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U.S. History

Friday-4/20/18:

• Bell Work-1.) Which company is featured in this advertisements from the 1950’s? What product are they advertising? 2.) What does this company believe are the three main advantages to using their product over other laundry detergents? Why might they have decided to focus on these specific points? 3.) Do you believe an advertisement like this would have been effective from a business standpoint in achieving the goal of attracting housewives and mothers away from their old laundry detergent to a product like Tide? Could anything be added to this advertisement that might help gain unmarried male customers?
• Attendance-While Class is Doing Bell Work
• Video-Flintstones Cigarette Commercial-Flintstones Smoking 1950s Retro Ad (1:20 min)
• SSR Article-The History of the 1950’s

• w/Meta Log

• Daily Objective-

• Content Objective:

• • • SWD comprehension of the rise of suburban culture and the increase of consumerism during the 1950’s by reading through an article and responding to a meta log

• Language Objective:
  • Students will read and record information pertaining to the rise of suburban culture and the increase of consumerism during the 1950’s through examining an editorial article and responding to a meta log

Supplemental Materials:SSR Article-The History of the 1950’s w/Meta Log

History of the 1950’s-Article

SSR-Meta-Cognitive Log-Template-Half-Sheet-US History

Video-Flintstones Cigarette Commercial-Flintstones Smoking 1950s Retro Ad (1:20 min)

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Government

Friday-4/20/18:

• Bell Work-1.) What is the underlying theme behind this excerpt from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s speech? 2.) Can you distinguish the difference between the focus of this document and the others in terms of the date it was written and the message it is trying to convey? 3.) What can you predict based on the pervious documents and your prior knowledge might be the reaction of male voters after hearing this speech?
• Attendance-While Class is Doing Bell Work
• Video-Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Voting (HBO) (14:08 min)

• Reflection Question: What are some of the problems that exist that makes registering to vote or simply voting a frustrating process for many Americans?
• Activity-Current Events 4/20
• Daily Objective-
  • Content Objective:
    • SWD evaluation of influential events occurring locally, nationally and internationally by finding articles in newspapers or online then interpreting the information and stating an opinion about the impact of the article in a current events activity
  • Language Objective:
    • Students will research, read and record information pertaining to the influential events occurring locally, nationally and internationally by finding articles in newspapers or online by annotating the article and discussing the event with several classmates in a collaborative activity

Supplemental Materials: Activity-Current Events 4/20

Current Events-Template 2017

Video Link-Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Voting (HBO) (14:08 min)

• Reflection Question: What are some of the problems that exist that makes registering to vote or simply voting a frustrating process for many Americans?

U. S. History

Thursday-4/19/18:

• Bell Work- 1.) Who were most sitcoms aimed at during the 1950’s and 1960’s? 2.) What is the main idea contained within the primary source? 3.) What do you think about the changes in the attitude towards marriage in the 1950’s and 1960’s compared to those that started prior to the late 1940’s? What can we attribute to the major change experienced by American couples during this time period?  
• Attendance-While Class is Doing Bell Work
• Vocabulary Match-up Activity-Chapter 19-The Post War Boom
• Video-I love Lucy: Be a pal (22:03 min)
• Primary Source and Activity-The Good Housewife-1950’s Economics Text Book
• Daily Objective-

• Content Objective:
  • SWD analysis of key terms associated with the unit covering Chapter 19 by manipulating of vocabulary terms in a collaborative activity
  • SWD synthesis of modern marital expectations in comparison to how women were taught to care for their husbands during the 1950’s by creating a list of modern expectations for a husband or wife based on the students values
• Language Objective:
  • Students will read and orally match up important vocabulary terms pertaining to the unit covering Chapter 18 through the use of a vocabulary match-up activity
  • Students will read and respond to a primary source depicting how women were taught to care for their husbands during the 1950’s and responding by creating a modern marital expectations guide for inclusion into a 2016 Home Economics textbook

Supplemental Materials: Primary Source and Activity-The Good Housewife-1950’s Economics Text Book

The Good Housewife-1950’s Economics Text Book

The Good Housewife-Student Assignment

I Love Lucy-Episode Three-Be a Pal-Video Questons-2018

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Government

Thursday-4/19/18:

• Bell Work-1.) Can you explain based to the primary source excerpt how the author believed Blacks [African Americans] would attempt to justify their right to gain full suffrage? 2.) Based on historical context and your prior knowledge can you identify another historical instance in which African Americans had to fight against unfair obstacles simply to enjoy the right to vote? 3.) What do you believe might have happened if the United States had granted Blacks [African American’s] the right to vote following the arguments made by the Liberty Party in 1840? Do you think as a result of suffrage being extended to African Americans at this time that the Civil War could have been avoided or was this just a fight we were destined to have?
• Attendance-While Class is Doing Bell Work
• Activity-Should the Electoral College Be Abolished-DBQ (Day 2)
• Daily Objective-

• Content Objective:
  • SWD evaluation of the arguments for eliminating the Electoral College by evaluating a series of primary sources and responding to guided questions based off the text
• Language Objective:
  • Students will read, and respond to a document based packet packed with arguments for eliminating the Electoral College by breaking down a series of primary sources and graphs to build an argument for eliminating the Electoral College