APUSH

April 23

Sorry it has been a crazy couple of weeks since I updated! EOCs got the best of me.

Tonights homework was the Period 2 DBQ in your AMSCO book!

Also - reminder that we will have FOUR sessions this week. Here are the leftover sessions:

• April 24 - Period 5
• April 25 - Period 8 and 9
• April 26 - AP Practice Test
• April 27 - DBQ Writing Practice
• May 1 - Long Essay Practice
• May 4 - ALL Day study session SRA and Multiple Choice Practice after school. If we get to the MC during the day, we will cancel after school session.
• Remember, EVERYONE must come to 4.

See you on Tuesday!

April 10

Today we took our period 8 test. Chapter 30 is due next class. Focus questions below:

1. Discuss the issues that led to the rise of conservatism

1. Explain Reagans effect on the economy
2. Discuss our involvement in other countries during Reagan
3. How did George Bush impact the Cold War?
4. Discuss Bush' foreign policy including the Gulf War
5. Discuss Clintons challenges and successes
6. How is life different in the 2000s?

April 6, 2017

Hey all! Today we did a lot. We HIPPed docs about Anti-War protests, learned about Black Power and the Black Panthers, and we had a Vietnam War draft. We also had a Socratic Seminar!

Reminders - YOU HAVE A TEST NEXT CLASS! It will include a TIMED long essay. If you would like a hint on the topic, send me a remind text that tells me which US President was involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal. Also, the study session April 13 was moved to Monday April 24!

Here are the questions from Socratic Seminar:

1. How did the Watergate Scandal affect America's view of the federal government?

2. Why were people opposed to the Vietnam War?

3. Discuss the growth of immigration and demands for minority rights.

Homework: Presidential Profiles Eisenhower - Carter

study for your test!

Below you will find the PPT on Civil Rights! We covered the Black Power part, but the whole thing may be helpful to you!

April 4, 2017

Hey ya'll! Today we ranked the following Civil Rights cases based on success and advancement for the movement:

•Birmingham Campaign

•Freedom Riders

•Brown v Board

•Civil Rights Act of 1964

•Voting Rights Act of 1965

•Black Power/Black Revolution

•Bus Boycott

•March on Washington

•Nonviolent Resistance

Then, we completed a timed summative DBQ. Hope you did well! Next class: Socratic Seminar!

Chapter 29 is due next class! It would not let me embed the questions, so here they are:

Chapter 29 Focus Questions

Please keep in mind when answering these questions you can’t just write “Gulf of Tonkin”. You ACTUALLY have to write what that is and what it did or you are wasting your time. =)

1. Discuss Nixon’s foreign policy, including the end of the Vietnam War, important legislation, and détente with China and the Soviet Union

2. What sort of programs and policies occurred under the Nixon administration?

3. What was Watergate and what was the overall outcome for Nixon and the American people?

4. Gerald Ford’s presidency included what events?

5. What are successes and failures of the Carter Administration?

6. Why did America shift to conservatism?

March 31, 2017

Today we read pages 28 and 29 in our FAT Packet and answered the questions.

We then did a practice timed writing with documents from pages 22-27.

Below are the focus questions for chapter 28

March 29, 2017

Today we covered the Truman years. We created a list of social changes (get from a friend) and then we took a mini quiz. If you missed it, come see me to make up. If you don't like your grade, retake it.

We then played a communist game and did Socratic Seminar.

Our question was "What efforts did the US take in stemming communism during the Truman administration". We looked at the documents in the FAT Packet about Iron Curtain, United nations, Truman Doctrine, McCarthyism, and Marshall Plan.

Homework is chapter 27 and focus questions.

March 15, 2017

Today we took Period 7 test. Yes it goes on this nine weeks.

Have an excellent Spring Break! Remember you have chapter 26 due when you return! Focus questions are below!

March 13, 2017

Hey guys! Don't forget, all work due before noon tomorrow, and test retakes will be after school. Today we played a review game, and I have attached the powerpoint to the multiple choice practice. Click here for important vocab from the period. Make sure you bring your President profiles - T.Roosevelt - Truman on Wednesday. Don't forget to check out APUSHreview.com if you need some flipped video review.

