5/24/13

Advanced U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("Reform and Reaction in the 1970s")
2)  Watergate Assignment
--Read pages 267-276 in books provided
--Answer questions from sheet handed out
--Graded Discussion

3)  Homework: Marlene Dixon reading in Green Reader ("Why Women's Liberation?")
Focus your reading on:  a) Gender roles in the New Left and Civil Rights Movement  b) U.S. government's use of women and African-Americans


Honors U.S. History:

1)  Notes ("The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue") and ("The Affluent Society")
2)  Video: "1953-60: Happy Days (Daze?)"
--Take 1 page of notes

3)  Homework: Textbook, pages 830-836; 842-846 ("John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation") and ("Enacting the Liberal Agenda")
Focus your reading on:  a) 1960 presidential campaign and election  b) "Flexible response"  c) Peace Corps  d) Bay of Pigs Invasion  e) Cuban Missile Crisis  f) JFK's space program  g) JFK's assassination  h) Lyndon Johnson's political experience  i) 1964 presidential election  j) Great Society programs