1970s

Apparel for today's class could include, platform shoes, leisure suits, mini skirts and go go boots. We are excited to see what you wear for our 1970s celebration!

Apprentice

Complete all of the following:

1. Read A History of Us, volume 10, chapters 36-37

2. Write the definitions to the following terms from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy on notecards:

• Khmer Rouge
• Ayatollah Khomeini
• Anwar Sadat
• Margaret Thatcher
• Bakke decision
• Kent State
• Pentagon Papers
• Watergate
• Roe vs. Wade
• Three Mile Island
• boat people
• guerilla warfare

3. On your fold-out timeline in your history binder, look up the dates and label the important political events for the 1970s, including: the Palestinian plane hijacking, Kent State shootings, terrorist attack at Olympic games, Watergate scandal, Roe vs. Wade, 1st Space Station launched, End of Vietnam War, President Nixon resigns, Cambodian genocide, and Three-Mile Island accident.

CONTEST: See if you can find important events for your timeline in other areas like science, entertainment, sports, etc. We will vote on the best or most unique one found! There will be a prize :)

4. Create a notebook page or two for your History binder on the events from the 1970s. Be creative and artistic. Include a summary of the chapters you read and include any applicable pictures and maps. Write a paragraph or two about your conclusions about these events. What do you think about them? Also, print or draw some pictures and write short bios on the following people: Richard Nixon, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, and Jimmy Carter. (These are also found in The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.) 

Journeyman

1. Read Roe vs. Wade decision
2. Read UC vs. Bakke decision
3. Write down your opinion on each decision. Can you back your opinion with anything that would make a solid argument? Come prepared to discuss in class.

Master

Read The Help by Kathryn Stockett

1960s

Get out your bell bottoms, John Lennon glasses, and flower power everything! We are having a '60s celebration in Journeyman, so come to class with your favorite hippie costume! 

Apprentice

Complete all of the following:

1. Read A History of Us, volume 10, chapters 17-35

2. Study maps of the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Print these for your notebook page.

3. Write the definitions to the following terms from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy on note cards:

• Berlin Wall
• draft
• sit-ins
• de-Stalinization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Cultural Revolution
• Bay of Pigs
• Six-day war
• Woodstock
• civil disobedience
• Viet Cong
• Black Panthers
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• civil rights movement
• freedom riders
• Miranda decision
• My Lai massacre
• new frontier
• Tet Offensive
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• women's movement
• feminism
• liberalism
• hippies

4. On your fold-out timeline in your history binder, look up the dates and label the important political events for the 1960s, including: the Civil Rights Movement, construction of the Berlin Wall, Bay of Pigs incident, Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination, Troops sent to Vietnam, Six-day War, MLK assassinated, first man on the moon, Woodstock, and the Tet Offensive.

CONTEST: See if you can find important events for your timeline in other areas like science, entertainment, sports, etc. We will vote on the best or most unique one found! There will be a prize :)

5. Create a notebook page or two for your History binder on the events from the 1960s. Be creative and artistic. Include a summary of the chapters you read and include any applicable pictures and maps. Write a paragraph or two about your conclusions about these events. What do you think about them? Also, print or draw some pictures and write short bios on the following people: JFK, Betty Frieden, Malcolm X, Mao Zedong, Neil Armstrong, Fidel Castro, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and Ceasar Chavez. (These are also found in The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.) 

6. Optional: Watch "Forrest Gump". Check with your parents because there are some mature topics in this movie, however, it gives a great sweeping view of the sixties in America.

Journeyman

1. Watch "Thirteen Days" (rent for $2.99) 
For thirteen extraordinary days in October of 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Across the globe, people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political, diplomatic and military confrontation that threatened to end in an apocalyptic nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The alarming escalation of events during those fateful days brought to the fore such public figures as Robert McNamara, Adlai Stevenson, Theodore Sorenson, Andrei Gromyko, Anatoly Dobrynin, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Acheson, Dean Rusk, and General Curtis LeMay. In addition many others -- politicians, diplomats and soldiers -- were on the front line of the showdown. In Thirteen Days, we see all of these people, -- and, above all -- President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby, through the eyes of a trusted presidential aide and confidante, Kenneth P. O'Donnell.


