. workers were abused, contracts were violated,
migrants lacked protections weren't paid full wages, harassed, suffered
against abuses discrimination
2. Test on Great Depression and WWII. It will have multiple choice questions on my two WWII slideshows, the PBS movie, "The War" about mobilization in Mobile, AL, internment of Americans in the Philippines and internment of Japanese-Americans, the class notes from Mon. 4/29 (3rd per. only) when we reviewed everyone's 300-word accounts. There will also be a short answer question on the effects of both the Great Depression and WWII on America. For these, you will be able to use the topics you chose to write about and do 3-minute presentations on.
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Due Thurs. 5/2:
1st period: Your 1 page report to Congress on whether to renew the Bracero Agreement. Was the agreement lived up to, why or why not? And what would you do to reform (change) it?
3rd period: Read the New York Times article, "With a Bill in the Senate, Immigrants Weigh the Possible Impact".
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/us/immigrants-weigh-possible-impact-of-new-legislation.html?_r=0
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Due Tues. 4/2:
Your 3 minute presentations if you did not yet present last week! See below:
Due Thurs. 3/21:
Be ready to present your 3 minute lesson on your chosen topic from the Great Depression. Your lesson should include the following:
1. A summary of your topic (a summary of the reading).
2. The 3 key points or important details.
3. A visual or other creative element. (As gorgeous as you are, you need something additional to engage your audience---at a minimum a picture. Even better would be a slideshow. Even better would be a song and dance. Even better would be a laser light show. If your topic is the government's jobs program, find some images of workers who worked in one of those programs. If your topic is President Hoover, who was partly blamed for the crisis, find a picture of a "Hooverville," one of the many slums that sprang up that people named after their president who they partly blamed.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
-under "Eras" click on "Great Depression"
-click the diagonal tab "textbook"
-choose one of those topics
Or: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=14&smtID=2
online photo collection of farming during Great Depression:
www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa
This is the list that I have of topics already claimed in 3rd period thus far:
Charles Ponzi - TK
Dispossessed - Emma R.
Mexican-Americans - David U.
100 Days - Lanee
Bonus Army - Nick F.
Native Americans - James
Hollywood - Kayleigh
Social Security - Meema?
Email me if you need help: socialstudies@skyislands.org. I won't check it after 9pm.
Due Thurs. 3/14 (period 3 only!):
Finish analyzing your photograph from the Great Depression era on your Photo Analysis Tool. Either come visit my class to get your photo from my collection or select your own photograph from the Farm Security Administration's online collection at the Library of Congress. You can "View All" photos by clicking that link to the left or search for types of photographs using search terms, such as "migrant," "Arizona," "cotton," "children", or "dust bowl":
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/
Monday, 3/4:
Unit test on Segregation, Industrialization and World War I. (See Study Guide handed out in class.) Remember, I will also give you a propaganda poster to interpret as to how it was supposed to win Americans' support for the war.
3rd period: Your take-home essay portion of the test is due Monday, 3/4, also.
1st period: Your take-home essay portion of the test is due Thursday, 3/7.
Due Mon. 2/25:
Finish the reading, "American Roots Music: The Blues", define the remaining vocabulary words on the handout and answer questions 1-8.
Due Mon. 2/18:
Have finished the comic book chapter on WWI. Be prepared to answer: "Who opposed WWI and why?"
Due Mon. 2/4 (extended to Thurs. 2/7!):
Answer the final question on the Jigsaw worksheet, using evidence from what you learned in the jigsaw activity from your fellow classmates about the Transcontinental Railroad, Big Business, Worker Unrest, the New Immigrants and Tenements. The prompt is, "Was the Gilded Age a period of progress, growing pains or a period of corporate excess and greed when corporations emerged to gobble everything up in their path!" What I mean by growing pains is a necessary period the country had to go through but with some road bumps to get over. Write 8-12 complete sentences.
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