Tuesday

Adv. US History
Focus:
Progressive Era

CW:
Comstock Law (take notes on this)
reading: Margaret Sanger and the fight for birth control
view excerpts from Family Limitation by Margaret Sanger
Controversies over birth control today:
video clips:
Affordable Care Act's women's health coverage
Sandra Fluke's testimony
Rush Limbaugh's remarks on Ms. Fluke's testimony
Foster Fries remarks
Obama's remarks on contraceptive services
Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case
Remarks on rape and a woman's right to choose:
Todd Akin: "legitimate rape"
Richard Mourdock
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review the history of women's rights up to the Progressive Era
discussion: what does it mean to be a feminist?
notes: Feminism as a Radical Ideology

HW:
Alice Paul interview from the reader
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Honors US History
Focus:
Jacksonian Era

CW:
BFP #1
PCC registration info
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notes: Manifest Destiny: Donner Party; Mormons in Utah;
presidential election of 1844: Polk vs. Clay
video clip: Frederick Douglas in Rochester, NY: The North Start and meeting with John Brown
(from The Abolitionists)
notes: Mexican-American War (1846-47)
video clip: from The Abolitionists
notes: California statehood debate----->Compromise of 1850

HW:
Text pp. 385-91
PAY ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:
Fugitive Slave Act (part of the Comp. of 1850)
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854------->"Bleeding Kansas"
Dred Scott decision of 1857
THIS READING WILL HELP WITH ESSAY QUESTION #4