2/28: Brown v. Board of Education / Montgomery Bus Boycott

Students will be able to analyze the effects of landmark Supreme Court decisions.

TEKS:  21A, 24B

I WILL BE OUT TODAY.  PLEASE TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS.

Activities:
1. Complete reading on Brown v. Board of Education.  Complete tasks.

2.  Montgomery Bus Boycott

2/27: U2 Incident

Students will be able to explain the U2 incident.

TEKS:

Activities:
1.  Review affluent society.
2.  Journal housekeeping.
3.  U2 Incident film/reading.  Complete tasks on page 133.

2/26: Eisenhower Foreign Policy/U2 Incident

Students will be able to

TEKS:

Activities:
1.  Review

2.  Set up page 131 in journal.
2.  Truman Film clip .  Complete chart tasks.
2.  Notes to include graphic.  Both taped to page 132.
3. U2 film clip.  Explain what a U plane is.  Start at 2:40.  What do you think the story is about?
4.  Read and complete the tasks.

2/25: NASA

Students will be able to explain how space technology and exploration improve the quality of life.

TEKS:  28B

I WILL BE OUT TODAY.  ALL OF YOUR INSTRUCTIONS ARE BELOW - PLEASE READ.  PLEASE TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS, WE DON'T HAVE DAYS TO WASTE.  THE SPACE RACE AND NASA ARE ALWAYS COVERED ON THE STAAR TEST.

Activities:
1.  Copy my space race graphic onto your journal page 134 - CLICK ON IT TO MAKE IT BIGGER.  You will need to skip a couple of pages.

2.  On your phone watch 4 minute film clip about NASA technology.
3.  NASA HOME AND CITY assignment.  Look at the chart.  I want you to explore the NASA Home and City site - click EXPLORE.  Go to all of the places (rooms and buildings) listed on the chart.  For each room or building find 3 examples of NASA technology.  Find the technology by moving around the room or building and looking for the blue dots.  You will most likely have to move your phone - like virtual reality.   List that technology in the corresponding box.  DUE TODAY.

LINK:  NASA HOME AND CITY

2/24: Review Day

Students will be able to review past information to identify areas of weakness.

TEKS:  Many

Agenda:
1.  Discuss NATO and Warsaw Pact.
2.  Review quiz.
3.  Complete review tasks.

2/21: Affluent Society

Students will be able to describe affluency in the 1950's.

TEKS:

Activities:
1.  Let's finish the Korean War notes.
2.  Korean War quiz.  This will be timed.
3.  Using the packet, complete the chart that covers society in the 1950's.  Include a color illustration and notes about the topic.


Will do as a class next week:
Select a film clip to watch from 1950's tv shows:    I Love Lucy film clip  or  Father Knows Best . 

2/20: Korean War

Students will be able to describe the efforts of the US and UN to keep communism from spreading into South Korea.

TEKS:  8C

Activities:
1.  Complete yesterday's work including watching the film clip "How to Find a Communist".
2.  Let's finish the Rosenberg's.
3.  The Venona Papers and guilt.

4.  We will complete a map activity while discussing the division of Korea.  Let's attach to pages 128 and 129 in our journal.
5.  Quiz.

2/19: Red Scare

Students will be able to describe the Red Scare including McCarthyism and HUAC.

TEKS:  8A

Activities:
1.  We will discuss the Red Scare and do a simulation,
3.  Take notes on page 127 in your journal.
4.  Independently, read about the Rosenberg's.  Complete tasks with elbow partner.
5.  How to find a Communist.

2/18: Harry Truman

Students will be able to describe the presidency of Harry Truman, explain how Jackie Robinson broke the "color barrier".

TEKS:  29A

Activities:
1.  Review questions.
2.  We will look at a map of NATO/Warsaw Pact Membership.
3.  Let's talk about Truman.  Take notes and attach in journal to page 125.
4.  Jackie Robinson film clip - if time.  Please complete task on bottom of page 126.

5.  Journal Housekeeping.

2/14: Primary/Secondary Sources

Students will be able to distinguish between primary and secondary sources.

TEKS:

Agenda:
1.  Set up page 126 in journal.  Watch film and list examples of sources. 

2.  We will play Jenga today.

2/13: A Divided Germany

Students will be able to describe the Truman presidency including foreign and domestic policies.

TEKS:  8A

Activities:
1.  Let's look at a divided Germany.  Complete notes on pate 123.
2.  Copy my notes about containment.   Attach to page 124 in your journal.
3.  NATO reading.
3.  Film clip.

2/12: From World War to Cold War

Students will be able to describe Soviet aggression and explain US responses to that aggression.

TEKS:  8A

Activities:
1.  Amendment review.
2.  You will examine Soviet aggression and US responses by completing an online tutorial.  The tutorial is 30 minutes long.  If you don't finish in class it becomes homework - due tomorrow at the beginning of class.

Tutorial

2/11: Cold War Introduction

Students will be able to define key terms associated with the Cold War.

TEKS:  Many

Agenda:

UN Review:

1.  As a historian remember to ask questions and consider that what you see may not be the whole story.

2.  Introduction to Cold War.  Create a graphic on page 120.
3.  Big ideas vocabulary.  Cut out and attach to page 121.

2/10: CUA 7

Students will be able to complete the district assessment.

TEKS:  Many

Agenda:
1.  Test
2.  Complete reading on United Nations.

2/7: WW2 Review

Students will be able to describe key WW2 events.

TEKS:  Many

Agenda:
1.  Journal Housekeeping.
2.  Map work with Generals.
3.  CWPT

2/6: Truman / Timeline

Students will be able to describe important Truman moments; timeline important WW2 events, and discuss the creation of 2 postwar organizations.

TEKS:

Agenda:
1.  Let's see Truman sworn in.

2.  Truman learns of the atomic bomb.

4.  Truman makes decision to drop atomic bomb and the use of that bomb.

5.  Copy timeline in your journal on page117.

6.  Let's talk about post war organizations.

2/5: The End of the War / Atomic Bomb

Students will be able to explain how WW2 came to an end.

TEKS:  7D

Agenda:
1.  DDay graphic.
2.  We will finish up the film part 4 (10 minutes).  Attach to page 115.
3.  Let's add a small graphic to page 112 about the end of the war.
4.   Discuss in detail the development and use of the atomic bomb.  Notes on page 116 of your journal.
5.  Let's look at the language of the pamphlets.

2/4: Battle of Iwo Jima Reconstruction

Students will be able to analyze the Battle of Iwo Jima.

TEKS:

Activities:
1.  I will introduce the topic and review important information.
2.  Partners will be given a file with instructions and supplies to reconstruct the Battle of Iwo Jima.

2/3: WW2 Contributions

Students will be able to describe the contributions to the war effort by various groups of people.

TEKS:

Agenda:
1.  Mr. Klein will be teaching the class today.  His work will be added to page 113.