Friday, June 5, 2009

European History

Homework due Monday, June 8

Read all handouts on Soviet Jewry
Continue to interview your research paper subjects

NOTE NEW DEADLINE FOR RESEARCH PAPER: Friday, June 12

Economics

Homework due Monday, June 8

Complete your stock market activity and report; due Monday

United States History

Homework due Monday, June 8

Prepare for debate

Thursday, June 4, 2009

European History

Homework due Friday, June 5

Read Spiegel, Ch. 24, 379-392
Read handouts
Use these readings in questions for your interviewees (e.g., show them the emigration flow chart.)

Economics

Homework due Friday, June 5

Economics in Our Times, Ch. 16 Review, pp 415-416
Be able to answer orally:
Build Your Economic Vocabulary
Review [“review” is an adjective, not a verb] Questions, p. 416, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8

United States History

Homework due Friday, June 5

Prepare for debate as instructed
First draft of research paper due

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

European History

Homework due Thursday, June 4

Outline Sharansky, Ch. 24
Finish Sharansky worksheet, Ch. 25 and Epilogue
Read Spiegel, Triumph Over Tyranny, Ch. 22, 357-369

Refusenik Worksheet

Economics

Homework due Thursday, June 4

Economics in Our Times, Ch. 16, pp 408-414
Terms to Know:
Less-developed country (LDC)
Developed country
Population growth rate
Thomas Malthus and his theory
Dependency ratio
Vicious circle of poverty

Trade Theory PowerPoint

United States History

Homework due Thursday, June 4

Prepare for debate as instructed
Work on research paper

Debate Assignment
Debate Issues

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

European History

Homework due Wednesday, June 3

First draft of research paper is due on Wednesday

Sharansky, Ch 25 & Epilogue worksheet

Economics

Homework due Wednesday, June 3

Economics in Our Times, Ch. 16, pp 400-408
Terms to Know:
Real economic growth
Per-capital real economic growth
Production Possibilities Frontier
Four factors affecting economic growth
Rule of 72

United States History

Homework due Wednesday, June 3

AP: Review Making America, pp 474-483, 506-512

Reg: Review America: Pathways to the Present, 467-472

Eshai: America: History of Our Nation, 614-616

Mississippi: Is This America? worksheet

Monday, June 1, 2009

European History

Homework due Tuesday, June 2

Work on your research paper
BRING FEAR NO EVIL TO CLASS ON TUESDAY.

Weekly HW Assignments
Microsoft Word Skills for Research Papers
Formatting for Research Papers

Economics

Homework due Tuesday, June 2

In preparation for the field trip to the Federal Reserve Bank:
Review EIOT, Ch. 13, “Banking and the Federal Reserve System” (bonus: now you’ve reviewed
the chapter for the final)
Review Reffonomics, “Tools of Monetary Policy” at http://www.reffonomics.com/TRB/chapter23/moneymarketgraphpart2b.swf
Read each of the three lessons under Lessons Monetary Policy
Go to www.frbsf.org/education/activities/chairman/index.html
Click on The Fed Toolkit, click on each of the four tools on the left, and read them
Prepare a question to ask at the Federal Reserve Bank

Weekly Homework Assignments
FRB Field Trip Instructions

United States History

Homework due Tuesday, June 2

Review Weisbrot, pp 95-114
Read handout
Terms to Know:
Taconic Foundation
Voter Education Project
COFO
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Schwerner, Goodman, and Cheney
Freedom schools

Research paper first draft due Friday, June 5
Research paper final version due Friday, June 12

Weekly Homework Assignments