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US History

US History . Unit 9 Week 1. Monday 4/14. Shout – outs Positive, celebrate our community School appropriate Not Creepy. Agenda for Tuesday, 4/15. HOT ROC Introduce Unit 9: Vietnam War and the 1960s What do you already know about John F. Kennedy? Was he a good president? T-chart

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US History

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  1. US History Unit 9 Week 1

  2. Monday 4/14 • Shout – outs • Positive, celebrate our community • School appropriate • Not Creepy

  3. Agenda for Tuesday, 4/15 • HOT ROC • Introduce Unit 9: Vietnam War and the 1960s • What do you already know about John F. Kennedy? • Was he a good president? T-chart • Homework: • Cornell Notes on p.634-635 • Finish the t-chart and thesis statements on Kennedy

  4. Place the following Presidents in chronological order: • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Taft • Eisenhower • Truman • Hoover • Nixon • Kennedy • Lyndon B. Johnson • Coolidge • Harding • Teddy Roosevelt • Woodrow Wilson

  5. Presidential Rankings in History • Criteria for Evaluating Presidents • Administrative skills • Credibility • Crisis management • Economic management • Foreign affairs • Performance within context of times • Public persuasion • Pursued equal justice for all • Relations with Congress • Vision setting

  6. Presidential Rankings: Best to Worst • Abraham Lincoln 90.0 • FDR 87.6 • George Wash. 84.2 • T. Roosevelt 81.0 • Harry S. Truman 75.3 • Woodrow Wilson 72.3 • T. Jefferson 71.1 • Eisenhower 69.9 • LBJ 65.5 • Ronald Reagan 63.4 • James K. Polk 63.2 • Andrew Jackson 63.2 • James Monroe 60.2 • William McKinley 60.1 • John Adams 59.8 • Grover Cleveland 57.6 • James Madison 56.7 • John Quincy Adams 56.4 • George H.W. Bush 54.8 • Bill Clinton 53.9 • Jimmy Carter 51.8 • Gerald Ford 49.5 • Taft 49.1 • Richard Nixon 47.7 • Rutherford B. Hayes 47.7 • Calvin Coolidge 45.1 • Zachary Taylor 44.7 • James Garfield 44.4 • Martin Van Buren 42.9 • Benjamin Harrison 42.6 • Chester A. Arthur 42.3 • Ulysses S. Grant 40.3 • Herbert Hoover 40.0 • Millard Fillmore 39.5 • John Tyler 36.9 • William Henry Harrison 32.9 • Warren G. Harding 32.6 • Franklin Pierce 28.6 • Andrew Johnson 28.0 • James Buchanan 25.9 • *Does not include George W Bush or Barack Obama • *We will decide where to place JFK

  7. Graphic Organizer #1: Was Kennedy a Successful President?

  8. Agenda for Block Day 4/16-4/17 • HOT ROC - What is the proper role of government in helping American people? • President Johnson and the Great Society • Primary source activity • Johnson’s speech and reactions to his Great Society • Add conservative and liberal to your glossary • Graphic organizer - complete • Homework: Read and notes on p.646-647 • Study vocab for card quiz

  9. Great Society • Read Johnson’s speech and answer the questions • Review his legislation and identify the purpose of each program • Analyze his critics and supporters • Add terms conservative, liberal, environmentalism and welfare state to your glossary • Complete the graphic organizer to sum up his beliefs

  10. Graphic Organizer #2: What is the proper role of government in shaping American Society? (Chapter 49)

  11. Video links (if time) War on Poverty Ad by LBJ's presidential campaign.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1aA8lLA5Mg CBS news http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/is-america-losing-the-war-on-poverty/ 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes by Hans Roslinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

  12. Agenda for Friday, 4/18 • HOT ROC – Vocab card quiz • Vietnam Timeline • Finish up any classwork from Tuesday or Block Day that wasn’t finished in class • HW: Finish the timeline

  13. Why did the US get involved in Vietnam? • Read p.658-661

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