THURSDAY

Adv. US History
Focus:
WWII

CW:
War in the Pacific comes to an end: (1945)
Feb 1945: Yalta Conference and the Firebombing of Dresden, Germany
Feb-Mar 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima and the Firebombing of Tokyo (Mar '45)
(Disc #5: 1:13:09-1:16:00; 1:19-1:35:36)
KETSU GO! (video clip from War in the Pacific)
March-July 1945: Battle of Okinawa and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
(Disc #6: 8:04--20:02; 54:00--1:04:48)
discussion: atomic bombs: Hiroshima--August 6, 1945; Nagasaki: August 9, 1945

HW:
Text pp. 784-85; 788--97
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Honors US History
Focus:
1920s America

CW:
notes: Dissenting Values and Cultural Conflict
nativism returns: anti-immigration documents
the clash between urban America and rural America
the clash between science and religion: Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
video clips from History channel and Revisionnaries
the return of America's first terrorist organization: the New Klan: 1915-25
the Klan today

HW:
Text pp. 697-99; 701-07