Readings:

• G.I. Bill Handout (Word file)
   

• Web page interview w/ historians at:
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec00/gibill_7-4.htm
   

• Actual document of GI Bill

In Class:  Handout and Review Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" (one stanza for each student)

• Download lyrics here
• Download mp3 here
• TEST DOWNLOADING ACROBAT FILES

In Class-

• Notes on GI Bill
• Portions of  Video "The GI Bill"
  (Have DVD version as well)

HW:  Reading from The Fifties by David Halberstam:

"Levittown Houses/Rise of the Suburbs" pgs. 131-143
 

In Class:  Discuss Levittowns & The Rise of Suburbia

McCarthyism Readings:

"McCarthy & the Movies"  pgs. 22-23

Introduce Kerouac book... (Whole book must be read by Thurs. 9/27)

HW Due: Begin Reading The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac suggested  pace--pgs. 3-49

Class Time: View DVD On the Waterfront
(into Chapter #13 of DVD--the wedding scene)

Class Time: Finish DVD On the Waterfront



HW due: Read The Dharma Bums
suggested pace--pgs. 49-94

 

Class Time:  Listen to Beat CD's /Read Beat Poetry

HW due: Read The Dharma Bums
suggested pace--pgs. 94-140

Class Time:  Discussion of On the Waterfront
Any Q's about The Dharma Bums?

Get a head start on next topic--DVD:   The Nuclear Age--The Atomic Cafe (30 minutes)

HW Due: Read The Dharma Bums
suggested pace--pgs. 140-192)

HW Due: Finish Book pgs. 192--244

Class Time: Essay on The Dharma Bums (50 minutes)

HW Due: Reading "Cold War Tensions"  pgs 446-54
Class Time: 

• The Cold War (& Fear of Nuclear Annihilation)
• Review the "hot spots" of the Cold War in:
  • Asia (China, Korea, Vietnam0)
  • Europe (Germany, U.S.S.R.)
  • Middle East (Israel & Egypt)
  • Latin America (Guatemala, Cuba)

In Class:

• Finish up Cold War Notes
• View video clips from The Century on Cold War

HW Due:  Reading "Civil Rights Movement" pgs.  69-76

In Class:

-Overview of '50s Civil Rights
-View portions of The Century w/ Peter Jennings
-(more of Atomic Cafe if time allows...)

HW Due: Reading "The Rise of TV" pgs. 195-202

Class Time:

HW Due: Reading--Excerpt from:
"The Dissenting Fifties" pgs. 112-117

Class time:

-Discuss the birth of rock n' roll
-Listen to 50's tunes
-Outline topics for Test
 

*Rebel Without a Cause

*Seven Year Itch

 

 

 

Test on the 1950's:

• Five of Seven Identifications (25 pts.)
• Three of Four Short Essays (Approx. 2 paragraphs each) (75 pts.)

HW Due--First Readings on 1960's:

• "Sixties Overview" pgs. xvii-xxiii (6 pages)
• Peace Corps Reading pgs. 14-19

In Class: Break down Kennedy Inaugural Address (Windows Media file) 

HW Due: Cold War in the 1960's Reading
"Kennedy & Foreign Policy" pgs 96-102

Class Time: Cold War/Kennedy excerpts from The Century--1960's (if time allows)

HW Due: Civil Rights in the 1960's (Part I)

• "No Easy Walk" (1961-63) pgs 133-138
• "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" pgs. 153-158

In Class:  Video on  Birmingham

HW Due: Civil Rights in the late 1960's (Part II)

• "Say It Loud, Say it Proud"  Black Nationalism/Black Power
  pgs. 103-108
• "The Basis of Black Power" pgs. 116-121

In Class:

Video on early 60's Civil Rights

 Handout: Black Panther Platform "What We Want, What We Believe"

HW Due:

All Read Background on Vietnam- (all in one packet 6 pages long)
           ***FOR PACKET CLICK  HERE***

"Vietnam & the Anti-War Movement (intro)"
"John Kennedy & The 'Domino Theory'"
"The Tonkin Gulf Resolution"
"Lyndon Johnson on 'Why Fight in Vietnam'"
 

• Print out & read just your article for in-class

Group #1-Berner, Freeburg, Gaston
"The Incredible War" pgs. 174-78

Group #2-Chapman, Potocki, Johnson
"Trapped in a System" pgs 178-183

Group #3-Jermain, Smith, Weinberg
"A Time to Say No" & "An Open Letter to Corporations in America" pgs 197-202

Group #4-Pierce, Ventosa, Black
"Vietnam Veterans Against the War" pgs. 219-222

In Class: Why we were in Vietnam; Anti-War protest

HW Due:  Begin Reading Chapters from The Feminine Mystique
(You will not be queried about the readings until Thurs 11/1 so like big boys and girls, read at your own pace)
Suggested pace is to read the Introduction and pgs 15-32 "The Problem That Has No Name"

Class Time: PBS Video "The Pill"

HW Due:  Continue Reading excerpts from The Feminine Mystique
Suggested pace is to finish pgs 258-281 "The Sex Seekers"
 

Class Time: Finish Video on "The Pill" (plus The Century Video) 

HW Due:  Finish Reading excerpts from The Feminine Mystique
Suggest pace is to finish pgs 338-378 "A New Life Plan for Women"
 

