Welcome back to this last semester at our old high school site; we'll move into our brand new campus on Jefferson Boulevard in January. This website has been created for my students and their parents at River City High School in West Sacramento CA. Click the link at the bottom of the page to automatically launch your email client with my email address in the TO: field, or send me an email at goconnor(at)wusd.k12.ca.us [substitute @ for (at)].

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It would be difficult to imagine the course of American history without them: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; Rosa Parks and her brave refusal in 1955 to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery city bus; Fannie Lou Hamer and her courageous stand at a 1968 political convention. These stories of courage and commitment are among the many featured in the interactive exhibition, Freedom’s Sisters, which will run October 25 through January 4, in the Sacramento Central Library first-floor lobby.

Visit the library's exhibition (located in downtown Sacramento at 828 I Street), pick up a brochure or flyer, write up a personal review of the exhibit of at least 500 words, and submit it before the final date of the run.

From the Constitutional Rights Foundation "Bill of Rights in Action," each reading is approximately 3-5 pages of text with a few questions at the end. Click on the link and be sure to follow the instructions.

Documents, strategies, writing guides, reviews, and a whole host of tools to help a student get a handle on all things AP.

Questions and answers about the AP exam from high school teachers, college professors, and AP exam developers, and hints on how to improve your scores and avoid common mistakes.

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of magazine and full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.

The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

Just as important, students and teachers can use the translation feature to set the language on the website user interface or to obtain translations of articles in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Chinese and more.

There's also a Student Reasearch Center that links to a whole host of newspaper and magazine articles, encyclopedias, country and state reports, biographies, documents, reports, images, maps, and more.

To access these tools, go to http://search.epnet.com and use rivercity as the username. Ask me for a password.

Mondays at 9pm on PBS. As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its twentieth season, the series has produced over 200 programs and garnered every major broadcast award.

Monday, November 17: Oswald's Ghost

Download the complete course description, topic outline, sample questions and scoring examples, study skills recommendations for reading and writing, and the grade distribution from last year's exam.

McDougal Littell Current Events

Our Social Science textbook publisher provides a webpage with a monthly spotlight feature, segments devoted to economics, geography, world and United States history, a calendar of events, a "Today in History" from the BBC, and a weekly quiz.

From the Constitutional Rights Foundation in Los Angeles

From The New York Times