Mr. Owens
History Teacher
Summer Academy 2020
Monday 06/15
Objective: Students will understand classroom policies and procedures.
Task: 1) Introductions/Expectations
2) Journal #1 activity
3) Large Assignments discussion
4) Group Activity
Tuesday: 06/16
Objective: Students will explain the motives for American Imperialism and American influence from 1890-1920
1) Go over Spanish American War Prezi-Watch Crash Course Video to fill out questions
2) Read "American Imperialism"
3) Fill out using bullet points "American Imperialism Graphic Organizer"
Wednesday 06/17
Objective: Students will examine the effects of WWI on the United States and the decades of isolationism that followed.
Task: 1) Go over Prezi
2) Read and answer questions for "US Entry into WWI"
3) Fill out "While, Ultimately, Therefore" Thesis Frame and be ready to share in group discussion.
Thursday 06/18
Objective: Students will analyze the role of the United States in the peace treaty and its retreat into decades of isolationism.
1) Go over "Treaty of Versailles" Prezi
2) Read and Answer Questions for "Sedition in WWI"
3) While, Ultimately, Therefore-Was Wilson actually a proponent of the freedoms expressed in his 14 points?
-Develop thesis on your own and be prepared to share.
Friday 06/19
Objective: Students will examine how the US began to break away from Isolationism under FDR's presidency.
1) Go over US Enter WWII Prezi
2) Read "Lend Lease and Atlantic Charter"
3) Complete "Lend Lease Paragraph"
Monday 06/22
Objective: Students will examine what battles lead to a successful military campaign in the European Theater.
1) Go over Allied Victories Europe Prezi
2) Read Allied Victories Europe
3) Fill out Major Battle Graphic Organizer-Europe
Tuesday 06/23
Objective: Students will examine how the war was fought to determine post WWII foreign policy and the rise of interventionism.
Task: 1) Go over Allied Victories in the Pacific Prezi
2) Read Allied Victories Pacific
3) Fill out Major Battle Graphic Organizer-Pacific
Wednesday 06/24
Objective: Students will identify the origins of the Cold War in 1945 and how the US became an interventionist nation for the next 50 years.
Task: 1) Go over WWII Aftermath Prezi
2) Read "The Economic Impact of WWII"
3) Answer What was the economic impact of WWII
Thursday 06/25
Objective: Students will analyze other methods of fighting a "Cold War" and how interventionism isn't always violent.
Task 1) Go over Cold War Prezi
2) Read and answer questions for "Who Started the Cold War"
Friday 06/26
Objective: Students will examine how interventionist policy lead to the first "hot" conflict of the Cold War.
Task: 1) Go over Korean War Prezi-You will need to use the Prezi to help you fill out the graphic organizer.
2) Fill out and Read Korean War Packet
3) Read North Korea-History
4) Fill out the Exit Ticket-Who started the Korean War
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Monday 06/29
Objective: Students will examine how Brinksmanship was a guiding interventionist policy until we almost blew up the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Task: 1) Go over Cold War Latin America Prezi
2) Fill out "Cuban Missile Crisis Readings/Questions
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Tuesday 06/30
Objective: Students will examine how the Domino Theory lead to one of America's longest wars.
Task: 1) Go over Vietnam Background Powerpoint
2) Watch CNN the 60's Vietnam
3) Fill out Gulf of Tonkin Reading/Questions
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Wednesday 07/01
Objective: Students will analyze how the American public came to dislike the Vietnam war and protest American interventionism.
Task: 1) Go over Vietnam Unfavorable War Prezi-Use Prezi to answer the "Vietnam An Unpopular War" Graphic Organizer
2) Go over Vietnam-An Unfavorable War PPT.
3) Drawing from your knowledge answer Vietnam An Unpopular War Exit Ticket
Thursday 07/02
Objective: Students will examine the cooling off of the Cold War and the attempted break in interventionist policy and how the Cold War came to an end
Task 1) Go over Cold War Ends Prezi
2) Read and Answer "Cold War Thaws"