QUESTIONS FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD
  1. Why has the Queen Mother been in the news lately?  Who is she?
  1. Who was Abraham Lincoln?  Find a copy of his Emancipation Proclamation.  Make a copy of it.
  1. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?  Find a website that has this primary source material.
  1. Find current information on ethnic profiling.  What kind of statistics are used is such profiling?
  1. What will the weather be like for the next week in San Francisco?
  1. Describe what the term segregation means.  Find a first hand account of what it was like to be a black student going to school at an all white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  1. Who was the first baseball player to hit 500 homeruns? Write a short biography of this man.  This should include: where he was born, how long did he play baseball, what position(s) did he play, for what teams did he play, and what did he do after he left baseball.
  1. The Academy Awards ceremony was recently held.  Who won best actor? best actress? best supporting actor?  best supporting actress?  best movie?  best song? best animated film?
  1. You are going on a trip by car from San Francisco to Washington,D.C. Plot your route and show it.  How many miles is the trip?  How long will it take to drive if you only stop for meals and sleeping?
  1. What is Custer's Last Stand?  When did it occur?  Describe the situations that led up to this historical event.

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