October 30, 2014

Topic: The War to End War

• War in Europe and the impact of war on the home front involved issues of propaganda and civil liberties. Wilson faced the political frustrations of helping to create the Treaty of Versailles and then seeing its rejection by the US Senate. (WOR4) (WOR6) (WOR7) (POL6)
• World War I and its aftermath led to further questions about the nation’ role in the world and how to achieve national security and pursue national interests.(WOR4) (WOR7) (ID-30 (ID6) (POL6)

OBJECTIVES:

• Identify the provisions of the Versailles Treaty
• Discuss the impact that the Versailles Treaty on providing a foundation for WWII and Cold War
• Explain why the TOV was not ratified by the US Senate

PROCEDURE:

1. Warm-up:  MC#4-8 (pp. 471-472)

2. Crash Course: World War I

3. Notes: Treaty of Versailles

October 29, 2014

Topic: The War to End War

• War in Europe and the impact of war on the home front involved issues of propaganda and civil liberties. Wilson faced the political frustrations of helping to create the Treaty of Versailles and then seeing its rejection by the US Senate.(WOR4) (WOR6) (WOR7) (POL6)
• World War I and its aftermath led to further questions about the nation’ role in the world and how to achieve national security and pursue national interests.(WOR4) (WOR7) (ID-30 (ID6) (POL6)
• Xenophobia swept the United States as the global impact of World War I became evident through social tensions over immigration issues involving Europe and Asia and the restrictive legislation that resulted. (WOR4) (PEO2) (PEO6) (PEO7) (POL7)

OBJECTIVES:

1. Evaluate Wilson’s reasons for going to war and his hopes for what US involvement would bring about at the war’s conclusion. Was he a realist or an idealist and why?
2. Assess the seeming paradox between Wilson’s stated objectives and the economic statistics on trade in the time period 1914-1916.

PROCEDURE:

1. Fact Check Quiz
2. Critical Viewing:  WWI Completion

October 28, 2014

Topic: The War to End War

• War in Europe and the impact of war on the home front involved issues of propaganda and civil liberties. Wilson faced the political frustrations of helping to create the Treaty of Versailles and then seeing its rejection by the US Senate.(WOR4) (WOR6) (WOR7) (POL6)
• World War I and its aftermath led to further questions about the nation’ role in the world and how to achieve national security and pursue national interests.(WOR4) (WOR7) (ID-30 (ID6) (POL6)
• Xenophobia swept the United States as the global impact of World War I became evident through social tensions over immigration issues involving Europe and Asia and the restrictive legislation that resulted. (WOR4) (PEO2) (PEO6) (PEO7) (POL7)

OBJECTIVES:

1. Evaluate Wilson’s reasons for going to war and his hopes for what US involvement would bring about at the war’s conclusion. Was he a realist or an idealist and why?
2. Assess the seeming paradox between Wilson’s stated objectives and the economic statistics on trade in the time period 1914-1916.

PROCEDURE:

1. Warm-up:  Identify the Four Causes of World War I
2. Notes:  US Enters World War I
3. Critical Viewing:  WWI
4. Fact Check Quiz-Tomorrow

October 23, 2014

Topic 1:  Progressive reformers called for government intervention in the economy, greater social justice, and conservation of natural resources. (WXT6) (WXT7) (WXT8) (POL3) (ENV5) (CUL5)

Topic 2: The Lead up to War; Wilson and Neutrality

The United States found itself entering World War I in spite of Wilson’s efforts at Neutrality (WOR7)

OBJECTIVES:
1. Identify key components for DBQs on APUSH Exam
2. Review DBQ Scoring Rubric
3. Collaborate to develop thesis and DBQ argument on progressives
4. Identify key factors leading to US entrance into WWI

PROCEDURE:
1. WARM UP:  MC Questions 1-3 (P. 470)
2. Reiterate DBQ Task
3. Review DBQ Rubric
4. Apply 7 Steps to Assigned DBQ
5. Individual Student Conferences
6. World War I Notes Part 2
7. DBQ Work

October 22, 2014

Topic: The Leadup to War; Wilson and Neutrality

The United States found itself entering World War I in spite of Wilson’s efforts at Neutrality (WOR7)

The national and global impact of World War I, including the push for increased immigration, led to restrictive legislation, limiting rights to come to the US, particularly for those from Asia and Southern and eastern Europe (WOR4) (PEO2) (PEO6) (PEO7) (POL7)   

Procedure:

1. DBQ Review and Materials (Prepare Materials for Homework)

2. World War I Notes Part I
3. DBQ Work

October 21, 2014

Objectives:  Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt        

• Explain how growth and consolidation of industries promoted urbanization and economic growth. Business cycles continued to fluctuate.  (WOR3) (ID7) (WXT5) (POL3)
• Describe how Progressive reformers called for government intervention in the economy, greater social justice, and conservation of natural resources. (WXT6) (WXT7) (WXT8) (POL3) (ENV5) (CUL5)  

Procedure:

1. Warm Up:  Short Answer #4 Page 453

2. DBQ Review
3. Progressives DBQ

5. Homework:  Read pp. 454-468, Fact Check Terms

October 17, 2014

OBJECTIVES:

Describe Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt        

Growth and consolidation of industries promoted urbanization and economic growth. Business cycles continued to fluctuate

(WOR3) (ID7) (WXT5) (POL3)

Identify ways that Progressive reformers called for government intervention in the economy, greater social justice, and conservation of natural resources.

(WXT6) (WXT7) (WXT8) (POL3) (ENV5) (CUL5)    

Describe how T. Roosevelt added executive clout to the efforts of Progressive reformers. (POL6) 

PROCEDURE:
1. Warm Up: Review terms
2. Fact Check 6
3. MC/Short Answer
4. Reinforcement: Crash Course Progressives
5. Primary Source Assignment: The Jungle

October 16, 2014

OBJECTIVES:

Describe Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt        

Growth and consolidation of industries promoted urbanization and economic growth. Business cycles continued to fluctuate

(WOR3) (ID7) (WXT5) (POL3)

Identify ways that Progressive reformers called for government intervention in the economy, greater social justice, and conservation of natural resources.

(WXT6) (WXT7) (WXT8) (POL3) (ENV5) (CUL5)    

Describe how T. Roosevelt added executive clout to the efforts of Progressive reformers. (POL6) 

PROCEDURE:
1. Warm-up:  Picture
2. Notes:  Progressivism
3. Primary Source:  The Jungle
4. Fact Check Quiz tomorrow

October 14, 2014

Objectives:  Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt        

• Explain how growth and consolidation of industries promoted urbanization and economic growth. Business cycles continued to fluctuate.  (WOR3) (ID7) (WXT5) (POL3)
• Describe how Progressive reformers called for government intervention in the economy, greater social justice, and conservation of natural resources. (WXT6) (WXT7) (WXT8) (POL3) (ENV5) (CUL5)   
• Discuss how T. Roosevelt added executive clout to the efforts of Progressive reformers. (POL6) 

Procedure:

1. Warm Up:  MC Questions PP. 427-428 #4-8 (Collected)

     -Letter choice and briefly explain why it is correct.

2. Fact Check 6 Terms (Page 448)

3. Lecture:  Progressive Era

4. Just The Facts:  Progressives

5. Homework:  Read pp. 431- 445, Fact Check Terms

October 9, 2014

OBJECTIVES:

1. Describe how many Americans began to advocate overseas expansionism in the late nineteenth century, leading to new territorial annexations and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.(WOR6) (WOR7) (ENV5) (POL6)
2. Utilize primary documents to analyze the Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary

Topic: Empire and Expansion

Many Americans began to advocate overseas expansionism in the late nineteenth century, leading to new territorial annexations and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.

(WOR6) (WOR7) (ENV5) (POL6)

Procedure:

1. Fact Check #5

2. Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary Activity (Collected)

3. Dollar Diplomacy (Taft) and Moral Diplomacy (Wilson)

October 8, 2014

Topic: Empire and Expansion

Many Americans began to advocate overseas expansionism in the late nineteenth century, leading to new territorial annexations and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.

(WOR6) (WOR7) (ENV5) (POL6)

Agenda:

1. WARM UP:  MC Questions 1-3 on Page 426

2. Notes:  Spanish American War

3. Crash Course:  Imperialism

*Fact Check 5 Quiz (Tomorrow)

October 7, 2014

Topic: Empire and Expansion

Many Americans began to advocate overseas expansionism in the late nineteenth century, leading to new territorial annexations and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.

(WOR6) (WOR7) (ENV5) (POL6)

Agenda:
1. Warm Up:  Using the Social Darwinism reading:

• Identify Josiah Strong's argument and discuss how it connects to Social Darwinism.

2. Tennyson Quote

3. Primary Source Document:

• "The White Man's Burden"- Activity and Application to Philippines, China, etc.

3. Notes:  Spanish American War

• Guiding Question

4. Crash Course:  Imperialism

October 6, 2014

OBJECTIVES:

Describe the extent to which the late nineteenth and early twentieth century expansionism was a continuation of past American expansionism and to what extent it fit into a global context.

Key Concept 7.1: Government, political and social organizations struggled to address the effects of large-scale industrialization, economic uncertainty, and related social changes such as urbanization and mass migration.

                       

Topic: Empire and Expansion

Many Americans began to advocate overseas expansionism in the late nineteenth century, leading to new territorial annexations and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.

(WOR6) (WOR7) (ENV5) (POL6)

Procedure:

1. WARM UP:  Define the following in your notebooks

     The Argument From Design
     Natural Selection
     Selective Breeding
     Sexual Selection
     Thomas Henry Huxley
     Herbert Spencer
     Social Darwinism
     Phrenology
     Eugenics
     Social Gospel Movement
   
2. Lecture:  The Darwinian Paradigm  
     

3. Application:  Social Darwinism and "The White Man's Burden" Activities

4. Enrichment:  React to the following:
“Man…
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed.”
                               Tennyson, In Memoriam, Canto 56

October 3, 2014

OBJECTIVES:
Describe the extent to which the late nineteenth and early twentieth century expansionism was a continuation of past American expansionism and to what extent it fit into a global context.

Key Concept 7.1: Government, political and social organizations struggled to address the effects of large-scale industrialization, economic uncertainty, and related social changes such as urbanization and mass migration.

                       

Topic: Empire and Expansion

Many Americans began to advocate overseas expansionism in the late nineteenth century, leading to new territorial annexations and acquisitions in the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.

(WOR6) (WOR7) (ENV5) (POL6)

Procedure:
WARM UP:  
Identify the following in your notes:
Manifest Destiny
Mexican War 1848
Indian Removal Policy
Imperialism
Social Darwinism
"The White Man's Burden"

1. DBQ Collection

2. Terms for Fact Check 5 (Wednesday)

3. Introduction to Spanish American War

4. Social Darwinism and "The White Man's Burden" Activity

4. Multiple Choice Review:  Work collectively to review objective part of Gilded Age test.