9/5/12

ADVANCED U.S. HISTORY

1)  Information sheet/Seating chart/Get textbook and Blue Reader
2)  Syllabus (agreement due tomorrow)
3)  Getting acquainted

4)  Homework: Howard Zinn reading in Blue Reader ("Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress")
Focus your reading on:  a) Zinn's main point or "thesis"  b) How were the natives treated?

Test 1 will be on Friday, September 21.


HONORS U.S. HISTORY

1)  Information sheet/Seating chart/Get textbook
2)  Syllabus (agreement due tomorrow)
3)  Getting acquainted

4)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 48-56 ("First English Model: Tobacco and Settlers")
Focus your reading on:  a) Jamestown  b) Obstacles to the colonization of Virginia  c) Indentured servants  d) Nathaniel Bacon/Bacon's Rebellion  e) Navigation Acts

Test 1 will be on Thursday, September 20.