Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Million Word Challenge at BCCHS


Minority Participation in World War II - Rubinger

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Harlem Renaissance

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Website Ideas:

Cab Calloway - NPR


Biography.com -- Search for your person in upper right hand corner.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  -- Index of poets.

BBC -- Historic Figures

PBS.org -- Selected bios.
Poets.org -- Look up someone's poetry here!   




        

Thursday, February 2, 2012

New Deal Group Project

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If you have a public library card:  Gale History Resource center at lapl.org


Recommended websites:
American Heritage Center

History.com: New Deal: Check links below for specific New Deal programs

Collin County Community College : Overview of New Deal

University of Colorado Boulder:  Was the New Deal a success or failure?

Wall Street Journal: Failure of New Deal Programs

Teacher's Outline of Depression and New Deal (Hoggard High School - Mr. Mason)

http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html

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