Monday, April 3, 2017

April 2017

4/3 TURN IN LATE WORK
The Great Depression: People’s difficult decisions- what would you have done, realistically, in such situations?
Breadline 1929- Peoples’ growing anger with lack of government intervention and relief.
What were the problems? Suffering in the midst of abundance 14:20-19m, 20:28- 23:20m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq9yh0Pc6N4&safe=active
With a partner read and discuss historical responses to problems. Think about what consequences your actions/choices will have.

How did people in history respond to difficult situations?
Compare your choices with peoples’ choices and actions in Zinn reading.
Radical responses- How did people organize collectively to get through and improve their conditions when the govt. did not do much for the people? How might these types of actions have affected the govt.? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exuGv3HsV-U
http://www.lib.umich.edu/radical-responses-great-depression/intro.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8x1_q9wg58&safe=active
http://blogs.lclark.edu/hart-landsberg/2009/08/16/unemployed-councils-lessons-for-today/ http://dailybruin.com/2013/04/24/136716/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74WDonvmk4 http://www.thenation.com/article/199393/encounter-william-macdonald-and-mayor-bill-de-blasio
http://www.nationofchange.org/utah-ending-homelessness-giving-people-homes-1390056183 http://libcom.org/blog/taking-housing-justice-future-part-i-26032015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/16/if-youre-a-poor-person-in-america-trumps-budget-is-not-for-you/?utm_term=.0029e36c0d6e
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/23/americans-throw-out-more-food-than-plastic-paper-metal-or-glass/
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/man-robs-bank-medical-care-jail-143625999.html
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_10.html
Assignment Log
HW Log 5.1 Causes of the Great Depression
Log 5.2 Grapes of Wrath
Log 5.3 Difficult Decisions
Log 5.4 Compare decisions with history



4/5 TURN IN LATE WORK
The Great Depression- How should the govt. respond to economic problems? 
Answers depend on ideologies - political perspectives based on different values and assumptions that guide people’s ideas about government, society, economics and politics, like Liberals vs. Conservatives, or Progressives vs. Social Darwinists
http://www.sparknotes.com/us-government-and-politics/political-science/political-ideologies-and-styles/section1.rhtml
Right wing vs Left wing https://www.reference.com/government-politics/difference-between-left-wing-right-wing-efb4493019ba1505
Conservative, Liberal/Reformers, and Radical philosophies/ideologies
What do the metaphoric visual representations indicate about these 3 philosophies?
Remember Laissez-fair/Social Darwinism? Economic vs Social?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radical
Depression Response matrix – Match ideas, people, quotes and policies.  Work in groups to review, identify, paraphrase SUMMARIZE ideology, quotes and policies using you own words and some essential words or quotes.  https://users.drew.edu/sjamieso/Summary.html
http://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hphgHi6FD8k&safe=active     http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/1939-nazi-fascist-rally-chicago-history/Content?oid=21376284       https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2017/03/17/fox-news-poll-bernie-sanders-most-popular-politician-america/99323334/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/15/bernie-sanders-remains-one-of-americas-most-popular-politicians/?utm_term=.4c94a078ea4b


 Examine changes to unemployment rate under presidents with different ideologies. Do graph and worksheet.
Review effects of Great Depression from 5.1 and graph. Which was more effective?
http://www.hoover.org/research/how-fdr-saved-capitalism  https://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/depression-within-depression
 
Songs from the Great Depression: What do these songs say about the Great Depression?
Brother Can You Spare a Dime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4yT0KAMyo&safe=active


Assignment Log
HW Log 5.1 Causes of the Great Depression
Log 5.2 Grapes of Wrath
Log 5.3 Difficult Decisions
Log 5.4 Compare decisions with history
Log 5.5 Ideology matrix
Log 5.6 Unemployment rate data

4/7 The Great Depression- Suffering in the midst of abundance and peoples’ growing anger
How should the govt. respond economic problems?  What role should it play in economy?
Little help from government  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgR2Buke5MQ   http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm
Suffering in the midst of Abundance http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160317005779/en/Proposed-House-Budget-Drive-Millions-Hunger-Poverty

Songs from the Great Depression:
Woody Guthrie, This Land is Your Land – What is the song about?
Man in the Sand – documentary of Woody Guthrie, segment about the song and its legacy 16-21m
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/05/woody-guthrie-centennial-this-land-is-your-land-school-folk-music.html
http://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land
What does the song say about the United States? How have these stories been distorted or censored?
Why would people try to censor this music?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM5sxsBbhGQ  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/this-land/about-the-song/

Portfolio review
Do self grade and have logs ready to turn in

Assignment Log
HW Log 5.1 Causes of the Great Depression
Log 5.2 Grapes of Wrath
Log 5.3 Difficult Decisions
Log 5.4 Compare decisions with history
Log 5.5 Ideology matrix
Log 5.6 Unemployment rate data
Log 5.7 This Land is Your Land



