Week 35: Homework and Activities

Lesson Plans and Activities, Week 33 (April 20-April 24)
Daily Activities and Homework, April 20th through April 24th

MON: Planners for the week!
MOVIE: The Weapon’s Race
** Turn in your Cold War Rotation Stations WS by today!

TUE: Green Sheet: Imagine you are the only person on Earth who can see in color.
How would you describe what the world looks like to everyone
else who can ONLY see in black and white?
In Class Reading: pages 800-805
*WS#66 goes w/ reading and has VOCAB!

HW: Finish WS #66, if not completed by end of class!


WED: EARTH DAY! Earth Day fun!
The Other America by Michael Harrington
*WS #72 and WS #78
HW: WS #66, #72, and #78 due TOMORROW if not
completed in class!

THU: Green Sheet: In what ways did Route 66 contribute to the American dream? How?
The 50’s Woman

FRI: Profile: Jackie Robinson
HW: ?s from “The 50s Woman and Jackie Robinson”
Due Monday if not finished in class!



OBJECTIVES
To explain the US and World foreign policies leading to the Cold War: Truman Doctrine, NATO, Warsaw Pact, and Marshall Plan
To describe the impact of the Cold War on the US
To analyze the origins of the Cold War and containment policies
To explain how fear of communism affected international relations and domestic politics
To connect the “American Dream” of 1950 with the “American Dream” of 2000.
To relate to the hysteria and suspicion of “McCarthyism”

SS STANDARDS
Strand 2: Civics/ Government Concept 5: Government Systems of the World, PO2
Strand 1: American History Concept 9: Postwar US, P.O. 1, and P.O. 2