DAILY BLOG
Monday, 12.05.11
Students began the day with a study session at 7:00 AM. Then, when they came to class, they took the Chapter 16 Quiz. After completing the quiz, they received the remainder of the hour to begin work on their Chapter 17 Questions. This Chapter, 17, is the most challenging of the year and could use a lot of assistance from you, the parent/guardian. The major hurdle for students in the past with this chapter are the various New Deal programs, known as alphabet agencies. They will need to master the acronym and connect it with the leadership, its cause/effect, and key historical items associated with the term. An example would be the SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission. It was led by Joseph Kennedy, father of the famous brothers, John, Robert, and Edward. FDR named Joe Kennedy because he believed it ". . . takes a crook to catch a crook." The student should know that it was created to regulate the stock market and block a huge economic downturn in the future. However, due to deregulation, many current historians believe that the SEC and other agencies provided during and since the Great Depression were powerless to block our Great Recession of today.
There was a small number of students at the study session this morning, 16 from my class and 2 from Mr. Keller's. Of the 16 students, the results were the following:
A: 14
B: 2
C: 0
D: 0
F: 0
The results will not always be this great from a study group; however, this chapter was fairly easy for the students to master. However, based on the previous study group where the lowest grade was a C, it is beginning of pattern that it is quite difficult to fail if one attends a study session.
Tuesday, 12.06.11
We began the process of analyzing 7.1.1 of the Michigan Merit Curriculum. I explained to the students that we will have a 15 question exam, which means one question for each HSCE of the Michigan Merit Curriculum. 7.1.1 is an example of a HSCE. Here is 7.1.1, so you may discuss it with your student
The New Deal: Explain and evaluate Roosvelt's New Deal Policies including
****expanding federal government's responsibilities to protect the environment (e.g., Dust Bowl and the Tennessee Valley), meet challenges on unemployment, address the needs of workers, farmers, poor, and the elderly.
****opposition to the New Deal and the impact the Supreme Court in striking down and then accepting New Deal laws
****consequences of New Deal policies (e.g., promoting workers' rights, development of Social Security program, and banking and financial regulation conservation practices, crop subsidies)
Please use Chapter 17 of the text to discuss the answers to these three points. Help your student "explain" each of the three points and then assist them in "evaluating" them. They should email me if they have any issues regarding "explaining" or "evaluating."
Wednesday, 12.07.11
Students so a portion of a film regarding the first two terms of FDR. Please discuss how FDR was able to overcome his disability due to polio. Also, the role of his wife, Eleanor, in assisting his presidency. Finally, how his ideology was different from Herbert Hoover's and the benefits and hazards of such policies.
Thursday, 12.08.11
Today, the students were experienced an in-depth presentation on the CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps. By connecting this information to the HSCE of 7.1.1, it would be useful for the parent/guardian to discuss the CCC as a prime example of the expansion of the federal government and its attempt to help the unemployed. It was a huge transformation in the traditional view of the government supporting the capitalist system rather than the working class people. Ask your student whether the CCC was an overstep by the government or the proper role of a system that some view as there for the people. Encourage your student to view the positives and negatives of the CCC and other employment programs.
Friday, 12.09.11
Students were exposed to the hardships of the Great Depression, especially as related to the Dust Bowl. Please encourage your student to attend the study session on Monday at 6:30 AM. The focus of the study session will be Chapter 17. Once again, the students should master the "emphasized questions" prior to attending since most of the time will probably be devoted to the non-emphasized material, which consists of half of the quiz.
The review sheet for the Unit 3 Test, Wednesday, 12.14.11, is located on the Help Page under Unit 3 Test at the end of the list of links.
Students began the day with a study session at 7:00 AM. Then, when they came to class, they took the Chapter 16 Quiz. After completing the quiz, they received the remainder of the hour to begin work on their Chapter 17 Questions. This Chapter, 17, is the most challenging of the year and could use a lot of assistance from you, the parent/guardian. The major hurdle for students in the past with this chapter are the various New Deal programs, known as alphabet agencies. They will need to master the acronym and connect it with the leadership, its cause/effect, and key historical items associated with the term. An example would be the SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission. It was led by Joseph Kennedy, father of the famous brothers, John, Robert, and Edward. FDR named Joe Kennedy because he believed it ". . . takes a crook to catch a crook." The student should know that it was created to regulate the stock market and block a huge economic downturn in the future. However, due to deregulation, many current historians believe that the SEC and other agencies provided during and since the Great Depression were powerless to block our Great Recession of today.
There was a small number of students at the study session this morning, 16 from my class and 2 from Mr. Keller's. Of the 16 students, the results were the following:
A: 14
B: 2
C: 0
D: 0
F: 0
The results will not always be this great from a study group; however, this chapter was fairly easy for the students to master. However, based on the previous study group where the lowest grade was a C, it is beginning of pattern that it is quite difficult to fail if one attends a study session.
Tuesday, 12.06.11
We began the process of analyzing 7.1.1 of the Michigan Merit Curriculum. I explained to the students that we will have a 15 question exam, which means one question for each HSCE of the Michigan Merit Curriculum. 7.1.1 is an example of a HSCE. Here is 7.1.1, so you may discuss it with your student
The New Deal: Explain and evaluate Roosvelt's New Deal Policies including
****expanding federal government's responsibilities to protect the environment (e.g., Dust Bowl and the Tennessee Valley), meet challenges on unemployment, address the needs of workers, farmers, poor, and the elderly.
****opposition to the New Deal and the impact the Supreme Court in striking down and then accepting New Deal laws
****consequences of New Deal policies (e.g., promoting workers' rights, development of Social Security program, and banking and financial regulation conservation practices, crop subsidies)
Please use Chapter 17 of the text to discuss the answers to these three points. Help your student "explain" each of the three points and then assist them in "evaluating" them. They should email me if they have any issues regarding "explaining" or "evaluating."
Wednesday, 12.07.11
Students so a portion of a film regarding the first two terms of FDR. Please discuss how FDR was able to overcome his disability due to polio. Also, the role of his wife, Eleanor, in assisting his presidency. Finally, how his ideology was different from Herbert Hoover's and the benefits and hazards of such policies.
Thursday, 12.08.11
Today, the students were experienced an in-depth presentation on the CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps. By connecting this information to the HSCE of 7.1.1, it would be useful for the parent/guardian to discuss the CCC as a prime example of the expansion of the federal government and its attempt to help the unemployed. It was a huge transformation in the traditional view of the government supporting the capitalist system rather than the working class people. Ask your student whether the CCC was an overstep by the government or the proper role of a system that some view as there for the people. Encourage your student to view the positives and negatives of the CCC and other employment programs.
Friday, 12.09.11
Students were exposed to the hardships of the Great Depression, especially as related to the Dust Bowl. Please encourage your student to attend the study session on Monday at 6:30 AM. The focus of the study session will be Chapter 17. Once again, the students should master the "emphasized questions" prior to attending since most of the time will probably be devoted to the non-emphasized material, which consists of half of the quiz.
The review sheet for the Unit 3 Test, Wednesday, 12.14.11, is located on the Help Page under Unit 3 Test at the end of the list of links.