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Friday (white day) May 15
Friday (white day) May 15
* in-class reading/writing activity: "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam"
◄ Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
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Mr. Joyce's Classes (blog)
News forum
Social Studies Syllabus
Directions for accessing the "Visions" textbook on-line
American Experience textbook
MSNBC video
CNN video news
FOX video news
CBS video news
ABC video news
Yahoo-Associated Press video news
USA Today video news
N.Y. Times video news
TeacherTube
N.Y. Times upfront
Quiz and Exam study tips
Constitutional Law cases
U.S. Constitution
Political Cartoons today
Electoral College
Best History Sites
Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution (textbook)
Historical films list
4th Amendment
Homework: Notebook
Terrorism
Monday (white day) class -- September 8
Tuesday (blue day) class September 9
in-class #1: textbook (terrorism)
Homework #1: Patriot Act
John Brown's Holy War
Wednesday (white day) class -- September 10
Thursday (blue day) class September 11
in-class #2 -- John Brown's Holy War (video study guide)
Friday (white day) class -- September 12
Monday (blue day) class -- September 15
homework #2 (white day): John Brown and terrorism
Homework #2 (blue day) -- John Brown and terrorism
Tuesday (white day) class -- September 16
Tuesday (white day) honors class only -- September 16
in-class #3: John Brown (textbook)
Wednesday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 17
Thursday (white day) class -- September 18
Thursday (white day) honors class only -- September 18
Friday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 19
Monday (white day) class -- September 22
PBS: The Murder of Emmett Till
Reaction essay: The Murder of Emmett Till (video)
Tuesday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 23
Rosa Parks and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
Wednesday (white day) college prep classes only (periods 2 and 3) -- September 24
Wednesday (white day) honors class only -- September 24
Thursday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 25
Friday (white day) college prep classes only (periods 2 and 3) -- September 26
Friday (white day) honors class only -- September 26
in-class study guide: Dred Scott case (do NOT turn in: use to complete homework journal #3)
N.Y.Times upfront
Monday (blue day) junior history class only -- September 29
homework #3: Dred Scott
Tuesday (white day) honors class only -- September 30
McCain and Obama interviews -- "60 Minutes" -- CBS
Tuesday (white day) college prep classes only (periods 2 and 3) -- September 30
in-class #4: 2008 Elections
Dred Scott v Sandford
14th Amendment
N.Y.Times: Election 2008 (article)
Wednesday (blue day) October 1
in-class #5: Reconstruction
in-class #6: The Rise of Segregation
Thursday (white day) October 2
Friday (blue day) October 3
SIMPLE JUSTICE -- movie
SIMPLE JUSTICE -- Social Science Evidence of Racism (film clip)
Plessy v. Ferguson (segregation)
homework #4: Plessy v. Ferguson
Monday (white day) October 6
Tuesday (blue day) class October 7
Wednesday (white day) October 8
Thursday (blue day) October 9
Tuesday (white day) October 14
Wednesday (blue day) October 15
Plessy v. Ferguson: two different "readings" of the same language
Brown v. Board of Education (segregation)
in-class #7: Brown v. Board of Education
in-class #8: Civil Rights Amendments review and BROWN and PLESSY review
Thursday (white day) October 16
Friday (blue class) October 17
Monday (white day) October 20
in-class #9: The Civil Rights Movement
Tuesday class (Blue day) -- Oct. 21
Wednesday (white day) October 22
in-class #10: Challenging Segregation
Thursday (blue day) October 23
Friday (white day) October 24
Monday (blue day) October 27
Tuesday (white day) October 28
Wednesday (blue day) October 29
Thursday (white day) October 30 -- Exam day
Friday (blue day) October 31 Exam day
Monday (white day) November 3
in-class #11: Iraq (textbook)
Wednesday (blue day) November 5
Thursday (white day) November 6
Friday (blue day) November 7 (RANKS CLOSE FOR THE 1ST QUARTER TODAY)
Monday (white day) November 10
"Lost" and sovereignty
in-class #12: Becoming a World Power
Homework Journal #5: War on Terror
Wednesday (blue day) November 12
Thursday (white day) November 13
Monday (white day) November 17
Sovereignty: definitions
Tuesday (blue day) November 18
In-class #13: video "The Century: America's Time -- Seeds of Change"
Wednesday (white classes) November 19
in-class #14: New American Diplomacy
Thursday (blue day) November 20
Friday (white day) November 21
in-class #15: Propaganda in World War I
Cartoon Propaganda World War I
Monday (blue day) November 24
Tuesday (white day) November 25
HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!
