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· Honors Classes 2nd Quarter Research paper Final paper due 1/20/2009 Please email the paper to msaccullo@gmail.com

· Test Review Sheet for Roaring 20s QuizStar Test

· Honors Classes  Great Depression Notes, Key Terms of the Great Depression.  Test Review Sheet for the Great Depression QuizStar Test

· Honors Classes Great Depression Homework Webquest How Banks Work due Fri. 1/23  The Stock Market Crash & The Great Depression due Wed. 1/28 The New Deal due Fri. 1/30

The 2nd New Deal Mon. 2/2 The Completed Project is stapled together as a package is due Friday 2/6

 

Links: American Cultural History             QuizStar            Link to the Wiki Site       Sachem District Calendar            The Authentic History Center

8th Grade Social Studies Homework Calendar January 2009

Homework Calendar Archives: September / October / November / December / January / February / March / April / May / June

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

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All Classes: Review of the what we have already learned about the Roaring 20s.

 

PowerPoint: The Roaring Twenties

 

PowerPoint: “The Roaring Twenties”

Handout for the PowerPoint

6

All Classes: The Roaring Twenties and the Changing role of women. Flappers

Notes on 1920s Society

Fashion and other photos of the Roaring 20s

 

Authentic History Center 1920s

American Cultural History 1920s

7

All Classes: The Roaring 20s: The Harlem Renaissance

 

Video: Harlem Renaissance

 

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

If We Must Die by Claude McKay

8

All Classes:The Roaring 20s, The Jazz Age, dance and music of the 1920s?

 

 

9

All Classes: 8th Grade Recommendation Day for 9th Grade.

 

Video: The Roaring Twenties

 

Honors Classes: Research paper rough draft is due today.

12

All Classes: The Roaring 20s: Nativism, Restrictions on Immigration, Monkeys of Trial and the Election of 1928

 

Honors Classes: Your Roaring 20s Coversheets are due today.

Test Review Sheet for QuizStar

 

Regents Classes Test Review Sheet Due Thursday 1/15

13

All Classes: The Roaring 20s: Fads and Heroes Case Studies

 

Worksheet: Case Study: The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

 

Video: Al Capone: The Untouchable Legend

14

All Classes: The Roaring 20s: The roaring stock market, installment loans and farmers in trouble.

15

All Classes: Test Review Day

16

All Classes Test Today on the Roaring Twenties

 

Honors Classes Quiz Star test this weekend.

 

Honors Classes: Your 2nd quarter research paper is due today.

 

 

19

 

No School

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

 

Honors Classes Homework: Great Depression Homework Webquest

How Banks Work due Fri. 1/23

 

The Stock Market Crash & The Great Depression due Wed. 1/28

 

The New Deal due Fri. 1/30

 

The 2nd New Deal Mon. 2/2

The Completed Project is stapled together as a package is due Friday 2/6

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All Classes: The Great Depression: The Stock Market Crashes.  Economics.

Structures of Business

Corporations, Stocks. The Stock Market, Shareholders

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

Timeline of the Great Depression

Timeline the Learning Page

Learning About Stocks Worksheet

Regents Classes Homework: Read pgs. 746-751. Complete the worksheet for this section. Due Wednesday 1/21

21

All Classes: The Great Depression: The Stock Market Crashes.  Economics: Stocks. The Stock Market, Shareholders

Dark Days of October 1929  3:45

Crash and Hard Times Video 4:00

Causes of the Great Depression 4:40    Video Quiz

Hoover’s Failures 3:11

Hoover’s Plan 3:32

 

 

 

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All Classes: The Great Depression: Hoovervilles and Brother can You Spare a Dime.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 5:07

The New Deal & Agriculture Programs 2:33 

Music of the Roaring 20s

Were in the Money

Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries

Brother Can You Spare a Dime

Songs of the Great Depression Handout and Music Links

Fireside Chat The Banking Crisis

Regents Classes Homework: Read pgs. 752-757. Complete the worksheet for this section. Due Friday 1/23

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All Classes: Life During the Depression: Photos of the Great Depression: Farmers in Trouble and the Dust Bowl

Great Depression Graphic Organizer

About.com

The Dust Bowl 5:40 

Fireside Chat Farmers & Workers 

Hobos Riding the Rails 3:27

Great Depression PowerPoint's

1. The New Deal, Opposition, and Culture

2. Depression Era Political Cartoons and Images

3. The Dust Bow

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All Classes: Review for District Midterm Marker Exam

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District Midterm Marker Exam

 

 

 

 

 

Regents Classes Homework: Read pgs. 759-763. Complete the worksheet for this section. Due Wednesday 1/28

28

All Classes: The Great Depression: The Effects of the New Deal

Labor and Unions (video 5:07)

Court Packing (Video 3:40) 

Fireside Chat Court Packing

 

Effect on African Americans and Women 5:35

 

Authentic History Center 1930s

 

Regents Classes Homework: Read pgs. 765-769. Complete the worksheet for this section. Due Friday 1/30

29

All Classes: Little Theater for Movie

Cinderella Man

 

Here is a link to the trailer on our class blog.

 

 

30

All Classes: Little Theater for Movie

Cinderella Man

 

 

 

2nd Marking Period Ends

 

 

 

 

Regents Classes Homework: Complete the worksheet on political cartoons of the Depression Due Monday 2/02

2

All Classes: Little Theater for Movie

Cinderella Man

 

 

 

 

Regents Classes: Test Review Sheet for the Great Depression Test Due Thursday 2/5

Honors Great Depression QuizStar test review sheet. Due Thursday 2/5

3

All Classes: Little Theater for Movie

Cinderella Man

4

All Classes: The Great Depression: Analyzing Political Cartoons and Documents of the Great Depression

 

Assessing the Impact of the New Deal 0:03:59

 

Just the Facts (review of the Great Depression (33:42)

 

America in the 20th Century: The Great Depression (30:00)

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All Classes: Test Review Today

 

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All Classes: Test Today on the Great Depression

 

Honors Classes Quiz Star test this weekend.