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

--John Adams

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Week of March 14-18

Hey Gang! SHORT week this week as we have Parent-Teacher Conferences.  Hard to believe we're in the third trimester, huh?  Here is what we have going on...

If you missed class last week, 
watch the following videos:






If you missed class on Friday, March 11:
 Project Video Podcast Click Me!


The National Parks: America's Best Idea!


The Series on YouTube: 58 National Parks -- 
Use these for your project!!! -- Yellowstone below :)


Day 1
In Class:  Gilded Age, Immigration, Progressive Era test!
HW: Presidential Projects -- Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and McKinley due March 25!
Notes:  National Parks Project due April 4

Day 2
In Class:  Working in class on National Parks Project or Presidential Projects!!!
HW: Presidential Projects -- Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and McKinley due March 25!
Notes:  National Parks Project due April 4

Day 3
In Class:  Working in class on National Parks Project or Presidential Projects!!!
HW: Presidential Projects -- Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and McKinley due March 25!
Notes:  National Parks Project due April 4


A preview of what's coming NEXT week...

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce


"I will fight no more, forever" -- Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

"Today is a good day to die, follow me!" -- Low Dog, Sioux

Next Presidential Projects - TR and W.H. Taft DUE April 8


The Presidents DVD: History Channel...Great Flick! #26 "TR"


Theodore Roosevelt – Quiz
·       1906 - Meat Inspection Act/Pure Food and Drug Act
·       1906 - Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle
·       1901 - Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to the White House
·       1908 - Ford introduces the Model T automobile
·       1904 - Panama Canal construction begins
·       1906 - Roosevelt wins Nobel Peace Prize
·       1908 - Grover Cleveland dies - no details needed
1906 - Roosevelt and Congress pass the Antiquities Act


The Presidents DVD: History Channel...Great Flick! #27 Taft

William Howard Taft – HW
·       1913 - XVI Amendment Passed
·       1909 - N.A.A.C.P formed by W.E.B. Du Bois
·       1912 - Titanic Sinks
·       1913 - Leo Frank Case in Atlanta, GA
   1913 - XVII Amendment Passed