Due Tuesday, May 19:
Textbook: Read "The Pacific Front" (starts on p 513)
Prepare for Tuesdays activity in class. Your "ticket to participate" is your written responses to the following:
CASE STUDY: Dropping the Bomb (pp 516-519) - Read!
Find the Five Options for ending the war on page 517.
For EACH option, write out your 2 best reasons FOR that option, and 1 "best reason" AGAINST choosing the option. (15 items total) (NB: "because option x is better" is not a valid argument!)
IN CLASS: You will be assigned one of the five options to defend.
Lecture/discussion of the Homefront: Japanese internment (p 546-548) ; great migration of African Americans to industrial cities (West Coast, yo!) and people from farms to cities.
FOR THE WEEK: Homefront: Women at work; Internment of people of Japanese ancestry; Double VIctory and the beginnings of the modern Civil Rights Movement; some "lesser known" actors and actions in the Civil Rights Movement.
Prepare for Tuesdays activity in class. Your "ticket to participate" is your written responses to the following:
CASE STUDY: Dropping the Bomb (pp 516-519) - Read!
Find the Five Options for ending the war on page 517.
For EACH option, write out your 2 best reasons FOR that option, and 1 "best reason" AGAINST choosing the option. (15 items total) (NB: "because option x is better" is not a valid argument!)
IN CLASS: You will be assigned one of the five options to defend.
Lecture/discussion of the Homefront: Japanese internment (p 546-548) ; great migration of African Americans to industrial cities (West Coast, yo!) and people from farms to cities.
FOR THE WEEK: Homefront: Women at work; Internment of people of Japanese ancestry; Double VIctory and the beginnings of the modern Civil Rights Movement; some "lesser known" actors and actions in the Civil Rights Movement.
Due Thursday, May 21:
Textbook: Read "Homefront," Chapter 16, section1. Take NOTES on the portion that starts "Trying to Uphold a No Strike Pledge" and continues to "recruiting New workers." (pp 530-531)
Also: Geography: Richmond, California: A War Boomtown - read, then respond (in writing!) to the three questions on p 541.
In class: Race riots; Zoot suits riots; A. Phillip Randolph, and the new civil rights movement.
Also: Geography: Richmond, California: A War Boomtown - read, then respond (in writing!) to the three questions on p 541.
In class: Race riots; Zoot suits riots; A. Phillip Randolph, and the new civil rights movement.
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