 2. Respond to the following question after watching the film:

• Was the United States, the USSR, or Cuba more to blame for the Cuban missile crisis? What impact did the crisis have on U.S.-Soviet relations?

OR

1. Watch PBS documentary The Bomb
Learn how America developed the atomic bomb and how it changed the world.

Master
A Study in Feminism

Ok boys. This class is just as much for you as it is for the girls. It is so important that you learn the history of this movement and that you understand for yourself the positive and negative aspects that have come from it. One day you will be husbands and fathers of women, and you will need to know who God made them to be and what alternate messages the world is trying to send to them. I also believe that if you understand the role of a good woman, you will also understand how to be a good man. 
 

1. Read Steel to Gold, Motherhood and Feminism by Rachel DeMille

2. Watch this clip by Sherrie Dew on what LDS women get


3. Create a collage of images and words that you feel represents what and who a good woman should be.

1950s

It's time for a 1950's sock hop! Girls, wear your poodle skirts and saddle shoes and boys, get out those muscle shirts and biker jackets! Don't be square, we'll see ya there!

Apprentice

Complete all of the following:

1. Read A History of Us, volume 10, chapters 7-16 and Brown vs. Board of Education 

2. Write the definitions to the following terms from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy on note cards:

• Korean War
• partition
• Zionism
• McCarthyism
• Jim Crow laws
• hydrogen bomb
• Warsaw Pact
• Sputniks
• balance of terror

3. On your fold-out timeline in your history binder, look up the dates and label the important political events for the 1950s, including: Korean War, construction of hydrogen bomb, Stalin dies, segregation ruled illegal, Montgomery bus boycott, Warsaw Pact, Hungarian Revolution, Suez crisis, Sputnik launched, NASA founded.

CONTEST: See if you can find important events for your timeline in other areas like science, entertainment, sports, etc. We will vote on the best or most unique one found! There will be a prize :)

4. Create a notebook page or two for your History binder on the events from the 1950s. Be creative and artistic. Include a summary of the chapters you read and include any applicable pictures and maps. Write a paragraph or two about your conclusions about these events. What do you think about them? Also, print or draw some pictures and write short bios on the following people: Joseph McCarthy, the Rosenburgs, Ray Kroc, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Elvis Presley, Ho Chi Minh, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Walt Disney, and Nikita Khrushchev. (These are also found in The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.) 

5. Optional: Watch one of the following films: "Remember the Titans" or "October Sky"

Journeyman

This may look like a lot of work, everything on this list is really short. Do the work so you can party with us!

1. Read Understanding the House of Israel (online picture book)

2. Read Orson Hyde's 1841 Mission to the Holy Land (Ensign, Oct. 1991)

3. Watch this video on Zionism and the Balfour Declaration

4. Watch this video on the partition of Israel and Palestine 

5. Study maps of Ancient Israel through the time of Christ, from time of Christ to 1947, and a modern map. Print these for your notebook page.

6. Watch this slideshow on the history of Israeli-Palestinian conflict (slides 4-11)

7. Write for 5 minutes from the perspective of an Israeli. How do you feel about the creation of Israel and the war that began the next day? Then, switch sides and write for 5 minutes from the perspective of a Palestinian. How do you feel about the creation of Israel and the resulting war?

8. As an LDS youth, with the perspective of the revelations in the scriptures for the destiny of the Jewish people, what are your thoughts on the formation of the state of Israel?
 

Master

1. Read The Chosen by Chaim Potok 

2. Choose one of the following topics that most interests you and write down some answers that you found in the book. Include quotes and page numbers that back up your answers. Come prepared to discuss your findings in our book discussion.

     • How does Potok weave together personal and political events in his novel? How do   politics and world events contribute to the novel’s plot and character development?

     • How does Potok use silence as a narrative technique?

     • Discuss the meaning of the novel’s title. Who or what is chosen in the book? Which is more desirable: to be chosen or to make a choice?

     • Compare Reb Saunders’s political ideology to David Malter’s. At times, each father feels threatened by the other’s views. At other times, each father displays strong respect for the other. How are the two men different from one another, and how are they are similar? How can they both dislike and respect one another at the same time?

