Week's Schedule

1. Continue finding sources for your research. Bring actual BOOKS/Articles to class on THURSDAY 3/1.

2. Mon-Wed we will continue discussions on Westward Expansion (focusing on American Indian relations).

3. Thurs-Fri will be research based and will include focus on how to take bibliographic information (with handouts) and how to determine which information is the most accurate for your research.

Finish War of 1812 class work

1. Finish the sheet on War of 1812 tonight.

2. Remember, Research part 1 (list of keywords, list of sources) is due Wednesday.

There will be NO hw over the break!

Research Part 1-- Keywords, Finding Sources

1. Please write up a list of keywords based on your person. For example:

person's name, occupation, invention/works, time period, etc

2. Use this list to begin searching library catalogs for info. Here are the links for Pasadena and LA libraries. If you live in San Marino, please try to use another library because their temporary library will not have enough info. for your project. I highly recommend using LAPL for its extremely large collection.

www.lapl.org

http://catalog.pasadenapubliclibrary.net/

3. When you do your searches, please PRINT out a list of the books/sources you found. You do not need to bring books in to class at this time.

DUE: WEDNESDAY (VALENTINE'S DAY!) :)

Notable Person

1. Research up to 5 people from the list distributed today in class.

Please use Wikipedia OR www.biography.com

2. If you want to do a person NOT on the list, please make a proposal including birth-death dates. Please understand I will have final say on any proposed notable individuals.

Please turn in your essay tomorrow

Please remember to turn in your essay (from the weekend) to the tray by tomorrow. Thank you.

HW and Quiz Tomorrow

1. Get prepared for a short quiz tomorrow on political parties.


You should know these items:

• definition of political party
• difference between two-party, multi-party, one-party systems
• origin of political parties in US (see p. 287-289)
• why Washington (and Jefferson early on) didn't like parties (p.287)
  
• why the Federalist party split (p.292)
• how you feel about parties

Political Parties

Go to this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party

Read all about political parties; explore.

Answer this question:

Do you think the US two-party system is adequate for our country? Can you think of another, better solution to parties in the US? Please describe it...