Monday, January 31, 2011

1/31/11

Today's agenda:

1)  Notes ("The Great Race")-Part 1

**Handed out PCC credit drop information.  If you wish to drop the credit for 1st Semester, it must be done by this Friday, February 4.


2)  Video:  "The Grandest Enterprise Under God" (on the building of the Transcontinental Railroad).
--Take 2 pages of notes between today and tomorrow.


3)  Homework:  Dee Brown reading in Green Reader ("The Great Race")-Part 2 (Pages 117-135 only).
Focus your reading on:  a)  Union Pacific railroad workers' response to not being paid  b) Promontory, Utah/Golden Spike  c) Impact of Transcontinental Railroad's completion on workers.

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