1. DBQs and test grades Mr Fleischman peacing out: 10:55-11:15
Agenda
Objectives
Warm-up
Documentary
Inquiry: post-WWII economic opportunity
Test return
Did America’s post-war economy further social and economic opportunity for Americans?

2. Why do we analyze our tests?
One of the main reasons: measure and track growth. Aim for improvement
What did you do well? What can you do better?
me about reassessment now!

3. “Boom times”
2009 documentary titled “America in the 20th Century: the Post-War Years”

4. Suburbia, home of the “happy housewife”
G.I. Bill
Mass-produced, affordable homes
Great Migration and “white flight”
Levittown track homes of the 1950s

5. The Baby Boom
Births
Year

6. Did America’s post-war economy further social and economic opportunity for Americans?

7. Discussion questions
Any major changes/ continuities you noticed today?
Did today’s inquiry change how you view the US as a land of opportunity today?
Do you think ensuring opportunity is more the responsibility of the individual or of society?
Why is poverty, as Harrington calls it, “invisible”?

8. A burgeoning private sector, continued federal spending, the baby boom, and technological developments helped spur economic growth, middle-class suburbanization, social mobility, a rapid expansion of higher education, and the rise of the “Sun Belt” as a political and economic force

9. Media portrayals of gender
A photo of the Cleaver family from Leave it to Beaver, a popular TV show in the 1950s-60s

10. Household products marketed to women
A 1950s ad for a cleaning product
A 1950s ad for an electric iron