1. US HISTORY Unit 9 Week 1

2. Monday 4/14 Shout – outs Positive, celebrate our community School appropriate Not Creepy

3. Agenda for Tuesday, 4/15 HOT ROC Introduce Unit 9: Vietnam War and the 1960s What do you already know about John F. Kennedy? Was he a good president? T-chart Homework: Cornell Notes on p.634-635 Finish the t-chart and thesis statements on Kennedy

4. Place the following Presidents in chronological order: Franklin D. Roosevelt Taft Eisenhower Truman Hoover Nixon Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Coolidge Harding Teddy Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson

5. Presidential Rankings in History Criteria for Evaluating Presidents Administrative skills Credibility Crisis management Economic management Foreign affairs Performance within context of times Public persuasion Pursued equal justice for all Relations with Congress Vision setting

6. Presidential Rankings: Best to Worst Abraham Lincoln 90.0 FDR87.6 George Wash. 84.2 T. Roosevelt 81.0 Harry S. Truman 75.3 Woodrow Wilson 72.3 T. Jefferson 71.1 Eisenhower 69.9 LBJ65.5 Ronald Reagan 63.4 James K. Polk 63.2 Andrew Jackson 63.2 James Monroe 60.2 William McKinley 60.1 John Adams 59.8 Grover Cleveland 57.6 James Madison 56.7 John Quincy Adams 56.4 George H.W. Bush 54.8 Bill Clinton 53.9 Jimmy Carter 51.8 Gerald Ford 49.5 Taft 49.1 Richard Nixon47.7 Rutherford B. Hayes 47.7 Calvin Coolidge 45.1 Zachary Taylor 44.7 James Garfield 44.4 Martin Van Buren 42.9 Benjamin Harrison 42.6 Chester A. Arthur 42.3 Ulysses S. Grant 40.3 Herbert Hoover40.0 Millard Fillmore 39.5 John Tyler 36.9 William Henry Harrison 32.9 Warren G. Harding 32.6 Franklin Pierce 28.6 Andrew Johnson 28.0 James Buchanan 25.9 *Does not include George W Bush or Barack Obama *We will decide where to place JFK

7. Graphic Organizer #1: Was Kennedy a Successful President? SuccessesFailures Domestic Policy (48.2): ~3-5 Specific examples with explanations for each Foreign Policy (48.3): ~3-5 Specific examples with explanations for each Thesis statement (1 for each side

8. Agenda for Block Day 4/16-4/17 HOT ROC - What is the proper role of government in helping American people? President Johnson and the Great Society Primary source activity Johnson’s speech and reactions to his Great Society Add conservative and liberal to your glossary Graphic organizer - complete Homework: Read and notes on p.646-647 Study vocab for card quiz

9. Great Society 1. Read Johnson’s speech and answer the questions 2. Review his legislation and identify the purpose of each program 3. Analyze his critics and supporters 4. Add terms conservative, liberal, environmentalism and welfare state to your glossary 5. Complete the graphic organizer to sum up his beliefs

10. Graphic Organizer #2: What is the proper role of government in shaping American Society? (Chapter 49) Johnson’s Liberal View of Government: ____________ _____________ ____________ Approach to Healthcare: ____________ _____________ ____________ Approach to Racism: ____________ _____________ ____________ Approach to Education: ____________ _____________ ____________ Approach to Immigrants: ____________ _____________ ____________ Approach to The Environment: ____________ _____________ ____________ Approach to Consumers: ____________ _____________ ____________

11. Video links (if time) War on Poverty Ad by LBJ's presidential campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1aA8lLA5Mg CBS news http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/is-america-losing-the-war- on-poverty/ 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes by Hans Rosling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

12. Agenda for Friday, 4/18 HOT ROC – Vocab card quiz Vietnam Timeline Finish up any classwork from Tuesday or Block Day that wasn’t finished in class HW: Finish the timeline

13. Why did the US get involved in Vietnam? Read p.658-661 What was the Vietnam conflict? Include the terms below in your answer. Why was the US involved in it? Include the terms below in your answer. French control of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Viet Minh Vietnamese Independence 1 st Indochina War Geneva Accords Buddhist opposition Dien Bien Phu Domino Theory Viet Cong Diem Assassinated