The US War on Terrorism (A Young People’s History Chapter 24)

Introduction: What was voter turnout like at the 2000 presidential elections and why?

Vocabulary: (Quizlet)

Videos: 2000 Presidential Election (SNL parody), 9-11, Crash Course, Patriot Act,
the US in Afghanistan

A Close Election

1. What did Bush and Gore have in common?
2. Who was the third candidate and what issues were on his platform?
3. What was the rare result of the 2000 presidential winner?
4. Why was Florida’s popular vote in doubt?
5. Why did Bush have an advantage in Florida?
6. How did the US Supreme Court get involved and what was the significance of their ruling?

The Terrorist Attack and the Response

1. What did Congress rush to do?
2. What does the Constitution say about the US going to war?
3. Who was the only member of Congress to disagree of giving Bush the power to declare war?
4. Who did the US believe was responsible for 9-11?
5. Why did Bush bomb Afghanistan?
6. What was the effect of bombing Afghanistan?
7. What were some victims of 9-11 doing?
8. What were critics of bombing Afghanistan saying?
9. What were some of the complaints from the Islamic world about the US?
10. Who was Robert Bowman and what did he say?

US History: The End of the 20th Century

A Young People’s History, Chapter 23

Vocabulary: (Quizlet) Videos: Clinton, Waco, WTO Protest in Seattle,
Extra: Battle in Seattle (2007)

Introduction:

1. Even when the US wasn’t at war, what was the government doing?

 And what was its effect?

Moving Toward the Middle

1. Why was America hopeful?
2. What did Clinton do to win?
3. What was disappointing about Clinton?
4. Why was Waco a disaster FBI mission?
5. How was Clinton no different from other presidents?

Choices

1. America was the richest country in the world, but what was the problem?
2. Which statistic on the wealth gap was the most striking to you and why?
3. What sources of money were available for social safety nets?
4. What was Clinton’s legacy?

Vision of Change

1. What weren’t Democrats or Republicans willing to do?
2. What was ignored by the media?
3. How did the living wage movement start?
4. Why did the Seattle protesters protest free trade agreements? What was their goal?
5. What did the media focus on?
6. Was the Seattle protest successful?

Week 29: Consent, African Societies and Empires

Math:

Science: Sex Ed: Consent (Quizlet, Videos:1, 2, 3, When Your Date Doesn’t Hear the Word No,  ) Essay: Write a small essay about what body sovereignty means to you.

Geography: Chapter 15 Societies and Empires of Africa,
Unit 1 North and Central African Societies (Quizlet),
Supply and Demand Video, The Almoravids, Crash Course 16,

1. What elements are necessary for mutually successful trade?
2. How do scarcity and abundance affect trade?
3. What was the effect of the Almohad rule on the Maghrib?

Spanish: Review -ER verbs and write 20 sentences

Writing:

US History: A Young People’s History Part 2, Chapter 20, “Under Control?”

Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapters 6-11 (Vocabulary: 6-10, 11) Is Atticus a Good Father?

After Chapter 6, take a quiz.

Chapter 6 Questions:
Why does Scout disapprove of Jem's and Dill's plan of looking in at one of the Radleys' windows?
What does Mr. Nathan Radley know about the intruders in his garden?
Why does Miss Stephanie refer to a “negro” over whose head Mr. Nathan has fired?
Why does Dill's explanation of Jem's state of dress almost land him in trouble?

After Chapter 11, do a review.

The Vietnam War for 7th Grade

We are still in the 1960s, A Young People’s History (Zinn), Chapter 18 focuses on the American war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement.

Videos: 1960s Crash Course, Khan Academy, Ted-Ed (Ho Chi Minh Trail),

Al-Jazeera (Mai Lai), Ron Kovic, Anti-War Movement,  PBS (Pentagon Papers),

Ted-Ed (Nixon)

Vocabulary: Quizlet

(Khan Video: reviews Cold War vocabulary: containment, Domino Effect, introduces: French colonization, Diem, Bay of Tonkin Resolution)

Communism and Combat

1. Why did the US help France bomb Vietnam in 1946?
2. What did the 1952 secret memo say about SE Asia?
3. What did a 1954 memo say?
4. What kind of leader was Diem?
5. What did the US do when they saw Diem was losing control?
6. What was one of the first things LBJ did in office?
7. Who has the power to declare war in the US? How was war declared in Vietnam?
8. What happened in Mai Lai?
9. What was kept from the US public?

This Madness Must Cease

1. What kinds of people started the antiwar movement?
2. How did the antiwar movement even infect the government?
3. How did journalism help reveal government lies?
4. How did the Vietnam war end?

