AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Joyce

Weekly outline

• General
  

  General

   GENERAL COURSE LINKS

  • AMERICAN HISTORY(juniors) -- Joyce
  • Mr. Joyce's Classes (blog) URL
  • News forum
  • Social Studies Syllabus File
  • Directions for accessing the "Visions" textbook on-line Assignment
  • American Experience textbook URL
  • MSNBC video URL
  • CNN video news URL
  • FOX video news URL
  • CBS video news URL
  • ABC video news URL
  • Yahoo-Associated Press video news URL
  • USA Today video news URL
  • N.Y. Times video news URL
  • TeacherTube URL
  • N.Y. Times upfront URL
  • Quiz and Exam study tips File
  • Constitutional Law cases URL
  • U.S. Constitution URL
  • Political Cartoons today URL
  • Electoral College URL
  • Best History Sites URL
  • Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution (textbook) Assignment
  • Historical films list URL
  • 4th Amendment URL
• 1 September - 7 September
  

  1 September - 7 September

  • Homework: Notebook Assignment
• 8 September - 14 September
  

  8 September - 14 September

  • Terrorism File
  • Monday (white day) class -- September 8 Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) class September 9 Assignment
  • in-class #1: textbook (terrorism) Assignment
  • Homework #1: Patriot Act Assignment
  • John Brown's Holy War URL
  • Wednesday (white day) class -- September 10 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) class September 11 Assignment
  • in-class #2 -- John Brown's Holy War (video study guide) Assignment
  • Friday (white day) class -- September 12 Assignment
• 15 September - 21 September
  

  15 September - 21 September

  • Monday (blue day) class -- September 15 Assignment
  • homework #2 (white day): John Brown and terrorism Assignment
  • Homework #2 (blue day) -- John Brown and terrorism Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) class -- September 16 Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) honors class only -- September 16 Assignment
  • in-class #3: John Brown (textbook) Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 17 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) class -- September 18 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) honors class only -- September 18 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 19 Assignment
• 22 September - 28 September
  

  22 September - 28 September

  • Monday (white day) class -- September 22 Assignment
  • PBS: The Murder of Emmett Till URL
  • Reaction essay: The Murder of Emmett Till (video) Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 23 Assignment
  • Rosa Parks and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement URL
  • Wednesday (white day) college prep classes only (periods 2 and 3) -- September 24 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) honors class only -- September 24 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 25 Assignment
  • Friday (white day) college prep classes only (periods 2 and 3) -- September 26 Assignment
  • Friday (white day) honors class only -- September 26 Assignment
  • in-class study guide: Dred Scott case (do NOT turn in: use to complete homework journal #3) Assignment
  • N.Y.Times upfront URL
• 29 September - 5 October
  

  29 September - 5 October

  • Monday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 29 Assignment
  • homework #3: Dred Scott Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) honors class only -- September 30 Assignment
  • McCain and Obama interviews -- "60 Minutes" -- CBS URL
  • Tuesday (white day) college prep classes only (periods 2 and 3) -- September 30 Assignment
  • in-class #4: 2008 Elections Assignment
  • Dred Scott v Sandford URL
  • 14th Amendment URL
  • N.Y.Times: Election 2008 (article) URL
  • Wednesday (blue day) October 1 Assignment
  • in-class #5: Reconstruction Assignment
  • in-class #6: The Rise of Segregation Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) October 2 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) October 3 Assignment
  • SIMPLE JUSTICE -- movie URL
  • SIMPLE JUSTICE -- Social Science Evidence of Racism (film clip) URL
• 6 October - 12 October
  

  6 October - 12 October

  • Plessy v. Ferguson (segregation) URL
  • homework #4: Plessy v. Ferguson Assignment
  • Monday (white day) October 6 Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) class October 7 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) October 8 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) October 9 Assignment
• 13 October - 19 October
  

