Anoka HS Social Studies

Nobel Lecture in absentia

World War II in memory in Japan and China. 10 minutes

Pop up menu lets viewer see changes across time and between country of origin.  Lots of fun.  Check out Norway to watch Minnesota bloom.

Inquiry and Primary source based lessons for US History.

12 Slide show tracing mass revolution from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring. Asks the question: what next after successful revolution?

Nov., 2011 coverage of crisis in Syria. 20 minute video

Short video on the destruction by bombing of Lubeck, German and Coventry, England. Primary source words and images.

Maps for all presidential elections

Full text and link to audio

Website that goes with the PBS documentary. Contains links to primary sources

Maps, and more, African American migrations from the Middle Passage to immigration from Africa since 1970.

Around the 2:50 mark in this home movie clip, FDR, in top hat, begins walking, with difficult to perceive assistance, toward the podium to take the oath of office. Just a minute or so of footage shows how FDR overcome his disability in part.

Text of the fireside chat where FDR announced New Deal legislation and leaving the Gold Standard 

Audio files include excerpts from fireside chats and other economic speeches. Most are three or four minutes, and a few are shorter.  2nd fireside chat announces the New Deal.

Recent performance on Ukrainian television demonstrates the continuing resonance of WWII there. Powerful, and only eight minutes.

The curriculum begins with a message from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and an introductory essay, "The Great Depression: An Overview," written by David C. Wheelock, a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and an expert on the Great Depression.

Some great lessons. I personally will be using some form of Lesson 2 - What Do People Say? (work with 6 letters written from various people in the 20s of the causes of the G.D.) and Lesson 3.What Really Caused the Great Depression? (create a budget sheet before and after the G.D. and identify tradeoffs made. They have pdf.s available as well as smartboard material.

Economics focused lessons on the Great Depression. Some use primary source data. Some sources are fictionalized letters.

Jolson's version of the classic song with primary source images illustrating the words. Jolson's rendition has a little more bite, a little less pathos than Bing Crosby's

20 photographs from a show of photos of North Korea.

Parody of the Lady Gaga song paying homage to Alice Paul and the success of the suffrage movement