APUSH 2024-2025

Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 9- The Great Depression Student Learning Objective - Students will evaluate the philosophies of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. 7.9 Daily Video #2 on AP Classroom What are the effects of the Great Depression? Connect the concepts from the Great Depression video to today. 60 Second Presidents- Hoover What was Hoover before being President? What was Hoover's philosophy? What is Hoover remembered for? Bonus Army Connection to another time period? Importance of  Hoover Dam  (Boulder Dam) 60 Second Presidents- FDR What is the context of the 1932 election? Who was FDR before President? What is FDR's legacy? Based on Essential Question #11- How does Content Knowledge change or reinforce how you see your  values and decisions in your role as a citizen? Compare and contrast Hoover and FDR and evaluate.  Show you understand both philosophies and then give your opinion of their philosophies, probably taking a side, and definitely avoiding...

Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 9- The Great Depression Student learning objective #1 - Students access prior knowledge Discussion Question #1- What do you already know about the Great Depression? Discussion Question #2- What do you want to know about the Great Depression? Student Learning Objective - Explain the causes of the Great Depression and its effects on the US economy. 7.9 Daily Video #1 on AP Classroom (Absent students should watch this!) Discussion Question #3- What are the causes of the Great Depression and how did they cause the Great Depression? Stock Market Crash of 1929-  Disparity of Wealth-  Increasing debt-  Overproduction-  Government role-  Discussion Question #4-   What else happened during the Great Depression that was neither a cause nor an effect of the Great Depression? Effects of the Great Depression (in the US) -Bank failures -Business failures -Unemployment -Drop in average yearly income -Drop in average consumer spending --> ...

7.8 Daily Video #1 on AP Classroom shared with students for future studying purposes 7.8 Daily Video #2 on AP Classroom   shared with students for future studying purposes 60 second presidents- Harding 1. What happened to give the Harding Presidency a bad reputation? 2. How did the Harding Presidency end? 60 second presidents- Coolidge 1. How did "Silent Cal" become President? 2. How do you evaluate his radio addresses (especially knowing about his personality now)? 3. What did he do consistently with the Harding Presidency? 4. What is positive about lack of government regulation? 5. What could be negative about that during the 1920's and 1930's? Period 7: 1890-1945,  Topic 8- 1920's: Cultural and Political Controversies Student learning objective - Identify cultural movements and political controversies of the 1920's. Historical Developments: -Nativism  -Red Scare  -Palmer Raids  - Teapot Dome Scandal - Harlem Renaissance - Boston Molasses Flood - Boston Pol...

Period 7: 1890-1945,  Topic 8- 1920's: Cultural and Political Controversies Student learning objective - Students will connect a specific controversy to the current day 1. Students break into groups and try to answer questions masterfully 2. The whole group discusses all sections and students take notes on other groups Group 1-  Teapot Dome Scandal - Giddings, Widtfeldt, Deveau, Bushfield (Dean, Philbrook, Gorman-Melo, Buckley) 1. Who is to blame directly? 2. Who is to blame indirectly? 3. What personal/social lesson exists here? 4. How do you remain a good friend, family member, etc. but professional also? Group 2-  "Report" by Maurice Willows - Towne, Mannone, Parisi (Tuck, Randazza, Olson, McKeen) 1. What is the main idea? 2. What details support the main idea? 3. How does this connect to current politic s? Essential Question #8- Politics in America Group 3-  Emma Goldman- "We Don't believe in Conscription" - Joshi, Escalante, Beiner, Silva, Boraks, Simoe...