CATCHING UP:
If you missed any work for the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd weeks (3/17-4/9), the list of the work from all three is recapped on the blog post for 4/14. That will make your list-making easy, but please see the daily instructions posted for each assignment as you go to work on each.
If you missed 4/14-4/17, a recap of just that week can be found on the blog post for 4/20. For detailed instructions for how to do that work, see the daily blog posts for each.
If you missed any of the last two weeks (4/20-4/24 &/or 4/27-5/1), a recap of both of those weeks can be found on the post for 4/27, and yes, see the daily posts for the detailed instructions.
THIS WEEK: (all work is due by Friday 5/8)
*Turn of the Century Unit-Closure Work Page (Tuesday)
*Global Issues Unit-Closure Work Page (Begin Tuesday & Finish Wednesday)
*Writing option -- if you would like to replace your current writing score, email me this week.
*Read over the list of Modern U.S. topics we would like to cover if we were in session together and hadn't lost so much instructional time, and be mindful of what topics intrigue you; perhaps you can watch a quality film or documentary when you have the time on something here you want to learn. (Thursday)
*Set up new EQ notes for Modern U.S. History: #1. In what ways is the grip of history not easily broken? #2. What from our history can inspire us in the present? (Thursday)
*This week screen the first 2/3 of the film Lee Daniels' The Butler while taking EQ notes and also recording your own thoughts and questions. (We'll finish the remaining 1/3 next week..or you can finish it now and be ahead of the game; we will have a discussion assignment about it next week.) Context: it is based on the true story of Eugene Allen who grew up in the segregated South of the early 1900s (born 1919) and became a butler in the White House, witnessing many elements of Modern U.S. History as he worked for presidents Eisenhower ('53) through Reagan ('80s); additionally, it offers multiple lenses on the issue of race as the movie butler named "Cecil Gaines" lives from an era of share cropping as a child to his age of retirement and witnessing the election of Obama. After the film we will discuss a bit of specific fact-checking and our typical nod to why the film creators took the few artistic liberties that they did in a quality effort to tell truth through a short work of fiction. (Thursday, Friday, & next Tuesday)
KEY REMINDERS:
Be aware that on May 14th we will do an open-note exam; so, keep handy your UCWPs and the Presidents' Political Parties handout. It will be for a 100-point assignment grade. THAT one thing HAS to be conducted and completed on that exact day. That will conclude the KCC grade, HOWEVER, a small bit of high school work and scores will continue through May 21st.
