Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Democratizing Twentieth Century - Final

You may bring notebooks, but not share. 
 
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Allies
Axis
WWII
Cold War
open door policy of equal access
Atlantic Charter
Taft-Hartley Act
Nuremberg Trials
Yalta Conference
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
John L. Lewis
Joseph McCarthy
Walter White
W.E.B. DuBois
Franklin Roosevelt
Levittown
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
AFL-CIO
containment
Smith Act
George Wallace
Executive order 9066
CIA/covert action
Greek/Turkish uprisings
Marshall Plan
Joseph McCarthy
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Iron Curtain
Domino Theory
military industrial complex
ideological realignment
Julius/Ethel Rosenberg
Stokely Carmichael
Massive resistance
W. E. B. DuBois
Medgar Evers
Lyndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Young Lords Party
Jones Act
Pedro Albizo Campos
Commonwealth
Napalm
Ho Chi Minh
Dow Chemical Co
Urban Riots
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Pentagon Papers
Vietnam War
Saigon
Ngo Diem
National Liberation Front
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Mai Lai 4
Tet Offensive
Cambodia
Muhammad Ali
Draft
Anti-war movement
SDS
NAACP
SNCC
CORE
New York Radical Women
WITCH
NOW
Reproductive rights cases 
ERA
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Counter culture
New Left
Old Left
Covert action/CIA
Martin Luther King
Black Panther Party
Non-aligned nation
Little Rock, Arkansas
Tom Hayden
Caesar Chavez
Stonewall Riots
Civil Rights Act, 1964
Wounded Knee
Alcatraz Island 
Kent State Massacre
Poll tax/grandfather clause
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Mattachine Society
Daughter of Bilitis
Liberal Consensus
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinam
Vietnam Veterans against the War
Vietnamization

Weathermen Undergound
 Lyndon Johnson
Watts, Los Angeles
black migration to the North
Julius Lester
urban riots, 1967
National Advisory Committee on Urban Disorders
"Black Power Movement"
Black Panthers
Vietnam War
King, FBI
COINTELPRO
"black capitalism"
 Massive Resistance
Gay Liberation Movement
Stonewall Uprising

Poly Govt Final Exam

Reagan: Foreign policy of, and military spending, Reaganomics, children of, as actor, as corporate spokesman, as governor of California, relationship w/Religious Right, legacy of     

Jimmy Carter
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sandra Day O’Connor
William F. Buckley
Lyndon Johnson
Russel Kirk
Franklin Roosevelt
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Thomas Jefferson
DC v Heller
McDonald v Chicago
Scottsboro Cases
Lawrence v Texas
Bowers v Harwick
Romer v Evans
Atkins v Va
Penry v Lynaugh
Gitlow v. New York
Marbury v. Madison
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Schenk v. United States
Brandenberg v Ohio
Zorach v Clauson
Slaughterhouse Cases 
Earls v. Bd of Ed
Barron v. Mayor of Baltimore
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
Lemon v. Kurtzman
McCollum v. Board of Education
Everson v. Board of Education
Engle v. Vitale
Epperson v. Arkansas
WVA Board of Education v. Barnette
Minersville v. Gobitis
Schenk v U. S.
Marbury v Madison
Furman v Georgia
Gregg v Georgia
Gitlow v. New York
Edwards v Aguillard
Zelman v Simmons-Harris
Minersville v. Gobitis
Sherbert v Verner
Weeks v United States
United States v Santana
Boy Scouts of America v Dale
Miranda v. Arizona
Plessy v Ferguson
Bowers v Hardwick
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Butler Act
Missouri Compromise
Reconstruction Amendments
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Reagan - 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act
14th amendment
Bill of Rights
Establishment Clause
Free Exercise Clause
Establishment / Free Exercise
Judicial Review, Types of
ACLU
voter identification
racial makeup of southern electorate
Great White Switch
Republican Revolution 1994
Nicaragua

Afghanistan
New Christian Right

Popularizer
Military industrial complex
Containment
philosophers, popularizers, philanthropists, and politicians
Keynesnian Economics
Milton Friedman 
Daisy Ad
Vietnam War
Watergate Scandal
6 Conservative principles

