9/4/13

Advanced U.S. History:

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

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?


Honors U.S. History:

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

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