"There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live..."

--John Adams

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Week of February 22--26

Monday, February 22
In Class: Reconstruction -- The Second Civil War -- Where do you start reconstructing the tattered Union?
Homework: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Project due Wednesday
Notes: None

Tuesday, February 23
In Class: Reconstruction -- Civil Rights, Ku Klux Klan, Freedmen's Bureau -- Amendments & Lincoln's Plans vs. Johnson's Plans
Homework: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Project due TOMORROW!
Notes: None

Wednesday, February 24
In Class: Reconstruction -- Andrew Johnson = Worst President Ever & Why...Violation of Tenure of Office Act and the Impeachment of a President! The near end of Reconstruction, however far from accomplished -- Grant's Presidency
Homework: None
Notes: None

Thursday, February 25
In Class: The President's DVD: Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and the End of Reconstruction...Did it REALLY fix anything?
Homework: None
Notes: None

Friday, February 26
In Class: Ulysses S. Grant and Native America...America moving West and into a new Gilded Age in the 1870s--1890s
Homework: None
Notes: Shabbat Shalom and Be Good!