Friday, April 4, 2025

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

Thursday, April 3, 2025

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

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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