American Studies
NOTEBOOK
ASSIGNMENTS

  
                     TABLE OF CONTENTS
# Page Description
1   Obstacles for Suffragettes
2   Vocab Chap 10
3   Notes on Parent-Child analogies
4   Notes on Mr. Pahl’s 10.1 talk
5   Take notes on 10.2 -10.4
6   Answers to
  • 367 #2-4,
  • 374 #2 and #4,
  • 381 #2 and #4,
  • 387 #2, and
  • 401 #2
7   Vocab Chapter 11
8   Notes on 11.3
9   Notes on 12.1, with p 435, #2
10   Notes on 12.2, with p 440, #3
11   Notes on 12.3, with p 445, #2
12   Terms from Chapter 12
13   Notes on Mr. Pahl's 2-22 (W) class, and also his review of Chapters 12-13 (2-23) (Th)
14   Emotional Quotient of America Chart, including link to Sam period...
15   Blacks -- identify struggle
Lost Generation -- alienation
White suburban 21st Cent teen -- ?

Write a poem in which you try to capture the mood/theme/identity/essence of being a white 21st Century suburban teenager

Extra Credit (15a.) Compare the alienation of the Lost Generation, the identity struggle of blacks, with your white suburban teen analysis.
16   Reflection on the feelings many people went through during the Great Depression, based on clips from Cinderella Man.
17   Notes on 14.1 sick economy
18   Depression budget spreadsheet
19   p. 492 CHART comparing homelessness today and homelessness in 1930s.
20   Your group collaboration summary of 15.1: FDR's New Deal programs and the opposition they faced.

Below are assignments for the THIRD notebook hand-in:
21   (Computer Lab) Complete chart on dictators from Chapter 16.
22   13 questions for Chap. 17, section 4 (p596-601)
23   Precis (summary) of handout on Presidential power
24   Country identification map for WWII
25   Write a reflection on the quotes from Japanese Americans who were interned.  In the reflection be sure to summarize some of the things they actually experienced...
26   Analysis of Frank Capra's Prelude to War, one of the greatest propaganda films ever made.
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