{"id":335,"date":"2012-11-23T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=335"},"modified":"2012-12-26T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T13:50:56","slug":"unit-5-america-in-our-time-1980-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2012\/11\/unit-5-america-in-our-time-1980-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 5: America in Our Time, 1980-Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this last unit of the course, we consider recent history &#8211; what matters, who decides, and how best to learn about more recent events. The &#8220;lens&#8221; is Race, Identity and Immigration, i.e. the &#8220;New Face of the USA.&#8221; What does America look (and sound, and taste) like in 2012, and why?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a unit overview. Note there&#8217;s also a new tab above for your unit SkillBuilder due on Friday 11\/30. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon 11\/26<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;What Happened to the 1960s?&#8221; Reading: Skim Ch 12, especially 12.4 Middle East and Malaise: America in the Late 1970s<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed 11\/30<\/strong> &#8211; Reaganomics and the End of the Cold War. Reading: Chapter 13.1 and 13.2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fri 11\/30 <\/strong>&#8211; History Now Workshop Day. Very important that you&#8217;re in class on this day, I&#8217;ll be handing out the packets for our History Now project (guidelines here). No reading. <strong>SkillBuilder #6 is due<\/strong> by the start of class. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mon 12\/3<\/strong> &#8211; I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xl2xu2_the-tonight-show-with-jay-leno-citizenship-test_news\">mm<\/a>igration in Your Time. Reading: Ch 13.4 T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/shows\/classroom\/interactives\/citizenship-quiz\">e<\/a>chnology and Gl<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/population\/foreign\/\">o<\/a>balization<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xl2xu2_the-tonight-show-with-jay-leno-citizenship-test_news\" target=\"_blank\">The Tonight Show with Jay Leno _ Citizenship Test<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/hulu\" target=\"_blank\">hulu<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oQNP5XKMNls\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wed 12\/5<\/strong> &#8211; American Diversity. Reading: Ch 14.3 Diversity in the New America<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fri 12\/7<\/strong> &#8211; History Now, Discussion Day. No reading, History Now Project is due in class. No electronic submission on this project and NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED. <\/p>\n<p>The last exam will be Wed 12\/12 at 8:30 am in our classroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this last unit of the course, we consider recent history &#8211; what matters, who decides, and how best to learn about more recent events. The &#8220;lens&#8221; is Race, Identity and Immigration, i.e. the &#8220;New Face of the USA.&#8221; What does America look (and sound, and taste) like in 2012, and why? Here&#8217;s a unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","category-workshop-days","tag-fall12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}