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

Prisoner In My Homeland 🈲Document Analysis, Part I 🔎

🎯 Learning Targets

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

⏰ What We Did

• In three groups, examine a pair of photos taken in internment camps by two different photographers about aspects of life in internment camps and answer analysis questions

⚙️ Resources

• Document Analysis, Part I