Daily Check In

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1960s - 2nd Semester - Daily Check In


May 30 - Music research presentations and individual exploration of others' projects.  Assignment: Study for the final exam.


Monday May 29 - No School - Memorial Day


May 25 - The Sixties: The British Invasion. Assignment: Complete and link your Interview Project Here prior to midnight May 26, 2017. Begin prepping for your semester final exam.

May 23 - 1960s music research. Assignment: Complete any part of the music research that was not finished in class.

May 19 - Open question period on the Counterculture.  Test over the Counterculture. Silent reading over the British Invasion and limited research in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame. Assignment: Pick three musical performers (groups or soloists) other than the Beatles and/or the Rolling Stones. You will be presenting one of your choices to the class on Tuesday May 30. Tuesday May 23 will be a work in class day.  Thursday May 25 will be a video day.

May 17 - Cleaned up video log for Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. Completed the video.  Worked on the first three pages of the Counterculture reading.  Read for 15 minutes from the Oates Reader "Heyday of the Counterculture". Competed for some extra credit on the final exam with Kahoot. Assignment: Prepare for a test next class period over the Counterculture.  The video we watched in class, the Counterculture Quizlet, and the Counterculture readings are all fair game.  Expect about 50 multiple choice questions and a few short answers.

May 15 - Counterculture music, Scott McKenzie, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, and The Beatles. The Sixties Video Series: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll. Quizlet vocabulary work on the counterculture. Assignment: Edit your video log prior to next class.

May 11 - Finished up 1968. Round Robin Quiz (8x4). Introduced counterculture. Assignment: Read carefully Counterculture and be prepared to answer a few questions about the reading.

May 9 - Music intro to class.  CCR, Buffalo Springfield, Marvin Gaye, and The Beatles. Almost completed 1968. Assignment: Continue to work very carefully on your 1968 video log as there will be a quiz at the conclusion of the 1968 video next class.

May 5 -

May 3 - 1968 vocabulary work with Quizlet. Bob Beamon long jumping at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Viewed more of the video "1968" and made it to the 28:32 mark. Assignment: Continue to clean up your video log and study 1968 vocabulary.

May 1 - Test over "Television Comes of Age". Read through some key websites over 1968.  Began watching "1968: The Year that Everything Changed". Stopped at the 5:15 mark. Assignment: Clean up your video log that you began on 1968 and continue to read the websites on 1968.

April 27 - Completed Television Comes of Age". Watched a couple of episodes of 1960s television looking for social commentary.  Assignment: Prepare for a test on Television Comes of Age, complete your video log, and watch more 60s television.

April 25 - Completed the reading on A Brief History of Television with special emphasis on the 1960s. Watched three music videos of the top music of 1966. Began viewing and keeping video log for "Television Comes of Age". Assignment: Watch carefully a complete television show of your choosing that was made during the 1960s.  A few possibilities are available here. Be prepared to examine in a writing exercise how the show you chose reflects the issues of the 1960s. It would also be wise to go back through and clean up your notes in your video log.

April 11 - Music clips by Barry Sattler and Country Joe Fish at Woodstock. Video Clip of Richard Nixon's Silent Majority Speech.  Explained how the U.S. exited the Vietnam War. Test over the Vietnam War. Explanation of the Interview project. Assignment: none

April 7 - Music clips from 1965. Finished The Sixties: The War in Vietnam. Assignment: Read carefully  The Years of Withdrawl and add key vocabulary to your Vietnam Quizlet. Prepare for a test over the assigned readings, vocabulary, photographs, and questions over the Vietnam War. 

April 5 - Tet Offensive Reading Check Up. The Sixties: The War in Vietnam up to the 20:00 mark. Assignment: Read carefully The Anti-War Movement.  Be prepared to answer a few questions over the reading. It would also be very wise to look over and "clean up" your video log from the video we are viewing in class.

April 3 - Open question period over the readings on Vietnam. Vietnam power point up to slide #19. Finished class by working on Quizlet stacks for Vietnam. Assignment: Read carefully The Tet Offensive and continue to add terms to your Quizlet stack.

