MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA Unit 10 Week 3, May 13-17.

MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA

Unit 10 Week 3, May 13-17

Homework for the week• Monday

• Finish chart from class on sections 59.4, 59.5, 59.7

• Tuesday• Work on final project, study for card quiz

• Block Day• Study for Friday’s test on Ch.56-60• Unit 10 Checklist due Friday

• Friday• Work on your final project

Agenda, Monday, 5/13• HOT ROC• Vocab – add terms globalization and computer revolution

• How well have U.S. foreign policy decisions met the challenges of the global age?

• HW: Rough draft of thesis statements for your project due tomorrow. Bring in materials to work in class on your project.

New Vocab• Globalization and computer revolution

HOT ROC

The end of the Cold War created an opportunity for the United States to chart a new course in foreign affairs.

Read the four options below and circle the one that best matches the direction you think is best. Then write a few sentences explaining your choice in your notebook.

• Option 1: The United States has fixed world problems long enough. It should severely cut back its foreign commitments and use the savings to make positive changes at home. The rest of the world can take care of itself.

• Option 2:The United States is now the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth. It should use its power and wealth to make positive changes in the world—to stop wars, eliminate disease, and defeat corrupt or harsh governments. If the United States does not promote its ideals and stop evil, who will?

• Option 3: The United States should take this opportunity to strengthen international organizations like the United Nations. International cooperation is the key to solving global issues.

• Option 4: The United States should selectively use its power only when it wants to promote its own economic and security interests. It should be a global player but should only look out for itself.

Debate 1: How should the United States deal with ethnic cleansing and genocide?

1. Let someone else deal with it. Ethnic cleansing or genocide happening outside the United States is not an American problem.

2. Authorize military action when genocide or ethnic cleansing are identified. It should never happen; the United States is powerful enough to stop it.

3. Work with the UN to place pressure on the perpetrators. Send troops when necessary, but only under UN leadership or approval.

4. Only get involved in trying to stop ethnic cleansing or genocide if it has a negative affect on the U.S. economy or security.

Debate 2: How should the United States deal with human suffering caused by great catastrophes such as floods, famines, earthquakes, or disease?1. Let nations closer to the

problem deal with it. The United States cannot solve the whole world’s problems.

2. Only supply help to nations or people who are allied with the United States.

3. Work with the UN to fix these problems. That will encourage international solutions to international problems.

4. Work on our own and with others to eliminate all human suffering. People living in a wealthy country like the United States should do at least this

Debate 3: How should the United States deal with terrorism?

1. Invest heavily in the Department of Homeland Security, increase protection of our borders and find terrorist cells operating in the United States.

2. Do more to reduce the root causes of terrorism. The United States should invest in humanitarian relief in poorer nations and work to promote freedom.

3. Join an international effort coordinated and led by the UN. The United States should be a big player on an international team but should not try to shoulder most of the responsibility itself.

4. Invest in building up the American military and intelligence operations. Find terrorists in their own countries and defeat them there.

Section U.S. Actions,Motives

Results Grade and Reasonfor Grade

Confronting Dictators (59.3)

Halting Iraqi Aggression B- Persian Gulf War removed Hussein from Kuwait (because of the western need for oil), but not from power. 100,000 civilians dead & environmental damage. End of “Vietnam Syndrome” Era

Responding to EthnicConflicts & Genocide (59.4)

Ending Ethnic Cleansingin Yugoslavia

Failing to Halt Genocidein Africa

SupplyingHumanitarian Aid(59.5)

Countering Famine inNorth Korea

Dealing with AIDS inAfrica

Fighting Terrorism(59.7)

Terrorists Strike the United States

Ending Taliban Rule inAfghanistan

Toppling the Iraqi Regime

Agenda, Tuesday, 5/14

1. HOT ROCA. Take out your chart from yesterday and share/compare your

grades with your partner’s.

B. Which won best action? Worst?

2. Project Work DayA. Peer edits on thesis statements

B. Work on historical evidence

C. Plan out visuals and poster

HW: Work on project, study for the card quiz on block day

Block Day Agenda, 5/15-5/16

1. HOT ROC – Vocab card quiz (2nd to last!)

2. Ch. 60 and 9/11

3. Hand out checklists

HW: Study for Unit 10 test, checklists due on Friday

What do you remember about 9/11?• Describe how you reacted when you first learned of

the attacks.

• Tell a story that you have heard about the events of

9/11. You may have heard the story from a family

member, a friend, the news, or a documentary.

• Do you, or does anyone you know, think the country

has changed because of the events of 9/11? If so,

explain.

Ideal Debate Related to this Ideal

Placard related to this ideal

Has this ideal been preserved?

Equality (60.3)

Opportunity (60.4)

Liberty (60.5)

Rights (60.6)

Democracy (60.7)

Agenda, Friday, 5/171. Turn in checklists

2. Unit 10 test

HW: Work on final project, due Wed, May 22nd.