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Below is the Honors outline.  AP students may ignore.
Your first reading assignment is as follows:
 Our constitution is short.  You are to read it through the first ten amendments.  This is required reading!  You may wish to read some of the explanatory material as well, but this is not required.  You are expected to have this completed by mid-week of the first full week in class.

To begin we will review a little of our early history as a nation.  You will be expected to remember some of what you covered in middle school.  Things like: how Europeans became aware of the Americas; who colonized and why; the Revolution; our Constitution, etc.
If you don't know anything about Thomas Paine, I suggest you find out about him.
Once we have gone back over the early stuff, then...........

We will cover events beginning near the end of the War Between the States.
We will look at the issues that brought about the Civil War, and the resolution of that war.
Our journey will encompass  Sectionalism, the War and Reconstruction and really get under way at that point.  If, somehow, you did not take American History in grade eight (thus getting the background necessary) let Mr. Joeb know right away.

*August ?? exercise for the weekend  See if you can find the "flaw" in the Emancipation  Proclamation.

This page will be updated from time to time but will NOT be updated daily.  As a student, you are responsible for keeping up with assignments on a daily basis.
Since Mr. Joeb employs the Socratic dialectic, lessons will generally consist of reading, guided discussion and questions, followed by quizzes and tests.  Documentaries, movies, essays, etc. will be tossed in from time to time in order to broaden the experience.
You will consult the Internet and use computers regularly.
Access and bookmark this page for coming assignments.  

We have finished our review of the Civil War and Reconstruction.  We've covered westward expansion (railroads, gold, silver, cattle and farms) and the land rush.

Late August/early Sept.:  Industrialization
             Captains of Industry (Robber Barons if you prefer)
                    Changes in Life styles
             Immigration

End of August:  The Gilded Age
             Labor (B&O Railroad Strike)
             The Grange
                    Farmer Alliances
             Deflation
                    Money supply
                    "Free Silver"
                    Populism
        The Wizard of Oz
                            Parable about Populism?
           Group project -- Overnight Aug. 30
                    Groups research history of U.S. possessions (preparatory to Imperialism)
               Political Corruption
               Government Reform

                     Spoils System
                     Civil Service
                Electoral Reform
                Tariffs
                Trusts
                      Sherman Antitrust Act
                Income Tax
        Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust
                  William Jennings Bryan
September/October: Imperialism
                 Expansion to the Far East
                       Commodore Perry
                 "Seward's Folly"
                 Mexican Empire
                 Pacific Possessions
                        Capt. A. T. Mahan
Importance of Sea Power
                        Hawaii
                              Queen Lil
                 Spanish/American War
                        Teddy Roosevelt
                               Tampa Connection
                        Yellow Press
                  "Open Door" in China
                  A man, a plan, a canal.  Panama.
           The Progressive Era
                  "Square Deal"
                  Labor Problems
                  Trusts and Holding Companies
                  Reform Legislation
                        Conservation
                        National Parks
                  Reforms in Gov't
                        State
                        Cities
                        Bob LaFollette
                        Australian Ballot
                        Women's Suffrage
                   Business Reform
                        The "Muckrakers"
                             Numerous Books (know them)
Research Project: each group will research background/motives, etc. of a "reformer"
                   Taft takes office
                             Ballinger-Pinchot
                             "Progressive's" reaction
                             Teddy Roosevelt back in the act
                    Election of 1912
                             Bullmoose Party
                            Woodrow Wilson
                                   Federal Reserve Act
                                   More Business regulation
                                          Improvements for Labor

Sept./Oct: Conditions for War in Europe ( WW I )
Research Project: Each group will research one of the major powers AND look for "blood" relationships between (among) leaders.
                    Convoluted alliances
                    Archduke Franz Ferdinand
                             Princip
                             Balkans
                                         Compare with recent history
                    Problems with neutrality
                             International Law
                             U-Boats
                            Wilson's attempts to keep U. S. out of conflict
                                         1916 elections
                                         "He kept us out of war"
                   The Lusitania
                    Zimmerman Note
                    U. S. goes to war
                             The Western Front
                             Trench warfare
                             "new" weapons
                    The Home Front
                    Who Won?
                             Reparations
                             Disposition of Colonies
                             League of Nations
                                         Wilson's Support
                                         Opposition

