Week of April 21-27, 2008

Important Upcoming Events:

• April 18: Staff Day/No School.
• April 28: US History TAKS test.
• May 2: A.P. Government final exam (multiple-choice section only).
• May 2: A.P. US History final exam (multiple-choice section only).
• May 5: A.P. Government exam, 8 am.
• May 9: A.P. US History exam, 8 am.

This Week in History:

• Monday: The Spanish-American War began on April 21, 1898.
• Tuesday: The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970, focusing on environmental problems. Are you doing your part in conserving and recycling?
• Wednesday: The first public showing of a motion picture took place in New York City on April 23, 1896.
• Thursday: The Library of Congress was founded on April 24, 1800.
• Friday: Martin Waldseemuller was a geographer and mapmaker. On April 25, 1507, he published a geography book. On a map of the world he called a newly discovered continent "America."
• Saturday: John J. Audubon, an ornithologist, was born on April 26, 1785.
• Sunday: Ulysses Simpson Grant was born on this date in 1822. Besides being our eighteenth president, he was commander of the Union troops during the Civil War.

AP U.S. History:

Essential questions includes: Can you describe how recent presidents have dealt with domestic and foreign policy issues?

Other key issues: Can you also identify: (1) Demographic changes: Surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration, and the graying of America, (2) Revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers, (3) Politics in a multicultural society, (4) Globalization and the American society, (5) Unilateralism vs. multilateralism in foreign policy, (6) Domestic and foreign terrorism, and (7) Environmental issues in a global context.

• Monday: Students will discuss pages 961-978, "Social Dilemmas." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 981-999.
• Tuesday: Students will discuss pages 981-999, "The Changing American Population." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 999-1005.
• Wednesday: Students will discuss pages 999-1005, "Clinton and the World." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 1005-1013.
• Thursday: Students will discuss pages 1005-1013, "The New Millennium." Homework includes reviewing Cornell Notes.
• Friday: Students will take a practice AP multiple choice exam.

AP Government:Essential questions include: Is it justifiable to have a changing definition of American civil rights and liberties in times of war and times of peace?

• Monday: Students will write an in-class brief over a selected court case. Students will discuss pages 553-565 and work with their public policy group. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 565-572 and group policy policy project.
• Tuesday: Students will begin presenting their group public policy projects and discuss pages 565-572. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 572-583 and group policy policy project.
• Wednesday: Students will begin presenting their group public policy projects and discuss pages 572-583. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 585-592 and group policy policy project.
• Thursday: Students will begin presenting their group public policy projects and discuss pages 585-592. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 592-599.
• Friday: Students will take a practice AP multiple choice exam.

April 14-18, 2008

Important Upcoming Events:

• April 18: Staff Day/No School.
• April 28: US History TAKS test.
• May 2: A.P. Government final exam (multiple-choice section only).
• May 5: A.P. Government exam, 8 am.
• May 6: A.P. US History final exam (multiple-choice section only).
• May 9: A.P. US History exam, 8 am.

This Week in History:

• Monday: John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
• Tuesday: The Revolutionary War ended on April 15, 1783.
• Wednesday: Wilbur Wright, an aviation pioneer, was born on April 16, 1867.
• Thursday: On April 17, 1961, the United States launched the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.
• Friday: Paul Revere's ride took place on April 18, 1775.
• Saturday: Today is Patriot's Day. The Battle of Lexington, the first major battle of the American Revolution, took place on April 19, 1775.
• Sunday: Daniel Chester French, born on April 20, 1850, created the statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

AP U.S. History:
Essential questions includes: Can you describe how recent presidents have dealt with domestic and foreign policy issues?
Other key issues: Can you also identify: (1) Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the service economy, (2) the New Right and the Reagan revolution, and (3) the end of the Cold War.

• Monday: Students will discuss pages 923-927, "Private Lives and Public Issues." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 927-940.
• Tuesday: Students will discuss pages 927-940, "Politics after Watergate" and take a Chapter 32 Pre-test. Homework includes reviewing Cornell Notes for Chapters 29-31.
• Wednesday: Students will take an exam over Chapters 29-31. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 943-961.
• Thursday: Students will discuss pages 943-961, "Reagan in Power" and take a Chapter 33 Pre-test. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 961-978.
• Friday: No School.

AP Government:
Essential questions include: Is it justifiable to have a changing definition of American civil rights and liberties in times of war and times of peace?

• Monday: Students will discuss pages 479-489 "Welfare Politics in the US." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 489-493 and group policy policy project.
• Tuesday: Students will discuss pages 489-493. Homework includes studying Cornell Notes and reviewing for an exam over Chapters 14-19.
• Wednesday: Students will review Chapters 14-19. Homework includes studying Cornell Notes and reviewing for an exam over Chapters 14-19.
• Thursday: Students will take an exam over Chapters 14-19. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 553-565.
• Friday: No School.

