Home Front during World War II

Using the links from Google Classroom to Blendspace, complete the chart (assignment in Google Classroom) and the Propaganda Poster form (one poster for each of the topics: women, African-Americans, consumers)

Isolation or Intervention before World War II

Students created a chart on the US foreign policy before World War II.  Due Tuesday, 1/19.

isolation - to keep to yourself
intervention - to get involved

Packet to complete the chart.

New Deal Policies

Monday 1/11 and Tuesday 1/12

Assignment is posted in Google Classroom.

As a class, we completed the chart for Social Security.  Each student then picked a paper with 3 programs.  If you need a paper, see Ms. McCarthy.

Great Depression activities

Monday, January 4 - Wednesday, January 6

• Monday: Students worked in groups to complete "Clue Sheet #1" in Google Classroom.  Once the chart was complete, the group answered 6 questions on their data.

1. What was happening to consumer prices during the 1920s? 1930s?
2. Which groups would be most negatively affected by the changes in prices you identified?
3. What was the trend in the unemployment rate in the 1920s? 1930s?
4. What was happening to spending by the federal government in the 1920s? 1930s?
5. What events might explain government spending patterns in the 1920s? 1930s?
6. What events occurred in the US or the world that would affect the peoples’ lives directly or indirectly in the 1920s? 1930s ? Explain that impact of two of these events.

• Tuesday: Students finished "Clue Sheet #1" in Google Classroom.  The group then began working on "Clue Sheet #2" and answering the 3 questions based on the data they gathered.

1. How are the overall employment trends related to income?
2. Why was farm income depressed throughout the 1920s?
3. What caused the trends in government spending during this time?

• Wednesday: Stock market simulation game with the whole class and continuing to finish Clue Sheet #2

American History Semester 1 Exam Review

The semester exam schedule is as follows:

Review Sheet Semester 1 Exam - click on this link.  

If you want to answer some practice questions, there are links within the review sheet to a quiz for each topic. Use the code in the review sheet to access it.

Great Migration Project

Tuesday, December 8 - Friday, December 11

• Students will be completing their Great Migration Project with a partner
• Directions and a rubric to this project can be found by clicking here
• The Google Slides presentation is provided in Google Classroom.  
• One student will share the presentation with their partner by clicking on the blue "Share" button in the upper right side.
• To find the presentation that has been shared, students will go to drive.google.com and choose "Shared with me" on the left side of the page.
• Projects must be turned in no later than Thursday, December 17.
• Project is worth 100 points.  20 points also be given based upon a peer and self-evaluation of the project.

Impact of the Automobile

Monday, December 7

• Go to classroom.google.com
• Complete assignment "Impact of the Automobile"