US History
Objectives:
- Explain the international and domestic tensions resulting from the Cold War.
- Analyze the American government’s effort to investigate citizen’s loyalty and its effects on society.
- Identify John F. Kennedy’s ideas and dealings with the Cold War.
- Analyze the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and Berlin Crisis and their effect on American politics.
- Analyze the political effect of the Cold War and Kennedy’s failures on American politics.
Bell Ringer:
Review 2/3/4 Formative Assignments
Activities:
- Formative Assignments:
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- To score a 2: #4 GR McCarthyism Quiz, #5 Poisoned Dreams GV and #6 HUAC Discussion.
- To score a 3: What’s Up Doc? Space Race
- To score a 4: McCarthyism CLAssign
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- Formatives must be done by Midnight!!!
- Preview Summative about HUAC
IB 20th Century World
Objectives:
- Understand what empathy means and evaluate McNamara’s claims for its value and use as a foreign policy tool.
- Analyze and interpret the most important documents of the missile crisis to gain insight into the policy choices facing U.S. and Soviet leaders.
- Delineate the values surrounding international efforts to regulate war and analyze the role of bombing in modern warfare.
- Evaluate the role of ethics and proportionality in warfare and explore a framework for analyzing political violence and war.
- Investigate the role the film’s structure and form play in its meaning by considering the choices the director made with respect to the film’s genre—history or memoir?
Bell Ringer:
Move into assigned Groups/See chart to right.
Activities:
- Review Fog of War Stations/Roles
- Activity A Empathy
- Activity B Rationality Related to Cuba
- Activity C Proportionality as Guideline to War
- Activity D A Just War
- Activity E Film As Media.
- Begin Rotations (Will to two rotations today)
