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Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reluctant Conquerors...")
2)  Go over Test 6 prep sheet
3)  Finish video
--Discuss/hand in notes

4)  Homework:  Ray Allen Billington reading in Blue Reader ("The Frontier and the American Character")
Focus your reading on:  Frederick Jackson Turner and his "Frontier Thesis"


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Nixon Years") and ("An Economy of Diminished Expectations")
2)  Watergate Document Assignment
--Read pages 267-276 in books provided
--Answer questions on the screen
--Graded Discussion

3)  Homework:  Textbook, pages 887-889; 892-904 ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s") and ("Politics in the Wake of Watergate")
Focus your reading on: a) Three Mile Island  b) Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  c) Roe vs. Wade  d) "Modern" political campaigning  e) Gerald Ford's problems as president  f) Jimmy Carter's "outsider" campaign for president and leadership style  g) Camp David Accords  h) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan  i) Iranian Hostage Crisis