US History HOMEWORK
Monday, June 14, 2010


THIS IS THE LAST HW PAGE WITH YOUR LAST-MINUTE LINKS!


for your final & Regents Exam!! Here's a new link – American History A.P. Quizzes – sure, it's for an AP

course, but it's really good! Also be sure to go to the Regents Prep Center for US History.


HW: YOUR LAST TEST IS DUE TOMORROW COMPLETELY DONE!

Here are today's jneopardy games for you:

Final Jeopardy
Final DOUBLE Jeopardy

THERE ARE LTOS MORE links on the History Website home page

Before you take your Regents exam, check out the SLIDESHOW on Regents Thematic Essays – note the common themes AND how EACH is TWO-part – to answer the essays correctly involves FOUR OR MORE parts – TWO basic examples and TWO or THREE things to talk about for each example.

WOW!!!! LOOKEE WHAT I FOUND!!!.>>>..


This is one example of the VERY REAL fear of nuclear attack in the 1950s and '60s. I VAGUELY REMEMBER THESE DRILLS!!!



Above and below, pictures likely from government publications.

Again, probably from a government pamphlet. There was considerable interest in making your own bomb shelter (see below).

I noticed the families pictured in these shelters while happily whiling away their time while they waited for the radiation to clear (like, three weeks). Not this couple! (Maybe this is the real-life version of that old Far Side comic, the wife saying “Fred, how many times did i tell you to stock a can opener?”)


This from a 1963 pre-fab fallout shelter brochure, sold by the Kelsey-Hayes Company in Detroit. (from www.boingboing.net )

TEXTBOOK SCHEDULE for the rest of the year:

  • By TUESDAY 6/1 – read chapter 24 (pp. 563 – 584; if you HAVE to skip anything, skip pp. 572-576)

  • for THURSDAY 6/3: read pp. 599 - 602

  • for FRIDAY 6/4: pp. 611-616

  • WEEKEND OF 6/4-6/6: Chap 25 Review TERMS (all the Terms, only the Terms;)Read as much of Chapter 26 as you can; finish by Tuesday, 6/8

  • For Tuesday, 6/8: Chapter 26 Review as follows: DO THE FOLLOWING - Terms: Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika, glasnost, START, SDI, Iran-Contra affair, Manuel Noriega, Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Operation Desert Storm; CQs: 1,2,4; AQ #2.

  • There will be some sort of take-home test on these chapters due the 10th or so...

  • hey, yeah, it's tough. Hang in there, Jesus loves you and I do too!

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