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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Capstone One-Pager - due FRIDAY, MARCH 11


Final One-Pagers MUST be typed and turned in via Google Classroom (10th Grade Capstone Class).

Monday, March 7, 2016

Anti-Vietnam War and Great Society documents

In order to complete the paragraph in Google Classroom determining whether President Johnson should be remembered more for the Vietnam War or the Great Society, you needed to complete the following graphic organizers with the documents below.


  1. Anti-Vietnam War graphic Documents
  2. Anti-Vietnam War graphic organizer
  3. Great Society documents
  4. Great Society graphic organizer

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

3rd Quarter Foldables to be checked

This quarter we have completed 3 foldables.  They should be in your composition book and will be collected the week of March 7.


  1. Korean War Map/Timeline


  2. Second Red Scare
  3. Vietnam War Map/Timeline

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Containment DBQ

DBQ Question: What was containment?

Checklist:

  1. Background Essay Questions using the Background Essay (15 points)
  2. Document Questions (answer on loose-leaf paper) (40 points)
  3. Bucketing/Chickenfoot paper (10 points)
    • Buckets will be the 3 body paragraphs
      • Berlin Blockade and Airlift
      • Korean War
      • Cuban Missile Crisis
  4. Outline (25 points)
    • For your body paragraphs:
      • Baby thesis - topic sentence
      • Evidence - story of the event, what happened?
      • Argument - how is  this an example of containment? Look at the last question you answered for each document (B-D) - you already answered this!
  5. Essay (50 points) - write this on loose-leaf paper
Due: Friday, February 26 (beginning of class)

Monday, February 22, 2016

Cuban Missile Crisis activities

Monday, February 22

Today in class, we completed the following activities.  Any not completed ARE HOMEWORK:

  • Practice AIR test on Google Classroom
  • Cuban Missile Crisis activities (all listed in Google Classroom)
    • Watch video on Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis
    • In workbook/review book, read page 222 and answer questions #3, 5, 8, on pages 226-227
    • Complete "Guiding Questions" worksheet on Cuban Missile Crisis - Documents for the questions

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Homework - Thursday, February 18

Homework tonight: Chapters 5 and 6 (pages 22-30) in your Review Book.  Answer all questions in those chapters.