March 9., 2017

Today we did a Socratic Seminar for WW2, I left the questions at school...so I will update tomorrow! Review on Monday and Presidential profiles T. Roosevelt - Truman is due on test day: Wednesday!

March 7, 2017

Today we finished our video clips. We also looked at the homework and created a DBQ question that related to our documents. We then create a long essay outline for the question "What event of series of events was the turning point that shifted U.S. foreign policy from isolationism to interventionism in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

You had to come up with Context, thesis, arguments, and synthesis.

For homework tonight: Pages 90-96 in FAT Packet and complete page 112.

Next class: Socratic Seminar over WW2

March 3, 2017

Fun today learning about the WW2 events. I have attached the timeline we did, with the lesson. It was lots of fun! Gabbie gets no more hints for the rest of the year ya'll!

Also, today we started our WW2 through media clips. I will sprinkle them along the way, next class, and the class after. Attached you will find the timeline activity we did.

Homework: Read, annotate, and HIPPO the docs on pages 83 -89

March 1, 2017

Hey guys! Sorry I am getting this post up late. In class we discussed the legacy of the New Deal and did a New Deal sort. We also completed a venn diagram on Hoover vs. Roosevelt's policies. Next class Chapter 25 is due with focus questions. See below!

February 27, 2017

Hey all! Today was so so fun! Thanks for making my job easy =)

Today in class we did page 110 in our FAT Packet and the Family Budget simulation. Who won? I'll let you know next class!

My favorite part of the day was when I told you all there were yellow sticks hidden around the classroom. You all looked like a scene from Willy Wonka. Haha! Anyways, I hope you saw the connection with what we were doing and what a struggle it was during the Great Depression.

Homework: Complete a DBQ essay using the question and docs from pages 75-79. Also I am attaching the rubric here so you can use it! Try to time yourself to just 55 minutes!

Next class: Socratic Seminar over the Great Depression, including a talk about the New Deal and it's effects, and Hoover and Roosevelt's responses. Don't forget next week I am showing a movie after school TUES/THURS for extra credit.

February 23, 2017

Good Afternoon! Today we did the following:

1. Page 111 in FAT Packet - fill out, get from friend. Lots of important stuff from Harlem Renaissance!

2. In class we did socratic seminar using docs to support.

- We used these documents: page 59, 61, 64, and 66-71. We skimmed the docs, found the purpose and answered these Socratic seminar questions:

• What business philosophies were practiced in the 1920s?
• How were things changing for minorities (women, black, immigrants)
• Explain why nativism arose in the 1920s
• Other questions we didn't get to, but I want you to think of:
  • What challenges arose in education and religion?
  • Explain the technological advancements and culture surrounding heroes?
• HOMEWORK:
  • Please take the survey below so I can plan which simulation we will do for Great Depression and complete Chapter 24 and Focus Questions!

February 21, 2017

Today we debate the Treaty of Versailles, and France won! I have to say it was probably my favorite day in AP US this year, you all were awesome! Homework is to read chapter 23 and do the Focus Questions!

February 16, 2017

Happy WW1 learning day!

First we completed the graphic organizers below and filled in important events that occurred. We added "Reasons for U.S. entry into the war". That was fun.

Next, we did a DBQ practice that used page 113 of your FAT packet to analyze the documents. Here were the directions:

•Turn to page 113 in your FAT Packet

•Big Question:

–Was American involvement in WW1 necessary?

•Use the Documents to answer the question. Fill out the Graphic Organizer as you go!

–Docs: 38 (Zimmerman Note), 39 (War Message), 40 (Anti-War Speech)

Make sure to do the back! Next we put you into groups of France, Britain, or America. You need to look over your briefing sheet for your country. Your goal is to UNDERSTAND what it is your country WANTS from the Treaty of Versailles. If you were not here, message me to get a country/briefing sheet.

Homework:

• •Read Fat packet pages 45-58

•Annotate and complete a “one pager” . This one pager has instructions that you will find below.

February 14, 2017

Happy Valentines Day! Hope you all had a great day!

First, we read pages 36 and 37 in FAT packet and answered the questions.

Second, we discussed the FDA, The Jungle, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Watch the video below!

