We began class by reviewing and discussing the events in Baltimore over the last few days and hearkening back to Langston Hughes' Dream Deferred and Mookie's decision to Do the Right Thing. After doing some reflection on these issues in our notebooks, we moved on to begin our discussion of the post WW2 period in American History. To do so, we looked at old issues of Look Magazine and began to make some hypotheses about American society in the late 1940's and early 1950's.
We then looked at The Century: The Best Years using this viewing guide. The video is embedded below.
Homework for tonight is to Read and annotate this Cold War Packet-and do a Journal Response: What image of the U.S. during the 40’s and 50’s is presented here? How is the Cold War being defined? How do the domestic and foreign issues connect?