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