Class Time:

• Questions/concerns for the in-class essay on Thursday

In-Class Essay on the 1960's:
The Feminist Movement
(including PBS video "The Pill")

***2ND QUARTER***

HW-NO HW

In Class--Begin DVD "The Graduate"

• "The Counterculture: An Overview" pgs. 124-131

• "Confessions of a Middle-Aged Pot Smoker" & "LSD: The Acid Test" pgs 254-260
  
  In Class-

• Get back Feminine Mystique Essays & quarter grades
• Continue viewing "The Graduate"

HW-Finish Counterculture readings
Two Articles on "Hippies" and "Yippies"

"Jerry Rubin" Primary source reading

 

In Class--

• Finish "The Graduate" (if needed)
• Discussion/notes  on Counterculture

Skip Day

HW-  Read section from the book America's Uncivil Wars--MLK and RFK

In Class--

*Discuss Reading & the "Death of Liberal Hope"

* Video: The Year 1968--Take notes!





 

HW: Woodstock Reading

"Jason Zapator, David Malcolm & Kevin Compton"  Primary source reading

In Class--

• Discussion and some clips from Woodstock the DVD
   

HW:  Organize notes/ terms for test

In Class: 

• Develop a list of terms in class
• Review Sheet (Word) for '60s test--sent to you via school e-mail

Test on the 1960's:

• 25 Fill-Ins (for term identification--no word bank!)
• Three of Four Short Essays

Tuesday 11/20- Day #7

HW:  

• Try to pick up the book, Ladies & Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning
  (You can get a great head start by reading some of it over Thanksgiving if you have a chance)

In Class:

• Various protest music (and Lyrics) of the '60s

• Lyrics sheet (Word) for those not present in class

HW:  Reading "The Seventies as History" pgs. ix-xvi

In Class: 

Discuss some of the potential areas/topics of study--warm up to the 70's

Nixon and the Nation try to put Vietnam to bed

HW-Reading "The War Isn't Over" pgs 91-102
Acrobat Map of Vietnam War
(if you wish)

In-Class--

End of Vietnam War & The "Imperial Presidency"

In-Class--Making Sense of Watergate

Remind students to pick up copies of The Bronx is Burning

• For Both Paperback & Hardcover Editions pgs.  V-X; 3-8; 13-16; 44-66; 76-87

In Class:

• Finish up Watergate Notes (if needed)
• DVD excerpts from All The President's Men
• 2005 Vanity Fair Article on Mark Felt a.k.a. "Deep Throat"
  "I'm the Guy They Called Deep Throat" (9 pages long)

• For Both Editionse123-129; 139-163
                                       

In-Class--Integration/School Busing Reading in class!!!

• Civil Rights in the 70's

• Battle of Boston--Busing Issue

Recommended Pace:

• For Both Editionse 166-172; 175-206
         

In-Class--NO CLASS POWER OUTAGE

(will leave time for some questions on The Bronx is Burning as well) 

Recommended Pace:

• For Both Editionse 206-234; 237-256

In-class--

• Civil Rights issues of the 70's
• DVD on Boston busing

HW-Continue reading Bronx is Burning-Day #5
         Recommended Pace:

*For Both Editionse 257-339 (end)

In Class--Essay on The Bronx is Burning

In Class-Nuclear Power and "No Nukes" Movement--Three Mile Island Video DVD on Three Mile Island nuclear accident

HW-Reading-- 1970's Economy (Spanning Nixon, Ford & Carter presidencies)

In Class-Notes on Energy Crisis/Poor Economy

HW- Read-"From Billie Jean King to Episcopal    Priests: The Women's Movement Matures"

In Class-

• Notes on The Modern Feminist Movement
• Billie Jean King footage (if time allows)

In Class: 

• Get back and go over "Bronx is Burning" Essay
• Video Clips from Billy Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs tennis match 1973

In Class--

• Begin 1970s Movie-Kramer vs. Kramer (starring Brunswick's own Justin Henry)--movie is 1 hour 45 minutes!

HW--Are you thinking about the final exam yet?

In Class--Finish Kramer vs. Kramer
 

HW-Reading "President Carter's Political Failings"

In Class--Review the late '70s domestic problems and discuss foreign policy woes

• Ending Vietnam (Nixon, Kissinger, Christmas Bombings, Paris Peace Treaty, etc.)

• Watergate ( The Crime, Major Players, The Media, etc.)

• Race relations (Integration, Affirmative Action, Court-Ordering Busing, etc.)

• Women's Rights ( ERA, Title IX, etc.)

• The Economy (Inflation, Stagflation, Monetary Policy, etc.)

• Kramer Vs. Kramer  Movie Question

• Foreign Policy Issues (U.S.S.R., Israel/Egypt, Iran)

***DOWNLOAD SPECIAL TERMS/THEMES SHEET HERE***

Skip Day

HW: 

• Word on building a terms list for final exam

• Organize semester notes

In Class:  1980 Olympic team documentary DVD (good review)

LAST FULL CLASS MEETING:

• Review for Final

• Complete class survey...

• End with "We Didn't Start The Fire"  (Lyrics here)

EXAM WEEK

• Receive 2nd quarter & semester grades
• On to your 2nd semester elective (Hopefully Genocide & Human Behavior!!!)