     • Throughout the novel, Potok uses imagery of eyes, glasses, and other items associated with vision and perception. What do these images symbolize? Discuss several examples, including at least two in which eyes reveal a character’s feelings.

1940s

Come to class in your best 1940s inspired attire, because we will be having our first decade day in Journeyman!


Apprentice

Complete all of the following:

1. Read A History of Us, volume 10, chapters 1-6

2. Study the map of post World War 2 Europe.
 

3. Write the definitions to the following terms from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy on note cards:

• iron curtain
• cold war
• Marshall Plan
• communism
• United Nations
• Yalta Agreement
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• containment
• Berlin airlift
• East Germany
• West Germany
• Eastern bloc
• reparation
• atomic bomb
• apartheid
• Soviet Union or USSR (summarize)
• Kremlin

4. On your fold-out timeline in your history binder, look up the dates and label the important political events for the 1940s, including: World War 2, Berlin Blockade, Gandhi assassinated, Apartheid begins, Israel founded, China becomes communist, NATO established, Soviet Union has atomic bomb.
CONTEST: See if you can find important events for your timeline in other areas like science, entertainment, sports, etc. We will vote on the best or most unique one found! There will be a prize :)

5. Create a notebook page or two for your History binder on the events after World War 2 that led to the beginning of the Cold War. Be creative and artistic. Include a summary of the chapters you read and include any applicable pictures and maps. Also, print or draw some pictures and write short bios on the following people: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, Mahatma Gandhi, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Albert Einstein, Charles deGaulle, Winston Churchill, and Jackie Robinson. (These are also found in The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.) Write a paragraph or two about your conclusions about these events. What do you think about them?

Journeyman

Since the beginnings of America, foreign policy has been a hot topic. How do we maintain relationships with other countries that do not share our values and beliefs, but also ensure liberty for ourselves and others? Read the Wikipedia article on the History of U.S. Foreign Policy, and trace the shifts in America's outlook on foreign policy through the years. You will probably want to print it out and underline the main points. 
Also, there were several telegrams and speeches given after World War 2 which shaped foreign policies between America and the USSR, leading to the Cold War. These documents include:

• George Kennan's "Long Telegram"
• "Novikov Telegram"
• Churchill's "The Sinews of Peace" speech
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Molotov Plan
• NSC-68

I don't expect you to read these, but research each of them and summarize their main points. Then, using your notes, write a few paragraphs about how American foreign policy has changed and why. How did these post World War II documents lead to the policy of containment that the U.S. adopted? Do you think, that given the circumstances, that this was the best course of action? Would you do anything differently? How do you think this policy will affect our future relations with other nations?

Master

1. Read The Berlin Candy Bomber 
As you read, please look for tidbits about how the people of Berlin were affected by post-war conditions and the Russian blockade. Also, trace the theme of personal mission in the author's life. How did 2 sticks of gum save the world? In the beginning and ending chapters of the book the author talks a lot about his life and details of airplanes and flight. If these don't interest you, please feel free to skim these parts until you get to the pertinent things we are studying this month. 

2. Journal for 10 minutes on the following question:
Can you think of a time when a small decision in your life ended up having a big impact on you or others?

Intro to History Class

 WELCOME TO HISTORY!

Welcome back to History everyone! I'm excited for this year and I wanted to give you an overview of what we're going to be doing :) This year we will be studying post World War II through the present. Each month we will be studying a decade of time, as follows:

September: 1940s

October: 1950s

November: 1960s

January: 1970s

February: 1980s

March: 1990s

April: 2000s

Along with our study of political and social change, we will be having some fun remembering our recent cultural fads as well. So, for each Journeyman history class, we will be having a decade party! Make sure you come dressed up for the decade, and we will be doing some TOTALLY RADICAL decade-based activities.  

SUPPLIES

This year you will need a binder for history. We will be creating notebooking pages for each decade, a timeline, and short bios on important people. Your binder will give you a place to keep these items, along with your inspirements so you'll have a record of what you learn this year. We will also be keeping note cards with important terms to remember. Here is a list of items you'll need for this class:

• 1" binder
• index cards
• plastic pages
• paper for your notebook pages (this could be typing paper, cardstock or scrapbook paper)
• Print 1 copy of these pictures and cut out. Keep them in a plastic page until you are ready to use them. Click here to print your historical figures for the year.

