A.P.
April 8-10, 2008
1. Read: Read chapters 30 and 31 and
complete the study guides. Take notes on
the chapters —study and learn their contents.
Take the online quizzes. (Due April 15).
Study Guide:
Chapter 30
“From Camelot
to Watergate”
Write
thorough, thoughtful answers to all of the following objectives and
questions.
1. Learning Objectives:
1. Show how the civil rights movement changed
American life.
2. Discuss the American role in
3. Evaluate the successes and shortcomings of
President Johnson’s Great Society social programs.
4. Explain how President Nixon tried to wind
down American involvement in
5. Explain how a “third rate burglary” led to
President Nixon’s resignation.
2. Terms to Define:
1. “sit-in”
2. freedom rides
3. “search and destroy”
4. executive privilege
5. “the best and the brightest”
6. “expletive deleted”
7. Vietcong
8.
9.
10. “Letter from
11. Job Corps
12. Head Start
13. SALT I
14. CREEP
15. Medicare/Medicaid
16. Minutemen
17. “I Have a Dream”
18. Robert S. McNamara
19. Lee Harvey Oswald
20. Malcolm X
21. Barry M. Goldwater
22. Eugene McCarthy
23. Robert F. Kennedy
24. Hubert H. Humphrey
25. George C. Wallace
26. Henry A. Kissinger
27. George S. McGovern
3. Essay Questions:
1. Explain how the reality of the Kennedy
administration was often at odds with the image of Camelot..
2. Show how the Watergate affair forced Nixon
from office and diminished his standing in history.
3. Discuss the promises, shortcomings, and
long-term significance of President Johnson’s Great Society.
Study Guide:
Chapter 31
“Society in
Flux”
Write
thorough, thoughtful answers to all of the following objectives and
questions.
1. Learning Objectives:
1. Evaluate the impact of religion on
mid-twentieth century American life.
2. Evaluate educational developments of the
post-war years and explain the rationale of the student revolt.
3. Explain the appearance of the “sexual
revolution” in the 1960s and then identify the connections between that
movement and the rise of a new women’s liberation movement.
5. Explain how civil rights emerged in the
political arena of the 1950s and 1960s.
2. Terms to Define:
1. “vast wasteland”
2. “organization man”
3. black power
4. barrios
5. braceros
6. Chicanos
7. hippies
8. SNCC
9. American Indian Movement
10. NDEA
11. Dr. Benjamin Spock
12. Norman Mailer
13.
Jack Kerouac
14. Joseph Heller
15. Jackson Pollock
16. Andy Warhol
17. Muhammed Ali
18. Allen Ginsburg
3. Essays:
1. Explain how television influenced American
thought and culture in the post-war years.
2. Assess the “two dilemmas” that
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Week Twenty-seven (4/7) |
Unit Eight test (26, 27, 28) UnitNineContemporaryAmerica |
Carnes, chapter 30, 31 |
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Week Twenty-eight (4/14) |
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Carnes, chapter 32 |
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Week Twenty-nine (4/21) |
Unit ten: Synthesis and Review Review Session All Day Thursday. |
Carnes, chapter 33 |
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Week Thirty (4/28) |
Unit Nine test(29-33) |
Practice A.P. Tests |
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Week Thirty-one (5/5) |
A.P. Exam: Friday a.m. |
Practice A.P. tests |
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Week Thirty-two (5/12) |
Portfolios
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Week Thirty-three (5/19) |
Semester Final Exam |
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2. Upcoming Events: Plan for a full day of review and testing on April
24. We will meet in our regular
classroom from 9:00 to 3:00. I will
provide lunch for the weary!
Come
prepared with notes, paper, pens, and pencils!!!
3. Tests:
On
the website you will find a test on chapters 26-28. Download and take both tests to turn in by
April 17. No late tests will be
accepted!
4. Help!!!
For
those of you who have not started to review, the time is now—seize the
day! Again I urge you to invest in
cards, in a review book, and in a study group!!! Check out the internet for some helpful
resources there:
Sparksnotes has a WONDERFUL site for U.S. History review--
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/#american
In addition,
And probably best of all is the http://www.Collegeboard.com
website where you can find actual test questions from the past.