More Assignments!

We worked on the Johnson Inaugural Address. 

Johnson’s Inaugural Address

Here are the questions that followed up the Election Day! assignment on Thursday and Friday March 13 & 14.  Congratulations to Madame President Paula and El Presedente Reid. 

Election Day! Questions

This is the post-assessment I gave the class on Tuesday and Wednesday March 11 & 12.  I want to say that you guys ROCKED this test like a Hurricane!  Great job everybody!

post-assessment-test.doc

Daisy Girl Assignments

Daisy Girl Questions

The first assignment are the questions you were to answer after watching Johnson’s Daisy Girl, and Clinton’s 3a.m. ad. 

Elect Me! Create your own political ad! 

The second assignment is the Art project you were to begin during the period.  We are going to work on these on Tuesday and Wednesday March 11 & 12.

Words of Mystery!

The Great Society Crossword Puzzle

This is the crossword puzzle we worked on March 5 & 6.

CSI: Dallas (1963)

CSI: Dallas video questions

This is the assignment for the movie we watched on March 4 & 5.  If you missed that day, watch the videos posted below, and you should be able to answer the questions.  Please let me know if you want to watch the whole film.

Assassination Assignment

the-kennedy-assassination-computer-lab-assignment.doc

That headline might sound sinister, but the assignment isn’t!  We’re going to visit this Monday and Tuesday, then go on to a movie that more thoroughly debunks the conspiracy theories. 

The Kennedy Assassination

The Kennedy Museum has links to sources for the President’s assassination

http://www.jfklibrary.org/

Here are the links to websites that insist that there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy:

www.americanfreepress.net/html/vanunu.html

www.assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/intro/index.html

www.webcom.com/lpease/collections/assassinations/jfk.htm

Other sites examine the evidence and come to a different conclussion

http://csicop.org/si/2005-01/strange-world.html

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

Pop(ular) Quiz!

Here’s the copy of the quiz, and essay assignment that I gave on February 26 & 27

Evaluation of the Kennedy Presidency

Pop(ular) quiz

The Cuban Missile Crisis

These are the documents we used in the Cuban Missile Crisis evaluation on Friday Feb 22 and Monday Feb 25.  Students were responsible for evaluating 1 of the documents, and answer the 3 questions.  Ask me for the sheet with the 3 questions, it’s available in dead tree edition only.  The questions were turned in for 10 points. 

CIA estimate of Consequences

Notes of Meeting with the President

Castro and his Generals in Spanish

Results of the Assignment Question!

Last week I asked all three of my U.S. History classes what they liked in an assignment, and what they didn’t.  I deeply appreciate your answers.  I promise you that I read each one.  Here’s what I discovered…

Some of you like PowerPoint presentations.  By that I believe that you like informational presentations that use pictures, with a more informal lecture + question and answers.  They’re a little more difficult to create from the teacher’s side, but can be incredible when done well.  I’ll work at seeing if I can get one going.

Some of you like group projects… You’re in luck!  There’s a group project coming up next week!  We have the computer lab on Feb 28 & 29, and if I can swing it, the library on Mar 3&4.  We’re going to work on creating projects not unlike Mr. Alper’s final from the Civil Rights Movement unit that he did in January.

I’m pretty happy that some of you like my 3 minute lectures.  I’m going to use those as we move forward.  They make me happy, they’re easy to prepare and as long as you’re getting something out of them, I’ll continue to use them.

While it’s unlikely that I’ll be incorporating the eating/sleeping suggestions that some of you were kind enough to share, I know that I’ll continue to work at making this class as interesting as I can.  Thank you all for your cooperation.

Assignments from February 20 and 21

Berlin Wall Film Questions

These are the questions from the film that we watched on February 20 and 21