My History Homework

Objectives:

Students will review Civil Rights.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of Civil Rights.
Students will discuss the Vietnam War.

Today, students turned in their reaction to Jason Whitlock.
Students then briefly studied and took a short quiz over Civil Rights.
Finally, students took notes over Vietnam and watched a variety of short videos about the time period.
Students also received study guides […]

Objectives:

Students will examine the Civil Rights Era.
Students will analyze a writing piece.

Today, students were given ~15 minutes to wrap up their postcard projects.
Students then read a writing piece and wrote a page reaction to it, keeping the following questions in mind.
1.  What is your reaction to this editorial?
2.  How does it relate to Civil Rights?
3.  […]

Objectives:

Students will examine events happening around the world in the mid-1900s.
Students will define vocabulary from WWII.

Today, students were given ~15 minutes to complete their postcard projects from Friday.
Students then started defining Chapter 27 Terms to Define/People to Identify on pg. 711.
Homework:  Finish vocabulary, due Wednesday

Objectives:

Students will discuss the Little Rock Nine.
Students will assess issues about Civil Rights.

Today, students watched about 30 minutes of the PBS series “Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back.”
The parts they watched dealt with the Little Rock Nine.
Finally, students continued working on the postcard projects they started last class.
Homework:  You will have 15 min. on Monday […]

Objectives:

Students will discuss Mohandas Gandhi.
Students will examine issues around the world in the middle 1900s.

Today, students watched a brief film about Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi’s life.
Students then began a postcard project about events like Gandhi, the Balfour Declaration, the modernization of Turkey, and Latin America’s revolutions.roundtheworlddirections.doc
Homework:  You will have 15 min. on Monday to finish the […]

Objectives:

Students will examine Hernandez v. Texas.
Students will discuss Hernandez v. Texas.
Students will analyze the Civil Rights Era.

Today, students finished working on answering questions related to the trial.
Students then answered the questions together.
Students watched a short video about Brown vs. Board of Education.
Finally, students began a postcard project related to important events that took place during the […]

Objectives:

Students will research dictators.
Students will discuss dictators.
Students will review WWI.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of WWI and the post-WWI era.

Today, students finished their research project about Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler.
Students then discussed each one of the dictators briefly, finishing up with a short video about the gulags.
Students were given an opportunity to review information about WWI […]

Objectives:

Students will discuss dictators.
Students will analyze dictators.

Today, students talked about any questions they had related to the project.
Students then continued working on their dictator PowerPoints.
Homework:  30 min. on Wed. to complete PowerPoints, quiz over WWI and dictators on Wed.

Objectives:

Students will examine the lives of Mexican Americans pre-Civil Rights.

Today, students talked briefly about the lives of Mexican Americans prior to the Civil Rights era.
Students then used the transcript of the PBS film, A Class Apart, to answer the questions to the video as the film was not working.
Homework:  None

Objectives:

Students will examine Emmett Till’s murder.
Students will discuss Emmett Till’s murder.
Students will examine Mexican American civil rights.

Today, students continued their research on Emmett Till.
Students came back together and discussed their findings as a class.
Students viewed a short clip from PBS’s series, Eyes on the Prize, about the murder and trial of Till.
Students took time to […]