US History B Assignments
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- Fall 2011
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- Social Studies
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An economic, political and cultural survey of the United States from the Great Depression to the Reagan era. US History B – Parts 1 & 2. Unit 4 - The Great Depression Chapter 14. Depression Begins / Read pp 462 to 484 Outline: section 3. Hoover Struggles Famous Faces: Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Word Wall: price supports; speculation; margin buying, stock market crash; Dow Jones Industrial Average; Black Tuesday; Hawley-Smoot Tariff; shantytowns; soup kitchens; breadlines; Chapter 15. FDR’s New Deal / Read pp 486 to 523 Outline: section 1. A New Deal Famous Faces: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes; Father Charles Coughlin; Dr. Francis Townsend; Senator Huey Long of Louisiana; Dorothea Lange; Word Wall: New Deal; fireside chat; Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933; Civilian Conservation Corps; Unit 5 - WWII and the Cold War Chapter 16. War In Europe / Read pp 526 to 558 Outline: section 1. Dictators Threaten Famous Faces: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle, Gen George Patton, General Dwight D Eisenhower. Word Wall: blitzkrieg; Sudetenland; Lend-Lease; Atlantic Charter; Munich Agreement; appeasement, phony war; fascism; Pearl Harbor; Dunkirk; Battle of Britain; Holocaust; Chapter 17. A Two Front War / Read pp 560 to 598 Outline: section 3. The Atomic Bomb and the Cold War Famous Faces: Harry Truman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, James Doolittle Word Wall: D-Day; Manhattan project; A-bomb; island hopping, internment; Nuremburg War Trials. V-E Day; Iwo Jima; Hiroshima; Korematsu v US. Extra Credit: read one of the following novels. Then write a short essay connecting the book’s themes with those of your textbook. Proofread and spell check your draft. 1. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold – John Le Carre 2. The Best and the Brightest – David Halberstam MIDTERM EXAM Chapter 18. Cold War Origins / Read pp 600 to 630 Outline: section 1. Cold War Origins and the Marshall Plan Famous Faces: George Kennan, George Marshall, Francis Gary Powers, Dwight D Eisenhower; Mao Zedong; Chiang Kai Shek; Gen. MacArthur; Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs; Joe McCarthy Word Wall: Cold War; brinkmanship; iron curtain, satellite nations; containment; space race; NATO; Sputnik; Unit 6 - Tumult and Turmoil Chapter 20. JFK and LBJ / Read pp 668 to 696 Outline: section 1. Kennedy’s Cold War Famous Faces: John Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Dean Rusk, Nikita Khrushchev, Lee Harvey Oswald; Word Wall: Camelot; Peace Corps; the Hot Line; the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis; Berlin Wall; the Great Society, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Warren Commission; Medicare Chapter 21 Civil Rights / Read pp 698 to 726 Outline: secttion 1. Taking On Segregation Famous Faces: Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Gov. George Wallace; Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X Word Wall: Brown v Board (1954); Civil Rights Act of 1964; sit-ins, freedom riders; “I Have a Dream Speech; Black Panthers, SCLC, SNCC, Jesse Jackson, Bobby Kennedy Chapter 22 Vietnam / Read pp 728 to 764 Outline: section 1. Origins of the Vietnam Conflict Famous Faces: Robert McNamara, Ngo Diem, Ho Chi Minh; Gen Westmoreland Word Wall: domino theory; carpet bombing; Viet Cong, guerrilla war; Cambodia, Laos, body bags, Tet Offensive, credibility gap; Kent State Four; SDS, SEATO, CIA Unit 7 – Passage to a New Century Chapter 24. Nixon and Watergate / Read pp 792 to 826 Outline: section 2. Watergate Famous Faces: John Dean, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman; Daniel Ellsberg; Sam Ervin, Spiro Agnew, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Richard Nixon. Word Wall: Watergate break-in; silent majority; Pentagon Papers, Friday Night Massacre; impeachment; FINAL EXAM Extra Credit: read one of the following books. Then write a short essay connecting the book’s themes with those of your textbook. Proofread and spell check your draft. 1. We Shall Overcome - Herb Boyd 2. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years – Taylor Branch 3. All the President’s Men – Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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READING LIST
The Landmark Books non-fiction history series was published by Random House in the fifties and sixties.
