February 17

Adv. US History
Focus:
Race relations at the turn of the century

CW:
discuss the status of African Americans post-Reconstruction
notes: Racial Politics of the South
important handout on Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
discuss lynchings in the South
race riots: Chicago 1919 and Tulsa, OK 1921

HW:
Reader: Spivey reading pp. 146-54
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Psychology (17-18)
Focus:
The Brain

CW:
video: Phineas Gage
video clip: insight to the teenage brain
discuss the limbic system
split brain: information and video clip
reading/discussion: pink brain vs. blue brain

HW:
Text pp. 195-98