End of 3rd Quarter

March 30 - Test over Civil Rights Movement. Assignment: Read carefully Vietnam War 101.  It may be wise to take a few notes.  You should also begin to build a Quizlet Vocabulary stack using these readings: Vietnam, Early Involvement, and Years of Escalation.

March 28 - Finished Long March to Freedom. Reviewed Key vocabulary. Assignment: Prepare for test over the Civil Rights Movement next class meeting.

March 18-26 - No School - Spring Break


March 17 - Reviewed the Long Hot Summer reading, discussed the associated vocabulary added to your current stack. Worked on The Long March to Freedom.  Assignment: Read Malcom X and the Nation of Islam.  Be certain to add key vocabulary to your current stack. The final test of the third quarter will fall sometime during the week after Spring Break.  Be prepared.

March 15 - Reviewed vocabulary quizlet cards, revised our video viewing logs for Long March  to Freedom, worked on a group assignment using quizlet. Watched A Long March to Freedom to the 43:10 mark. Assignment: Revise your viewing logs and study Quizlet vocabulary.  Read carefully and add key vocabulary from the reading The Long Hot Summers.


March 14, 2017 - No School due to ice and snow


March 10 - Discussed readings on the Sit In Movement and Gains and Pains. Took inventory as to what is happening by 1965 politically, economically, socially, intellectually, and in the arts. Began watching A Long March to Freedom until 24:26. Assignment: Complete the reading: Martin L. King Jr. and add appropriate key vocabulary to your existing Quizlet stack for this unit on the Civil Rights Movement.

March 8 - Test over 1964. Debriefed test and explained the expectations about the readings and Quizlet.  Assignment: Complete the first two readings The Sit In Movement and Gains and Pains.  Build a Quizlet using key vocabulary from those two readings.

March 6 - Music Intro from 1964.  Reviewed main ideas from the American Experience 1964 film.  Completed the film in its entirety. Assignment: Prepare for a test over 1964.  The test will include content from the film, music we have consumed in class, and photo identifications.

March 2 - Round Robin exchange/grading session. Worked through The Johnson treatment, Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Freedom Summer.  We also analyzed the Republican National Convention of 1964.  Assignment: Read and watch the biographical sketch on Barry Goldwater.

Feb. 28 - Newspaper Analysis of the Toledo, Blade 2/28/1964.  Music of 1964 (Beatles, Kinks, and Animals). Technical difficulties with 1964.  Built a five question quiz from the video logs on 1964. Assignment: Read 1964: The World 50 Years ago. Be prepared to discuss the main ideas of the article.

Feb. 24 - 1964 - Covered Beatles' arrival to the U.S., Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston, Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique, Discussed the Barry Goldwater and birth of modern conservatism.  Assignment: Clean up your video viewing log as they will be evaluated Monday morning.

Feb. 22 - Build and completed Round Robin on 1964. Began watching American Experience: 1964. Assignment: none

Feb. 17 - Brief Open Question session. Took test #1.  Assignment: Carefully read the article and examine the photographs at Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.  Also read carefully and exlore the links at 1964, Headlines from 1964, and People History 1964.

Feb. 15 - Music Introduction - Reminded everyone as to what is going to be tested next class meeting.  Finished The Assassination of President Kennedy from the Sixties Anthology. Assignment: Prepare for test over Preview of the Sixties through the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1960-1963).

Feb. 13 - Music Introduction - Read summary of the JFK Assassination. Built a simple ten event timeline of the events related to the assassination and linked it to the class table. Continued watching The Assassination of President Kennedy from the Sixties Anthology to 38:48.  Assignment: Using the viewing log notes, prepare for a 15 question quiz over the Kennedy Assassination.

Feb. 9 - Quiz over the World on the Brink. Finished viewing World on the Brink and the viewing log for the video. Completed Quizlet work on the John F. Kennedy administration. Began watching "The Assassination of President Kennedy" from the The Sixties Anthology. Assignment: Practice the JFK Administration Quizlet terms.  As soon as the video is completed, we will have our first "BIG" test of the class.  Might be wise to start preparing.