  13 October - 19 October

  • Tuesday (white day) October 14 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) October 15 Assignment
  • Plessy v. Ferguson: two different "readings" of the same language Assignment
  • Brown v. Board of Education (segregation) URL
  • in-class #7: Brown v. Board of Education Assignment
  • in-class #8: Civil Rights Amendments review and BROWN and PLESSY review Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) October 16 Assignment
  • Friday (blue class) October 17 Assignment
• 20 October - 26 October
  

  20 October - 26 October

  • Monday (white day) October 20 Assignment
  • in-class #9: The Civil Rights Movement Assignment
  • Tuesday class (Blue day) -- Oct. 21 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) October 22 Assignment
  • in-class #10: Challenging Segregation Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) October 23 Assignment
  • Friday (white day) October 24 Assignment
• 27 October - 2 November
  

  27 October - 2 November

  • Monday (blue day) October 27 Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) October 28 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) October 29 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) October 30 -- Exam day Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) October 31 Exam day Assignment
• 3 November - 9 November
  

  3 November - 9 November

  • Monday (white day) November 3 Assignment
  • in-class #11: Iraq (textbook) Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) November 5 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) November 6 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) November 7 (RANKS CLOSE FOR THE 1ST QUARTER TODAY) Assignment
• 10 November - 16 November
  

  10 November - 16 November

  • Monday (white day) November 10 Assignment
  • "Lost" and sovereignty File
  • in-class #12: Becoming a World Power Assignment
  • Homework Journal #5: War on Terror Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) November 12 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) November 13 Assignment
• 17 November - 23 November
  

  17 November - 23 November

  • Monday (white day) November 17 Assignment
  • Sovereignty: definitions File
  • Tuesday (blue day) November 18 Assignment
  • In-class #13: video "The Century: America's Time -- Seeds of Change" Assignment
  • Wednesday (white classes) November 19 Assignment
  • in-class #14: New American Diplomacy Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) November 20 Assignment
  • Friday (white day) November 21 Assignment
  • in-class #15: Propaganda in World War I Assignment
  • Cartoon Propaganda World War I URL
• 24 November - 30 November
  

  24 November - 30 November

  • Monday (blue day) November 24 Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) November 25 Assignment
  • HAPPY THANKSGIVING !! URL
• 1 December - 7 December
  

  1 December - 7 December

  • Monday (blue day) Dec. 1 Assignment
  • in-class #16: The United States Enters World War I Assignment
  • Reaction essay to ABC video "1914-1919: Shell Shock" Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) Dec. 2 Assignment
  • #17: World War I: A Bloody Conflict Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) Dec. 3 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) December 4 Assignment
  • World War I simulation File
  • World War I Resource File
  • Friday (blue day) Dec. 5 Assignment
• 8 December - 14 December
  

  8 December - 14 December

  • Monday (white day) Dec. 8 Assignment
  • in-class #18: World War II Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) Dec. 9 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) Dec. 10 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) Dec. 11 Assignment
• 15 December - 21 December
  

  15 December - 21 December

  • Monday (blue day) Dec. 15 Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) Dec. 16 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) Dec. 17 Assignment
  • in-class #19: World War II Begins Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) Dec. 18 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) Dec,. 19 Assignment
• 22 December - 28 December
  

  22 December - 28 December
• 29 December - 4 January
  

  29 December - 4 January

  Not available
• 5 January - 11 January
  

  5 January - 11 January

  • Monday (white day) January 5 Assignment
  • Collective Security File
  • BLITZKRIEG website URL
  • Tuesday (blue day) Jan. 6 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) January 8 Assignment
  • World War II strategies website URL
  • World War II strategies outline File
  • Friday (white-3) Jan. 9 Assignment
  • Types of Propaganda File
  • Propaganda: examples and history URL
  • Propaganda: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL URL
  • German boy soldier URL
  • picture -Civil War boy soldiers URL
• 12 January - 18 January
  

