Monday, March 10, 2014

SS8 - If you missed class on Thursday 3/6

Watch these 2 videos on WWI.  List 15 important events, people or historical happenings that happened during the video.  Each video is 15 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxZMwv5vqAc&list=UUHPMi54159nLcYKw1uOCs6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV9aXA9EJM&list=UUHPMi54159nLcYKw1uOCs6g


APUSH Extra Credit & Weekly Schedule:

Here is the 40-45 minute video on the second half of the Great Depression.  It is called "Over the Edge."  Watch the video and LIST 20 key events from the video for extra credit.  It will also help you with your presentations on Wed/Thurs.  +2 points on any assignment is the extra credit.  This must be handed in by Wednesday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYbu0CdJ87k&list=PLC8D9DC28C3EC5223
(45 minutes - to will loop 2 times)

Our Schedule for the Week:

Monday - Video "Stormy Weather"
Tuesday - Prepare for presentations
Wednesday - Presentations
Thursday - Presentations / Key Terms Quiz
Friday - Test - Unit IX

APUSH Monday

We watched the ABC News video on the Great Depression.  Student in class should watch PART III only (from the 5 minute mark on)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wil1ePlT1xs
This is part 1 - 15 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZitneQ1TA
This is part II - 15 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJa4NSMjsek
This is part III - 15 minutes
(Students in class should watch from the 5 minute point to complete the video

Sunday, March 9, 2014

APUSH Unit Summary

APUSH Unit IX
Great Depression & New Deal
Chapters 31-33 in Pageant


                                               Chapter 31 “American Life in the Roaring Twenties”
Read pages 720-725
Hippocampus “Red Scare” & “Nativism & Racism”
Read Ch. 31 pages 725-737
Hippocampus “Religion” and “Prohibition
Ch. 31 pages 737-745  
Hippocampus “New Culture” and “America’s Economy Roar”
Chapter 32 “The Politics of Boom and Bust”
                                                            Pages 746-752 – Hippocampus “America’s Economy Roars”
-   Hippocampus “Harding”
                                                            Read Pages 753-757    -- Hippocampus “Coolidge”
                                                            Read Pages 757-768    -- Hippocampus “Hoover”
                                               Ch. 33 “The Great Depression & New Deal” pages 770-778
Hippocampus “The Depression,” “Roosevelt Election,” and “New Deal Programs”
                                               Ch. 33 pages 778-787 Hippocampus “Critics & Challenges”
                                               Ch. 33 pages 788-798 Hippocampus “New Deal Programs”
                                               
 
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Thursday, March 6th

Social Studies 8 - Read Section II of Chapter 24 as we start our study of WWI.

APUSH - Tonight's HW:

Ch. 33 pages 788-798 
Hippocampus “New Deal Programs”

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Wednesday, March 5th

APUSH HW:

HW-    Ch. 33 pages 778-787 
            Hippocampus “Critics & Challenges”

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Tuesday, March 4th

APUSH - HW:

Ch. 33 “The Great Depression & New Deal” pages 770-778
         Hippocampus “The Depression,” “Roosevelt Election,” and “New Deal Programs”

SS8 - Read Chapter 24, Section I