Youth and the Civil Rights Movement.

Today we'll consider the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education decision on young people.
Everyone will make a copy of this document and use it for notes and reflections which will become part of your portfolio:
Youth and the Civil Rights Movement
Eyes on the Prize: Emmett Till 1955
The Century: Happy Daze (24:30-29:35)

Eyes on the Prize: Nashville Sit-Ins 1960 moved to later in the week

Legal Strategy and the Brown Case

Today we'll learn about the NAACP's legal strategy to attack Jim Crow and segregation.
We'll analyze the Brown v. Board of Education case (link contains notetaking for lecture and Supreme Court Opinions) using these questions.
We also analyzed the Brown II decision.

Cold War and the 1950's

Today we finished our look at The Century: Best Years and continued into the 1950's by looking at The Century: Happy Daze and completing this study guide which is part of your portfolio.

Cold War

We'll start class today with a discussion about "cold war" and the goals of the United States and Soviet Union in their Cold War.
Then we'll watch The Century: Best Years and take notes using this notetaking guide.  The notetaking guide is an entry in your portfolio.

Show and Tell and Intro to Cold War

HW for Tomorrow: Read and notes-Foner 711-725

FINAL ASSESSMENT: Your assessment for the unit will be a portfolio.

The portfolio will consist of the following:

• Notes from readings 
• sub-heading to sub-heading -- main ideas
• make sure to include the margin terms! 
• connections to themes/targets 
• Reflection for each day’s reading: what change and continuity do you see?
• the Presidency
• social views and norms 
• the US on the World Stage 
• Daily class notes and/or activities 
• Weekly image reflections--choose two historical images that you believe reflect important ideas from the week. For BOTH, include a title/description of the image and 2-3 sentences about how that image connects to important ideas from the week.
• Any Web Activities--printed out 
• All handouts from class, including film notes 
• Annotations of Primary Documents 
• Theme Reflection: 300-500 words 
• Choose one of the three topics that we have been following throughout the unit
• Reflect on the changes and continuity in the topic in the period 1945-1988. 
• Final Reflection: 300-500 words 
• To what extent was the America we live in formed in the post WWII decades?

The Atomic Bomb

Over the last few days, we've been considering the end of the war in Europe by watching film clips of the Battle of the Bulge, FDR's Death and V-E Day. We've also been considering strategic bombing and what makes a legitimate target in war by seeing clips of the bombing of Dresden and the firebombing of Tokyo.
Today, we'll learn a bit more about the Battle of Okinawa and then examine Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb first on Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki.
Here is a reading to guide our work:
Atomic Bomb: The Moment of Decision.

D-Day

Here are the sources we used in class to learn about D-Day
D-Day Notes
Band of Brothers Getting Ready to go
Band of Brothers Parachute Drop
Saving Private Ryan

Early War

After a discussion of  America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference we'll consider FDR's "win the war" policy by learning more about what the war was like for those who fought it. We'll pay particular attention to the Bataan Death March by watching a clip from Ken Burns' The War(Start at 5:40).