  12 January - 18 January

  • Monday (blue day) January 12 Assignment
  • in-class activity: Axis strategy in Europe and in the Pacific Assignment
  • Tuesday white day) January 13 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) January 14 Assignment
  • in-class #20: America Enters the War Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) January 15 Assignment
  • in-class #21: The Early Battles Assignment
  • in-class #22: Pushing Back the Axis Assignment
  • Homework Journal #6: Confessions of a Hitler Youth reaction essay Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) January 16 Assignment
• 19 January - 25 January
  

  19 January - 25 January

  • Tuesday (white day) January 20 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) January 21 Assignment
  • Thursday (white class) January 22 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) January 23 (last day of ranking period) Assignment
• 26 January - 1 February
  

  26 January - 1 February

  • Monday (white day) class Jan. 26 Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) January 27 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) January 29 Assignment
  • in-class #23: The Holocaust Assignment
  • Friday (white day) January 30 Assignment
• 2 February - 8 February
  

  2 February - 8 February

  • Monday (blue day) February 2 Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) February 3 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) February 4 Assignment
  • History Project Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) February 5 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) February 6 Assignment
• 9 February - 15 February
  

  9 February - 15 February

  • Monday (white day) February 9 Assignment
  • Journal #7: The Bomb Assignment
  • Journal #8: U.S. Strategy in the Pacific Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) February 10 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) February11 -- periods 2 & 4 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) Feb.12 Assignment
  • in-class #24: The War Ends Assignment
  • Friday (white day) February 13 -- periods 2 & 3 Assignment
  • National Geographic: Beyond the Movie (Pearl Harbor) URL
• 16 February - 22 February
  

  16 February - 22 February

  • HAVE A NICE VACATION !!! URL
• 23 February - 1 March
  

  23 February - 1 March

  • The Cold War File
  • Tuesday (white day) February 24 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) February 25 Assignment
  • Revisionist history File
  • Thursday (white day) February 26 Assignment
• 2 March - 8 March
  

  2 March - 8 March

  • Tuesday (blue day) March 3 Assignment
  • in-class #25: The Cold War Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) March 4 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) March 5 Assignment
  • Friday (white day) March 6 Assignment
  • in-class #26: The Early Cold War Years Assignment
• 9 March - 15 March
  

  9 March - 15 March

  • Monday (blue day) March 9 Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) March 10 Assignment
  • Causes of the Cold War URL
  • N.Y. Times upfront: Cold War Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) March 11 Assignment
  • in-class #27: Cold War & American Society Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) March 12 Assignment
  • Political ideologies File
  • Declaration of Independence URL
  • Communist Manifesto URL
  • Fascism File
• 16 March - 22 March
  

  16 March - 22 March

  • Monday (blue day) March 16 Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) March 17 Assignment
  • NEWSREEL OF JFK'S "CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS" SPEECH OF 10/22/62 URL
  • in-class #28: Eisenhower's Cold War Policies and JFK and the Cold War Assignment
  • "THIRTEEN DAYS" -- The Cuban Missile Crisis URL
  • The Missiles of October: The Cuban Missile Crsis URL
  • John F. Kennedy Library: Cuban Missile Crisis URL
  • Wednesday (blue day) March 18 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) March 19 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) March 20 Assignment
• 23 March - 29 March
  

  23 March - 29 March

  • Monday (white day) March 23 Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) March 24 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) March 25 Assignment
  • in-class 29: The End of the Cold War Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) March 26 Assignment
  • Friday (white day) March 27 Assignment
• 30 March - 5 April
  

  30 March - 5 April

  • Monday (blue day) March 30 Assignment
  • Supply and Demand Chart URL
  • Model of Supply and Demand URL
  • How Recessions Work URL
  • Tuesday (white day) March 31 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) April 1 Assignment
  • gross domestic product URL
  • 10 Winners in the Recession: U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT URL
  • Thursday (white day) April 2 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) April 3 Assignment
  • N.Y. Times: Echoes of 1933? Assignment
• 6 April - 12 April
  

