Week 2 Work

Hey, good work overall from Week 1. In total 101 Students did work! Not too bad. This week there are two main things. You are looking at finishing Civil Rights for African Americans, and Native American's push for some rights. I had to start speeding it up faster than I first anticipated during week 1. Please email if you have questions along the way. Also we need to start using the capitalization button when it is needed. Grades for week 1 will start going in today. Remember it is not going to be the same score in google classroom but will raise your grade according to the format below. Thanks!

Remote Learning

Remote Learning begins today! Please email kleduc@riversideunified.org if you have questions. You need to log on to google classroom to do your remote lessons.

"Office Hours"

Just a quick item, we are supposed to have office hours where we are available for quick assistance. We can't use zoom and the only thing we can use video wise is google meets. I wont be doing that unless you absolutely need it. But I will be having mine tuesday-friday from 9-11 where I should respond to all emails withing minutes. Just FYI

4th Quarter Fun!

Email kleduc@riversideunified.org with questions

Soooooo, after many emails from parents, and very few from students I am glad to finally present what our 4th quarter will look like. So it is 6 weeks long. Apparently there is nothing that happens during the finals week. So for each week we can give 2 hours of work. So therefore there is a "max" of 12 hours worth of class we can do. So depending on the week there will either be a short lesson for each day(averaged to 24 minutes). Maybe 2 or 3 days combined for a slightly longer lesson, or just one 2 hour lesson/assignment. They do not want us to give 6 weeks of class to just do all at once. So each week on Monday the 1-5 lessons will be posted for the entire week. You have until Sunday night at 12 roughly 160 hours later to work through it as you desire. If you or a family member happen to be impacted by covid-19 please let me know so I can make an exception for you. We wouldn't expect you to do work during that time.

How it impacts your grade? 
This is definitely the odd part. There is no set direction other than it can't hurt you. That being said if you try to do an assignment/quiz/lesson and it stinks or you didn't try, it is not supposed to help you either. I am going to basically say for each lesson or assignment you need to get a passing grade of a C to get credit. 

How much will it help my grade? 
While most of you will just be doing class for the love of learning, and your appreciation of history I realize some people are more focused on their final grade. So here is how it will work. Those that did well the first 1/2 of the semester are obviously in a better place. It is also significantly harder to get up each grade level. My structure will reflect that. When I say below each assignment, if it is a 1 day assignment it will count as 1. If 2 days 2. up to a week is worth 5. 

If you have an F, each assignment and you complete the work at a C or better level you can earn up to 1.5% each day. So up to 45% hypothetically for the 30 days. 
If you have an D, each assignment and you complete the work at a C or better level you can earn up to 1% each day. The gap between F and C is very small so this wont take too long. 
If you have an C, each assignment and you complete the work at a C or better level you can earn up to .75% each day. 
If you have an B or higher each assignment and you complete the work at a C or better level you can earn up to .5% each day. 
The most anybody can possibly go up is 2 letter grades, and even that will be difficult. But there is still an opportunity to move up. Your work still must be quality enough though to move up. If it is not C level work then that day is similar to in class where poor work doesn't help your grade. 

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE AN A-Well what can we do to inspire you to do some academic work during this time?
1. Top Grade earns student of the month to start of next year. You wont be in my class, but you will be getting an awesome shirt to show off your success.
2. Any students who continues to work hard and has an A can come ask for a letter of recommendation to use in college if they need it at all next year. It will reflect how in the midst of difficult times and the fact you had an A you continued to push yourself despite it not being necessary for your grade.
3. Going back to the beginning of the year, hopefully you will get to learn something, which just could make your life a little better. These are crazy, unique, weird, sad, interesting times we are in. Hopefully you have gotten to the point sitting around all day where you realize that doing work and learning isn't as bad as doing nothing all day. Build discipline, pretty soon you are going to need it in life.

Addition to yesterday

Real quick I forgot to mention. If you need your notes/intro to help write your paper, please email and I will scan it and send it to you. A few people have asked about that. Thanks!

Similarly if you want to turn in any alternative project stuff, please do! Just take pictures and email them in.

