US HISTORYUnit 4 Week 1

Homework for the week• Tuesday

• Pick a topic and creative element for the 1920s project• Read 26.1 and the first paragraph of each section and then write a

summary about Sacco and Vanzetti and their trial.

• Block Day• Finish taking notes for the hearing on Monday• Cornell Notes from 1st source for 1920s project

• Friday• Vocab Quiz Today• Prep for Monday’s Sacco and Vanzetti Hearing by doing outside

research

Agenda: Tuesday 10/30/12• New Seats• HOT ROC• Cause and Effect Jigsaw• Report Out

• Homework: • Pick a topic and creative element for the 1920s project• Read 26.1 and the first paragraph of each section and then write a

summary about Sacco and Vanzetti and their trial.

HOT ROC: What do these two images tell you about the beginning of the 1920s?

Cause & Effect Jigsaw

Come up with 5 Cause and Effect statements for your assigned section:

A. 26.2 Emerging Economic Tensions

B. 26.3 Rising Labor Tensions

C. 26.4 Growing Political Tensions

D. 26.5 Increasing Social Tensions

E. 26.6 Enduring Racial and Religious Tensions

Jigsaw report out• Groups will write out cause & effect statements on the

boards and share out• Take notes on other sections• Discuss as a class

Agenda: Block Day 10/31 & 11/1• Add vocab:

• Quota system (p.338)• Secular (p.341)

• Guided web-search on political issues• Class Discussion• Begin researching on 1920s topic (if COW wifi is working)

• HW: Research 1920s project and take notes from your 1st source

SACCO & VANZETTI TRIALOverview

• At 3:00 P.M. on April 15,1920, a paymaster and his guard were carrying a factory payroll of $15,776 through the main street of South Braintree, Massachusetts, a small industrial town south of Boston.

• Two men standing by a fence suddenly pulled out guns and fired on them. The gunmen snatched up the cash boxes dropped by the mortally wounded pair and jumped into a waiting automobile. The bandit gang, numbering four or five in all, sped away, eluding their pursuers.

• At first this brutal murder and robbery, not uncommon in post-World War I America, aroused only local interest.

Background

Background

• Three weeks later, on the evening of May 5, 1920, two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fell into a police trap that had been set for a suspect in the Braintree crime.

• Although originally not under suspicion, both men were carrying guns at the time of their arrest and when questioned by the authorities they lied. As a result they were held and eventually indicted for the South Braintree crimes.

• Vanzetti was also charged with an earlier holdup attempt that had taken place on December 24, 1919, in the nearby town of Bridgewater. These events were to mark the beginning of twentieth-century America's most notorious political trial.

• After a hard-fought trial of six weeks, during which the themes of patriotism and radicalism were often sharply contrasted by the prosecution and the defense, the jury found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of robbery and murder on July 14,1921.

• This verdict marked, however, only the beginning of a lengthy legal struggle to save the two men. It extended until 1927, during which time the defense made many separate motions, appeals, and petitions to both state and federal courts in an attempt to gain a new trial.

Background

• Overview:• The governor of Massachusetts has summoned you to testify in a

clemency hearing for two convicted death row murderers. Governors convene these hearings when they are considering granting clemency, a pardon or lessening of a penalty.

• Objective:• Should Sacco and Vanzetti receive clemency? • What effects did postwar tensions have on America’s founding ideals?

• Directions:• Each student will be assigned to a pair/group to play a role. You are

to prepare for the trial according to the instructions provided. Remember you want to be able to both defend your position and attack and undermine those who oppose you so collecting evidence is very important.

Clemency Hearing

• Each group will have someone present a brief (1 minute) opening statement that explains who you are and you will share how you feel regarding the clemency of Sacco and Vanzetti.

• When everyone has spoken there will be time for a brief debate of ideas and for the jury (Lowell Committee) to ask questions to each of the groups.• If time allows, groups may also question each other.

• The jury may also ask questions of Sacco and Vanzetti. • If time allows, groups may also question Sacco and Vanzetti

• Sacco and Vanzetti will give their closing statements.• After the presentation of statements and questions, the jury will deliberate a

verdict. The deliberations will be open and take place in front of the class, as a fish bowl. Each member of the jury is required to present an argument during deliberations. Then a vote will be taken and a verdict reached.

• After the verdict has been reached, Governor Fuller will choose to either support the Lowell Committee’s decision or overrule it and make his own decision.

Clemency Hearing

Roles & Overview

Roles 1st Period

Sacco

Vanzetti

Alvan Fuller

Lowell Committee

American Civil Liberties Union

Nativists

Industrial Workers of the World

Plymouth Cordage Company

East Boston Anarchists Organization

Officials in the Palmer Raids

• Use the information packet to prepare for the clemency hearing.• Tasks:

• Read about your group• Answer questions for your

group• Prepare statements for the

hearing• Monday

• Clemency Hearing• Starts at the beginning of

class, no work time.

Roles & Overview:

Roles 4th Period

Sacco

Vanzetti

Alvan Fuller

Lowell Committee

American Civil Liberties Union

Nativists

Industrial Workers of the World

Plymouth Cordage Company

East Boston Anarchists Organization

Officials in the Palmer Raids

• Use the information packet to prepare for the clemency hearing.

• Schedule• Block Day

• Work on gathering background information on the trial. Read background information and take Cornell notes on the Sacco and Vanzetti case 26.1-26.5 only intro paragraphs in each section.

• Homework: Do more research on the trial at home. Bring research to class on Friday.

• Friday• In class work day• Homework: Finish up research and

opening statements

• Monday• Clemency Hearing• Starts at the beginning of class, no work

time.

Roles & Overview:

Roles 4th Period

Sacco

Vanzetti

Alvan Fuller

Lowell Committee

American Civil Liberties Union

Nativists

Industrial Workers of the World

Plymouth Cordage Company

East Boston Anarchists Organization

Officials in the Palmer Raids

• Use the information packet to prepare for the clemency hearing.

• Schedule• Block Day

• Work on gathering background information on the trial. Read background information and take Cornell notes on the Sacco and Vanzetti case 26.1-26.5 only intro paragraphs in each section.

• Homework: Do more research on the trial at home. Bring research to class on Friday.

• Friday• In class work day• Homework: Finish up research and

opening statements

• Monday• Clemency Hearing• Starts at the beginning of class, no work

time.

Agenda: Friday 11/2/12• HOT ROC: Vocab Quiz• Work day for Monday’s Hearing • (Computer lab day if the COW wifi was bad on block day)