  6 April - 12 April

  • Monday (white day) April 6 Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) April 7 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) April 8 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) April 9 Assignment
  • Friday (white day) April 10 Assignment
  • in-class #30: Causes of the Great Depression Assignment
• 13 April - 19 April
  

  13 April - 19 April

  • Recessions in the last century URL
  • Monday (blue day) April 13 Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) April 14 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) April 15 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) April 16 Assignment
  • "A Revolutionary Recession" (study guide) Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) April 17 Assignment
• 20 April - 26 April
  

  20 April - 26 April

  • ENJOY SPRING BREAK !!! URL
• 27 April - 3 May
  

  27 April - 3 May

  • Monday (white day) April 27 Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) April 28 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) April 29 Assignment
  • Simpsons' Stock Market Crash File
  • Thursday (blue day) class April 30 Assignment
  • Friday (white day) May 1 Assignment
• 4 May - 10 May
  

  4 May - 10 May

  • Tuesday (white day) May 5 Assignment
  • John Steinbeck and The Depression (Youtube) URL
  • Wednesday (blue day) May 6 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) May 7 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) May 8 Assignment
• 11 May - 17 May
  

  11 May - 17 May

  • Grapes of Wrath study guide URL
  • Impact of the Stock Market Crash on Rural America URL
  • free market system File
  • Socialism File
  • Monday (white day) May 11 Assignment
  • Reaction drawing: "Grapes of Wrath" Assignment
  • Reaction Essay to "The Grapes of Wrath" Assignment
  • Great Depression website URL
  • Recession.org URL
  • The Great Recession URL
  • Federal Reserve requirements URL
  • Securities and Exchange Commission URL
  • Tuesday (blue day) May 12 Assignment
  • Causes of the Great Depression File
  • List of New Deal Programs URL
  • Successful and failed New Deal Programs URL
  • America's Century (ABC video): Approaching the Apocalypse, 1970-1975 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) May 13 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) May 14 Assignment
  • Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam Assignment
  • Friday (white day) May 15 Assignment
• 18 May - 24 May
  

  18 May - 24 May

  • Monday (blue day) May 18 Assignment
  • Tuesday (white day) May 19 Assignment
  • Wednesday (blue day) May 20 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) class Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) May 22 Assignment
• 25 May - 31 May
  

  25 May - 31 May

  • Tuesday (white day) May 26 Assignment
  • Vietnam War -- Background File
  • Wednesday (blue day) May 27 Assignment
  • in-class 31 -- The Vietnam War Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) May 28 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) May 29 Assignment
  • The "truth" about the Vietnam War: Historians A and B Assignment
• 1 June - 7 June
  

  1 June - 7 June

  • Monday (white day) June 1 Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) June 2 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) June 3 Assignment
  • Thursday (blue day) June 4 Assignment
  • Discrimination File
  • Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Women, Children and Adolescents File
  • 50s schools File
  • Die harte Schule der 50er Jahre ("The hard school of the 50s") URL
  • Counterculture of the 1960s (website) URL
  • Time Magazine archives site: "American Teens (website) URL
  • Jail House Rock URL
  • Woodstock festival (1969) -- Counterculture in Music URL
  • Friday (white day) June 5 Assignment
• 8 June - 14 June
  

  8 June - 14 June

  • Monday (blue day) June 8 Assignment
  • Watergate scandal website URL
  • Watergate Story (Washington Post) URL
  • Tuesday (white day) June 9 Assignment
  • GRADUATION PREP !! URL
  • Wednesday (blue day) June 10 Assignment
  • Thursday (white day) June 11 Assignment
  • Friday (blue day) June 12 Assignment
• 15 June - 21 June
  

  15 June - 21 June

  • Monday (white day) June 15 Assignment
  • Tuesday (blue day) June 16 Assignment
  • Wednesday (white day) June 17 Assignment
  • Friday June 19 -- Final exam (blue-4 and white-2) Assignment
  • Monday June 22 -- Final exam (white-3 and white-4) Assignment
  • SUMMER !!! URL