Advanced U.S. History:
1) Watch "102 Minutes that Changed America" (Day 1 of 2)
--Interview check
--Keep Interview out while you watch
--Take 1/2 page of characteristics/thoughts on how the 9/11 footage corresponds, or not, with your interview information
2) Homework: Study for Test 12
Honors U.S. History:
1) Notes ("The Reagan-Bush Years, 1981-93")
2) Discuss/hand in yesterday's video notes
3) Go over Test 6 possible essay questions:
a) Some Americans look back on the 1950s with nostalgia and see this period as America at its best, the norm to which the U.S. should return. In what ways were the years between 1945 and 1960 unusually prosperous? On the other hand, what realities were hidden by the optimism of those years?
b) What were the critical events of 1968 that have caused some historians to refer to it as a "year of shocks"?
4) Homework: Textbook, pages 910-914 ("Foreign Relations Under Reagan and Bush")
Focus your reading on: a) 1988 campaign and election b) Clarence Thomas c) Collapse of the Soviet Union d) Persian Gulf War
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