Video: The Century: America's Time - Starting Over

Option 1: Conor Lamb is likely to lose PA-18 - Pennsylvania special election

Option 2: Donald Trump may make some businessfolk cringe Made out of glue

Option 3: Food deserts may not matter that much - A desert mirage

Option 4: Heroin in Philadelphia - Bruised and battered

Option 5: It make sense for Amazon to build its second HQ near Washington - A tale of two Washingtons

Option 6: New Yorks gargantuan development is shifting its centre westward - Eastern promise

Analysis of changing drug control policies

Environment mini-DBQ docs   

1. Compare sources 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7. What are the different ways the environmental threat was understood and characterized? What kinds of solutions were proposed?

2. Source 4 is one of the first ever photographs of the earth taken from space. How would this visual perspective encourage viewers to think of the earth’s resources as finite?

3. How does source 6 help us understand the opposition that developed to environmentalism? Why did some Americans oppose the environmental movement?

ERA mini DBQ docs 

1. Schlafly and Koontz have different notions of what it means to be a woman. Explain what these differences are and how they inform the authors’ distinct views of the ERA.

2. Why does Schlafly believe that women will be harmed by the ERA?

3. Schlafly and Falwell argue that women need the protection and support of men. Are they right? How would Koontz likely respond?

4. How do each of the four authors define women’s roles and responsibilities in society?

1.Read the overview

2.Read each “Overarching Question”

3.Read each TLO

        1.Identify specific facts from each unit that could be used to answer each overarching question – write them on posterboard

1.How do each of these topics help address the TLOs and help answer the Overarching Questions?

1.How does Watt represent a political reaction to environmentalism?

2.Answer Overarching Question #2 in your group on the posterboard

A. Analyze the theme description

B. Review the overarching questions

C. analyze the TLOs and find specific examples that support each TLO from each Unit (work backwards from Unit 9 to Unit 1) Make sure to include specific events, trends, people, laws and government actions.

Directions for Warren Court activity - Liberalism on the High Court? - the Burger Era

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Regents of U. of California v. Bakke (1978)

Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)

United States v Nixon

New York Times v United States (1971)

US v Leon (1984)

Bowers v Hardwick (1986)

Remember, the 2018 directions and scoring rubric is a bit different than what is shown here.  But synthesis is similar to complexity, and the use of documents is essentially the same.

A. Analyze the theme description

B. Review the overarching questions

C. analyze the TLOs and find specific examples that support each TLO from each Unit (work backwards from Unit 9 to Unit 1) Make sure to include specific events, trends, people, laws and government actions.

Complete this practice DBQ on the Cold War

and then use this scoring guide to evaluate your work.

In a group of 3, divide the reading of the following 3 documents. 

Discuss the key points of each so the whole group understands the content.

Use and cite each document to answer Review Sheet questions 11, 14, and 19.

Readings - A), B) OR C)

A)  The Age of Reagan

 B) Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War - The Debate Continues

C) A Reagan Legacy Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants NPR

A. Analyze the theme description

B. Review the overarching questions

C. analyze the TLOs and find specific examples that support each TLO from each Unit (work backwards from Unit 9 to Unit 1) Make sure to include specific events, trends, people, laws and government actions.

A. Analyze the theme description

B. Review the overarching questions

C. analyze the TLOs and find specific examples that support each TLO from each Unit (work backwards from Unit 9 to Unit 1) Make sure to include specific events, trends, people, laws and government actions.

A. Analyze the theme description

B. Review the overarching questions

C. analyze the TLOs and find specific examples that support each TLO from each Unit (work backwards from Unit 9 to Unit 1) Make sure to include specific events, trends, people, laws and government actions.