"There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live..."

--John Adams

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Week of January 31 -- February 4

Monday, January 31
In Class: The United States in 1860. Lincoln elected, Confederacy forms, the Civil War is upon us...
Homework: Presidential Projects -- Polk--Pierce due Friday
Notes: James Buchanan due Feb. 9, Test on Civil War Friday, February 11...Lincoln Presidential Project due February 11, Contributing Factors to Civil War paper due Monday February 14

Tuesday, February 1
In Class: The Union and Confederacy in 1861 -- Battles, Generals, Adavantages vs. Disadvantages
Homework: Presidential Projects -- Polk--Pierce due Friday
Notes: James Buchanan due Feb. 9, Test on Civil War Friday, February 11...Lincoln Presidential Project due February 11, Contributing Factors to Civil War paper due Monday February 14

Wednesday, February 2
In Class: A day in the life of a Civil War soldier...how much does your backpack weigh?
Homework: Presidential Projects -- Polk--Pierce due Friday
Notes: James Buchanan due Feb. 9, Test on Civil War Friday, February 11...Lincoln Presidential Project due February 11, Contributing Factors to Civil War paper due Monday February 14

Thursday, February 3
I will be in Birmingham with the 5th graders...
In Class: America: The Story of US Civil War segment -- KWL assignment for the DVD due at the end of class
Homework: Presidential Projects -- Polk--Pierce due Friday
Notes: James Buchanan due Feb. 9, Test on Civil War Friday, February 11...Lincoln Presidential Project due February 11, Contributing Factors to Civil War paper due Monday February 14


Friday, February 4
In Class: Polk--Pierce due! The Civil War daily life, 1862: A year of blood...
Homework: Work on Buchanan, Lincoln, and Contributing Factors paper...
Notes: James Buchanan due Feb. 9, Test on Civil War Friday, February 11...Lincoln Presidential Project due February 11, Contributing Factors to Civil War paper due Monday February 14...Shabbat Shalom and Be Good!


*** Extra Credit Opportunity due NEXT Friday (2/11) -- Who was General Tiger Anderson of the Confederacy and what are his ties to the Davis Academy??? Provide a one paragraph summmary of who this general is and what battles he fought in.