We had a Socratic Seminar today and here where the questions:

1. Give examples of how progressives responded to political, economic, and social concerns.

2. Which progressive president was most effective?

3. What did Progressives do for African Americans and women?

4. How does Roosevelt's New Nationalism compare to other's before or after him? Who would agree with his policy, and who wouldn't?

February 10th - Progressives!

I was out today and you filled out pages 30 -33 in your FAT packet and read, annotate and answer the questions for 34-35. Great job!

Tonights homework is to watch and LISTEN to flipped video on Progressive Presidents. Only take notes on what you did not already take notes on from your reading. If you read and took notes correctly, there should not be a whole lot except for some things about TR and Wilson. Have a great weekend! Flipped Video Below!

February 8th - the day we learned about Taft's money train to the US =)

Today in class we went over the Imperialism notes, attached below. We also finished our charts from homework and created our own political cartoons, due next class! Chapter 21 is due next class, and it is over the Progressive Era! Think...Progress! Attached are the notes and the PPT. I will be out from 830-915 on Friday, and you will have an assignment in your FAT Packet. Come for test retakes study hall, raider nation, or after school Tuesdays and Thursdays! Keep your heads up!

February 6, 2017

Happy Monday!

Today we started Period 7 and day 1 out of 2 of Imperialism. if you didn't read your chapter, please make sure you read it, or you will be missing valuable information that will help you connect the pieces. Friendly reminder, it is virtually impossible to pass the class without actively doing your homework.

Today we went over docs on pages 7-15 in our Fat Packet and discussed whether these docs presented an anti-imperialist view or an imperialist view. We then participated in a Socratic Seminar where you had to speak from the perspective of your document. This was mainly to gain practice looking at and analyzing documents. You guys did a great job.

Questions from seminar:

• 1. Was American imperialism necessary?
• 2. Where does the authority for Imperialism come from?

HOMEWORK was to complete the readings on America's involvement in different countries and fill out the chart.

If you were in Group 1 you will read and fill out the chart for these countries:

–China

–Hawaii

–Mexico

–Puerto Rico

–Phillipines

Group 2 will read and fill out the chart for these countries:

–Panama

–Dominican Republic

–Cuba

–Russia

–Japan

While completing the chart, here is a guide:

• •The Good – What was good about American Involvement

•The Bad- What was bad about American involvement

•The Ugly – the lasting impact of American Imperialism

Period 7 Fat Packet Below!

February 2, 2017

Tests and Blurry political cartoons that are hard to see..

Today we tested on Period 6. If you missed it, come make it up. Also, passed out chapter 20 focus questions. Will have the Fat packet up over the weekend. Ya'll, we are about to get into the most interesting parts of American History. Keep up and don't fall behind!

Homework: Read chapter 20 and do Cornell notes with the Focus Questions.

January 31, 2017

Today we took a DBQ test over Robber Barons v Captains of Industry. We also passed out info regarding the AP test! Make sure to sign up!

Test on Thursday over Period 6:

• 22 Multiple Choice
• 2 Short Answer
• 6 Vocab/Significance
• And you will complete 1 Venn Diagram from two listed on your test. The two that will be listed will be chosen out of this list:
  • African American Leaders
  • Social Gospel/Gospel of wealth/Social Darwinism
  • Labor Unions
  • Old v. New immigrants
  • You will need to explain your answer in a paragraph.
• Extra Credit! If you want extra credit, create a political cartoon from any topic from Period 6!

January 27, 2017

Friday in class we did a Socratic Seminar over chapter 19. We read page 57 in our FAT packet, and also looked at 58 and how the Wizard of Oz correlates to Populism. The questions asked in seminar were:

1. Which approach best works in America? Laissez Faire or government regulation of business?

2. Which Gilded Age President was most effective and least effective?

3. Should high or low tariffs be instituted?

For homework, study for that DBQ in class Tuesday! it's about the Men Who Built America. Also, be working on your presidential profiles, due Thursday. Grant-McKinley. The sheet for that is attached below

January 25, 2017

Happy Wednesday! Today we discussed new vs. old immigrants, looked at some notes, added to our notes from the APUSH Gilded Age PPT (near the end) and then went over different attitudes Americans had about immigrants. I have attached what we did in class. If you need the PPT, scroll down. At the end of class, we also discussed problems and reforms that occurred. We will pick up there next class.

