Welcome to our new campus! 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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Two sections of AP US History have been placed in the new 4x4 schedule for next year, one in the Fall term and one in the Spring term. Fifty students were placed in these two sections, and all must complete the summer assignment by August 28, 2009.

The students of the APUSH classes of 2009 voted nine new members into the APUSH Hall of Fame. See who's been elevated to this lofty and prestigious honor!

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

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.

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.

Film Review Instructions: get approval for a film currently in release, see it, save the ticket stub and staple it to your typed or computer-generated review

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.

April 2009: We Shall Remain

At the heart of the project is a five-part television series that showshow Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands andfought the extinction of their culture -- from the Wampanoags of NewEngland in the 1600s who used their alliance with the English to weakenrival tribes, to the bold new leaders of the 1970s who harnessed the momentum of the civil rights movement to forge a pan-Indian identity. We Shall Remain represents an unprecedented collaboration between Native and non-Nativefilmmakers and involves Native advisors and scholars at all levels ofthe project. The film's five episodes are titled: After the Mayflower; Tecumseh's Vision; Trail of Tears; Geronimo; and Wounded Knee.

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