Wordsort: What is Globalism? 📝

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the impact of globalization on the U.S. economy, politics, society, and role in the world

⏰ What We Did

• Sorted words from a wordbank of terms about globalism into a graphic organizer, based on information presented from Monday's text

⚙️ Resources

• Wordsort: What is Globalism? (Template)

T4: What is Globalism? 🗣

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the impact of globalization on the U.S. economy, politics, society, and role in the world

⏰ What We Did

• Used Talk To The Text (T4) skills — and the T4 bookmark — to make connections with the provided text

⚙️ Resources

• Talking to the Text (T4) Bookmark

Analysis: What is Globalism? 📊

Late Start Day 🕣

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the impact of globalization on the U.S. economy, politics, society, and role in the world

⏰ What We Did

• Created a bar graph from provided data to illustrate the levels of foreign investment during the onset of Era 9

⚙️ Resources

• Analysis: What is Globalization?

Ten Questions: What is Globalization? 🔟

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the impact of globalization on the U.S. economy, politics, society, and role in the world

⏰ What We Did

• Answered ten teacher-created yes/no questions from yesterday's text

YMTR: What is Globalization? 🌐

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain the impact of globalization on the U.S. economy, politics, society, and role in the world

⏰ What We Did

• Read a provided text on globalization — the integration of the world's regions through trade, investment, and technology and its effects on economics, culture, politics, and the environment
• Create ten yes/no questions (with answers) from the text

⚙️ Resources

• What is Globalization? (The Levin Institute, SUNY)

Forrest Gump (1994), Day 4 🪶

🎯 Learning Targets

• Cold War and the United States, Domestic Policies, and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching Forrest Gump (1994)

Forrest Gump (1994), Day 3 🪶

Today's class was led by Dr. Berry (Social Studies department meeting) 🐲

🎯 Learning Targets

• Cold War and the United States, Domestic Policies, and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching Forrest Gump (1994)

Forrest Gump (1994), Day 2 🪶

🎯 Learning Targets

• Cold War and the United States, Domestic Policies, and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching Forrest Gump (1994)

Forrest Gump (1994), Day 1 🪶

🎯 Learning Targets

• Cold War and the United States, Domestic Policies, and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching Forrest Gump (1994)

Era 8 Assessment 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess comprehension of Era 8 in American history — Cold War and the United States, Domestic Policies, and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era

⏰ What We Did

• Assess comprehension of United States History & Geography content from Era 8: Post-World War II United States
• Turned in Friday's study sheet at the conclusion of the assessment

Era 8 Study Guide 💭

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review Era 8 content — Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era, Domestic Policies

⏰ What We Did

• Compiled content covered in class throughout Era 8 on a study sheet for Monday's assessment

⚙️ Resources

• Era 8 Study Sheet

Era 8 Review Game 🚨

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review Era 8 content — Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era, Domestic Policies

⏰ What We Did

• Played a review game in preparation for the Era 8 Assessment on Friday

Poster Party; Civil Rights and the Cold War 🎉

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review Cold War and the United States, Domestic Policies, and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era

⏰ What We Did

• Continue working on the Era 8 poster on one historic figure from either the Civil Rights Movement or the Cold War

⚙️ Resources

• Create an Era 8 Poster in Thirty Easy Steps
• Finished Project (Sample)

Poster Party; Civil Rights and the Cold War 🎉

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review Cold War and the United States, Domestic Policies, and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era

⏰ What We Did

• Continue working on the Era 8 poster on one historic figure from either the Civil Rights Movement or the Cold War

⚙️ Resources

• Create an Era 8 Poster in Thirty Easy Steps

Poster Party; Civil Rights and the Cold War 🎉

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review Cold War and the United States, Domestic Policies, and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era

⏰ What We Did

• Began creating a poster on one Era 8 historic figure from either the Civil Rights Movement or the Cold War

⚙️ Resources

• Create an Era 8 Poster in Thirty Easy Steps

Professional Development Day 🟢

Clintondale High School is closed today for students, while teachers are engaging in professional development. Classes will resume at 7:35 A.M. on Monday, April 28, 2025.
 

