UNIT DATE ASSIGNMENT
Introduction W - 2/3  Day 2
60 mins.
Independence
(1776)
F - 2/5  Day 4
60 mins.
  T - 2/9  Day 6
80 mins.
  F - 2/12  Day 2
60 mins.
  • Finish viewing 1776.
Antebellum Period
(Gangs of New York)
T - 2/23  Day 4
60 mins.
 

Th - 2/25 Day 6
80 mins.

  • Begin viewing Gangs of New York.
  • Hand in your essay on your favorite signer of the Declaration of Independence. [100 pts]
  W - 3/3 Day 2
60 mins.
  • Continue viewing Gangs of New York.
  F - 3/5 Day 4
60 mins.
  • Continue viewing Gangs of New York.
   
  • Finish viewing Gangs of New York and discuss the movie.
The Civil War & Reconstruction
( Glory)
 
  • Reading -->
   
  • View several segments of Birth of a Nation.
   
  • Essay Test on Gangs of New York and Birth of a Nation
    [2 essays] -- 50 points
The Western
(Shane)
 
   
The Immigrant Experience
(The Godfather, I & II)
 
   
  • Continue viewing Godfather I
   
  • Continue viewing Godfather I
   
  • Finish viewing Godfather I.
   
Depression Era America
(Modern Times)
 
   
  • Finish viewing Modern Times and view clips from The Great Dictator.
Wartime Propaganda
(Casablanca)
 
   
Hollywood Goes
to War
 
  • See clips from WW II propaganda films, cartoons, film trailers, and a clip from the 1944 Hollywood Canteen broadcast to Armed Forces Radio.
(Patton)    
     
     
   
  • Essay Test on Modern Times/The Great Dictator and Casablanca [2 essays] -- 50 points
The Cold War & the Nuclear Age
(Thirteen Days)
 
  • Discussion of the film and the reading.
  • View Duck and Cover clip.
   
  • Begin viewing Thirteen Days.
   
   
  • Finish viewing Thirteen Days.
   
  • Work in class on your packets for the H-O-H
   
  • H-O-H on the document packet of Khrushchev-Kennedy Letters and the reading above. [50 points]
(Dr. Strangelove)  
   
  • Finish viewing Dr. Strangelove.
   
  • Essay Test on Hiroshima and Dr. Strangelove -- 50 points
Watergate
(All the President's Men)
 
   
   
  • Finish viewing All the President's Men.
(Frost/Nixon)  
  • Begin viewing Frost/Nixon.
   
  • Finish viewing Frost/Nixon.
   
  • Finish working on your project.