Feb. 7 - Covered music clips from the Beatles and Rolling Stones. Completed The Sixties - The World on the Brink up to 33:00.  Reviewed video log notes.  Assignment: 10-15 question quiz over the video notes.  It may be wise to look over others' video notes to cross-check your notes against theirs for accuracy. 

Feb. 2 - Quick discussion about violent protests in Berkeley, California and how it relates to the 1960s. Provided about 25 minutes to finish up work on the Kennedy Administration Timeline. Began watching: The Sixties - The World on the Brink. Stopped at the 8:01 mark. Assignment:  If you did not complete your Kennedy timeline, please have it completed prior to our next class meeting.  This will be graded as a double daily-work assignment.

Jan. 31 - Quick review of the Bay of Pigs Incident, Reading period over the New Frontier and New Global challenges.  Worked very hard on the Kennedy Administration Timeline. Assignment: prepare for a 12-15 question quiz next class over the Kennedy readings.

Jan. 27 - Music Introduction - John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, Inaugural Address activity, Bay of Pigs Analysis. Assignment: none.

Jan. 25 - Music Introduction - Quizlet Work (flash cards, learn, test, gravity). Open question period on the Camelot to Watergate reading. Introduced JFK Inaugural Address Activity. Finished by reading about the 1960 election. Closed with 56th anniversary of the first press conference given by JFK. Assignment: Continue to practice vocabulary and read/listen to the JFK Inauguration Address prior to arriving to class next time.

Jan. 23- Music Introduction, Completed 60s Overview Lecture. Completed Quizlet for 60s Intro. Shared to class folder and posted on a class table. Finished up with Quizlet Live. Assignment: Read Camelot to Watergate reading. Be prepared to answer a few questions along with a vocabulary quiz next class.

Jan. 19 - Music Introduction, Worked on Brainstorming ideas, people, palace related to the 1960s.  Lecture 1 on Political and Civil Rights Component of 1960s. Assignment: none... enjoy the homecoming weekend.

Jan. 17 - Music introduction, Discussion about course resources, the class webpage, and expectations.  Assignment: Create a personal top 10 playlist of 1960's music linked in a Google doc. Build a fundamental family tree with names and dates of birth only. Tree must have people who were born 1954 or before, so you are basically looking at yourself, parents, grandparents, and maybe great grandparents at the most.


Daily Check In - 2016 First Semester


Here you will find a brief summary daily of class activities and most importantly what you need to prepare before coming to class next time.

January 11 - Last day of class.  Show and Tell. Class Survey.  Good Bye. Assignment: Go and continue to learn about the 60s and other things. Save and keep in a safe place your original copy of the interview project.  It will only become valuable as time passes and your interviewee is no long with us.  It will be a testament to that/those person's/people's lives and be a way for you to remember them.

Tuesday January 10, 2017 - No School due to Ice


January 6 - Discussion on the meaning of the term "counterculture" - Worked on Counter Culture Show and Tell - Assignment: prepare your show and tell for a 3-6 minute segment.

January 4 - Lengthy discussion on details of the Interview Project. Music Work, Began reading in the Oates Reader about the Counter Culture.  Assignment: Segments 1,2, and 3 of the Oates Article.


December 23 - January 2 - No School - Winter Break


December 19 - Semester Exam - Assignment: Work on your interview project over winter break. It will be due day of our last class meeting in January.


December 16 - Worked on building a table of key people to be identified on the semester exam. Watched 1968 video and discussed items around the climate of  that pivotal year. Exam Study Session. Assignment: Prepare for semester exam that is scheduled for our next class meeting. 

December 14 - Check up work on Vietnam. (Quiz). Began watching 1968 Assignment: Complete Quizlets for 60s Slang and link them to our class table. It would also be wise to begin serious reviewing for the semester exam. 


December 12, 2016 - No School due to ice and snow


 

December 9 - Completed The Sixties: The War in Vietnam. Worked on Quizlets for Vietnam and Sixties' Slang. Assignment: Clean up and organize your video log entries for Vietnam.