QUIZZES

We will be playing games each month to test your knowledge/memory of your note card terms, so make sure you are studying them. There will be some awesome prizes!

World War II

Apprentice & Journeyman

Apprentice and Journeyman will be combined this time in terms of reading and inspirements. If you meet these requirements, you may attend both classes.

Objective: Become familiar with the causes, effects, and events of World War II, and study at least one aspect of the war in deeper detail.

Study/Learn

1. Read A History of US, Volume 9, Chapters 26-44

2. Read How to Kill 11 Million People (This is a quick read. Should only take approx. 20 minutes)

Know/Understand

Your mission is to become an expert on one aspect of World War II and create a dynamic, engaging, multimedia presentation on your topic to give to the class. You will have 5-10 minutes to captivate us and move us by what you have to say. Please email me with your chosen topic at teamhalley@gmail.com.

TIPS: 
• For projects like this, it is important to explore different points of view surrounding your topic.
• Don't just give us dates and general information, but also share how your topic affected people on a personal level. What are the true underlying issues going on within your topic?
• Think about what teaching tools you can use to get your point across to others most effectively. Using simulations, video clips, photos, or individual stories helps to make your presentation memorable and helps us internalize the lessons from your talk.
• Tell us how you feel about your topic and make connections from your topic to anything going on today or if your topic has had far-reaching effects that continue today.
• Create a brief outline for what you have to say on a 3 x 5 card and practice until you feel comfortable speaking without having to read from a paper. Practice speaking in a way that will keep people interested and remember to be sensitive to your topic (ex: it is not appropriate to giggle through a presentation about the Holocaust).

TOPICS:
• Causes of World War II -- RAHEL
• Pearl Harbor -- GRACE
• Propaganda Posters -- CALEB
• Changing Womens' Roles
• Holocaust -- NIC
• Nazi Germany (Master Race, Hitler youth, the gestapo, book burning, etc.) -- HANNAH
• Japanese Internment Camps -- SIS. CLOWARD
• Adolf Hitler -- JAISHA
• Winston Churchill -- RACHEL
• Weapons and battle strategies -- LUKE
• Battle of Britain -- PATTY
• D-Day -- MEGAN
• Battle of Midway -- BEN
• Battle of the Bulge
• Battle of Stalingrad and how the war affected Russia
• Homefront (what was it like for the common people at home?) in U.S. & Britain -- ADRIANNA
• Homefront (what was it like for the common people at home?) in Germany & Japan
• Nuremburg War Criminal Trials -- SAM
• Cryptology in WWII -- EMILY
• Japanese concept of war & honor (kamikaze, harakiri, Bataan death march, Burma Railway, how did their concept of honor affect their treatment of POW's and the way they would fight and not surrender?)
• Atomic bomb -- TARA
• Iwo Jima -- MACK

Master

Objective: Get a glimpse of the war from another perspective through reading one of these true accounts. Try to see the miracle of faith working in the middle of indescribable horror.

Study/Learn
Choose 1 of the following books to read:

To End All Wars, by Ernest Gordon

Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House–in a prison camp by the River Kwai. I was a prisoner of war, lying among the dead, waiting for the bodies to be carried away so that I might have more room.’ When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious ‘Railroad of Death’, where nearly 16,000 Prisoners of War gave their life. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners’ camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.

And There was Light, by Jacques Lusseyran

When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.

3 Against Hitler, by Jerry Borrowman

A compelling true story of three LDS teens fight for freedom.

"Rudi Wobbe: Charged with Preparation to High Treason and Aiding and Abetting the Enemy."
Thus began the trial of Rudi Wobbe and two of his teenage friends as they stood before the justices of the dreaded Voksgerichtshof, the infamous supreme court of Nazi Germany. All the power and indignation of the Third Reich now focused on these three young men who dared to distribute the truth about the war to their neighbors. If found guilty, they faced imprisonment, and perhaps even death.
Why did they do it? Because the teachings of their parents and the Church taught them to respect individual liberty and to rely on their conscience in choosing between right and wrong. Now their naive confidence was shaken by the torture they'd endured at the hands of the Gestapo. Yet, their brilliant young leader, Helmuth Huebener, whose intelligence and conviction stood out like a beacon of truth in the oppressive courtroom, faced his accusers with confidence. It was his finest moment ... would it be his last?

