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Kristyana Johnston

NEED HELP? I am usually available Monday and Wednesday-Friday, 2:15-3:00. You may use my room as a quiet place to study during lunch and after school. You can also use the student computers in my room for school-related work.

 

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Contact               676-6482 x5239                        kjohnsto@bham.wednet.edu

Schedule

·          Period 1 – World History

·          Period 2 – Citizenship

·          Period 3 – Planning

·          Period 4 – World History

·          Period 5 – World History

·          Period 6 – Citizenship

 

 

HELP LINKS

 

STUDENT CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS

    Sehome Gay-Straight Alliance

    Bellingham Youth Philanthropy Project

 

HOMEWORK & CLASS INFO:

CITIZENSHIP

* See “Upcoming Events” below for Community Action Project ideas

 

 

Syllabus       

Grade Level Expectations Rationale

Community Action Project SELECTION FORM

Ms. J’s Suggested Reading…

 

Current Work:

March/April 2009 – start 3/16/09

February/March 2009 – start 2/2/09

 

WORLD HISTORY

 

 

Syllabus       

World History Grade Level Expectations

 

Final Project (started 6/4/09)

Current Issues Final Project

 

DUE FINALS DAY! (Click here for finals schedule)

Remember, focus on the CURRENT ISSUE column! You’ve already learned the past – see how the past shapes the current issue of your choice.

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

o        Spring WWU World Issues Forum

o        Center for International Studies Lecture Series (click on Lecture Series)

o        WWU Associated Students Events Calendar

o        WWU Events Master Calendar

o        City of Bellingham – Government events (click here for City Council Meetings)

o        Whatcom County Council Meetings

o        Whatcom Peace & Justice Center Calendar

o        Whatcom County Democrats - Calendar

o        Whatcom GOP – Get Involved (monthly meetings)

o        Village Books events

AP GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

 

Syllabus

**Community Engagement Requirement**

Community Events Calendar

 

Unit 1 Homework and Unit 1 Study Guide

Unit 2 Homework

Unit 3 Homework

Unit 4 Homework and

o         Supplemental Study Guide

o         Links to practice quizzes

o         Help Links (consolidated)

o         Court cases by court era

Unit 5 Homework and Unit 5 Study Guide

Unit 6 Homework

 

Ms. J’s Suggested Reading…

 

AP GAP Resources

 

Test Prep (quizzes, chapter summaries, flash cards, etc.)

Other practice quizzes

AP Gov Exam Tips (PDF file)

College Board AP Information

 

Last Year's Homework, etc.

 

Important APGAP Dates

Jan. 16: Counselor visit to AP Gov. & Politics: US classes (first 5-10 minutes of class)

 

Feb. 2-27: Students register for their AP exams at the ASB Office

 

Apr. 13-14 & 20-21: AP Exam pre-administration sessions for students registered to take the exams (students complete/bubble demographic data on answer sheets & receive their candidate packs and student info letters)

 

Apr. 30 (?): Students last day to request a partial refund (50% or $42.00) of their exam fees if they are not sitting for the test.

 

May 4-13: AP exam weeks

 

AP GOV EXAM: Monday, May 4, 7:30 AM

 

Previous World History Work

 

Unit 1 Work

     Course Intro, Neolithic Revolution

     Ancient Civilizations

     World Religions

     Islamic Empire

     Mongols, Black Death, and Global Trade to 1450

      Liberalism – finished 3/27/09

      Imperialism & Colonization / Decolonization & Self-Determination

         Videos of student work! (.wmv files) 

            1st period   4th period   5th period

 

 

Previous World History Info

Open House Questions

Grading begins Oct. 7/8!

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Ms. J’s Suggested Reading…

Lies My Teacher Told Me – James Loewen

Lies Across America – James Loewen

Sundown Towns – James Loewen

Speaking Treason Fluently – Tim Wise

White Like Me – Tim Wise

I May Not Get There with You – Eric Michael Dyson

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America – Jonathan Kozol

Savage Inequalities – Jonathan Kozol

Up Against Whiteness: Race School, and Immigrant Youth – Stacey Lee

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures – Anne Fadiman

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America – Ronald Takaki

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap – Stephanie Coontz

Bachelor Girl – Betsy Israel

For Her Own Good – Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich

Return of Depression Economics – Paul Krugman

Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq – Stephen Kinzer

Palestine: Peace not Apartheid – Jimmy Carter

Anything by Noam Chomsky

This article by Bill Lyne: http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v003n001/a019.shtml