4/10 turn in logs 5.1-5.7 with self grade
How should the govt. respond to the four problems: overproduction of goods, inequality, unemployment and poverty?  What role should it play in economy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgR2Buke5MQ&safe=active http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/photoessay.htm
New Deal response to the recession - range of options from radical, liberal, conservative philosophies/ideologies
Summarize the problem, identify the best solution and explain how and why that is the solution.
In pairs, review and discuss: Four Problems http://www.scribd.com/doc/84354607/Responding-to-the-Great-Depression-Activity
Write out your responses on your logs, NOT ON THE READING
Examining early response by Hoover -which kinds of policies did he apply and what was the result?
 
Connections to our present day https://economicfront.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/trumps-skinny-budget-has-a-lot-of-military/ Inequality: Great depression vs. our Great Recession http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/pikettys-inequality-story-in-six-charts http://www.classroomlaw.org/files//Oregon-income-inequality.pdf   http://inequality.org/wealth-inequality-america/   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/generous-welfare-systems-actually-make-people-more-keen-to-work-europewide-study-finds-10144712.html


Assignment Log
Log 6.1 Four Economic Problems



4/12 turn in late work
Suffering in the midst of abundance and peoples’ growing anger with lack of sufficient government intervention
http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/7336/   
The Great Depression- How should the govt. respond to economic problems? 
FDR’s promise of a New Deal and the promise of bold change- How much credit does he deserve?
http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/videos#fdr-a-voice-of-hope
How did peoples’ power influence the govt. to help extend relief, recovery and reform for farmers, retirees, etc.?  http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-new-economy/people-power-pushed-the-new-deal
http://www.lib.umich.edu/radical-responses-great-depression/work_page_601.html   http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/165.html
http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2012/09/upton-sinclair-meets-franklin-d.html?m=1  http://depts.washington.edu/epic34/index.shtml
https://theintercept.com/2017/04/11/trump-trial-balloon-to-eliminate-social-security-tax-undermines-key-defense-of-the-program/


How did people pressure the government to do more? Freedom? Rights? Modern American Liberalism
How does FDR respond to the problems of the Great Depression with an extension of rights and freedoms? What do you think about this?
FDR’s New Deal and the historic role of the president and federal govt.- New ideas about liberty- not a freedom to starve.
http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/669     http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1511  https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/04/democracy-capitalism-freedom-friedman-wright-socialism/
The Four Freedoms 1941 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iHKtrirjlY   http://www.humanrights.com/voices-for-human-rights/eleanor-roosevelt.html
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/is-the-u.s.-ready-for-human-rights/the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights
http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/eleanor-the-radical-roosevelt    http://billmoyers.com/2015/03/24/felon-disenfranchisement/
 
Democracy, education and what government can do. Tony Benn (from film, Sicko) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LnY-jy_cE0&safe=active
http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/d823a614-9e82-11e5-b45d-4812f209f861.img
 
Assignment Log
Log 6.1 Four Economic Problems
Log 6.2 Peoples’ power and New Deal
Log 6.3 FDR’s Redefining “Liberty”



4/14 TURN IN LATE WORK

New Deal response to the recession - range of options from radical, liberal, conservative philosophies/ideologies

FDR’s promise of a New Deal and bold change: How should the govt. respond? What role should it play in economy?

Video- FDR’s New Deal and the historic role of the president and federal govt., new Democratic Party


Relief, Recovery, Reform – What was the function of each program? Which do you think had the most important impact? Why?

1st New Deal Banking, Stocks, FHA, CCC, AAA, etc.

2nd New Deal-WPA, Wagner Act, unions, NLRB, fair labor standards act, social security act, dam projects





Assignment Log
Log 6.1 Four Economic Problems
Log 6.2 Peoples’ power and New Deal
Log 6.3 FDR’s Redefining “Liberty”
Log 6.4 RRR-New Deal programs and impact

4/18 TURN IN LATE WORK
What were the results of the New programs like the WPA and taxes? GDP, debt, unemployment rates http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/a-federally-funded-jobs-program-lessons-from-the-wpa.html http://nhegewaldapush.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/9/2/10927263/9519062_orig.png?330 https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/the-long-story-of-us-debt-from-1790-to-2011-in-1-little-chart/265185/
Federal Taxes, brackets and marginal rates http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/24/1189512/-FDR-s-Proposed-Marginal-Tax-Rate-Was-100
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2017/04/15/from-our-archives-tax-day-2/  http://billmoyers.com/2014/06/06/taxes-who-pays-how-much-in-eight-charts/
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginaltaxrate.asp   http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/frames/2012/06/2012618756972819.html
 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/20-percent-of-profitable-u-s-companies-pay-no-federal-income-tax/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/business/how-the-us-became-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-tax-havens/2016/04/06/5cc96ce6-fc2a-11e5-813a-90ab563f0dde_video.html
A 2nd Bill of Rights? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZ5bx9AyI4&safe=active http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16518
http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2010/0110feiner.html 
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31510-our-18th-century-bill-of-rights-needs-revising
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/is-the-u.s.-ready-for-human-rights/the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights  http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/eleanor-the-radical-roosevelt
Inequality: Great depression vs. our Great Recession http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/03/17/half-of-u-s-may-endure-lost-decade-of-depressed-employment/  http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/people-think-were-in-a-recession-dont-blame-them/?_r=0
FDR living wage https://www.flickr.com/photos/nysaflcio/10986006015/ http://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/38900
Consider the results of FDR’s policies and ideas.
Should we implement FDR’s ideas like 2nd Bill of Rights, taxes, New Deal, etc. today? How could it work today? http://billmoyers.com/story/after-living-in-norway-america-feels-backward/  http://thenextsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/picturing-kenworfthy-s-social-democracy-john-4.png    http://www.cc.com/video-clips/yk98ct/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-stockholm-syndrome-pt--1
http://www.alternet.org/labor/when-america-came-close-establishing-30-hour-workweek  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/business/behind-monopoly-an-inventor-who-didnt-pass-go.html

Assignment Log
Log 6.1 Four Economic Problems
Log 6.2 Peoples’ power and New Deal
Log 6.3 FDR’s Redefining “Liberty”
Log 6.4 RRR-New Deal programs and impact
Log 6.5 Results of New Deal
Log 6.6 New Deal today?



4/20 From the global Great Depression to WWII: American Nazis http://www.orgsites.com/nm/lkeeney/economic_crisis.pdf
http://www.thehistoryreader.com/modern-history/6-things-may-known-nazis-america/ 
http://qz.com/640183/in-a-us-suburb-famous-for-its-battle-with-neo-nazis-donald-trump-brings-back-unwelcome-memories/    http://gothamist.com/2015/10/20/nazi_long_island.php
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/1939-nazi-fascist-rally-chicago-history/Content?oid=21376284  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPGT7EaCiIY&feature=youtu.be  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxL8MjZrIOk
Road to WWII Video - End of WWI and beginning of WWII:  How did the end of WWI lead to WWII? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2qBW3-2QVA   http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2011/oct/26/germany-eurozone-debt-crisis-hyperinflation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic
Causes of the war- (Wilson’s 14 points) vs. gains for Allied powers to be winners and punish Germany
Versailles treaty- Fairness and impact on the future? Re-mapping Europe and the Middle East http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist111/WWI.html
After the war: imagine Germany after WWI- write a one page diary imagining being in such a situation.
 
Records on Human Rights violations: Genocide, Anti-Semitism and political repression- Holocaust documents http://www.cbsnews.com/news/revisiting-the-horrors-of-the-holocaust/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5VdhUArVEc
Torture, brutality, power and authority: How do these stories make you feel/think? Bureaucracy of evil? Compare with today’s violations. Should such info be public? http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=8560    
http://mic.com/articles/106006/16-horrifying-excerpts-from-the-torture-report-that-the-cia-doesn-t-want-you-to-see#.TbHt2LL8T  http://www.thenation.com/article/193185/cia-didnt-just-torture-it-experimented-human-beings http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/10-truly-terrible-things-the-cia-did-in-our-names-because-freedom-20141209    http://fair.org/home/cias-work-with-filmmakers-puts-all-media-workers-at-risk/   http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/06/politics/donald-trump-torture/
 
DO SELF GRADE AND TURN IN LOGS

Assignment Log
Log 6.1 Four Economic Problems
Log 6.2 Peoples’ power and New Deal
Log 6.3 FDR’s Redefining “Liberty”
Log 6.4 RRR-New Deal programs and impact
Log 6.5 Results of New Deal
Log 6.6 New Deal today?
Log 6.7 After the War
Log 6.8 Human Rights then and now

4/24 TURN IN LATE WORK

Fascism vs Social Democracy: Breadline 1929 22-28m  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq9yh0Pc6N4&safe=active&noredirect=1


Road to WWII and Holocaust - Why Leaders Want War? http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp  

Nazis, authority, anti-Semitism, scapegoating– How and why did so many people go along with the Nazis’ monstrous acts? http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/everyday-murder-nazi-atrocities-committed-by-ordinary-people-a-542245.html 
Milgram experiment: dangers of blind obedience to authority https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVlI-_4GZQ&safe=active
Roots of anti-Semitism- church laws and historical Christian anti-Semitism
Gradual implementation of laws/policies- Timeline victimization escalating to the Holocaust
Which laws/policies were most serious? Why? What pattern is there in the development of these laws/policies? Why? Resistance to these?
Log 7.1 Nazi Followers
Log 7.2 Nazi laws

4/26 TURN IN LATE WORK
Video Road to WWII – Rise of Nationalism - Fascism (Germany, Italy, Spain); Japan, Russian Stalinism 4-10m
Clouds of War 10:50 – 14:28m  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2qBW3-2QVA
Fascist expansion in Europe worksheet - Italy, Spain, Germany; appeasement; nonaggression pact
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7148855/40-maps-that-explain-world-war-ii   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3223834/Stalin-planned-to-send-a-million-troops-to-stop-Hitler-if-Britain-and-France-agreed-pact.html  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazis tested their new air force on the Basque town of Gernika in northern Spain. One-third of Gernika's 5,000 inhabitants were killed or wounded. Pablo Picasso exposed the horror of the bombing in his famous painting called Guernica. http://bit.ly/15LRRDY) Spanish Civil War and the Lincoln Battalion: http://bit.ly/15LSehR
US neutrality and isolationism 14:30- 17m  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2qBW3-2QVA
How and why was the US isolationist, in the 1930s and before Pearl Harbor?

The Beginning of WWII: Video Road to War, War Comes to Europe- 17m- 26
Follow major events and dates on timeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2qBW3-2QVA
Timeline- What choices or actions by Britain, France, USSR, the US or the League of Nations could have prevented or weakened Fascist aggression? Who chose to collaborate with Nazis and Fascists? Explain
WWII-
Capitalism, corporations and Nazi collaborators

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm http://coreyrobin.com/2014/04/20/next-time-someone-tells-you-the-nazis-were-anti-capitalist/
http://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-us-pretty-supportive-attitude-toward-fascism-1930s/221193/  https://www.laprogressive.com/allen-dulles/  
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/us/politics/father-of-koch-brothers-helped-build-nazi-oil-refinery-book-says.html?_r=0
What US knew and did leading up to the Holocaust http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/lul/Readings/Lecture-The%20sound%20of%20silence.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/24/anne-frank-and-her-family-were-also-denied-entry-as-refugees-to-the-u-s/
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/apr/18/opening-un-holocaust-files-archive-war-crimes-commission  http://fpif.org/seven-decades-nazi-collaboration-americas-dirty-little-ukraine-secret/


Assignment Log
Log 7.1 Nazi Followers
Log 7.2 Nazi laws
Log 7.3 Fascist Expansion
Log 7.4 US Isolationism
Log 7.5 WWII choices

 
4/28  May Day rally – international worker’s day based on US struggle for 8 hour day in Chicago in 1880s  http://www.portlandmercury.com/events/18964965/may-day-2017  http://www.alternet.org/story/155182/may_day%27s_radical_history%3A_what_occupy_is_fighting_for_this_may_1st
http://www.history.com/topics/child-labor/videos/sound-smart-the-haymarket-square-riot  http://www.opalpdx.org/2017/02/april-29th-peoples-climate-movement-portland-or/

Video Road to War: “Path to Infamy” 26m- end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2qBW3-2QVA
Why did the US have conflicts with Japan leading up to Pearl Harbor and WWII?
Was Pearl Harbor an unavoidable surprise attack?
 http://www.salon.com/2014/04/06/pearl_harbor_did_fdr_and_the_navy_know_what_was_coming/   http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7148855/40-maps-that-explain-world-war-ii
See US Entry into WWII: Conflicts with Japanese Imperialism notes
 “The main interests of the United States in Southeast Asia were dual in nature. The first was purely economic. The memorandum stated that the "Philippine Islands, the Dutch East Indies, and British Malaya are prime sources of raw material very important to the United States in war and peace; control of these lands by a potentially hostile power would greatly limit our freedom of action.”   http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/postwar_foreign_policy.html

War in Europe and the Pacific- follow on timeline 12m - 29  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9qMLobh9Jk
Tensions with USSR and strategy in Africa, ending war in Europe and then focusing on Japan in the Pacific
http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/pi/pimap3.jpg  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo http://www.worldology.com/Europe/world_war_2_lg.htm
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/08/dont-forget-how-the-soviet-union-saved-the-world-from-hitler/
WWII Military and Civilian Casualties and Eastern Front http://www.fallen.io/ww2/  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_War_II_Casualties.svg
 
 
Assignment Log
Log 7.1 Nazi Followers
Log 7.2 Nazi laws
Log 7.3 Fascist Expansion
Log 7.4 US Isolationism
Log 7.5 WWII choices
Log 7.6 Conflicts with Japan

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