Extra Credit
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Extra Credit Readings
Extra Credit Readings from The Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF).
All of the extra credit readings are linked below in chronological order. (They can also be accessed in the CRF Readings folder in alphabetical order.)
Instructions:
1. Summarize the important points of the reading in your own words, in complete sentences.
2. Answer the questions labeled "For Discussion and Writing" .
3. Your job is to demonstrate that you read and understood the reading.
4. In sets that have readings in World History, US Government, and US History, select the reading for US History.
FYI: There is no partial extra credit. All or nothing. Each write-up is worth 10 points. MAX: 3 per unit.
Early America, Constitution, Civil War, Reconstruction, Standard 11.1
Religion, Standard 11.3
Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization and the Gilded Age, Standard 11.2
The Progressives, Standard 11.2
Imperialism and WWI, Standard 11.4
The 1920s, Standard 11.5
The Great Depression and the New Deal, Standard 11.6
World War II, Standard 11.7
The 1950s, Standard 11.8, 11.9
JFK/LBJ, Standard 11.8, 11.9
Civil Rights, Standard 11.10
The Sixties/Vietnam, Standards 11.8, 11.9
Nixon, Standards 11.8, 11.9, 11.11
Reagan, Standards 11.8, 11.9, 11.11
War on Terror