February 6

IB US History
Focus:
Gilded Age

CW:
notes: The Socialist Challenge
handouts:
antitrust laws
laissez-faire economic policies take  hold
video: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

HW:
Text
SKIM: pp. 516-21; 523-25
READ: pp. 534-40
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Psych (6-7)
Focus:
Brain

CW:
video clip: the developing teenage brain (emotional mood swings)
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Brain damage and its effects on the mind and body:
video clip: Phineas Gage
video clips: football and the concussions on the brain
high school football: Football High (start video at 29 mins)
vicious hit on RG III
Junior Seau's suicide
video clip: The Hit System
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video clips: Giffords before and after
brain plasticity: shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords

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(may save for next class)
discuss the limbic system
discuss split brain
video clips: split brain research

HW:
Text pp. 195-98