U. S. History exam. We are here with jason stacy and Matthew Ellington, who are going to help our students prep for the test. Good morning, gentlemen. Guest good morning. Guest good morning. Host this is the first year we have done the u. S. History cram for the exam for the advanced placement test on cspan. The first question everybody wants to know, what is changing this year for this test because of the coronavirus pandemic . Guest well, there is quite a lot. Is aiggest change is this shorter test, only 45 minutes long. It is going to be an online test for students. Just oneon, it is documentbased essay question with five documents. Examly, it is an students can to get home from their computers. In this era of distance learning, the College Board has modified the test while still keeping the same skills that students need to be successful. Finally, this test is an open note test. The College Board will not try to prohibit students from using their notes, so students may refer to not
More restrictions lifted in as t welcome back dinein customers but are the customers ready to come back . The hottest weather so far on its way to the bay area. Ill track how high temperatures will climb coming up in the forecast. Bay area researchers find an alarming rise in discrimination since the start of the pandemic. Tonight well hear from several victims. Now at 11 00 and streaming on cbsn bay area, counties relaxing more shelter in place restrictions heading into the Holiday Weekend. Good evening, im ken bastida. And im his beth cook. In solano county, restaurants are allowed to resume sit down service today. But as andrea shows us, the response has been underwhelming so far. Many restaurants in downtown fairfield are open but hardly a diner in sight. A lot of people dont know about the rules and many still prefer to get food to go. To me i feel its too soon. Jackie getting take out from one of the most popular spots in town. Evelyns big italian pizzaria. For the most part, cus
Tables and another one two tables. Its not going to work out. The Health Department says restaurants should follow basic social distancing guidelines. Keeping tables six feet apart and having employees wear masks. If you want to stay open, you have to adhere to these. You dont want to be the source of disease spread. And we dont want to site you. We want you to do it correctly. With the memorial day Holiday Weekend coming up, the concern is many people will be out and about enjoy their new freedoms. But very little has changed about the shelter at home order. Its important to keep practicing the stayathome social distancing requirements to protect ourselves from of co another reason for concern is that Solano County saw a cluster of cases over the mothers day weekend and then the following weekend. In fairfield, andrea, kpix 5. Just in time for the Holiday Weekend, Sonoma County is following in the footsteps of its north bay neighbor the county has been given permission to move deeper
Killed in action, and yet one day at williamsburg 80 years later, volunteer soldiers will do that. That is morbidly impressive. The first confederate battle flag of the war is captured here. Seven medals of honor are issued for meritorious actions, including robert brody, 26 years old, from the 40th North Carolina. Other men carry their wounds with them. Powhatan bowling little on the righthand side will be wounded in the right leg and return to action in malvern hill, where he would lose an arm, and he argued to go back into the fight. Mcclellan would telegraph lincoln, hancock was superb today. So this brings us to kerfuffles. And i have five minutes left to do it. Four. [laughter] mr. Gruber why is the battle of williamsburg forgotten . We already addressed memory. You go to Colonial Williamsburg because of the rockefellers. Williamsburgs memory is a tough one. When the president of the u. S. Drives down the duke of gloucester street to open Colonial Williamsburg in the 1930s, one,
Forward or even in the middle of the essay. The way i distinguish contextualization from making connections is contextualization means it is either within or next to the time period. Making connections, you are making a jump, maybe 20, 50, 1 00 years. I wouldnt go much farther. So it is not directed connected directly connected to the time period. Guest so a good example of that, with what we have been talking about with reconstruction is that, contextualization might take into account the situation for africanamericans in the United States immediately prior to the civil war, maybe in the 1850s or the 1840s. And a complexity point might be at the end of the essay, to look forward to well after reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, as an attempt to redress many of the problems that came out of reconstruction in that failed revolution. Host lets go to will, who is calling from buffalo, new york. Will, do you have a question for our distinguished teachers here