Poster Party; Civil Rights and the Cold War 🎉

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review Cold War and the United States, Domestic Policies, and Civil Rights in the Post-World War II Era

⏰ What We Did

• Began Era 8 review by selecting one significant person from either the Civil Rights movement or the Cold War

⚙️ Resources

• Poster Party Picks
• Civil Rights Movement figures
• Cold War figures

Sequencing Events: End of the Cold War 🔢

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe the factors that led to the end of the Cold War

⏰ What We Did

• Using a provided text, sequenced the events that led to the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union

⚙️ Resources

• Sequencing Events: End of the Cold War

Map Activity: The Cold War 🌎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Compare the causes and consequences of the American policy of containment...

⏰ What We Did

• Analyze the provided maps and charts by responding to prompts.

⚙️ Resources

• Map Activity: The Cold War

CCR: Causes of the Cold War 🔎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze the factors that contributed to the Cold War...

⏰ What We Did

• Conduct a close and critical read on the causes of the Cold War, highlighting key text responding to the prompts

⚙️ Resources

• Causes of the Cold War (Text and Prompts)

Good Friday — No School ✝️

Clintondale High School is closed for Good Friday. Classes will resume on Monday, April 21, 2025, at 7:35 A.M.

Domestic Conflict and Tension, Part VII: Arms Race and Fear of Nuclear War ☢️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze and evaluate the competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the Vietnam War, the environmental movement, the movement for Civil Rights, and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal

⏰ What We Did

• Used the Cuban Missile Crisis and aspects of the Second Red Scare, examined the cultural affects of the Cold War's nuclear threat

⚙️ Resources

• Part VII: Arms Race and Fear of Nuclear War
• The Cold War Home Front (Authentic History)
• Duck and Cover (Civil Defense Administration, 1951)

Domestic Conflict and Tension, Part VI: Assassinations 🪦

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze and evaluate the competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the Vietnam War, the environmental movement, the movement for Civil Rights, and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal

⏰ What We Did

• Created a timeline that records the political and social assassinations that occurred in the 1960s

⚙️ Resources

• Part VI: Assassinations
• Primary Sources: The 1960s: Assassinations (CNU.edu)
• "Abraham, Martin, and John" (Dion, 1968)

Domestic Conflict and Tension, Part V: Economic Instability 📉

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze and evaluate the competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the Vietnam War, the environmental movement, the movement for Civil Rights, and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal

⏰ What We Did

• Using a provided text, identify the causes and effects of the energy crisis in the early 1970s
• Referred to a graph of the world's largest petroleum-producing countries as an illustration of the energy crisis

⚙️ Resources

• Part V: Economic Instability
• Energy Crisis (1970s) (Article)

PSAT-10 Testing 💯

The PSAT-10 assessment was administered during today's class

Domestic Conflict and Tension, Part IV: Political Scandal 📰

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze and evaluate the competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the Vietnam War, the environmental movement, the movement for Civil Rights, and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal

⏰ What We Did

• Conducted a student-led investigation into the defiining political scandals of Era 8, the Pentagon Papers and Watergate

⚙️ Resources

• Part IV: Political Scandal
• Investigating Power: Watergate (Interactive timeline)

Domestic Conflict and Tension, Part III: Counterculture ☮️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze and evaluate the competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the Vietnam War, the environmental movement, the movement for Civil Rights, and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal

⏰ What We Did

• After reading a provided text, defined the counterculture and summarized the characteristics of that movement

⚙️ Resources

• Part III: Counterculture

Domestic Conflict and Tension, Part II: Cold War Conflicts 💥

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze and evaluate the competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the Vietnam War, the environmental movement, the movement for Civil Rights, and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal

⏰ What We Did

• Having read a provided text and a map, examined the Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, as well as the protests that occurred during the war in Southeast Asia

⚙️ Resources

• Part II: Cold War Conflicts
• The Korean War | Overall Summary (Article)
• The Vietnam War (Video)
• Vietnam War Protests (Text)

Domestic Conflict and Tension, Part I: Civil Rights Movement ✊🏾

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze and evaluate the competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the Vietnam War, the environmental movement, the movement for Civil Rights, and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal

⏰ What We Did

• Using both a provided map of racial unrest in American cities between 1965 and 1968 and internet resources, identified and described the riots and social upheavals that occurred during the Civil Rights movement

⚙️ Resources

• Part I: Civil Rights Movement
• Racial Unrest in American Cities, 1965–68 (Map)
• Race Riots in the United States (Link)

Catch-Up Day 🥫

⏰ What We Did

• With Q3 ending on F 11 April 2025, used today's class to catch up on any previous missing work

Comparison Essay: President Kennedy vs. President Johnson 📝

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze major domestic issues in the post-World War II era and the policies designed to meet the challenges...
• Focusing on causes, programs, and impacts, compare and contrast President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal initiatives, President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs, and President Ronald Reagan’s market-based domestic policies

⏰ What We Did

• Using yesterday's text and alike-but-different graphic organizer, developed a five-sentence, one-paragraph essay comparing Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

⚙️ Resources

• Comparison Essay: JFK and LBJ

Alike But Different: President Kennedy & President Johnson ↔️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze major domestic issues in the post-World War II era and the policies designed to meet the challenges...
• Focusing on causes, programs, and impacts, compare and contrast President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal initiatives, President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs, and President Ronald Reagan’s market-based domestic policies

⏰ What We Did

• Read a provided text on the domestic policies of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
• Complete a graphic organizer, identifying three similarities and three differences between the presidents

⚙️ Resources

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Domestic Affairs (Text #1)
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Domestic Affairs (Text #2)
• Alike But Different: JFK and LBJ (Graphic organizer)

Ten Questions: Demographic Changes 🔟

🎯 Learning Targets

• Use population data to produce and analyze maps that show the major changes in population distribution and spatial patterns and density, including the Baby Boom, new immigration, suburbanization, reverse migration of African-Americans to the South, the Indian Relocation Act of 1956, and the flow of population to the Sunbelt

⏰ What We Did

• Answered ten yes/no questions created by Mr. Carpenter from yesterday's text

YMTR: Demographic Changes 👥

🎯 Learning Targets

• Use population data to produce and analyze maps that show the major changes in population distribution and spatial patterns and density, including the Baby Boom, new immigration, suburbanization, reverse migration of African-Americans to the South, the Indian Relocation Act of 1956, and the flow of population to the Sunbelt

⏰ What We Did

• Read a provided text on population changes in the 1950s and 1960s
• Create ten "yes/no" questions — with answers — from the text

⚙️ Resources

• You Make the Read Text: Demographic Changes

Selma (2014) 👨🏿‍💼

🎯 Learning Targets

• Examine and analyze the Civil Rights Movement using key events, people, and organizations

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching Selma (2014)

Spring Break — No School 🏖

Clintondale High School is currently on Spring Break. Classes will resume on Monday, March 31, 2025, at 7:35 A.M.

Have a fun and relaxing time away, Dragons!

Selma (2014) 👨🏿‍💼

🎯 Learning Targets

• Examine and analyze the Civil Rights Movement using key events, people, and organizations

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching Selma (2014)

Selma (2014) 👨🏿‍💼

🎯 Learning Targets

• Examine and analyze the Civil Rights Movement using key events, people, and organizations

⏰ What We Did

• Completed a viewing guide while watching Selma (2014)

Map Analysis: Freedom Rides, 1961 🗺

🎯 Learning Targets

• Examine and analyze the Civil Rights Movement using key events, people, and organizations

