12/16 50's Exam

1. 50s Exam
2. Writing Prompt Essay Due

3. Intro to Civil Rights

4. Have a Great Xmas Break.

5. Extra Credit Available for the semester---look at the all assignments links for the Extra Credit from Break

12/14 Beats and Politics

1. Beats---Jack Kerouac assignment in class
2. Truman Wkst.

3. Go over work from last time and assign part II of Writing Prompt.
4. Review for Exam

12/10 50s Formative Quiz

1. 50's formative Quiz
2. 1950s Writing Prompt --First page assigned.
3. Taft-Hartley Act and Car Nation Wkst. assigned

12/8 Youth Rebellions--Teenage Rock n Roll

1. Rock and Roll and Challenges for Youth
2. Intro to politics of the time.
3. Ch. 20 S3 RG due next class

12/6 Gender Roles

1. Study Stereotypical Gender Roles in America in the 1950s
a. The Good Housewife
b. Both Men and Women didn't fulfill those roles
c. Grace Metolious' Peyton Place

2. Answer the following Question for next class:

Thought Question:
In what ways were women expected to act in the 1950s. Explain your opinion on this. How do the statistics on women’s employment levels in the 1950s contradict the expectations of the society portrayed on TV and in the media?

12/2 Advertising--Selling the American Way

1. Television in the 1950s
2. Advertising America

3. Ch. 20 S2 RG for Homework

11/30 1950s Business

1. Collect Ch. 20 S1--Lecture
2. Tv/Suburbia Wksts.
3. Interstate Highway Act---Flowchart Due next Class