FRIDAY

Adv. US History
Focus:
Vietnam War

CW:
notes/video clips:
anti-war movement
the draft and draft resistance: Muhammed Ali resists the draft--1967
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January--March 1968
video clips from LBJ DVD:
Jan 1968: Tet Offensive in Saigon
Cronkite report on Vietnam
LBJ refuses to seek a second term
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discussion: A System of Suffering and video clips from Dear America: Search and Destroy mission

HW:
Text pp. 868-73; 876
Begin reading at The Siege of Chicago
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Honors US History
Focus:
Civil Rights

CW:
1965-68
Civil Rights Act signed in July of 1964
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam (clips for EOTP and Muhammed Ali doc)
Selma Campaign: Bloody Sunday--March 7, 1965
1966: Lowndes County Freedom Organization ; March Against Fear; Black Power
1967: Black Panther Party
April 4, 1968: MLK killed in Memphis, TN
USSC strikes down part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

HW:
Text pp. 830-36