⏰ What We Did

• Used geographic literacy skills to explore and interpret the details of the 1961 Freedom Rides

⚙️ Resources

• Map Analysis: Freedom Rides, 1961 (Text, Graphic organizer)
• Freedom Rides, April — December, 1961 (© 2005 Jeffrey L. Ward)

Wordsort: Civil Rights Expanded 📝

🎯 Learning Targets

• Examine and analyze the Civil Rights Movement using key events, people, and organizations

⏰ What We Did

• Sorted words from a wordbank into a graphic organizer, based on information presented in a video

⚙️ Resources

• Civil Rights Expanded (Video)
• Civil Rights Movement (Assignment)

Presentation: Civil Rights Movement ✊

Today is St. Patrick's Day 🍀

🎯 Learning Targets

• Examine and analyze the Civil Rights Movement using key events, people, and organizations

⏰ What We Did

• With a provided presentation, took notes on the causes and and techniques utilized by the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement

⚙️ Resources

• Civil Rights Movement (Notes Template)
• Civil Rights Movement (Presentation)

Era 7 S2 Assessment 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess comprehension of Era 7 content from the start of the Second Semester — New Deal, World War II, Japanese Internment, and the Holocaust

⏰ What We Did

• Assess comprehension of Era 7 S2 content

Era 7 S2 Assessment Review 🔁

Half-Day Due to Parent-Teacher Conferences 🐲

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review Era 7 content from the start of the Second Semester — New Deal, World War II, Japanese Internment, and the Holocaust

⏰ What We Did

• Given class time to complete/turn-in any previous work, in preparation for the Era 7 Assessment

Era 7 S2 Review Game 🚨

Late Start Day 🕣

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review Era 7 content from the start of the Second Semester — New Deal, World War II, Japanese Internment, and the Holocaust

⏰ What We Did

• Played a review game in preparation for the Era 7 S2 Assessment on Friday

Ten Questions: American Response to the Holocaust 🔟

🎯 Learning Targets

• Investigate the responses to Hitler’s “Final Solution” policy by the Allies, the U.S. government, international organizations, and individuals

⏰ What We Did

• Answered ten yes/no questions created by Mr. Carpenter from yesterday's text

YMTR: American Response to the Holocaust 📃

🎯 Learning Targets

• Investigate the responses to Hitler’s “Final Solution” policy by the Allies, the U.S. government, international organizations, and individuals

⏰ What We Did

• Read a provided text on the American reaction to the Holocaust and the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials
• Develop ten text-related yes/no questions pertaining to the text, providing answers to each

⚙️ Resources

• You Make the Read Text: American Response to the Holocaust

Prisoner In My Homeland 🈲Questions 27 and 28 📝

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze the changes in American life brought about by U.S. participation in World War II...

⏰ What We Did

• In groups of four/five, read and analyze the reasons given by former Japanese prison camp inmates when answering the War Relocation Authority questionnaire

⚙️ Resources

• Allegiance Questionnaires

Prisoner In My Homeland 🈲Part 3, Epilogue ▶️

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze the changes in American life brought about by U.S. participation in World War II...

⏰ What We Did

• Finished the Prisoner In My Homeland simulation by playing Part 3 and Epilogue

⚙️ Resources

• Prisoner In My Homeland website

Prisoner In My Homeland 🈲Document Analysis, Part II 🔎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze the changes in American life brought about by U.S. participation in World War II...

⏰ What We Did

• Examined a primary source of a teenager's experiences and emotions in an internment camp

⚙️ Resources

• Document Analysis, Part II

Prisoner In My Homeland 🈲Part 2 ▶️Mission Reflection 🤔

🎯 Learning Targets

• Analyze the changes in American life brought about by U.S. participation in World War II...

⏰ What We Did

• Continued the Prisoner In My Homeland simulation by playing Part 2
• After having completed Part 2, completed a reflection on today's simulation

⚙️ Resources

• Prisoner In My Homeland website
• Mission Reflection: Part 2