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

--John Adams

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Week of March 4-8

Civil War Continues!  -- How much does your backpack weigh? 
Notes from Class-- Bull Run- Anaconda Plan - 1862 Year of Blood - Antietam
Notes from Class -- Antietam - Emancipation Proclamation - Medical Practices - Lee vs. Grant


Day 1
In Class: How to write the president research paper outline -- finish research.  Outline is due March 11
HW:  Outline due March 11
Notes:  Research paper due March 22....Abraham Lincoln Pres. Project due April 5....Civil War test April 9/10 (day 2 of that week)


Day 2
In Class: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant...July 1863: The Best July Ever!...Vicksburg and Gettysburg...Gettysburg Address...Jews in the Civil War -- Judah P. Benjamin and Grant's expulsion of the Jews in Tennessee
HW:  Outline due March 11
Notes:  Research paper due March 22....Abraham Lincoln Pres. Project due April 5....Civil War test April 9/10 (day 2 of that week)

Day 3
In Class: Jews in the Civil War...Judah P. Benjamin and Grant's expulsion of the Jews in Tennessee...1864 Sherman changes the momentum of the war...Andersonville:  The Hell of the South --Jewish Americans:  Jews during the Civil War
HW:  Outline due March 11
Notes:  Research paper due March 22....Abraham Lincoln Pres. Project due April 5....Civil War test April 9/10 (day 2 of that week)


Day 4
In Class: 1864 and 1865 The War is coming to a close...April 1865 and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln...Ken Burns' The Civil War
HW:  Outline due March 11
Notes:  Research paper due March 22....Abraham Lincoln Pres. Project due April 5....Civil War test April 9/10 (day 2 of that week)