Reading one of these books and writing a critical assessment is mandatory for US History A.
Book choice is first come, first serve. Each title may be read by one student only.
One additional book may be read for extra credit. Asterisked books only.
READING LIST:
1. The Landing of the Pilgrims
2. Pocahontas and Captain John Smith
3. The Witchcraft of Salem Village
4. Paul Revere and the Minute Men
5. Our Independence and the Constitution
6. Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War
7. The Story of the Thirteen Colonies
8. William Penn: Quaker Hero
9. The Pony Express
10. The American Revolution by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
11. The Santa Fe Trail
12. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
13. The Lewis and Clark Expedition
14. The Monitor and the Merrimac - by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
15. Custer's Last Stand
16. Daniel Boone
17. Clipper Ship Days
18. Gettysburg
19. The Louisiana Purchase - by MacKindlay Kantor
20. Betsy Ross and the Flag
21. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
22. Stonewall Jackson
23. The Conquest of the North and South Poles
24. Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia by Margaret Cousins
25. Lee and Grant at Appomattox
26. Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone
27. The Erie Canal
28. Thomas Jefferson, Father of Democracy
29. George Washington Carver
30. To California by Covered Wagon
31. The California Gold Rush
32. Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath
33. Lincoln and Douglas: The Years of Decision
34. Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
35. Old Ironsides: The Fighting Constitution
36. The Mississippi Bubble
37. Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
38. Davy Crockett
39. The Story of San Francisco
40. Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House
41. The Building of the First Trans-continental Railroad
42. The World's Greatest Showman: The Life of P.T. Barnum
43 Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall
44. The Early Days of Automobiles
45. The Golden Age of Railroads
46. George Washington: Frontier Colonel
47. Evangeline and the Acadians
48. Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi
49. America's First World War: General Pershing and the Yanks
50. The Wright Brothers
51. Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
52. The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever
53. Remember the Alamo!
54. Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
55. The First Transatlantic Cable
56. The Swamp Fox of the Revolution
57. Heroines of the Early West
58. The Alaska Gold Rush
59. From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
60. The Panama Canal
61. Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II
62. John F. Kennedy and PT-109
63. The Story of D-Day: June 6, 1944 - Sterling North
64. The Story of Submarines
65. The Battle for the Atlantic
66. The Seabees of World War II
67. Women of Courage
68. Dwight D. Eisenhower
69. Disaster at Johnstown: The Great Flood
70. The Story of Thomas Alva Edison
71. Medal of Honor Heroes
72. From Casablanca to Berlin
73. Guadalcanal Diary
74. The Battle of the Bulge
75. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
76. Combat Nurses of World War II
77. The Flying Tigers
78. The U.S. Frogmen of World War II
79. The Battle for Iwo Jima
80. Midway: Battle for the Pacific
81. Medical Corps Heroes of World War II
82. Flat-tops: the Story of Aircraft Carriers
83. Walk in Space: the Story of Project Gemini
84. Americans into Orbit: The Story of Project Mercury
85. The F.B.I
86. The Story of the Secret Service
87. The Story of the U.S. Air Force
88. The Story of the U.S. Coast Guard
89. The Story of the Naval Academy
90. The U.S. Border Patrol
91. The West Point Story
92. The Story of the U.S. Marines
The Landmark Books non-fiction history series was published by Random House in the fifties and sixties.
Reading one of these books and writing a critical assessment is mandatory for US History A.
Book choice is first come, first serve. Each title may be read by one student only.
One additional book may be read for extra credit. Asterisked books only.
