January 2-4, 2008: Welcome Back!

Today in History: January 2, 1882: John D. Rockefeller forms the Standard Oil Trust, the first sanctioned monopoly in America.

AP US History:

• Wednesday: Chapter 16, pp. 455-470. Objectives include: Can students explain Presidential and Radical Reconstruction? Can students describe southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, and failures? Can students explain reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop-lien system?
• Thursday: Chapter 16, pp. 470-487.
• Friday: Chapter 17, pp. 489-505.

AP Government:

• Wednesday: Group Public Policy Project. Objectives include: Can students present a current public policy issue?
• Thursday: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
• Friday: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.