Back after spring break

Alright, if anybody is following this a couple things. kleduc@riversideunified.org is the email to direct any questions.

1. If you haven't taken the SAQ yet it has now been posted to google classroom to take. Please do that this week.
2. If you have any other things that you need clarification on or you are trying to turn something in late(that is a notebook, your individual king high remembers work, or something you had an excused absence for) I want to get that figured out and complete by the end of this week. That way we will all be in the same place once we start this remote learning thing. Please let me know ASAP or email me if this applies to you.
3. You can only raise your grade during the time from now until end of the remote learning. So while I dont know how much or what lessons will look like yet, I can't require anyone to turn in their KHR paper. However for the kindness of the vets and capturing your paper for history's sake we would still like you to do it. It may be one of the "assignments" so it will at least count for something. But we can not require it.
Thanks!

Updates!!

So the new update is that school will start again on the 13th. It does seem it is not normal school by any means but what they can do. Apparently your grade can only go up from where it currently is. It can not go down. Next week we will know more. The week after that if you have some sort of makeup work that you didn't get to do(like the quiz) we will target that for the week of the 6th. If you just didn't do work then you still can not make it up. Starting the 13th you will be able to try to raise your grade though(you can't lower it). I have zero clue what that will look like but most likely there will be an assignment/lesson a day. or a 2 hour lesson for the week. There will be about 30 school days left(if we dont go back).  Let me know if there are any emergency/virus/family situations if something does emerge so that it doesn't hurt your chance to raise grades each day. Hope everyone is doing well, thanks!

3/5-Coronavirus break

3/5-This was the last day to get ready for King High Remembers, everything was finished up hopefully, and we went over everything for the next day.
3/6-King High Remembers!
3/9-We wrote thank you cards to our vets, students also met with their partner and just went over their notes as well as how they think they should structure their papers.
3/10-We went back to wear we left off many days ago on the topic of the Red Scare. We finished looking at it with a brief lecture, as well as a video clip on how the House Un American Activities Committee began investigating lives within Hollywood and the idea of Blacklisting began.
3/11-We went from the fear of the Cold War at Communism to the Fear of War. We looked quickly at the build up of arms between America and the Soviet Union, as well as America's fear of Cuba as it took steps to align itself with the Soviets. This led to JFK's massive embarrassment at the Bay of Pigs.
3/12-Students were looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis, we looked at it from each leaders perspective and tried to briefly discuss the idea of how even if no leader wanted a nuclear war, it could happen none the less. The video attached is the Be Kennedy, we also looked at Be Castro, Be Kruschev and the intro video.

3/13-We finished the Cuban Missile Crisis and saw how they arranged a deal to trade missiles for missiles. We began our DBQ on the Race to Space. How it politically, socially and economically reflected aspects of the Cold War. We read through the background essay and watched a couple of video clips to help us see parts of the race over 12 years.

Break: At the current time there is not much we can do. Some classes(like elementary schools, or an AP class with their AP tests coming up, are getting work so they do not regress). Until we can assign work that can be used for grades and assessments we are in limbo. If you would like to work on your DBQ or your King High Remembers Paper you should. If I can find a way to return every students notes I will do that, but as of now it is not really possible. It appears we will know the last week of March and how we will be doing class from here on out. If you have any questions please email at kleduc@riversideunified.org