December 7 - Discussed exam schedule, reviewed questions on the exam, discussed any concerns from last class. Watched The Sixties: The War in Vietnam up to 29:00.  Assignment: Prepare for semester exam.

December 5 - Reviewed Vietnam War Quizlet flashcards for 7 minutes.  Completed the Quizlet Learn activity. Quizlet test with settings multiple choice, both, and 35.  Grades were recorded. Round Robin based over online reading of Vietnam 101. Those were collected. Assignment: Keep up with your Quizlets.  Please take time to study stacks related to Slang and the Vietnam War.


December 1 - A fifteen minute silent reading period on Vietnam, 7-7-7 on The Vietnam War Quizlet Stack, Watched the The Sixties: The War in Vietnam. Assignment: Build a 60s Slang Quizlet for M-N-O.

November 29 - The Sixties: A Long March to Freedom completed.  Fundamentals of Vietnam War discussion. Began The Sixties: The War in Vietnam (ended at 10:00). Built video viewing long entries. Assignment: Read carefully Vietnam War 101.  It may be wise to take a few notes. 

November 22 - The Sixties: A Long March to Freedom Part II. Continued to work on Video Log. Discussed the non-violent approach's successes and failures. Assignment: Enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday break.

November 18 - The Sixties: A Long March to Freedom Part I. Worked on Video Viewing Log. Practiced Quizlet for Slang G-H.  Assignment: Review and revise video log notes.

November 16 - Discussion of Trumpet of Conscience: Martin Luther King Jr., Reading check up questions. Assignment: Complete a Quizlet stack for 60s Slang G-H, and share it to the class folder and class table.

November 14 - Test over "Television Comes of Age". Began A Long Road to Freedom. Assignment: Read the Story in the Oates pp. 318-330 in the Oates Reader.


November 10 - Finished Television Comes of Age. Worked on 60s slang. Assignment: Prepare for a test over Television Comes of Age.  Make certain you have linked your video viewing log to the class table.

November 8 - Quizlet work on 60s Slang, Television comes of Age to 36:13. Assignment: Build a new stack of 60s Slang from the D to F.  Clean up and  reveiw notes from Video Log on Television Comes of Age.


No School - Parent/Teacher Conferences (Nov. 3-4)


November 2 - Music Log Playlist for Nov. 2, Review Test Results. The 60's video series #1 Television's Coming of Age. Assignment:  Clean up notes on Television Coming of Age. You should also add Slang Terms for the letter C to you existing Quizlet Stack.

October 31 - Quick review/open question period. Test #2.  Any additional time remaining was to be spent on building a Quizlet Stack of 60s Slang Terms.  Only letters A & B are required to be built and shared in the class folder prior to next class.  Assignment: complete Quizlet on 60s Slang Terms for the letters A and B.  Must add your stack to the class folder.


 October 27 - Many absent due to the Link Crew field trip. Finished American Experience 1964. Covered the 1964 Timeline. Assignment: Prepare for a test over the Johnson Administration, the Video "American Experience: 1964, and the 1964 timeline.  The test will also have photographs, and other documents to identify.  This test will be given at the beginning of next class.

October 25 - Continued to view the American Experience 1964.  Assignment: Clean up your video viewing notes and link them to the video log table.


End of the 1st Quarter


October 21 - Examined the 1964 political campaign tactics of Johnson and Goldwater and analyzed how they fit the time period.  Quiz over Johnson and the events of early 1964. Assignment: Review your video notes and "clean" them up.

October 19 - "American Experience 1964" ended at 50:53. Assignment: Review your notes from the video and class discussions. Be prepared for a quiz on the Johnson administration and the video notes.

October 17 - Playlist for the Music Log. - Had a fire drill. - Watched the beginning 25 minutes of American Experience: 1964. Assignment: Clean up your notes from the video.  Make them readable and highlight any key terms you wrote down.

October 13 - Playlist for the Music Log. Quizlet Live on Johnson Presidency. Vocabulary Quiz. LBJ lecture/recitation. Assignment: review Johnson notes and vocabulary to prepare for a quiz for next class.

