Hello, Goodbye

Dear soon-to-be Ortho seniors (!),

It has been an honor to have taught you this year in US History. Please feel free to contact me next year for college/scholarship recommendations, at the following address: abm0514@lausd.net

If you're crazy enough to be around school on Monday, June 21, my daughter Suchitra will be visiting the in the morning from 8-11am. Please stop by so she can say "hiii" :)

Love you all and already looking forward to Graduation 2011!!

Ms. Doshi

Pennies Afterschool meetings

Upcoming afterschool
Pennies meetings will be on:

• Wednesday, June 2
• Thursday, June 3
• Monday, June 7
• Tuesday, June 8

And of course, the Pennies event on Wed, June 9 from 3:30-5pm!

First Pennies for Pearl Harbor event meeting

Please note that the first "Pennies" event planning meeting will be on THURSDAY, MAY 27 from 3:15-4pm. Tuesday's meeting was cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.

US History Museum Exhibit Research Links

RESEARCH SOURCES

1. General Sources

· http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=75 for an online textbook on World War II
· http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog22/index.html (good overview of WWII, includes timeline and short video)
· http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/ (photos from the National Archives)
· http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/ (propaganda cartoons from "Dr. Seuss")

2. Topic-Specific Sources

· PEARL HARBOR
i. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941PEARL.html
ii. http://www.pearlharbormemorial.com/site/pp.asp?c=fqLQJ2NNG&b=1549551
iii. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html
iv. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec07.html
v. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/19981207monday.html
vi. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/pearl_harbour_01.shtml (great secondary source)
vii. http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
viii. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/91dec/fallows.htm (Japanese perspective)
ix. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/PTO-Campaigns/USSBS-PTO-2.html (Japanese perspective)

· FDR’S FOREIGN POLICIES
i. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/roosevelt-arsenal.html
ii. http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/democrac/52.htm
iii. http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/infamy.shtml
iv. http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/germwar.shtml
v. http://usinfo.org/facts/speech/fdr.html
vi. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942roosevelt-sacrifice.html
vii. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/links.html
viii. http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/FDRcartoons.html

· ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
i. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/
ii. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/26roosevelt/26roosevelt.htm
iii. http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/

· AMERICAN HOMEFRONT
i. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942roosevelt-sacrifice.html
ii. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html
iii. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html
iv. http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture21.html
v. http://www.archives.gov/pacific/education/curriculum/11th-grade/ww2.html
vi. http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/osu/osuintro.html
vii. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/vogas.htm
viii. http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/index.htm


· DEBATE OVER THE ATOMIC BOMB
i. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hiroshim.htm
ii. http://www.dannen.com/hiroshima_links.html
iii. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/index.php
iv. http://web.archive.org/web/19990302031223/http:/www.glue.umd.edu/~enola/
v. http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/journey/journey1.html
vi. http://www.inicom.com/hibakusha/
vii. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us36.cfm


· WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
ii. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/WomenInWWII.html
iii. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_women.htm
iv. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html
v. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~cg3/outline.html
vi. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/rosie/


· MAJOR BATTLES/SOLDIERS’ PERSPECTIVES
i. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w2frm.htm
ii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
iii. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/guts/
iv. http://www.pbs.org/now/society/scrapbook.html
v. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/chapter2/chapter2_5a.html
vi. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html
vii. http://www.loc.gov/vets/wwii-webcasts-may27.html
viii. http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5228.htm (Iwo Jima)

· JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERNMENT
i. http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog22/index.html
ii. http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html
iii.http://www.kcet.org/socal/voices/the-guest-room/little-tokyo-fka-bronzeville.html
iv. http://www.geocities.com/allmyluvisurs/9066.html
v. http://www.janm.org/exhibits/hoshida/
vi. http://contest.thinkquest.jp/tqj1998/10060/interview.htm
vii. http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/index.html
viii. http://www.csuohio.edu/art_photos/manzanar/manzanar.html


· JAPANESE-AMERICAN MILITARY EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/issei.html
ii. http://www.goforbroke.org/
iii. http://www.katonk.com/442nd/442nd.htm
iv. http://www.senate.gov/~inouye/gfb/index.html
v. http://www.loc.gov/vets/wwii-webcasts-may27.html


· AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/
ii. http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/airoverview.htm
iii. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Tuskegee.html
iv. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html
v. http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/
vi. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_wwii.htm


· MEXICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/5views/5views5d.htm
ii. http://www.jsri.msu.edu/museum/pubs/MexAmHist/chapter16.html#three
iii. http://www.csupomona.edu/~jis/2001/Santillan.pdf
iv. http://www.hsp.org/files/mexicanamericansandworldwarii.pdf
v. http://w3.usf.edu/~lc/MOOs/zootsuit/
vi. http://www.sgvtribune.com/mexicanveterans
vii. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/
viii. http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u7sf/u7materials/cosgrove.html
ix. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/mexican_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=104


· NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCES
i. http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/NAWWII.html
ii. http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm
iii. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/native_voices/nav4.html
iv. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/07/20010726-5.html
v. http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/nativeamerican01/wwii.html
vi. http://www.nwbshoshone-nsn.gov/culture/history/wwii.htm
vii. http://www.loc.gov/vets/wwii-webcasts-may27.html

· AMERICAN RESPONSES TO THE HOLOCAUST
i. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/american_responses/

HW for Tues 05/18, Wed 05/19 and Th 05/20

Periods 2 & 3: CN, p. 534-535 AND Ch 16 Sec 4
Periods 1 & 4: "Alphabet Soup" notes

All classes except Pd 2: DBQs due next class!

Please note that this week's CST review session has been moved to Thursday 05/20

HW for Wed 05/05 and Th 05/06

Period 1: CN, Ch 14 Sec 1 & 2 AND DBQ Thesis Statement

Periods 2 & 3: CN, Ch 14 Sec 2 & DBQ Thesis Statement

Period 4: CN, Ch 14 Sec 1 & DBQ Doc Analysis

Remember that all DBQ pre-writing assignments count towards your final essay grade!

Wed May 5: CST review session from 3:15-4:15pm; 8 points extra credit

EXTRA CREDIT: SALAZAR V. BUONO

Yesterday (04/28/10), the Supreme Court decided the case of Salazar v. Buono, that introduces several interesting separation of church and state/1st amendment issues.

Read the summary of the case arguments and issues at:

http://pewforum.org/Church-State-Law/In-Brief--Salazar-v-Buono.aspx

Then, read a summary of the court's decision at:

http://pewforum.org/Church-State-Law/High-Court-Decision-in-Salazar-v--Buono-A-Cross-in-a-National-Park-Can-Stay,-For-Now.aspx

Feel free to read the detailed Supreme Court decision here:

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-472.pdf

Write a 1 page reflection on the case of Salazar v. Buono, explaining in detail whether or not you agree with the Supreme Court's decision and why. Keep your argument constitutional.

8 extra credit Project points

EXTRA CREDIT: HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Write an additional "How to Be" poem for an artist of Harlem Renaissance! Follow the instructions on the handout given in class (Period 4 students--see Ms. Doshi for instructions).

16 extra credit Project points

HW for Wed 04/28 and Th 04/29

Periods 1, 2, 3: Harlem Renaissance How-to-be poem; read and annotate Babbitt

Period 4: CN, Ch 12 Sec 3; Harlem Renaissance socratic seminar preparation

HW for Fri 04/23 and Mon 04/26

Periods 1, 2, 3: Socratic Seminar preparation; Flapper performances!

Period 4: Annotate "A Flapper's Appeal"; CN, Ch 13 Sec 4