Executive, legislative, judicial branches (major powers of each)
Framers of the Constitution
States rights/state sovereignty
Earl Warren/Major Justices
You may bring your notebooks, but not share.
due process
equal protection
civil liberties
judicial review
Dangerous Tendencies Test/Clear and Present Danger
Imminent Lawless Action 
Writ of certiorari
“benevolent neutrality”
“child benefit theory”
Excessive Entanglement Standard
Compelling interest rule
Generally applicable law rule
balanced time
Compelling interest
Generally applicable
Exclusionary rule
Writ of certiorari
Released Time
overlapping jurisdiction
double jeopardy
change of venue
Present Supreme Court, chief justice  
Bill of Rights
operative/prefatory clause 
14th amendment

Friday, June 5, 2015

New Left Presentation Schedule

*Please make sure you have checked your presentation against the rubric. Do establish context by making connections to WWII and the Cold War? Do you explain what the New Left is? Do you have statistical and numerical evidence to support your claim and arguments? Do you have textual evidence, in the form of both primary and secondary sources? Have you checked your slides for errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization?
 
**Please make sure you have checked, double checked, and TRIPLE CHECKED your technology. You will be using the projector and will be able to plug into speakers. Remember, youtube is not available on the schools server and sometimes other sites shut down videos unexpectedly. I advise you to download any clips you want to show. I would even advise you have a backup power point on a flash drive in case there are internet issues.

***Please make sure you have practiced your presentation several times in front of someone. Have you timed it?

****If you have any handouts for the audience, they should be sent to me by 11 pm on SATURDAY night. If not, you will have to make the photocopies yourselves.

8:55 - 9:45
LGBT Liberation Movement (Seniors)

9:50 - 10:35
Women's Liberation Movement (Seniors)

10:40 - 11:35
Antiwar Movement (Seniors)

11:40 - 12:25
Black Power Movement (Seniors)

12:30 - 1:15
Women's Liberation Movement (Juniors)

1:20 - 2:10
Puerto Rican and Chicano Movement (Seniors)

2:15 - 3:10 
LGBT Liberation Movement (Juniors)

3:15 - 4:05
** Extra Credit for students who attend this session
 Black Power Movement (Juniors)

4:10 - 5:00
 Puerto Rican and Chicano Movement (Juniors)
** Extra Credit for students who attend this session

5:00 - 5:50
Antiwar (Juniors)
** Extra Credit for students who attend this session

Friday, May 15, 2015

New Left Presentations

The Presentation

 **There will be 10 presentations spread out during the school day for students and in the evening for parents. 


Your presentation will be based on one of the following movements:

Black Power 
Anti-War
Women's Liberation
Multiculturalism: Latino and Chicano Cultural Movement and/or Red Power 
LGBT Liberation 

Your presentation should be 30-40 minutes and there will also be a 10-15 Q and A session with audience. Your presentation should answer following questions:

1. Why then? Why did the endeavor for this reform get underway when it did?

2. What gains were won?

3. What gains were sought but not won?

4. If the reform was only partially achieved, what limited its attainment?


Rubric for presentation

 HISTORICAL SYNTHESIS AND UNDERSTANDING 

  10 - All group members demonstrate a sharp and sophisticated understanding of the historical time period and the cause and effect relationship between significant events.
     - Accurately discusses WWII, Civil Rights Movement, and/or the Cold War as context.
     - Accurately compares, contrasts, and critiques arguments presented by different historians
     - Accurately responds to questions from audience
     - Uses content vocabulary such as Cold War consensus/liberalism
  8 - Most group members demonstrate an understanding of the historical time period and the cause and effect relationship between significant events.
     - Discusses WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, and/or Cold War as context.
    4 - Demonstrates a basic or superficial understanding of the historical time period and the cause and effect relationship between significant events
   - Attempts to discuss WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, and/or the Cold War as context.
    2 - Demonstrates little or no understanding of the historical time period and the cause and effect relationship between significant events
   - Does not discuss WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, or the Cold War as context

