Homework for the weekend of March 20th

For the weekend, finish the activity we started in class today.  Cut up the pictures of the presidents on the page and then rank the presidents from this time period by re-organizing them on a new sheet of paper. Then write up your explanation of why you chose to rank them 1 (low) to 6 (high) to hand in on Monday.  The President sheet is linked up here in case you lost it.

Quiz tomorrow

Tomorrow we have a quiz!  It will be open note, and there will be 5 terms/names to identify, you will write answers for 4 of the 5.  Be sure to bring your notebooks back to class!

Mexican American War

For tonight, read the following selections from Digitalhistory.uh.edu:
The Mexican War
The Face of Battle

Homework for the weekend--Don't Mess With Texas!

Over the weekend read in digitalhistory.uh.edu two sections:
The Texas Revolution
The Texas Question in American Politics

We will be talking about this in class on Monday with the aid of film maker Ken Burns' project The West.

Homework for March 5--Wagon Train!

For tonight, do the reading in the activity from today's class.  It is in Classroom and linked up here.  You should read the selections and answer the questions and share your answers back with us.  Tomorrow in class you will finish the maps you started today.