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  • Course Outlines
    • Modern U.S. History
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    • Geography Exploratory
    • Project Pages
    • U.S. History (1400-1865)
  • Curriculum Design Samples
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10/1-10/5

9/30/2012

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Monday
  • Assign: Binder Checklist/Binder Turn-in (Fri 10/5)
  • Go over Binder Turn-in Expectations
  • Hand out  Binder Checklist
  • Points to date: 150
  • Points within binder: 345
  • Organize Binders

Continue Choices Activities
  • Discuss Case Studies
  • Partner Round-Robbin: Weighing Threats Study Guide (Due: Tues 10/2)
  • Complete Study Guide as a class
  • Complete Weighing Options Graphic Organizer (Due: Tues 10/2)


Tuesday
  • Due: Weighing Threats Study Guide/Graphic Organizer

  • Complete Study Guide as a class
  • Compete Graphic Organizer as a class


Wednesday
  • Reminder: Binder Friday
  • Quickfire: Do you think the U.S. faces a bigger threat from terrorism from within or abroad? Explain your answer.
  • Domestic Terrorism vs. International Terrorism
  • Hand out computers
  • Group 1: Domestic Threat
  • Group 2: International Threat
  • Fill out Threats from Terrorism Graphic Organizer/Discuss Responses
  • New Threats to Terror: Individuals read, report, discuss
  • Find example article of Domestic/International Terrorism
  • Homework: print article, read, answer:

                         -How is this an example of "terrorism?"
                         -Is it domestic or international?
                         -How do you think the U.S. should respond to this threat?
Thursday
  • Reminder: Binder Friday
Friday
  • Due: Binder Turn-In
  • Due: Example of Terrorism Article
  • Quick Fire: What are at least two examples of how the U.S. has responded to terrorism at home or abroad?
  • Homework: print article, read, answer:
  •                          -How is this an example of "terrorism?"
                             -Is it domestic or international?
                             -How do you think the U.S. should respond to this threat?
  • Students present their article and explain how they believe the U.S. should respond.
  • Complete Responding to Terrorism Graphic Organizer (Fri 10/5)
  • Assign each student a different section of the graphic organizer.
  • Work on Responding to Terrorism Presentation
  • Responding Terrorism Study Guide/Graphic Organizer (Due Mon 10/15)

Monday
  • Work on Responding to Terrorism Presentation
  • Responding to Terrorism Presentations
  • Complete Responding to Terrorism Graphic Organizer

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9/24-9/28

9/23/2012

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Monday
    • Due: Conflict of Values Outline
    • Bin Laden Interview
    • Kill Shot: Story Behind Bin Laden's Death (0:00-15:43; 28:00-34:00)
    • Kill Shot Video Guide 

Tuesday
  • Due: Conflict of Values Essay
  • Due: Kill Shot Video Guide
  • Start Choices Project
  • Read in partners: Origins and Evolution of Terrorism
  • Complete Assigned questions on study guide
  • Share responses with the class

Wednesday
  • Due: Kill Shot Video Guide
  • Read in partners: Origins and Evolution of Terrorism
  • Complete Assigned questions on study guide
  • Share responses with the class
  • Work on "Evolution of Terrorism" Graphic Organizer
Thursday

  • Introduce: Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?
  • Groups do case studies and report to class
  • Start Round-Robin Partner Reading: Weighing the Threat of Terrorism
  • Complete Study Guide using Partner Reading Activity

Friday
  • Due: Origins of Terrorism Study Guide
  • Due: Evolution of Terrorism Graphic Organizer
  • Complete Weighing Threats Study Guide using Partner Reading Activity (Due: Tues 10/1)
  • Assign: Threats from Terrorism Graphic Organizer (Due: Tues 10/1)
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9/17-9/21 HOMECOMING WEEK!

9/16/2012

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Monday
    • Watch 102 Minutes that Changed the World
    • Complete Video Guide
    • Complete Reflection
    • 9/11 Damage to Manhattan
    • 9/11 Damage Pentagon
    • 9/11 Memorial
    • Unit Questions
    • Osama bin Laden Bio Read-Aloud

Tuesday
  • Due: 9/11 Reflection (stamped)
  • Western vs. Middle Eastern Conflicting Values Activity
  • Assign:  Conflicting Values Individual Essay (Due: Tues 9/25)

Wednesday
  • DUE: 9/11 Reflection (stamped)
  • Western vs. Middle Eastern Conflicting Values Activity 
  • Assign:  Conflicting Values Individual Essay (Due: Tues 9/25) 

Thursday
    • Western vs. Middle Eastern Conflicting Values Activity 
    • Bin Laden Interview
    • Kill Shot: Story Behind Bin Laden's Death (0:00-15:43; 28:00-34:00)
    • Kill Shot Video Guide 

Friday
  • Begin Choices Terrorism Project 
  • Due: 9/11 Reflection (stamped) 
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9/10-9/14

9/9/2012

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Monday
  • Hand back the Cold War Test
  • The USA's response to ethnic cleansings of the 1990s
  • Students complete USA's response to ethnic cleansing Notes
  • Watch President Bill Clinton's announcement for US withdrawal from Somalia
  • Watch President' Bill Clinton's announcement for NATO intervention in Kosovo

Tuesday
  • Start 9/11 and the War on Terrorism Unit
  • 9/11 background exercise
  • Watch 102 Minutes that Changed the World
  • Complete Video Guide

Wednesday
  • No school!
Thursday
  • Watch 102 Minutes that Changed the World
  • Complete Video Guide

Friday
  • Watch 102 Minutes that Changed the World
  • Complete Video Guide
  • Complete Reflection


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9/4-9/7

9/2/2012

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Monday - Labor Day!
  • Homework:  Don't come to school!


Tuesday
  • Finish Fall of USSR documentary
  • Complete Film Guide 
  • Due: Film Guide
  • Due: Cold War Political Cartoons Packet
  • Assign: Cold War & Collapse Take-Home Test (Due: Fri 9/7)

                        -Students may use their Cold War Political Cartoons Packet & Textbook
  • Students have the remainder of class time to work individually on their take-home test.



Wednesday
  • Unit Questions
  • Hand back - Cold War Political Cartoons Packet
  • US in a Post-Cold War World (.ppt)
  • Students complete US in a Post-Cold War World Notes & Questions



Thursday
  • Student complete US in a Post-Cold War World Questions
  • Introduce Persian Gulf War (.ppt)
  • Class Reading of Desert Storm Article
  • Discuss Desert Storm Article questions.



Friday
  • The USA's response to ethnic cleansings of the 1990s
  • Students complete USA's response to ethnic cleansing Notes
  • Watch President Bill Clinton's announcement for US withdrawal from Somalia
  • Watch President' Bill Clinton's announcement for NATO intervention in Kosovo
  • Due: Cold War & Collapse Take-Home Test
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