Homework: Chapter 19, with Focus Questions, see below!

January 23, 2017

Hey AP Scholars! Today we participated in a socratic seminar after viewing documents 45-51 in our FAT Packet. We used them as evidence, so if you missed, make sure you know them! You can also look at the PPT below to find them.

Here were the Socratic seminar Questions you missed today that would be helpful for your notes:

• What were the major philosophies of major industrialists during the Gilded age?
• To what extent do you see Social Darwinism and gospel of wealth today?
• Discuss the frontier and West - progresses and problems
• Discuss the different strategies by African American leaders-which do you think is more effective?

Homework is Chapter 18, please remember what I said in class:

• Focus questions are guiding questions to create C-Notes. I will not give you ANY credit for one sentence answers. Only those who answer using evidence from the text will get any sort of credit.
• Please highlight and annotate your notes, this will help you as you study.
• Below are Chapter 18 Focus Questions
• As always, send me remind text with questions if you have any, or email laura.vignon@mnps.org
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January 19, 2017

Hey all! We discussed Robber Barons v. Captains of Industry today. The PPT is below, and we covered slides " 26-64. We also read page 31and 32 in our FAT packet in preparation for Socratic Seminar on Thursday. Attached you will find Chapter 17 focus questions (see below under January 17) and click here to get the guided notes that you can use instead of Focus Questions. Chapter 17 due next class.

Thanks for a great day! Email me if you have questions!

January 17, 2017

Hope you enjoyed Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Today in class we discussed DBQs and how to grade! You will find the packet below! Homework tonight was to read chapter 16, write C-Notes on the Focus Questions and read/annotate. The focus questions are below, under January 12. I also put chapter 17 focus questions below! Hope you all have a wonderful night!

These are the FOCUS Questions for Chapter 17, chapter 16 is below!

January 10, 2017

AP- Women's Rights and all that Jazz!

Today we covered women's rights, finished our Women's history notes, and introduced the DBQ. We also discussed women's rights in separate spheres. If you have questions, make sure to send them to me!

Homework due on Thursday January 12:

• Watch the DBQ Video and write notes on your DBQ Rubric, page 1 of your DBQ Packet.
• HIPPO the documents that were for homework last night if you haven't already
  • documents in FAT PACKET pages 13-17:
  • Documents: A,B,C,D, G, H
• Please analyze the women's rights timeline on pages 1 and 2 of your FAT Packet
  • Pick the six most important events, as you see it, and transfer them to your timelines on pages 71 and 73
  • Make sure to have a reason for picking those 6

January 6, 2017

Homework! Snow Day Stuff

Hey all! The snow day threw a wrench in our planning. Thank you to those of you who either A. made it to class or B. stopped by before leaving and picked up your documents. No worries to those of you who couldn't make it, it was sort of scary out there! Anyways, we only got to have half a class. If you missed, you are responsible for getting yourself caught up from what we did today AND the homework.

If you missed class, here is what we did:

• Read Pages 5 and 29 : Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and "Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth from the FAT Packet . We discussed these three questions you should be prepared for:
  • •What does this short story tell us about what women are seeking?
  • What does it tell us about marriages in the late 1800s? (Chopin)
  • What are women’s ultimate goal in their struggle for rights?
• Started the Powerpoint on Women's History and the Guided Notes. We got to slide 14.(I will finish this in next class)

Homework for tonight:

• •Read and Annotate Pages7-16 in FAT packet
• HIPP the documents on pages 13-17:
• Documents: A,B,C,D, G, H

Final Notes:

if you go to the APUSH Powerpoint and Notes page, you will find your new Fat Packet, DBQ Packet, and Guided Cornell Notes for the above. If you have no place to print, I expect detailed notes on the readings. Please also remember you were required to get the AMSCO American History Book 2016 Edition. If you do not have them, the chapters are below, you will need to print them yourself and they do not always have vocab attached.

Have wonderful weekend and I will see you all Tuesday! If you are missing Tuesday for the ACT, you may want to plan staying after school that day or Thursday to get caught up!

Are you worried about the DBQ? Check out this video before class to get an understanding of it!

Review for APUSH Final Exam