Monday, March 17, 2008

Week of March 17-21, 2008

Points of Interest:
  • Monday: St. Patrick's Day!
  • Tuesday: Happy Birthday, Grover Cleveland! You were the only president to serve two terms out of sequence. You were our twenty-second and twenty-fourth president. You were born on March 18, 1837.
  • Wednesday: When Congress passed the Standard Time Act on March 19, 1918, it established daylight-saving time.
  • Thursday: Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was published on March 20, 1852.
  • Friday: No School Today! Today is the traditional date for the beginning of spring. Cesar Chavez was born on March 21, 1927. He's known for his work for better conditions for Mexican-American farm workers in the Southwest.

AP US History. Objectives for the week include: Why was the Great Depression a disaster waiting to happen? How did the Great Depression affect the lives and dreams of those who lived through it? What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to end the depression? How did Roosevelt's New Deal go about fixing the problems of the depression? What was the opposition to the New Deal and how did Roosevelt deal with it? To what extent was America in danger of falling into the hands of radicals and communists in the 1930s? To what extent did minorities receive a "New Deal"? To what extent did FDR's New Deal end the Depression?

  • Monday: Students will participate in an in class discussion and lecture over pages 761-773. Also, students will have the opportunity to take a pre-test over Chapter 26. Homework: Cornell Notes over pages 773-786.
  • Tuesday: Discuss pages 773-786 in class. Homework: None.
  • Wednesday: Chapters 25-26 Review and Chapter 27 Pretest. Homework: Cornell Notes over pages 791-797.
  • Thursday: Discuss pages 791-797 in class. Homework: None.
  • Friday: No School.

AP Government. Objectives for the week include: Can students explain the organization and powers, both formal and informal, of the major political institutions in the United States -- the Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy, and the federal courts? Can students describe the ties between the various branches of national government and political parties, interest groups, the media, and state and local governments?

  • Monday: Students will participate in an in class discussion and lecture over pages 362-372. Homework: Cornell Notes over pages 375-385.
  • Tuesday: Students will participate in an in class discussion and lecture over pages 375-385, the bureaucracy. Homework: Cornell Notes over pages 385-395.
  • Wednesday:Students will participate in an in class discussion and lecture over pages 385-395, the federal bureaucracy today. Homework: Cornell Notes over pages 395-401.
  • Thursday: Students will participate in an in class discussion and lecture over pages 395-401, bureaucratic pathologies. Homework: none.
  • Friday: No School.