Monday March 19th - Friday March 23rd

Advanced American History

Monday - Introduction to Cold War / Postwar years at home (GI Bill, Baby Boom, etc).
Tuesday - Communist Manifesto Assignment / Truman Policy Assignment
Wednesday - Schindler's List (w/ Lit & Comp)
Thursday - Containment and the early Cold War (Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin, NATO)
Friday - Cold War Quiz #1

photo of Harry S. Truman courtesy whitehouse.gov

American Studies

Monday - Introduction to Cold War
Tuesday - Europe/World Map assignment
Wednesday - Postwar years at home (GI Bill, Baby Boom, etc).
Thursday - Containment and the early Cold War (Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin, NATO)
Friday - Cold War Quiz #1

Monday March 12th - Friday March 16th

Advanced American Studies

Monday - Finish European Theater presentations
Tuesday - Finish Pacific Theater presentations
Wednesday - Analysis of "Civilians at War"- - from the holocaust, the targeting of civilians in England and the brutal invasions of Asia undertaken by the Japanese, to the use of firebombs and atomic bombs at the end of WWII.
Thursday - Review for Exam
Friday - WWII Exam

video clip courtesy The Fog of War:  11 Lessons from the life of Robert McNamara

February 27th - March 2nd

Wounded men of 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division after  storming the beaches of Normandy (Mr. Brice's uncle is located in the middle) courtesy US National Archives

Advanced American History
Monday/Tuesday - Research for "WWII Turning Points" presentations.  Be sure to plan for a 3-5 minute presentation utilizing powerpoint or prezi to illustrate a turning point in the European Theater or Pacific Theater during WWII.
Wednesday - Snow Day
Thursday - Begin presentations on the war in Europe (Stalingrad, North Africa, Italy, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, the Fall of Germany)


American Studies

Monday -  Introduction to the Holocaust
Tuesday -  Webquest utilizing the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Wednesday - Snow Day
Thursday -  Discussion of the process of the Holocaust (identification, discrimination, segregation, ghettoization, the Final Solution)
Friday - Quiz