We Were Not Alone, by Patricia Reese Roper

This true account of how one LDS family survived WWII Berlin is more astonishing than many fictional accounts of the era. To those who recognize the Lords hand in our daily lives, however, this inspirational story will become another powerful witness of the truth that faith in the Lord and His purposes can grow even when the world around us is full of darkness and terror.

As I Have Loved You, by Kitty DeRuyter

Like Anne Frank, Corrie ten Boom, and Viktor Frankl, Kitty de Ruyter-Bons endured the terror of man's inhumanity to man during World War II. In this inspiring and powerful true story, Kitty testifies of the triumph of the human spirit.

As both of Kitty de Ruyter's parents were devout Christians, her day started with a hymn and a scripture from the Bible. Kitty was only eight years old when her island paradise of Java, Indonesia, was invaded by Japanese soldiers during WWII.
Members of Kitty's family were taken to different prison camps. Kitty describes how her mother acted with courage in the face of hardship-even torture. Forbidden to pray at the camp, she nevertheless prayed and taught her children all she remembered of the scriptures. She courageously defied the Japanese officials and bravely took upon herself the consequences.
These and countless other incidents, beautifully portrayed, prove that the grace of Christ gives one power in the presence of hatred, evil, pain, and suffering.

The Diary of Anne Frank

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.

Know/Understand

• Write a 1-2 page short essay on a major theme in your chosen book, including quotes from the text that demonstrate your theme. Be prepared to turn in your essay for feedback. 

The Great Depression

Apprentice

Objective: Become familiar with the causes, effects, and events of the Great Depression.

Study/Learn

1. If you don't understand how stock markets work, watch Stock Markets in Plain English

2. Read the pdf: The Prosperity & Depression Decades (You can skip chapter 2) AND write a paragraph summary after each chapter. Be sure to include important people, key word definitions, and legislation pros and cons in your summaries. I will let you use these notes in class to play jeopardy, so the better they are, the better chance you have of winning :).

Journeyman

Objective: Learn how the Great Depression affected people.

Study/Learn

1. Research a family member that lived through the Great Depression. Find some stories from their life. How did the Depression affect them?

2. Watch either The Grapes of Wrath (1940) or Cinderella Man (2005)


Know/Understand
Complete 1 of the following:

• Find a Depression era recipe and make it. Bring some to share with the class.

• Create a slideshow of impactful photos from the Depression that depict the plight of the people to share with the class.

• Find some Depression era popular music, art or poetry. Bring some samples to share with the class. How were these expressive arts affected by the Depression?

Become/Serve

• Why does the Lord allow trials to happen in our lives? Find some scriptures on adversity and write yourself an explanation.

Master

Objective: Learn how the New Deal legislation succeeded and failed and how it drastically changed government.

Study/Learn

1. Read The Forgotten Man (Graphic Edition), by Amity Shlaes
Note: Read the "Cast of Characters", timeline, and book description at the back of the book before starting. Then you won't be confused like me when I read it :)

Know/Understand
Complete BOTH of the following:

• Become an expert on one of the following New Deal programs and be prepared to teach it to the class. Also develop a list of positive things your program accomplished and negative effects your program caused. In your opinion, was the program successful, why or why not, and if not. And, what, if anything, would you have done differently? Is your program still around today? How is it working now? Please email me and let me know which one you would like to do.

     - Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) -- MACK
     - Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
     - Public Works Administration (PWA)
     - Social Security Act -- PATTY
     - Works Progress Administration (WPA) -- JEN
     - Federal Deposit Insurance (FDIC)
     - Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

• Find a current economic issue that society is facing, like the cost of healthcare, the number of people in poverty, the federal deficit, or jobs being outsourced overseas. What are people proposing to do about your chosen issue? What do you think should be done? Do you think the government should get involved?