Election 2012 Electoral College

Use your outline map of the U.S. worksheet to make your own electoral college map. 

You can use any site you want, but I suggest using the CNN website.

For additional predictions, check out 270 to win. 

Election 2012 Debating Points

Use your worksheet and the internet to help you prepare for the debate next class. 

You will be assigned to either Romney or Obama (sorry, but you probably won't get to choose).  Use the internet to research the candidates opinions on various issues.  You many not include the issues of abortion or drugs.
 


Having trouble finding information?  Try:
http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/
and
http://2012election.procon.org/view.source-summary-chart.php?topic=64

Edmodo: History Fair

Join Edmodo.  See me for your class code.  If you have an account, log in.  If you don’t have one create a new one.  We’ll be using this to turn in much of our History Fair work.  

See me for help.  

History Fair Topic Ideas

History Fair topic ideas can be difficult to develop and you shouldn't rush into it.  Here are some sites to help you out.

Think about what we talked about in class and explore some topics that interest you.  Need some ideas?  Click on the links below.

Go to NHD and View the Sample Topics (pdf)

 

Go to Chicago History, then click Students Become Historians and NHD Topic Ideas

The theme is year is Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events.  While I'm not too concerned at this point about you fitting your topic into this theme, it's a good idea to keep this in mind. 

Read the pages and choose three topics that look interesting.  If you can’t find much information on the topic you probably can’t do it. 

Chapter 22 Roaring Twenties Test

The test is this Thursday and Friday.  

Make sure to study you review sheet on the back of your binder check (and below) and take your Ch 22 Practice test at SuccessNet.  

The practice test will be graded pass/fail for completing it, not on how well you do.  Many test questions are on there but not all and some questions on the practice test aren't on the actual test.  

Good Luck!

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Ch 22 Test Review Sheet

The test will have True/False, Multiple Choice, Short Answer and Long Answer.

·       John Scopes

·       The Ku Klux Klan

·       Prohibition

·       the Great Migration

·       Harlem Renaissance

·       installment buying

·       Babe Ruth

• The Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-first Amendments—What were they?  When did they take effect? 

• What relationship did the 21st Amendment to the Constitution have to the 18th Amendment?
• What innovation resulted in cheaper consumer goods?
• Which invention encouraged tourism and created new businesses in the 1920s?
• How did radio change American life in the 1920s?
• What did the booming stock market in the 1920s encouraged many people to do?
• What were two groups that did not participate in the prosperity of the 1920s?
• What became a symbol of a 1920s woman?
• Which classic 1920s novel portrayed the emptiness of rich people’s lives?
• Which presidential candidate ran for the 1928 election with the slogan “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”?
• What were three fads of the 1920s?

• Who was Lucky Lindy, and how did he become famous?
• How were middle-class women particularly affected by the growth of a consumer culture during the 1920s?

“Harlem” by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

• Who was Langston Hughes? 

• Using your knowledge of 1920s America, what is this poem about?