Monday (blue day) Dec. 1
in-class #16: The United States Enters World War I
Reaction essay to ABC video "1914-1919: Shell Shock"
Tuesday (white day) Dec. 2
#17: World War I: A Bloody Conflict
Wednesday (blue day) Dec. 3
Thursday (white day) December 4
World War I simulation
World War I Resource
Friday (blue day) Dec. 5
Monday (white day) Dec. 8
in-class #18: World War II
Tuesday (blue day) Dec. 9
Wednesday (white day) Dec. 10
Thursday (blue day) Dec. 11
Monday (blue day) Dec. 15
Tuesday (white day) Dec. 16
Wednesday (blue day) Dec. 17
in-class #19: World War II Begins
Thursday (white day) Dec. 18
Friday (blue day) Dec,. 19
Monday (white day) January 5
Collective Security
BLITZKRIEG website
Tuesday (blue day) Jan. 6
Thursday (blue day) January 8
World War II strategies website
World War II strategies outline
Friday (white-3) Jan. 9
Types of Propaganda
Propaganda: examples and history
Propaganda: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
German boy soldier
picture -Civil War boy soldiers
Monday (blue day) January 12
in-class activity: Axis strategy in Europe and in the Pacific
Tuesday white day) January 13
Wednesday (blue day) January 14
in-class #20: America Enters the War
Thursday (white day) January 15
in-class #21: The Early Battles
in-class #22: Pushing Back the Axis
Homework Journal #6: Confessions of a Hitler Youth reaction essay
Friday (blue day) January 16
Tuesday (white day) January 20
Wednesday (blue day) January 21
Thursday (white class) January 22
Friday (blue day) January 23 (last day of ranking period)
Monday (white day) class Jan. 26
Tuesday (blue day) January 27
Thursday (blue day) January 29
in-class #23: The Holocaust
Friday (white day) January 30
Monday (blue day) February 2
Tuesday (white day) February 3
Wednesday (blue day) February 4
History Project
Thursday (white day) February 5
Friday (blue day) February 6
Monday (white day) February 9
Journal #7: The Bomb
Journal #8: U.S. Strategy in the Pacific
Tuesday (blue day) February 10
Wednesday (white day) February11 -- periods 2 & 4
Thursday (blue day) Feb.12
in-class #24: The War Ends
Friday (white day) February 13 -- periods 2 & 3
National Geographic: Beyond the Movie (Pearl Harbor)
HAVE A NICE VACATION !!!
The Cold War
Tuesday (white day) February 24
Wednesday (blue day) February 25
Revisionist history
Thursday (white day) February 26
Tuesday (blue day) March 3
in-class #25: The Cold War
Wednesday (white day) March 4
Thursday (blue day) March 5
Friday (white day) March 6
in-class #26: The Early Cold War Years
Monday (blue day) March 9
Tuesday (white day) March 10
Causes of the Cold War
N.Y. Times upfront: Cold War
Wednesday (blue day) March 11
in-class #27: Cold War & American Society
Thursday (white day) March 12
Political ideologies
Declaration of Independence
Communist Manifesto
Fascism
Monday (blue day) March 16
Tuesday (white day) March 17
NEWSREEL OF JFK'S "CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS" SPEECH OF 10/22/62
in-class #28: Eisenhower's Cold War Policies and JFK and the Cold War
"THIRTEEN DAYS" -- The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Missiles of October: The Cuban Missile Crsis
John F. Kennedy Library: Cuban Missile Crisis
Wednesday (blue day) March 18
Thursday (white day) March 19
Friday (blue day) March 20
Monday (white day) March 23
Tuesday (blue day) March 24
Wednesday (white day) March 25
in-class 29: The End of the Cold War
Thursday (blue day) March 26
Friday (white day) March 27
Monday (blue day) March 30
Supply and Demand Chart
Model of Supply and Demand
How Recessions Work
Tuesday (white day) March 31
Wednesday (blue day) April 1
gross domestic product
10 Winners in the Recession: U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
Thursday (white day) April 2
Friday (blue day) April 3
N.Y. Times: Echoes of 1933?
Monday (white day) April 6
Tuesday (blue day) April 7
Wednesday (white day) April 8
Thursday (blue day) April 9
Friday (white day) April 10
in-class #30: Causes of the Great Depression
Recessions in the last century
Monday (blue day) April 13
Tuesday (white day) April 14
Wednesday (blue day) April 15
Thursday (white day) April 16
"A Revolutionary Recession" (study guide)
Friday (blue day) April 17
ENJOY SPRING BREAK !!!
Monday (white day) April 27
Tuesday (blue day) April 28
Wednesday (white day) April 29
Simpsons' Stock Market Crash
Thursday (blue day) class April 30
Friday (white day) May 1
Tuesday (white day) May 5
John Steinbeck and The Depression (Youtube)
Wednesday (blue day) May 6
Thursday (white day) May 7
Friday (blue day) May 8
Grapes of Wrath study guide
Impact of the Stock Market Crash on Rural America
free market system
Socialism
Monday (white day) May 11
Reaction drawing: "Grapes of Wrath"
Reaction Essay to "The Grapes of Wrath"
Great Depression website
Recession.org
The Great Recession
Federal Reserve requirements
Securities and Exchange Commission
Tuesday (blue day) May 12
Causes of the Great Depression
List of New Deal Programs
Successful and failed New Deal Programs
America's Century (ABC video): Approaching the Apocalypse, 1970-1975
Wednesday (white day) May 13
Thursday (blue day) May 14
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Monday (blue day) May 18
Tuesday (white day) May 19
Wednesday (blue day) May 20
Thursday (white day) class
Friday (blue day) May 22
Tuesday (white day) May 26
Vietnam War -- Background
Wednesday (blue day) May 27
in-class 31 -- The Vietnam War
Thursday (white day) May 28
Friday (blue day) May 29
The "truth" about the Vietnam War: Historians A and B
Monday (white day) June 1
Tuesday (blue day) June 2
Wednesday (white day) June 3
Thursday (blue day) June 4
Discrimination
Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Women, Children and Adolescents
50s schools
Die harte Schule der 50er Jahre ("The hard school of the 50s")
Counterculture of the 1960s (website)
Time Magazine archives site: "American Teens (website)
Jail House Rock
Woodstock festival (1969) -- Counterculture in Music
Friday (white day) June 5
Monday (blue day) June 8
Watergate scandal website
Watergate Story (Washington Post)
Tuesday (white day) June 9
GRADUATION PREP !!
Wednesday (blue day) June 10
Thursday (white day) June 11
Friday (blue day) June 12
Monday (white day) June 15
Tuesday (blue day) June 16
Wednesday (white day) June 17
Friday June 19 -- Final exam (blue-4 and white-2)
Monday June 22 -- Final exam (white-3 and white-4)
SUMMER !!!
Monday (blue day) May 18 ►