Important Upcoming Events:

• April 30: A.P. Government final exam (multiple-choice section only).
• May 2: US History TAKS test.
• May 5: A.P. Government exam, 8 am.
• May 6: A.P. US History final exam (multiple-choice section only).
• May 9: A.P. US History exam, 8 am.

This Week in History:

• Monday: Blues singer Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915. She was known as Lady Day.
• Tuesday: Ponce de Leon, a Spanish explorer, landed in Florida on April 8, 1513.
• Wednesday: The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
• Thursday: The first Arbor Day was April 10, 1872, in Nebraska. Arbor Day is celebrated at different times in different states.
• Friday: Lyndon Johnson signed a Civil Rights Act on April 11, 1968.
• Saturday: The Civil War began at Fort Sumter on this date in 1861.
• Sunday: Thomas Jefferson, our third president, was born on this date in 1743.

AP U.S. History:

Essential questions includes: Can you explain the impact of the Cold War on American society? How effective was the Civil Rights Movement in bringing about social change in America?

Other key issues: from the New Frontier to the Great Society, Expanding movements for civil rights, Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe, Beginning of Detente, and the antiwar movement and the counterculture.

• Monday: Students will discuss pages 871-878, "Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 878-883.
• Tuesday: Students will discuss pages 878-883, "Civil Rights." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 883-890.
• Wednesday: Students will discuss pages 883-890, "Johnson in Action" and have an opportunity to take a pre-test over Chapter 31. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 890-904.
• Thursday: Students will discuss pages 890-904, "Vietnam War." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 909-923.
• Friday: Students will discuss pages 909-923, "Nixon." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 923-927.

AP Government:

Essential questions include: Is it justifiable to have a changing definition of American civil rights and liberties in times of war and times of peace?

• Monday: Students will complete a review activity over "Students Rights of Expression." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 435-446.
• Tuesday: Students will discuss pages 435-446, "Public Policy: Setting the Agenda." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 446-457.
• Wednesday: Students will discuss pages 446-457, "Business Regulation." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 459-466.
• Thursday: Students will discuss pages 459-466, "Economic Health." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 466-477.
• Friday: Students will discuss pages 466-477, "The Budget." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 479-489.
  

March 31 - April 4, 2008

This Week in History:

• Monday: Commodore Matthew C. Perry arranged the Open Door Treaty with Japan on March 31, 1854.
• Tuesday: Beware! Today is April Fool's Day. This practice is thought to have originated in France before the use of the Gregorian calendar.
• Wednesday: The U.S. Mint was established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on this date in 1792. George Washington provided his own household silver for the coins.
• Thursday: Ride 'em pony! The Pony Express began on April 3, 1860.
• Friday: Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
• Saturday: Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave on a Virginia plantation on April 5, 1856. He organized and served as the first president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
• Sunday: Woodrow Wilson, our twenty-eighth president, declared war on Germany on this date in 1917. Germany had sunk several United States ships. The U.S. was now involved in World War I.

Important Upcoming Events:

• April 30: A.P. Government final exam (multiple-choice section only).
• May 2: US History TAKS test.
• May 5: A.P. Government exam, 8 am.
• May 6: A.P. US History final exam (multiple-choice section only).
  May 9: A.P. US History exam, 8 am.

AP U.S. History:

Essential questions includes: Can you explain the impact of the Cold War on American society?

Other key issues: the affluent society and "the other America," consensus and conformity, social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels, and impact of changes in science, technology, and medicine.

• Monday: Students will discuss pages 831-841, "Korean War to McCarthyism." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 841-849.
  Tuesday: Students will discuss pages 841-849, "Eisenhower and the Cold War" and have an opportunity to take a pre-test over Chapter 29. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 851-863.
• Wednesday: Students will discuss pages 851-863, "The Postwar Boom." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 863-869.
• Thursday: Students will discuss pages 863-869, "Civil Rights" and have an opportunity to complete a pre-test over Chapter 30. Homework includes reviewing Chapter 28 Cornell Notes and studying for the test.
• Friday: Students will take a test over Chapter 29. The test will consist of 10 AP-style multiple-choice and one free-response essay. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 871-878.

AP Government:

Essential questions include: Is it justifiable to have a changing definition of American civil rights and liberties in times of war and times of peace?

• Monday: Students will complete in-class essays over Chapters 11-13. Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 495-501.
• Tuesday: Students will discuss pages 495-501, "Civil Liberties." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 507-518.
• Wednesday: Students will discuss pages 507-518, "Who is a Person" and "Due Process." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 521-537.
• Thursday: Students will discuss pages 521-537, "Civil Rights." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 537-550.
• Friday: Students will discuss pages 537-550, "Women, Equal Rights, and Affirmative Action." Homework includes completing Cornell Notes over pages 435-446.