CLAIM AND EVIDENCE

4 -  Group effectively organizes presentation around a clear and complex claim and develops the claim thoughtfully and persuasively using relevant textual, numerical, video, and artistic/musical evidence

3 - Group organizes presentation around a clear and complex claim and develops the claim thoughtfully and persuasively using relevant textual, numerical, video, and artistic/musical evidence

2 - Group attempts to organize presentation around a clear and complex claim and attempts to develop the claim thoughtfully and persuasively using relevant textual, numerical, video, and artistic/musical evidence

1 -  Group does not organize presentation around a clear and complex claim and does not develop the claim thoughtfully and persuasively using relevant textual, numerical, video, and artistic/musical evidence 

SIGNIFICANCE 

4 - Group members insightfully and thoroughly articulate how claim is significant in relation to a larger social, political, or economic issue, and members also use powerful evidence to support said assertion.  

3 - Group members discuss how claim is significant in relation to a larger social, political, or economic issue, and members also use evidence to support said assertion.  

2 -  Group members attempt to discuss how claim is significant in relation to a larger social, political, or economic issue, and members use only anecdotal or no evidence to support said assertion. 

1 - Group members do not discuss how claim  is significant in relation to a larger social, political, or economic issue, and members do not evidence to support said assertion. 

ORAL COMMUNICATION AND ORGANIZATION

4  - Organization of all ideas is logical; includes introduction, background and context, transitions, and conclusion
     - Sophisticated and thorough knowledge of content is evident and presented in an articulate fashion

     - Extensive and effective use of visuals to enhance presentation
     - Effectively answers all questions posed by audience
     - Spoken language is clear, audible, and articulate.
3   - Organization of all ideas is logical; includes introduction, background and context, transitions, and conclusion     
     - Knowledge of content is evident and presented in an articulate fashion
     - Appropriate use of visuals to enhance presentation
     - Answers all questions posed by audience
     - Spoken language is clear, audible, and articulate.
2   - Knowledge of content is somewhat evident
     - Some use of visuals to enhance presentation
     - Answers some questions posed by audience
     - Spoken language is clear and audible.
1   - Knowledge of content is not evident
     - Little use of visuals to enhance presentation
     - Answers some questions posed by audience
     - Spoken language is unclear and inaudible.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Politics and Government - Homework - Due Friday, May 8

From each member:

Final draft of speech and/or questions, printed, and ready to present. Speeches can be printed and pasted on note cards if you prefer.


Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Debate Schedule - Monday, May 11

8:50 - 9:45

The death penalty is consistent with our constitution.


Affirmative: Andrea, Kaya, Kenneth
Negative: Summer, Osvaldo, Madison


9:45 - 10:40

The right to bear arms is an essential component of ordered liberty.

Affirmative: Sam, Quinn, Giancarlo
Negative: Ella, Sara, Sophia

10:40 - 11:35 

Government should improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged students by providing vouchers to attend private and parochial schools.

Affirmative: Jasmine, Ming, Carmen, Nhajee
Negative: Lisa, John, David, Anthony

11:35 - 12:30 

The death penalty is consistent with our constitution.

Affirmative: Isiah, Liam, Zoltan
Negative: Tabatha, Alena, Gabby

1:20 - 2:15 

That religious dress and symbols should be banned in public schools.

Affirmative: Fergus, Radhimir, Shahriyar
Negative: Karisa, Kasey, Stela

Monday, May 4, 2015

Democratizing Twentieth Century America - Homework - Due Tues, May 5

Read the following article and print if possible, take notes, and answer the following questions:

1 - Identify: Immigration and Nationality Act; why was it momentous and significant?

2 - Why/how are "We the People" of 2009 different from "We the People" previous generations?

3 - Discuss ethnic diversity in the Bronx.

4 - Discuss early 20th century immigration.

5 - Identify: McCarran-Walter Act

6 - Why did European emigration to the United States begin to decline after WWII?

7 - How are younger voters different from previous generation?

http://www.newsweek.com/voices-obamas-america-who-we-are-now-78523