Today you got the complete directions for the remainder of your final project and you had the class to begin planning and research.  Your projects will continue until January 8, so there will only be updates to the blog during that time with essential information.  Please be sure to still check the blog regularly, but there will not be guaranteed daily posts for the next few weeks.

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Today we wrote the second and final DBQ essay of the DBQ1 Window.. Your final DBQ essay will take place after Winter Break.  Starting tomorrow, we will be working on Part II of the final project.  This is the much more intensive part and will take the majority of the remainder of the semester.  Use your experience researching your chosen topic from Part I to help determine if you think you have a strong enough topic with enough interest among your group members to complete the longer and more complex Part II or if you believe you may need to modify, expand, or even completely change your topic.

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We started our final projects today be doing some brief background research and crafting brief presentations for drama classes who will choose from our research topics that they will dramatize into one act plays as their final project.  We will pick up with Step II of the research projects on Tuesday next week, after taking Monday off to write our next DBQ.  Make sure you have submitted all products due today by midnight, Sunday night!

Submission Link is at the bottom of this guide.

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That's it folks! The last regular exam was today!  Tomorrow we will begin working on our final class project and Monday will be our second and last DBQ of the DBQ 1 window.  After we return from break we will spend the majority of our time wrapping up the project before spending a little bit of time talking about current issues and a debate we call "who own's history" before beginning review for the final exam!

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We finished new content today!!!  After wrapping up some analysis about the historical continuities and changes associated with the Clinton Impeachment, we discussed the First Gulf War and the War on Terror in terms of their defenders and detractors and how those arguments were similar to ones at other times of conflict an America's history.  We finished up with a brief conversation about September 11 and the War on Terror as outgrowths of America's choices during the Cold War.  We ended today with a brief conversation about the problems and questions facing America today and ones that might make that list for the next generation of Americans.

Tomorrow is Exam 4 and, as with past exams, it will be 55 multiple choice questions and two short answer questions.  Also, don't forget to have your binders ready for check tomorrow.  BTW, I have clarified a couple of activities posted under Period 8 to make it easier to identify for those of you that were absent the day we tackled those various activities.

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Today we wrapped up the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations and looked at some of the major issues of the Clinton Administration.  We will finish up the Clinton Administration tomorrow and discuss the effects of September 11 through today's political debates.  Tonight you need to finish up anything you did not complete on the Reagan political cartoons then read the two brief documents under the Debaters over the First Gulf War found in Period 9.  After reading the two documents answer the following questions:

1. What were the primary arguments President Bush gave in support of military intervention in Kuwait?
2. What were the major reasons Schlesinger opposed the war (Yes, this is the historian Schlesinger whom we read earlier in the year!  And yes, it the the Tony Horowitz who wrote Voyage Long and Strange that he mentions in his article!)
3. Which, if any, of Schlesinger's warnings about possible outcomes of the war came true?  What effect do you believe this has on his overall argument?

Don't forget, your exam is Thursday!  You can find the binder requirements on yesterday's blog.

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Today we started with the Chapter 31 Quiz, then proceeded to talk about some of the highlights of the Reagan Administration.  We first focused on the outcomes of Reagan's economic policies then explored some of the issues surrounding the Iran-Contra affair.

Make sure you have chapter 32 ready for tomorrow!  Also, I am attaching the list of required assignments for this Thursday's binder check!

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Today we wrote our first of two in-class DBQ's in the DBQ 1 window.  This weekend, make sure that you finish up the textbook notes for Chapter 31.  Don't forget to have Chapter 32 ready for Tuesday as well, since these are your last two chapters and you have two quizzes remaining as well!

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Today's topic was the latter half of the 1970's.  We began by reading and analyzing the introductions to two different historical works on the 1970's, one an academic history and the other a popular history.  We then examined the outcomes and legacy of the Camp David Accords and finished up the day with a brief discussion and document analysis over the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979.

Don't forget, tomorrow is your first, full, in-class DBQ!  Review your notes on writing DBQ's!

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In a much more traditional style lesson than normal today we discussed the Nixon Administration, specifically focused on the question of whether he was a conservative or liberal president in his policies and actions as president.  Tonight you need to be sure you have read and taken notes over section 30.5 in preparation for tomorrow's focus on the remainder of the 1970's and the Carter Administration.

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