Finishing Up

Be sure to submit your brainstorming sheet to turnitin by the end of the day today, Friday, 6/3.
Be sure to submit your final to turnitin by 8:10 A.M on Monday, 6/6. There are two assignments for your submission. The first should be Part I (the four rooms of the museum). Turnitin will currently accept the following file types: 

• Microsoft Word® (.doc / .docx)1
• OpenOffice Text (.odt)2
• Google Docs via Google Drive™ (.gdoc files are NOT acceptable)3
• WordPerfect®  (.wpd)
• PostScript (.ps/.eps)
• Adobe® PDF4
• Microsoft PowerPoint® (.pptx, .ppt, .ppsx, and .pps)5
• Microsoft Excel® (.xls and .xlsx)6
• HTML 
• Rich text format (.rtf)
• Plain text (.txt)
• Hangul Word Processor file (.hwp)

In addition to uploading it to turnitin, if you have a visual presentation, please also email the link to me.

The second assignment to be uploaded to turnitin should be Parts II and III that you need to put into the same document. That means your Preamble Essay (making an argument about one of your rooms) and your Inaugural Address must be part of the same document before you submit. 

Be sure to check out these TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL FINALS WRITING prior to submitting your work.

Final Exam

2nd Semester Final Exam
2nd Semester Final Brainstorming Sheet
2nd Semester Final Rubric

Harvard Graduate School of Education commencement address-notice the allusions to other documents, events and people in American History.

Getting to the Finish Line

We'll close our gathering of new material with looks at the last two episodes of the Century:
Starting Over (here is the guided viewing sheet)
A New World (take your own notes)

Before we get into the final episode, we'll reflect on how our studies still are impacting the world around us by briefly considering these current events articles:
Here is an article from this morning's New York Times about President Obama visiting Hiroshima.

Here is an opinion piece reflecting on President Obama's visit to Vietnam this week.

Here is an opinion piece on the "new" New Left.

Presidencies in Turmoil

Today, you'll work with a partner to try to make some conclusions about two of the more controversial presidencies of the 20th Century: Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. You'll use the framework of the preamble to make your conclusions. Here is the form that you'll use for your analysis: Presidencies in Turmoil.
Here are your partners for this work:
Eli/Andrew
Jesus/Dani
Seth/Hope
Sarah/Zoe
Charlie/Zach
Alina/Will
Isabel/Meshi
Luke/Allison
Matt/Anthony
Talia/Miles/Gil

Here is a link to the Portfolio checklist.

Great Society Conclusions and Your Final

Today, we'll begin by discussing your Final Exam Portfolio.
After ensuring that everyone is clear on the different elements of the Final, students will spend the rest of the period finishing up their work on the Great Society from Friday. Please note that there an additional question has been added to #6 and copied below.

b) In what ways were the Great Society programs influential to the New Movements and Rights Revolution that you read about for HW today or were Great Society programs responses to the New Movements and Rights Revolution? Explain your answer.

The Great Society

After a continued discussion about the end of the Vietnam War and Dear America we'll backtrack and explore Lyndon Johnson's domestic programs, The Great Society.
Here is a link to our work for the day: Evaluating the Great Society

One Soldier's Story and a Country in Turmoil

Here is our work for today: Country in Turmoil Web Activity

Below are links stemming from Mr. Schaefer's presentation.  If you missed it, last year's version of it is posted below.  Your notes will be included in your portfolio.

Jon Schaefer Presentation (2015)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Here are the "9 rules" given to American soldiers in Vietnam.

Here are the pictures that Mr. Schaefer used in his presentation.

Here is the Wikipedia article that he referenced about the battle that he was in. Battle of Suoi Bong Trang.

Here is Mr. Schaefer's list of"Considerations Before Going to War".