READING LIST:
1. The Landing of the Pilgrims
2. Pocahontas and Captain John Smith
3. The Witchcraft of Salem Village
4. Paul Revere and the Minute Men
5. Our Independence and the Constitution
6. Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War
7. The Story of the Thirteen Colonies
8. William Penn: Quaker Hero
9. The Pony Express
10. The American Revolution by Bruce Bliven, Jr.
11. The Santa Fe Trail
12. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
13. The Lewis and Clark Expedition
14. The Monitor and the Merrimac - by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
15. Custer's Last Stand
16. Daniel Boone
17. Clipper Ship Days
18. Gettysburg
19. The Louisiana Purchase - by MacKindlay Kantor
20. Betsy Ross and the Flag
21. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
22. Stonewall Jackson
23. The Conquest of the North and South Poles
24. Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia by Margaret Cousins
25. Lee and Grant at Appomattox
26. Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone
27. The Erie Canal
28. Thomas Jefferson, Father of Democracy
29. George Washington Carver
30. To California by Covered Wagon
31. The California Gold Rush
32. Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath
33. Lincoln and Douglas: The Years of Decision
34. Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
35. Old Ironsides: The Fighting Constitution
36. The Mississippi Bubble
37. Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
38. Davy Crockett
39. The Story of San Francisco
40. Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House
41. The Building of the First Trans-continental Railroad
42. The World's Greatest Showman: The Life of P.T. Barnum
43 Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall
44. The Early Days of Automobiles
45. The Golden Age of Railroads
46. George Washington: Frontier Colonel
47. Evangeline and the Acadians
48. Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi
49. America's First World War: General Pershing and the Yanks
50. The Wright Brothers
51. Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
52. The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever
53. Remember the Alamo!
54. Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
55. The First Transatlantic Cable
56. The Swamp Fox of the Revolution
57. Heroines of the Early West
58. The Alaska Gold Rush
59. From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
60. The Panama Canal
61. Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II
62. John F. Kennedy and PT-109
63. The Story of D-Day: June 6, 1944 - Sterling North
64. The Story of Submarines
65. The Battle for the Atlantic
66. The Seabees of World War II
67. Women of Courage
68. Dwight D. Eisenhower
69. Disaster at Johnstown: The Great Flood
70. The Story of Thomas Alva Edison
71. Medal of Honor Heroes
72. From Casablanca to Berlin
73. Guadalcanal Diary
74. The Battle of the Bulge
75. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
76. Combat Nurses of World War II
77. The Flying Tigers
78. The U.S. Frogmen of World War II
79. The Battle for Iwo Jima
80. Midway: Battle for the Pacific
81. Medical Corps Heroes of World War II
82. Flat-tops: the Story of Aircraft Carriers
83. Walk in Space: the Story of Project Gemini
84. Americans into Orbit: The Story of Project Mercury
85. The F.B.I
86. The Story of the Secret Service
87. The Story of the U.S. Air Force
88. The Story of the U.S. Coast Guard
89. The Story of the Naval Academy
90. The U.S. Border Patrol
91. The West Point Story
92. The Story of the U.S. Marines
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Requirements for Book Critique:
Your assessment must be completely in your own words, must be typed and free of grammar and spelling errors. Be sure you read it before you give it to me.
PART I - Facts (20 pts):
Book Title
Author
Author Bio: - must be in your own words.
Publication Date:
Number of Pages:
Number of Illustrations:
Main Topic: - be specific and include detail.
Organization: - was the book organized into chapters? parts? sections?.
Time Period: - be specific and give detail - was the time frame a matter of days, weeks month, years?
PART II - Critique (80 pts):
Your analysis should include the following
1. How is our world different because of what happened in your book? Quote at least three sentences or passages from the book that explain your answer. 20 pts
2. What happened in this book, who made it happen and what was it that the main character (s) accomplished? Cite passages from the book to support or describe your answer. 20 pts
3. What had changed by the end of the book? What chapter in the "Americans" textbook contains the events you read about in this book? What did you learn from the book that wasn't in "The Americans?" Be specific and give detail. 20 pts
4. Describe the main character by providing at least five book quotes that show how he thought or acted. Include page numbers. 20 pts
Please note that failure to include passages and quotes from your book, including page numbers, for all four requirements above will result in a no-credit grade. Read and follow directions carefully.