Bedbugs

Apparently someone else out there suffers from bedbug fears.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN3043167820080530

amazing

seriously, check this out!

ap us history review:

http://www.historyteacher.net/USQuizMainPage.htm

another great one

and this one's incredible

The 10 Weirdest Facts about American Presidents

"Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, was reported to be a very interesting character. When not having his head massaged with Vaseline during breakfasts in bed or riding his own mechanical bull, he was ringing the White House doorbell and then running off to hide."

Found this on Digg, read the rest here: http://polizine.com/2008/02/19/the-10-weirdest-facts-about-american-presidents/

Wag the Dog

I just checked through my TiVo guide and apparently Wag the Dog is on FX this morning at 11 am. Just in case you have nothing to do, it's a nice way to kill a couple of saturday morning hours and watch a great flick. Enjoy!

~Scharf ;)

The Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle! no, not the song, the book! A quick reminder that your Jungle book review and class discussion is due in just over 2 weeks. Get on it!

AP Test Tomorrow

Dave told me you guys wanted Multiple Choice on Friday and Essay Tomorrow- Consider it done. Sorry I missed today...........I'm not really moving.........let's assume i'll be ok by tomorrow, but if not we'll deal with that then. Happy studying!

Presidents

Hey guys,
here's the president song (its sung to the tune of yankee doddle dandy). I hope it helps!

Washington was first and then came
Adams and Tom Jefferson
Madison, Monroe and Adams
Jackson and Van Buren

Harrison, Tyler, Polk and Taylor
Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan
Lincoln, Johnson, Grant and Hayes and
Garfield ruled the land then

Arthur was the 21st and
22 was Cleveland
Harrison was 23 and
back came President Cleveland

McKinley and then Roosevelt
Taft and Woodrow Wilson
Harding and then Coolidge and then
maybe someday you can.

Hoover, swept by Roosevelt,
Who died and Truman stepped in.
Eisenhower followed him
And Kennedy then leapt in.

Upon whose death L. Johnson ruled
But soon succumbed to Nixon,
Who abdicated off to Ford,
Then Carter (Georgia hick)'s in.

Ronald Reagan vanquished Carter;
Bush, his Veep, came on, sir.
Billy Clinton took two terms
Then Bush – so ends my song, sir.

Book Citation List - APUSH Exam

Since citing books in the AP U.S. History exam is great for to gain more points, let us share a list of good books which we can mention in our essays or use to answer multiple choice questions.

Example:
Roots, by: Alex Haley - Talks about slavery. (delete this when updated).

Book Reviews

Hey Kids-

As a reminder, the book reviews are due the day before Thanksgiving!

Leah- Roots
Stephanie- The Furies
Matt- Middle Passage
Lindsay- The Life of Andrew Jackson
Adam- Uncle Tom's Cabin
Nate- Confessions of Nat Turner
John- Burr; a Novel
Alisa- Lady Washington

Enjoy!

~Scharf ;)

Quotes

I found this page with some Lincoln quotes: some look pretty easy to memorize. There are more famous American quotes at the bottom. I hope this is helpful. And I love cats.
http://mr_sedivy.tripod.com/quotes17.html

Welcome!

As decided upon in class, we have created this blog to keep track of our homework assignments, to remind us of our test dates, and to exchange ideas, resources, and opinions on what we are studying. As inconvenient as meeting up in person can be, we, the scholarly and academically curious students of Ms. Scharf's A.P.U.S.H. class, will always have this handy-dandy blog to fall back on. Even though some of what I just said was bogus, we can not resist the powers of the blog.

So, as I told you in your email, you will need to accept the invitation from this blog (in a separate email also sent to you) in order to be able to post stuff and comment on other posts. If you have any questions feel free to e-mail me at natebessa[@]gmail.com (remove []'s please: it's a cautionary step against deadly spam).

Use this blog to post anything you want that is at least somewhat relevant to History and our History class. As cute as your cats may be, try to focus on posting things that your classmates actually care about. I do not have cats, as you can probably tell. I suggest posting any links you find of useful websites, thoughts you have over projects, questions you may have about what we are learning that you want people to discuss, and possibly even some humorous jokes you may have to bring back what is known as a social life to us.

Thanks,
Nate B.

P.S. Here are all of our emails in case we need to get in contact with one another. If you wish for me to remove your last name (even though for most of us our last name is in our email address):
- Ms. Jennifer Scharf - jenniferscharf@gmail.com
- Nate B. - natebessa@gmail.com
- Adam Formica - adamformica@gmail.com
- Alisa Peterson - alisapeterson@rcn.com
- Leah Feinberg - backflipgirl91@rcn.com
- Stephanie Kwan - stephanie_a_kwan@yahoo.com
- Lindsay Sathurch - lfs72990@hotmail.com
- John & Matt coming soon.