Make ups are 

      Monday After school 3:05-4:05 p.m.

      Thursday Before School 6:45-7:45 a.m.

Tutorials can be arranged by checking with teacher.

Available times:  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday -- mornings -- 7:00-7:40 a.m.

                         Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday -- afternoons -- 3:10-4:00 p.m.

Parents of my Students:  I encourage you to ask your child about their work.  Ask to see their latest assignments and their notebook.  Page through their textbook and refresh your memory of the nation's past as you learned it earlier in your life.  In Advanced Placement U.S. History, we begin the semester with the era of colonization and will continue through the turn of the 21st century.  As a parent nurturing an APUSH student, understand that they need a great deal of time for reading.  They are trying to earn the equivalent of college credit by taking this course and then the AP exam in May of next year.

Please feel free to call or email me about any concerns, or ideas you might have relating to work in Rozek's History classes.

               BarbaraRozek@SpringBranchISD.com

Students are issued a syllabus at the beginning of the year.  Almost all class management rules and regulations plus suggestions can be found there.  The syllabus constitutes a form of a contract between student and teacher.

APUSH Dual Credit Syllabus 

APUSH MHS Syllabus  

Biography:  People come to teaching with a variety of past experiences.  A Curriculum Vita (CV) is the academic world's way of chronicling a student's life experiences (and we are all always students throughout life).  Click on "Biography" to see my CV.  A strong scholar often tries to put the events that interest them into print.  My first publication, entitled "The Entry of Mexican Women into Urban Based Industries:  Experiences in Texas During the Twentieth Century," was published by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) in Women and Texas History, Selected Essays (1993).  The TSHA also published Forgotten Texas Census for which I wrote the introduction.  Those of us living in Texas love to relate to Texas History.  After graduation from Rice University (Ph.D., 1995) Texas A & M Press published my work, Come to Texas, Attracting Immigrants, 1865-1915 (2003)  The book evolved from my interest in migration and immigration -- always asking the question "Why do we move?"

Another way to chronicle life's experiences is visually.  My Family is very important to me.  My husband of 48 years -- Ken -- works as an engineer for a Houston oil and gas service company.  My eldest son, Paul, works with computers and computer support for a health service company.  He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife Laura (Asst. Professor at the University of Michigan) and my grandchildren, Owen and Nina.  My second child, Douglas, lives in Basel, Switzerland where he works at the Bank of International Settlements.  Both Douglas and his wife Liz are lawyers and they have two children -- Claire and Max.  My daughter, Janelle, serves as pastor to a congregation in Sugarland, Texas and is married to Brad, a 5th grade school teacher.  Their daughter is Sophia and their son is Soren. 

Yet another special event that has influenced my involvement in the teaching profession resulted from hearing from a previous student who had selected me as his favorite teacher.  See the story at Rice Sallyport.  Another version of the very special pictures shows a poster at Target.  Take a look.

Being a good teacher means being a good student as well.  During the summer of 2007 I had the opportunity to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmark week-long workshop at Ellis Island in New York City.  We had thirty experienced teachers discussing immigration, visiting the Statue of Liberty, and working to incorporate the new material into our curriculum.  It was a superb experience as we walked the unrestored and restored buildings on site.  Teacher workshops in the summer of 2008 included one at Stanford University with the scholars -- David Kennedy and Richard White -- on the topic of "the Great Depression, World War II, and the American West" followed by a week at the NEH workshop at Hyde Park, New York -- the presidential museum of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and home of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt.  During the summer of 2011 I continued my education with a workshop on slavery in Savannah, Georgia.

Classroom Experiences:  Most of the work done in AP U.S. History involves reading a college level text and learning to analyze primry source documents.  Sometimes classroom learning can be enhanced with the arrival of a "person from the past."  Rosie the Riveter is one of those people that has visited our APUSH classroom and shared her story of involvement in helping to win World War II.  Another visitor from the past has been a suffragette who worked hard to obtain the passage of the nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution so that all women might have the right to vote.  Yet another visitor was "Maggie" -- a woman from the prairies in the western United States around 1880s.  Click on links to see those past visitors to Rozek's APUSH classroom. 

APUSH means asking questions.  Good students ask questions, reaching out for the answers.

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Welcome to the challenging world of Advanced Placement U.S. History at Memorial High School.

Commit yourself to READ, READ, and READ.

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SOME REASONS TO STUDY HISTORY

"A people without history is like the wind on the Buffalo Grass."   A Dakota [Sious] Proverb

"Studying history makes us more tolerant, caring human beings, because we better understand the humanity of other people.  With that understanding, we can think more clearly about the choices we make today."  Chester R. Burns, 2005

"History is to a nation as memory is to the individual.  As persons deprived of memory become disoriented and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going, so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future."   Arthur Schlesinger

"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."  Helen Keller

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