A Young People's History, Chapter 15, “Hard Times”

Post WW1:

Influenza epidemic, IWW leaders in jail, the Communist Revolution in Russia,
mass immigration into the US, women could vote

Seattle’s General Strike (1919):

One of many strikes across the US, what was special about this one?

Vocabulary (Quizlet)

The Truth About the 20’s (Video: The Roaring 20s)

1. What was this decade also called?
2. 1924 immigration law
3. Why do you think the KKK made such a comeback?

The Great Depression (Hoover’s Role)

1. How did the stock market and banking system trigger the Great Depression?
2. What are some examples of the worst jobs and who worked them?
3. Warehouses were full of food and clothes, there were empty houses, so why were 15 million people out of work?
4. What did veterans of WW1 do and how were they treated?

Struggling to Survive

1. What were the goals of the New Deal?
2. What were some criticisms of the New Deal, and were the critics right?
3. What powerful truth did working people discover?
4. How were people helping themselves?
5. Who was hit hardest by the Great Depression and what did they do?
6. After all this change, what still remained the same?

Literature

• John Steinbeck
• The Harlem Renaissance, read “Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes (Video)

Robber Barons and Rebels: Post-Civil War Reconstruction to the “Gilded Age "

The free online handouts I found for  "Young People's History", ended at Chapter 10. There is a handout for $1 at Teachers Pay Teachers, but I just made my own.

Learning Questions: What myths did people believe that helped maintain
the wealth of the Robber Barons and who reinforced such beliefs?

One thing to remind the student is about the idea of Social Darwinism was also

popular at that time, as well as the myth of the American Dream, which this chapter

goes into detail over.

Important Concepts/Vocabulary

1. Monopoly
2. Socialism
3. Communism
4. Anarchy
5. Capitalism
6. Manifesto
7. Populism

Questions:

1. What was the new technology and its effects?
2. What did such progress demand and who was affected?
3. What was the response to immigrants? Be specific
4. The greatest period of economic growth looked like a _____. Explain it’s shape.

The Rich Get Richer

1. Who were the Robber Barons? Where did they come from and how did they amass their wealth?
2. What beliefs did people have that maintained the myth/pyramid and who helped control people’s mind?
3. What was a “great American achievement”? And how is that also a “myth”?
4. What does Monopoly Capitalism support and undermine?

Voices of Protest

1. Which European ideas were considered “dangerous” and why?
2. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1877): What was it’s purpose?
3. How was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act undermined 20 years later?
4. What were some great movements during this time?

The Haymarket Affair

1. How did we get an 8 hour workday?
2. Why did people around the world and Chicago protest the harsh sentences of the 8 men?

Rise and fall of the Populist Party

1. What was the platform of the Farmers Alliance?
2. What did the Populists believe in?
3. What were the internal divisions within the Populist Party?
4. What became of the Populist party?
5. How was William McKinley like Donald Trump?

Important People:

1. Thomas Edison
2. Gustavus Swift
3. John D. Rockefeller
4. Andrew Carnegie
5. President Grover Cleveland
6. Senator John Sherman
7. Henry George
8. Edward Bellamy
9. August Spies
10. Eugene Debs
11. William McKinley

Chapter 11 Test

Extra:

1. Two Forms of Capitalism: a.) Adam Smith b.) Corporate Capitalism
2. Who was Mother Jones?

Zinn's Chapter 11 (Not the "Young People's" version)

7th Grade Homeschooling Week 13:

She is continuing her Mandarin, geography at her own pace, and will be finishing her writing, math and Mandarin by the Lunar New Year. As for Math, we are experimenting with an English online class and this week it's trying their Pre-Algebra Review. If she likes the format we will give the first Algebra Unit a try and pay for the class after CNY.

I.Science:Focus on Life Science Chapter 8 lesson 2, Early Earth’s History (Quizlet)

Videos: Cyanobacteria, Stromatolites (start at 2:50)

II. History: A Young Person’s History Chapters 1-5 Review and Catching Up

III. Spanish: Meat in Spanish, Dairy in Spanish. Bakery in Spanish (Quizlet)
Simple Future Tense: "Voy a comer" (I am going to eat...) and Verb IR (to go)

Spanish Review Games: COLORES, ¿CÓMO ESTÁS? , COSAS DEL COLEGIO, Numeros 1-12 , LAS FRUTAS

IV. Reading: “The Gold Bug” by Edgar Allan Poe

Vocabulary: Write each in a sentence

Post-Reading Review/test (Quizlet)

V. Math:Pre-Algebra Review + Khan Academy