2/21-3/4

Atomic Bomb Documents
2/20-We were looking at the atomic bomb documents and why America dropped the nuclear bomb on Japan. We went over each of the confusing documents, and then students read the easier ones.
2/21-Students began working on their DBQ on the atomic bomb, we worked on thesis statements and made a list of which documents we would use.
2/24-Students wrote their dbq in class on the atomic bomb. They didnt need to write a full intro or conclusion though. Only a thesis statement and 3 body paragraphs.
2/25-We began to look at the Cold War now that WWII was over, the Cold war began in a speech in Missouri where Churchill warned America about what was taking place in Europe and how communism was spreading. We did a quickwrite on how the cold war could be viewed from both nations perspectives.
2/26-Students finished the questions on the start of the cold war, and how America was threatening the Soviet Union, while the Soviet Union was threatening, other nations. We finished by looking at the first conflict of the Cold War, the beginning of the Berlin Airlift.
2/27-We collected the start of the cold war assignment. Students got a short handout on the Berlin Airlift and why it was so important to containing communism. Even though it was 1 city it was still an important city and it showed that America would stop at nothing to contain it. We finished class by trying to play a game about finding a communist and how hard it is to spot them, but how much harder it is to defend yourself if somebody accuses you.
2/28-Students had quickwrite 6 on the card game from yesterday. Then we were looking at the fear of communism still in America, students looked at the Loyalty Review Board and the HUAC and how they both were on the lookout for people who were against America. There was a short in class assignment, the bottom part did not need to be finished yet.
3/2-We had a sub, he put the students in groups, they had to begin preparing for KHR which is this friday. Students did a map and a war overview to have a little knowledge of every conflict they may see friday.
3/3-Students began writing questions. I talked a little bit about the project and what needs to be done. There is an individual component and a group component.
3/4-We finished making our questions for KHR. We went over the tables, check in times and things that you may have happen that day. 50 questions should be written.

2/10-2/19

2/10-Quickwrite 3-As an American citizen what is more important, your freedoms or your safety? If America had word that a 18 year old white Californian male was planning a terrorist attack on a California college(that is all we know). Would it be acceptable to round up every 18 year old white male until they can figure out who it is? When should we prioritize safety over your “freedoms” as Americans. Another similar question would be, balancing hate speech with American freedoms. 
We began to look at the Japanese interment. What took place and why the Japanese were put into prisons. We looked as well at the government stance on why it was required.  

2/11-We finished looking at the Interment and students read through several documents from the time and answered questions.
2/12-Attendance was low this day but students took the common assessment SAQ
2/13-Documents to be used on the Home front questions if needed. We also looked at the invasion of Europe and D-day
2/18-Students worked on the short assignment on the end of the war in Europe. The second 1/2 of class we talked about the Heartland Project. A code name for the Manhattan Project and the development of the nuclear bomb.
2/19-Quickwrite 4-Look up the Iwo Jima Flag raising, then :

This is the only photo which got the pulitzer prize(basically top photo prize) the year it was published.  It also is now a memorial to Marines in DC. What do you think makes it powerful? What do you think is even going on? Why of all the photos in a gigantic war would it be the central photo of it all?

We had brief notes on the lead up to the nuclear bomb. How the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa made America realize the Japanese had no intentions of surrendering. We also watched a brief cartoon of the Japanese perspective of the nuclear bomb from a kids viewpoint. 

2/7

We finished the notes from yesterday, following that we looked at some propaganda cartoons that were put out during the time. As the guy in the first video says, there is some racial sterotypes in creating these, and at the time was meant to help gain support against the enemies of the allies.

1/29-2/6 recap

1/29-We began the Unit WWII and it's aftermath. This is the climax of the American story that has been building for the past 150 years. America will rise to being the most powerful nation on the planet, and as much of the world will fall to ruthless nations, America will be looked to, to help save much of the world. We had quickwrite # 1 which was •Why do you think many Americans were very hesitant when we recently had a few incidents with iran? People were basically begging to make sure we didn’t end up going to war? Iran killed Americans, then they shot countless missiles at an American military base, inuring soldiers. Why do you think people do not want anything to escalate further? 
At the end of class we began to look at the video a rising threat from the world wars and what led to WWII
1/30-We began to look at America's steps toward war with the US isolation in the 1930's.
America went from neutrality acts in 1935, to allowing cash and carry with no weapons, to cash and carry with weapons, to lending and leasing anything our allies wanted. This progression brought us closer to war each time.
1/31-We finished part of the packet from yesterday and finished our video on the Rising Threat.
2/3-Sub Work on entering WWII Students had a small assignment with the sub. They were looking at the America First Committee, Roosevelt's 4 freedoms state of the union speech, Dr Suess cartoons and how he wanted America to intervene, and what upset the Japanese in their relationship to America.
2/4-We reviewed each of the documents from yesterday, toward the end of class, we had a quickwrite. We also had some notes as well. They can be found on tomorrow's post.
2/5-We finished the notes from yesterday. We talked about the brutality of the Japanese in the Phillipines and how American POW's were treated. Then we looked at the battle of midway and how it changed the entire war. Japan lost all of its aircraft carriers in the battle and wouldn't recover. at the end of class we began to look at the home front on the link below.

