January 8, 2015

Topic: The Sixties; “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

• Explain how The Cold War continued, expansion of the war in Vietnam, the civil rights revolution and evolution, Johnson’s Great Society was a high water mark for liberalism, immigration and demographic changes continued at a rapid pace. (POL2) (POL5) (POL7) (CUL6)
• As federal programs expanded and economic growth reshaped American society, many sought greater access to prosperity even as critics began to question the growing demand on natural resources.(PEO2) (PEO3) (PEO7) (ENV5) (WXT8) 
• John Kennedy, Inaugural Address – How does this speech chart a new course for the country? What was the “New Frontier” about which he spoke?
•  Lyndon Johnson, The Great Society speech. In what ways did Johnson set out to complete the work begun by Franklin Roosevelt with the New Deal?

Topic: The Civil Rights Movement; 1940 - 1968 (SK2) (SK4) (CR9) (CR12) (CR13)

• Civil rights activists and political leaders had some success in bringing an end to segregation, though actual implementation of their gains came slowly.(ID6) (POL3) (POL4)   
• Growing awareness of inequalities in American society highlighted by the Civil Rights movement spread to other groups who worked to promote equality and social justice.(POL3) (ID8) (CR11)

OBJECTIVES: 

1. Explain how The Cold War continued, expansion of the war in Vietnam, the civil rights revolution and evolution, Johnson’s Great Society was a high water mark for liberalism, immigration and demographic changes continued at a rapid pace. (POL2) (POL5) (POL7) (CUL6)
2. Describe how, as federal programs expanded and economic growth reshaped American society, many sought greater access to prosperity even as critics began to question the growing demand on natural resources.(PEO2) (PEO3) (PEO7) (ENV5) (WXT8) 
3. John Kennedy, Inaugural Address – How does this speech chart a new course for the country? What was the “New Frontier” about which he spoke?
4. Lyndon Johnson, The Great Society speech. In what ways did Johnson set out to complete the work begun by Franklin Roosevelt with the New Deal?
5. Analyze primary source documents:  Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail; I have a Dream speech. 
6. Explain how these two documents sum up King’s vision for the civil rights movement in the United States.
7. Compare and contrast the strategies of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, A. Phillip Randolph, Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, Stokley Carmichael, and Jesse Jackson. 
8. Assess each strategy and its success or failure within the time frame in which it was developed. 
9. Speculate and predict how discrimination in Levittown housing contributed to economic segregation in the United States post-Civil Rights Era

AGENDA:
1. Fact Check #13
2. The Century:  1965-1969
3. Homework:  Complete reading of Chapter 28, review notes.