Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Week 11, Syllabus

Mr. Ditzenberger-U.S. History
Lesson: The New Deal and 30s News Time: Week 11, 3/31-4/4 Unit: Post Crash to Pre-War
Objectives:
1. Students watch a video and answer corresponding questions regarding the Depression years.
2. Students will list and compare the main programs under FDR’s New Deal.
3. Students will analyze a Great Depression era picture and one of FDR’s Fireside Chats.
4. Students will categorize the various major news items of the 1930s.

Monday
1. At age 17 or 18, how would your life change for the better and for the worse if the market crashed today, there was a run on the banks, unemployment went up to 25% (your parents were included among the unemployed), and there were suddenly many homeless families?
2. http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=7CE21283-05EA-49B9-92B9-EF9983BB071B -The Great Depression video. Guided viewing. 30 minutes.
3. Read Chapter 25, Section 1, Restoring Hope for homework.

Tuesday
1. New Deal Lecture
2. Read Chapter 25, Section 2, New Challenges.

Wednesday
1. Quiz over Chapter 25, Sections 1 and 2. Notes allowed.
2. Picture Analysis
3. Fireside Chat Analysis.
4. Homework: Due Thursday. Read Chapter 25, Section 3. Complete ID and Ex. Be sure to explain the significance of each person or thing.

Thursday
1. News of the 30s.
2. Homework: Read Chapter 25, Section 4. Complete 4: a, b, and c on page 763. Due Friday.

Friday
1. News of the 30s continued.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Week 10, Syllabus

Mr. Ditzenberger-U.S. History
Lesson: the 1920s-Politics, Social Life, and People and Things and an introduction to the Great Depression. Time: Week 10 Revised. Unit: The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression.
Objectives:
1. Students will simulate the conditions that led to the Stock Market crash, review, take a test, and watch a video (with questions) as a way of introducing the Great Depression.

Monday
1. Stock Market Game.
2. Homework: Chapter 24, section 1

Tuesday
1. Review-Jeopardy

Wednesday
1. Test

Thursday
1. http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=7CE21283-05EA-49B9-92B9-EF9983BB071B -The Great Depression video. Guided viewing.

Friday
1. Good Friday! Praise God for his gift of Jesus Christ and for Jesus' obedient sacrifice!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

1920s Study Guide for Test

M/C: "return to normalcy" is associated with whom?, "Ohio Gang", Silent Cal, politics of Coolidge, Red Scare, immigrants, KKK, Scopes Monkey Trial, prosperity in the 20s, group that did not experience prosperity in the 20s, actors/actresses of the '20s, first talkie movie, "Spirit of St. Louis", characteristics of Jazz, Jazz musicians, figures of the Harlem Renaissance, flappers, "Great Gatsby", prohibition outlawed, Al Capone, definition of a stock, buying on margin, factors in the Great Depression, recession, Hoover's policies and attitude toward the "Great Depression" crisis, banks and unemployment following "The Crash", Hoovervilles, Bonus March.



T/F-mostly on the Hoover years.



Short Answer-Give three causes of the Great Depression

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Syllabus, Week 9 and 10

Mr. Ditzenberger-U.S. History
Lesson: the 1920s-Politics, Social Life, and People and Things. Time: Weeks 9 and 10, Mar 10th-20h Unit: The Roaring 20s
Objectives:
1. Students will list the social problems of the 1920s and rank them in order of importance.
2. Students will draw a scene that represents and summarizes their understanding of the 1920s.
3. Students will analyze the consequences of America’s foreign policy during the 1920s.
4. Students will read, summarize, and provide brief reports on some of the key culture leaders of the 1920s.
5. Students will investigate how Hoover’s administration responded to the Stock Market crash and growing economic troubles of America.

Monday
1. Chapter 22, Section 3 Quiz.
2. Roaring 20s-Social Problems
3. Chapter 23, sections 1 and 2. Quiz Tuesday.

Tuesday
1. Chapters 23, sections 1 and 2 quiz.
2. In groups of two or three, draw a scene from life in the 1920s that you believe represents the decade well. Write a paragraph explaining why you believe the scene aptly represents the decade. Due tomorrow.

Wednesday
1. Foreign policy of the 1920s.
2. Read-Chapter 23, Section 3 A Creative Era.
3. Test over the 20s and Hoover on Wednesday.

Thursday
1. Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen-page 705. Compare Poems and answer questions at the bottom of the page.
2. Biographies on F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Weldon Johnson, and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.
3. Read Chapter 2, Section 1.

Friday
1. Stock Market Game.
2. Read Chapter 24, Sections 2 and 3 for Monday. Quiz on Monday.

Monday
1. Hoover Years.

Tuesday
1. Review

Wednesday
1. Test

Thursday
1. http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=7CE21283-05EA-49B9-92B9-EF9983BB071B -The Great Depression video. Guided viewing.

Friday, March 7, 2008