Here are the notes and quickwrite from yesterday and today. Power Point

Join the Home Front

2/6-We continued looking at the link from yesterday, The questions that connect to it are below. (one change is to do all 4 people not 3 as it requests)
Questions for Join the Home front

24-28th

1/24-We finished up the week looking mostly at the King High Remember packet that needs to be given to a parent. If anybody has a veteran they want to bring they need to bring back the paper with it on. I finished by showing a video clip of the CCC and passed out the study guide.
1/27-I concluded the Depression with one slide of notes and just talked about the legacy of it. Also how WWII brings the Depression to an end as america begins ramping up production to assist the allies in Europe.

Students finished the unit by looking at how minority groups were impacted by the New Deal. This assignment was on the back of their study guide.

Order for Notebook

  1. Title Page-Put your name, Period, Unit 5, The good times bad times and good times

  2. Quickwrites-There were 5

  3. Notes-Including the one I printed out for you on Scopes Trial

  4. Work:

u1. Prohibition questions (if you need to see the packet to review for test take them)

u2. Harlem Renaissance Questions

u3. Conservative Presidents

u4. Scopes Trial Reading

u5. Scopes Trial Work in notebook

       6. Superficial prosperity work in notebook

       7. Reading with typewriter on paper

u8. Perfect Storm of Depression

u9. New Deal Remedies

u10. FDR and the New Deal: Was the New Deal Effective?

u11. Study Guide/On Back minorities in New Deal

1/28-We took our unit 5 test today and turned in notebooks

Friday 1/10-1/23

1/10-I was out again, students looked at the Scopes Trial and how small towns differed from big cities. Also then looked at The Conservative Presidents of the 1920's.
1/13-I reviewed the work from last week we went over the Harlem Ren. the Towns and Scopes trial. We finished by beginning to look at how individuals started to buy the new inventions of the time.
1/14-We began to look at spending in the 1920's including purchasing things on credit.
1/15-We finished looking at purchases. Students did a short assignment in their notebook on superficial prosperity.
1/16-I talked about what a stock was and how it could crash, then began to look at a google classroom assignment on what it was like to live through the Depression.
1/17-Students finished the google classroom assignment from yesterday.
1/21-We took notes in class about the banks and how everyone wanted to withdraw their money. Secondly how Hoover handled the beginning of the Depression. Though his logic was there the people couldnt wait for things to turn around. FDR took over with the idea of pushing things forward.
1/22-We began class by looking at a political cartoon that reflected a dr trying to fix a sick patient. We then read about what it was like to endure a dust storm, and finished by looking at the first 100 days of FDR's presidency.
1/23-Today we began to look at the new deal remedies. We focused on the CCC. There was a short packet that looked at several parts of the New Deal and if it was helping.

Thursday. The following 4 things are used in the lesson.

I was out with the flu. Students looked at the Harlem Renaissance, including readings and video's from the era 

*warning- The first video does use a version of the n-word that was used to describe the housing community at the time. 

Harlem Book

1/6-1/7

Welcome back-as we begin the second semester the big project will be March 6th. King High Remembers is for those who passed first semester and can maintain a C until the end of February.

1/6 Monday-We began to look at why America changed it's mind on the 18th amendment. We looked through the first half of 10 documents and discussed how things didn't turn out as perfect as America thought it would. The title of the unit is The best of Times, The Worst of Times. also students had quickwrite # 1-

The 18th amendment ends alcohol in America. They call it the “noble experiment.” What do you think this means? Why do you think they end up getting rid of it?

1/7 Tuesday- We finished looking at the documents. Students answered a question for each and then prepared as if they were writing a dbq. The Thesis is the main thing we are focusing on. 

The Documents

1/8-We looked over King High Remembers which is this year, and watched a video that showed what students will be doing.