Scroll down to find recent assignments -- they are listed from most current to least current.
12/6
Lecture: Progressives; slideshow, click here.
Handout, click here.
12/5
Video Vol. 13: A Nation in Turmoil, currently on YouTube, click here.
12/3 & 12/4
Lecture: Immigration and Americanization; slideshow, click here.
Handout, click here.
12/2
Vol. 12 Video: "Immigration and Cultural Change" -- Video link is here.
(Note: you will need to rewind the video a little; it starts a few minutes in)
11/21 & 11/22
Industrialization/Urbanization/Immigration Placards are here.
Get the handout in class.
11/20 & 11/21
Video: "America, The Story of Us – Cities" Video on youtube is here.
11/18, 11/19, & 11/20
Industrialization and Urbanization Lecture Slideshow -- click here.
Handout is here.
11/14
Vol. 11 Video: Industrialization and Urbanization -- get handout in class.
Currently on YouTube, click here.
Extra Credit "Marching Through History" Reenactment
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Video: "The Haunted History of Halloween" -- link to film is here.
(You may get a message saying you have to sign in because there may be inappropriate things in the video; it just has the history of the holiday, including ancient and more modern religious customs and reactions to the holiday, and pop cultural takes on the holiday).
The Political Spectrum: Lecture is here.
Previous Unit Work:
Unit 1.2 Section 2 Work:
1. Video: "Westward" -- Click HERE for Transcript
2. Unit 1.2.2 Lecture: "Growth and Conflict" Click HERE for lecture.
3. Video: "Division" -- Click for Transcript
Unit 1.2 Section 3 Work:
4. Unit 1.2.3 Lecture: "The Civil War" Click HERE for lecture.
5. Video: America – The Story of Us: "Civil War"
6. Film: "Lincoln" – Film Script (read and answer questions)
Unit 1.2 Section 4 Work:
7. Unit 1.2.4 Lecture: "Reconstruction" Click HERE for lecture.
8. Video Vol. 10: "Reconstruction" (come in at OH, lunch, or after school)
Inter-unit work:
1. Map work: US Political Map (50 States)
2. US Political Map test
Introductory work and Unit 1.1 Work:
1. Facing History reading,
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7. Video Vol. 3 (in class only)
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Digital Citizenship Unit
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Introductory Work
Mapwork, Political Spectrum, and 9/11
U.S. History Units
Click the blue hyperlink to go to the page for that unit. If the titles are gray, the work is not available online.
Unit 6 World War II (1940s)
Unit 7 The Cold War and Postwar America (1950s) Unit 8 The Civil Rights Movement / 1960s Programs Unit 9 The Vietnam War and the Politics of Protest Unit 10 Politics, Economics and the End of the Cold War Unit 11 Into a New Century (1992 - the Present) |
WWII Lecture
1950s-1980s Overview (Post-War/Cold War/Civil Rights material)
Vietnam Film: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Guest Speaker: Vietnam War
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To find the guest speaker video, click on the link and scroll half way down until it says "Guest Speaker" and you see photos of Mr. Cook. There will be a video below the photos. Click here.
Civil Rights Videos
Civil Rights Video Links:
Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D5xwC6M_Gk
Chicano: Taking Back the Schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6cytReBm8
Chicano: Struggle in the Fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIHCdjpFPrw
Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D5xwC6M_Gk
Chicano: Taking Back the Schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6cytReBm8
Chicano: Struggle in the Fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIHCdjpFPrw