Ch. 15-16 Guided Reading Questions & Vocab
Make sure you read the sections in the order they are assigned. I'm combining the two chapters and we are jumping around between the two chapters. Homework/assignments are detailed below.
Ch. 16, Sec. 1 - Read section, do vocab/key terms, and make timeline
Essential Question: Evaluate the events of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s.
Vocab & key terms: separate but equal, Jim Crow laws, de facto segregation, NAACP, sit-ins, Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), Brown v. the Board of Education, Southern Manifesto, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Little Rock 9, Civil Rights Act of 1957
Timeline: Put events on timeline with dates & brief explanation
Plessy v. Ferguson, Sweatt v. Painter, Founding of CORE, Brown v. Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Desegregation of Little Rock
Ch. 15, Sec. 1 - Read section using Guided Reading Questions, pay attention to vocab
Essential Question: What challenges and successes did John F. Kennedy experience early in his administration?
Vocab: medium, missile gap, New Frontier, domestic agenda, activist, reapportionment, due process
1. Explain the characteristics and major topics in the election of 1960.
2. What were the goals of President Kennedy's domestic agenda? Determine his success.
3. How did the Supreme Court take a more activist role in the 1960s?
Summary: What challenges and successes did John F. Kennedy experience early in his administration?
Ch. 16, Sec. 2 - Read section using Guided Reading Questions, pay attention to vocab
Essential Question: How did the nation and the national government respond to racial unrest in the 1960s?
Vocab: SNCC, legality, Freedom Riders, comprehensive, poll tax
1. In what ways did students and protesters promote civil rights for African Americans? (reading multiple sections)
2. Explain how Kennedy initially responded to violence in the South surrounding civil rights.
3. Explain the events that prompted Pres. Kennedy to call for civil rights legislation.
4. Why did new voting rights legislation need to be passed?
Summary: How did the nation and the national government respond to racial unrest in the 1960s?
Ch. 15, Sec. 3 - Read section using Guided Reading OR Answer questions
Questions, pay attention to vocab
Essential Question: How did President Johnson attempt to accomplish his goal of creating a "Great Society?"
Vocab: consensus, war on poverty, Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start
1. How did Pres. Johnson's political experience help him to get much of JFK's legislative agenda passed?
2. In what ways did Pres. Johnson's Great Society programs provide assistance to disadvantaged Americans?
3. In what ways did the Great Society programs improve the lives of Americans?
Summary: How did President Johnson attempt to accomplish his goal of creating a "Great Society?"
Questions to Answer:
1. How did Michael Harrington’s book, The Other America, bring attention to the issue of poverty in the U.S.?
2. How did Johnson’s personality as president help the nation heal after the assassination of JFK?
3. How did Johnson’s War on Poverty strive to ensure greater fairness in American society?
4. Explain one program that was created because of the Johnson’s War on Poverty. * Who won the election of 1964?
5. What inspired Johnson’s Great Society programs?
6. Look at the chart on pg. 727. Which Great Society program do you think had the most impact on American society? Why?
7. Do you share anything in common with President Johnson? If you had the ability to be in control of reforming American society (in any way), what 3 things would you make your top priorities? Provide a brief explanation for each.
8. What was the impact of the Great Society?
Ch. 16, Sec. 1 - Read section, do vocab/key terms, and make timeline
Essential Question: Evaluate the events of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s.
Vocab & key terms: separate but equal, Jim Crow laws, de facto segregation, NAACP, sit-ins, Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), Brown v. the Board of Education, Southern Manifesto, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Little Rock 9, Civil Rights Act of 1957
Timeline: Put events on timeline with dates & brief explanation
Plessy v. Ferguson, Sweatt v. Painter, Founding of CORE, Brown v. Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Desegregation of Little Rock
Ch. 15, Sec. 1 - Read section using Guided Reading Questions, pay attention to vocab
Essential Question: What challenges and successes did John F. Kennedy experience early in his administration?
Vocab: medium, missile gap, New Frontier, domestic agenda, activist, reapportionment, due process
1. Explain the characteristics and major topics in the election of 1960.
2. What were the goals of President Kennedy's domestic agenda? Determine his success.
3. How did the Supreme Court take a more activist role in the 1960s?
Summary: What challenges and successes did John F. Kennedy experience early in his administration?
Ch. 16, Sec. 2 - Read section using Guided Reading Questions, pay attention to vocab
Essential Question: How did the nation and the national government respond to racial unrest in the 1960s?
Vocab: SNCC, legality, Freedom Riders, comprehensive, poll tax
1. In what ways did students and protesters promote civil rights for African Americans? (reading multiple sections)
2. Explain how Kennedy initially responded to violence in the South surrounding civil rights.
3. Explain the events that prompted Pres. Kennedy to call for civil rights legislation.
4. Why did new voting rights legislation need to be passed?
Summary: How did the nation and the national government respond to racial unrest in the 1960s?
Ch. 15, Sec. 3 - Read section using Guided Reading OR Answer questions
Questions, pay attention to vocab
Essential Question: How did President Johnson attempt to accomplish his goal of creating a "Great Society?"
Vocab: consensus, war on poverty, Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start
1. How did Pres. Johnson's political experience help him to get much of JFK's legislative agenda passed?
2. In what ways did Pres. Johnson's Great Society programs provide assistance to disadvantaged Americans?
3. In what ways did the Great Society programs improve the lives of Americans?
Summary: How did President Johnson attempt to accomplish his goal of creating a "Great Society?"
Questions to Answer:
1. How did Michael Harrington’s book, The Other America, bring attention to the issue of poverty in the U.S.?
2. How did Johnson’s personality as president help the nation heal after the assassination of JFK?
3. How did Johnson’s War on Poverty strive to ensure greater fairness in American society?
4. Explain one program that was created because of the Johnson’s War on Poverty. * Who won the election of 1964?
5. What inspired Johnson’s Great Society programs?
6. Look at the chart on pg. 727. Which Great Society program do you think had the most impact on American society? Why?
7. Do you share anything in common with President Johnson? If you had the ability to be in control of reforming American society (in any way), what 3 things would you make your top priorities? Provide a brief explanation for each.
8. What was the impact of the Great Society?
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