November/December:    The "Roaring Twenties"
                             Prohibition
                             Bathtub gin
                             Changes in music, literature
                             A "semi-leisure" class
                                          "Wild" everything - including investing
                                          Conditions leading up to the "Great Depression"
Read the chapter on the great depression.  Relate it to the film, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime."
                      The New Deal
                             The "Hundred Days
                                   "Progressive Social Programs"
                                   Social Security
                                    Alphabet Soup (WPA, CCC, ETC.)
The mid-term is coming.  We will go over important points from our first semester and learn where more attention is needed.

                  War in Europe
                               Roosevelt's "Lend - Lease" program
                                     U.S. Preparation for war
                                     Pearl Harbor (film in class)
           WWII
               We will spend a good bit of time here.  Research, biographies of top commanders, consideration of the foundations of the world's political divisions as most of you (and your parents) know it.  Be in class regularly.  There will be expanded information that is not in the book but WILL be in the test.
A heavily weighted assignment accompanies the WWII section.  You will produce a timeline for the war in Europe and for the war in the Pacific.  Both will begin with December 7th, 1941 and will run through VE Day and VJ Day respectively.  You will get information from the text, films shown in class, discussion and other sources.  Your grade will be determined by accuracy of information, neatness (legibility), and any non-distracting creative input.
THIS IS NOT A "COPY FROM THE BOARD" ASSIGNMENT.  YOU MUST TAKE NOTES, ORGANIZE IMPORTANT EVENTS BY DATE, AND PLACE THEM ON THE TIME LINE.

Here are two very good URLs for expanded information.  
  Background
Myths 

Post WWII
           Truman and the Beginnings of the Cold War
                               U.N.
                               Greek Civil War
                               European Recovery Programs
                               Return to Peacetime Economy
                             Taft Hartley
                                    Congress and the "old" New Deal
                               AEC
                               Berlin Blockade
                               NATO
                               Warsaw Pact
                               Fall of China
                      1948 Election
                               Red Scare(s)
                                     McCarthyism
                                     Espionage
                               Korea
                                     UN
                                     MacArthur
                       Inflated Economy
                       Eisenhower
                                     New Look
                                     Brinkmanship
                                     SAC

BIG CHANGES a'comin'
           Into the sixties and the counter culture
We'll linger here a while as we look again at Civil Rights, changes in the economy brought on by ever newer technology, continued concerns about the "communist threat," the "beat" generation and the new "flower children."  It is in this section that we will use information from our "geezer assignment" and, time permitting, see another Kubrick* "commentary."
                       We will make use of the Internet both in and out of class for some of our assignments.  If students are not "on-line" at home, they can access the internet from the media center or a public library.
 
 

Access and bookmark this site for coming assignments.  Go there now and read the 1950 man of the year feature.  This is required reading.

We will study:
      Kennedy v Nixon campaign
                              First ever televised debates
                              JFK and domestic policy
                              Viet Nam involvement
                              The assassination
Documentary on the above
We will visit  web sites for background and connections to JFK "conspiracy" theories
            Counter culture, hippies, new "philosophies," Timothy Leary, college unrest, civil rights demonstrations, advances in technology (perceived as good and as threatening), the space race, the moon landing, and on and on and on -- will be part of our readings, interviews with geezers and Inet assignments.

Extra Credit assignment for Early May is dependent upon your researching the libraries of Nixon, Ford and Carter . This is available ONLY to those who did not do the earlier essay assignment(s).  The best possible grade is "C." (after all, you are replacing a well deserved "F.")
Compile biographic "profiles" of these former presidents.  Having done that, each student will produce a chart or diagram showing those traits that seem to be necessary to or "common" to men who would be president of the U.S. and a few that are unique to each individual.  Profiles may be those downloaded from a website or may be done by students with bibliographic references.  Highlight items you will use in your diagram.  Turn in diagram (on single page) and profiles.
Suggestion:  Use a search engine to find the libraries.

*The Kubrick film we may watch (time permitting) is Kubrick's 2001 .  We'll look for metaphorical statements.  A "weighted" essay will be based upon student interpretation (which goes back to quality of students' research and readings).