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Preparing for your Unit 8 exam (THIS BLOCK DAY): timeline No reassessment on Unit 8 Final and AP test prep Review session HERE at lunch tomorrow! Agenda • Warm-up: Great Society speech • Great Society programs • Interpretations of the Great Society Objectives- Students will be able to… • define the Great Society • identify several Great Society programs • assess the success of the Great Society What was the Great Society? Was the Great Society a success? Major Great Society Programs War on Poverty: forty programs Medicare & Medicaid: that were intended to eliminate guaranteed health care to every poverty by improving living American over sixty-five and to conditions and enabling people to low-income families. lift themselves out of the cycle of poverty. The Environment: introduced measures to protect clean air and Education: sixty separate bills water. that provided for new and betterequipped classrooms, minority National Endowment for the Arts scholarships, and low-interest and the Humanities: government student loans. Head Start for artists, writers and program for four- and five-year- funding performers. old children from low-income families. Civil Rights: new federal laws to prevent discrimination Discussion questions • What is Califano’s main argument? What is Sowell’s main argument? • What evidence does each use to support his claim? • Who do you find more convincing? Why? • How are some of these arguments playing out in Obama’s presideny?