1.
Spatial / Chronological Thinking
• Design a map
to illustrate the northward
migration and the population
density of African Americans
in northern cities during the
1920s.
• Make a map with
a key contrasting the relative
wealth of different regions
of the United States during
the Depression.
• Prepare a map
showing which East European
nations were occupied immediately
after World War II and by whom.
• Prepare a time
line of events leading to the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Create a time
line of United States involvement
in Vietnam.
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2.
Examining Evidence
•
Read ehe 1Sth Amendment, the Volstead
Act, editorials by Wets and Drys,
and list arguments for and against
the 18th Amendment.
• Make a chart illustrating
how each of these policies (Marshall
Plan, NATO, and the Berlin Blockade/
Airlift) illustrates the major
premises of the Truman Doctrine.
• Examine four political
cartoons from the 1950s to the
1970s (one from each presidential
administration: Eisenhower, Kennedy,
Johnson, and Nixon) on the Vietnam
war. Write a brief commentary
about the point of view of each
cartoon regarding that conflict.
• Analyze public opinion
polls (1972-74) to determine public
confidence in government institutions.
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3.
Diversity : Multiple Perspectives
•
Do a mock trial on either
the constitutionality of the
trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
or the KKK's right to march
on Washington.
• Read the poetry
and stories of Langston Hughes,
Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen;
listen to the music of Bessie
Smith, Louis Armstrong, Billie
Holliday, etc.; write their
own blues and/or poetry.
• Write a paper
that analyzes Soviet Cold
War policy statements in the
context of their historic
vulnerability to the West
(Napoleon, World War I, and
World War 11).
• Make a collage
contrasting the "counterculture"
and mainstream culture in
the 1960s.
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4.
Historical Interpretation
• Make a
chart that contrasts the the
increased wealth of the rich
with the decreased wealth of
the poor today and speculate
on why this might have happened.
•
Examine advertisements and films
depicting the image of women
in the 1950s and 1960s and statistics
and court cases concerning the
reality of women; write an essay
analyzing the incongruity between
how women were depicted in popular
culture and what life was really
like.
• Examine
examples of popular culture
from the 1920s and, in a formal
essay, hypothesize what it was
like to be young in the 1920s.
• Write a position paper
on the causes of the Cold War,
including a comparison of traditional
and revisionist interpretations.
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5
Determining Historical/
Geographical Significance
•Write
an informal essay describing
how popular culture influences
students today in terms of language,
fashion, and attitudes towards
sex. Compare their experiences
with those of young people in
the 1920s nd 1960s.
•
Write a cause-and-effect essay
illustrating the onnection between
World War I and the Harlem Renaissance.
•
Make a top ten list of American
women in the 20th century. Justify
your choices.
•Have
students determine the significance
of economic events such as the
Depression, WWII, post-war boom
and recession, to patterns of
immigration from Mexico and
the experiences of Mexican American
immigrants. Students should
focus on the immigrant experience,
attitudes of California residents,
and economic and political policies
enacted at the national, state,
and local levels.
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