October 11 - Explored the Johnson Presidency. Assignment: none

October 6 - Test#1 over the 1960s overview and the John F. Kennedy Administration. Assignment: Read carefully Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society.  Begin to assemble a Quizlet stack based on reading: The Great Society and this additional list of terms.

October 4 - Due to technical difficulties, the test was postponed until the next class meeting. Time was spent studying, brainstorming, and preparing for the test.  Assignment: Test next class period.


October 4 - 2 hour delay due to fog


Sept. 30 - Quizlet work on JFK administration. Designed eight multiple choice questions for a round robin in class exercise. Assignment: Test next class period. (postponed)

Sept. 28 - Discussed briefly the 2016 Presidential Debate (current events). Completed Thirteen Days, and cleaned up our viewing logs which will be graded Monday Oct. 3. Assignment: none other than to begin to prepare for our first big test of the quarter over the 1960s  lecture notes and vocabulary and the John Kennedy administration readings and film. This test will occur on Tuesday October 4.

Sept. 26 - Music History of the 60's Playlist, Worked on Quizlets for the 60s lecture and the John F. Kennedy Administration. Continued Thirteen days (stopped at 1:54.45). Assignment: continue to read and practice your vocabulary on quizlet.


Sept. 22 - Music History of the 60's Playlist, Kennedy Assassination Reading, Thirteen Days Viewing (stopped at 1:22.32) Assignment: Be certain to have your JFK Quizlet stack completed and available to the class by our next meeting.

Sept. 20 - Kennedy Foreign Policy Reading. Began work on Quizlet Stack for JFK.  The terms come from the readings on the Election of 1960, Kennedy's New Frontier, Kennedy's Global Challenges, and Kennedy Assassination. Viewed Thirteen Days and stopped at 47:24 Assignment: Complete the JFK Quizlet stack and keep your video viewing log up to date.


Sept. 15 - Open question period limited to Kennedy Administration and the topics covered last class. Worked on music log with the September 15 playlist. Began the motion picture Thirteen Days that covers the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Ended at 24:31. Assignment: none

Sept. 13 - Open question period. Answered a question about Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Resolution. Worked on music log with the September 13 playlist. Group work on the Kennedy Inaugural address analysis. Assignment: Continue to study Quizlet vocabulary stacks that you have built.


Sept. 9 - Open question period. Answered a few general questions about the Kennedy administration. Worked on Kennedy Inaugural Address Assignment after watching the actual address.  Assignment: Continue working with your group on the Inaugural address analysis.

Sept. 7 - Explored news events related to the 1960s. Specifically examined President Obama's visit to Laos. Covered Content:



















Assignment: Read carefully and understand Kennedy's New Frontier and Kennedy's Global Challenges. Be prepared to answer a few questions on these readings.


Sept. 2 -  Open question period. Quiz over material covered in week 1. Finished Richard Nixon presidency. Leisure reading on 1960s people and events in the current news.   Assignment: Enjoy the holiday weekend and be ready to learn when we return.

Aug. 31 - Introduction Music analysis: (Born To Be Wild, Stand By Me, Light My Fire). Covered the presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. Watched Presidents of the United States up to the 38:03 mark.  Assignment: Re-read carefully and understand #56 Politics from Camelot to Watergate, and #56a The Election of 1960. Prepare for a 20-25 question quiz next class.

Aug. 29 - Introduction Music analysis:  (Wanderer, Paint it Black, These Boots Are Made For Walking, and A Whiter Shade of Pale). Covered the presidencies of Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. Watched Presidents of the United States up to the 26:01 mark, looking for key events and people associated with those events.  Assignment: Read carefully and understand #56 Politics from Camelot to Watergate, and #56a The Election of 1960

Aug.24 - Music introduction, Discussion about course resources, the class webpage, Edmodo registration and first posts. Assignment: Personal top 10 playlist of 1960's music linked in a Google doc. Family tree with names and dates of birth only. Tree must have people who were born 1954 or before.

1960s Exam - FRQs

1960s Exam - Photo Id's

1960s Exam - Quizlet