Friday, May 20, 2011

Civil Rights

Your Reading guides are due next class.
Read Chapter 16-1, and outline the chapter.
Freedom Riders
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/watch

Monday, May 16, 2011

Chapter 15-- American upheaval

Chapter 15-1
Upheaval


TV and Elections
Missile Gap
"My Fellow Americans"
"Reynolds vs Sims" courtcase
Gideon vs Wainright
Miranda vs. Arizona
Prayer in the schools

Friday, May 13, 2011

50's

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/slang.htm

go to that site. make a 'dialogue' using 10 terms with a partner. include translations at bottom.



READING GUIDE
Pick one of the following, or another topic that you confirm with me.

Topics:
Summitting Everest
Korean War
Rosenberg Trial
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown v. Board of Education
Life and Times of Albert Einstein.

Print 3 articles about your topic. You may use your book. You Then need to only print 2 articles.
Page 1) List your 3 sources. Cite them in bibliographic form. Don't care if use MLA, or APA.
Page 2) 17 questions.
-- 10 FACTUAL QUESTIONS (ex: Who was the first to summit everest)
-- 5 Analytical Questions (ex: explain the techniques used to summit everest)
--2 HIGH LEVEL QUESTION (Why do we climb mountains)

Page 3) Your answers. Note: There may be more than one answer for the HIGH LEVEL questions. I hope so. Just make sure you give me YOUR answer.

To the back: Attach your Articles. Use a small font.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

questions for 14-1 and 14-2

define, and list importance.

national highway act
multinational corporation
blue collar
white collar
levittown
franchise
baby boom
jonas salk