Day 6 - Finally...History Returns!

U.S. History I - Periods 1, 5, and 6: 
Essential Questions:

-What is historical thinking?
-How did early American settlements influence democracy during colonial life?

 Themes: Individualism, Diversity, PEGS (Political, Economic, Geographic, Social)

1. Just one class - What is History? What are documents?

2. Lunchroom Fight Activity I

3. Jamestown Slideshow should be downloaded, viewed, and take notes on it.

Homework:
1. This is a two-day Homework - Reading/Highlight/brief Notes are due tomorrow and part II due on Wednesday.
Part I - Please read, highlight and take some brief notes in The Birth of America: The Story of Jamestown - SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE LAST NIGHT!

Part II - After you read please answer the Read-Think-Write Essay Response - DUE TOMORROW/WEDNESDAY, September 10, 2014.
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U.S. HISTORY II - Period 4:
Essential Questions:

-What is historical thinking?

U.S. Curriculum Essential Questions:
-Was American expansion overseas justified?
-Did the press cause the Spanish-American War?
-Was the acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone and act of justifiable imperialism?
-Does the need for self-defense give the US the right to interfere in the affairs of Latin America? (Think about the Roosevelt Corollary, "Dollar Diplomacy," and "Watchful Waiting")

Themes: Individualism, Diversity, PEGS (Political, Economic, Geographic, Social)

1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author of Americanah, one of the New York Times 10 best sellers of 2013. How is your perception influenced by the world around you? As you watch the video below please create ideas that address the essential question and be prepared to write a strong thesis statement and short essay.


2. Quick recap Activity - What do you remember from what your History Teacher taught you last year from 1850-1900? Please be honest, candid, and think really hard about this. You can generate a think bubble, a list, a comic strip, a political cartoon, but I want you to create something that symbolizes what you remember. Let's see what you all came up with!!

3. Please watch this video on American Imperialism as it will help you understand the following concepts:
   A. What is Imperialism?
   B. Why American imperialism in the late 19th Century?
   C. Who was this Alfred Thayer Mahan and what is his significance in the rise of the American imperialism?

4. Spanish-American War Resources:
Causes of the War
Library of Congress - General information on the Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War Slideshow
PBS Special on All Events surrounding America's Quest for Imperialism
A Price for Freedom in the Spanish-American War
Images of the Spanish-American War and Primary Sources
Headlines from the Spanish-American War
Cartoons from the Spanish-American War
Political Cartoon from the Spanish-American War

5. Teddy Roosevelt Resources:
Theodore Roosevelt - A PBS special on TR's Foreign Policy Adventures
Teddy Roosevelt Association - Lots of pictures and stories of keeping his legacy alive.
Progressive President's Foreign Policy - U.S. State Department
Teddy Roosevelt's Broad Powers - A pretty darn good essay
Whitehouse.org - Theodore Roosevelt Number 26
Theodore Roosevelt: Progressive Crusader - The Heritage Foundation of American Leadership
President Theodore Roosevelt Video - Similar to the ones we watch in class!! A must see!

6. William Howard Taft - The White House website
    William Taft - VERY NICE biography and legacy page from the University of Virginia
    Presidential Video on William Howard Taft - Just like the ones we watch in class!! A must see!

7. President Woodrow Wilson Video - Youtube clip from a teacher on Taft AND Wilson.
    Woodrow Wilson - The White House org
    Woodrow Wilson Biography - from the University of Virginia

Homework:
1. Chapter 18 - Section 1 - Imperialism and America - Read pages 548 - 551 and create an outline that illustrates organization, cause and effect analysis, and major events or themes that are easily understandably. Your outline should be 1 page in length at minimum - meaning front and back of a lined paper sheet on electronic format.
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International Studies - Period 2
Essential Questions:
1. What does international studies mean?
2. How do people create permanent change in a global world?

Themes: PEGS (Political, Economic, Geographic, Social)

1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author of Americanah, one of the New York Times 10 best sellers of 2013. 

Essential Question: How is your perception influenced by the world around you? As you watch the video below please create ideas that address the essential question and be prepared to write a strong thesis statement and short essay. 


Great Quotes: 

• “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” – Chimamanda Adichie

• “Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” – Chimamanda Adichie

• “It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power. There is a word, an Igbo word, that I think about whenever I think about the power structures of the world, and it is “nkali.” It’s a noun that loosely translates to “to be greater than another.” Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali: How they are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.” – Chimamanda Adichie

2. What does International Studies mean? What do you want to study?

3. This will be completed on Wednesday -What is Peace Day? We will begin watching Jeremy Gilley's journey, but please complete this Day After Peace Test while you watch the video.



Homework:
1. Please complete the Chimanada Adichie Question with a strong thesis statement and essay.
2. Tomorrow Night's HW will be to finish the Jeremy Gilley take-home test.
3. Here are great International Studies links we will begin to explore and utilize for the class.
    * Please make sure you copy and paste into your electronic notebook or bookmark on your IPAD/google docs/Evernote so that you can preserve these for later research and projects.

http://csis.org/
http://www.isanet.org/
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/
http://www.fpif.org/
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://newsweek.com/
http://www.cnn.world.com/