U.S. History

Thursday, March 11
1940's Test. Students need to hand in Schindler's List permission slips.

Wednesday, March 10
Review day for tomorrow's test.

Tuesday, March 9
Today's content was on the Holocaust. I gave the students various maps of concentration camps and a handout on the "tion" process that Jews went through during the Holocaust.

Monday, March 8
Today we finished the video on Hitler and discussed his mistakes. We then talked about the Nuremberg Trials and the occupation of Japan.

Thursday, March 4
I gave out a review sheet for the test on the 40's (WWII mostly). there is a link to the review sheet below. The test will be next Thursday, March 11. We watched a video called "How Hitler Lost the War".

Wednesday, March 3
We finished the presentations today in class. Assignment to complete for Friday is to read 17.4 in the text and answer questions #1,3 and 4. The topic is the homefront during WWII.

Thursday, February 25 and Friday, February 26
More presentations.

Wednesday, February 24
Today was filled with student presentations. They will continue tomorrow.

Tuesday, February 23
Spent a little more time on Pearl Harbor. We then began the students' presentations. I gave out an extra credit assignment as well - due on Monday, March 1 (see link below).

Monday, February 22
We finished the video and discussed some of the questions on the study guide. Presentations begin tomorrow.

Friday, February 19
We finished watching the Pearl Harbor video and discussed the items on the study guide. I also handed out the timeline over the war in Europe to give students an idea of when they may present their topic to the class. That is posted below as well.

Thursday, February 18
Students had time to work on their topics/presentations/handouts today in the MRC.

Wednesday, February 17
Today the students had time to work on a short project about WWII. Each student drew a topic from a hat (or a box) and is responsible for making a short presentation about that topic when it comes up during discussion. The first presentations will not happen until Monday of next week and the last ones will most likely happen Thursday or Friday. The instructions for the assignment are below.

Monday, February 15
We finished discussing the timelines. Then we began watching a video about Pearl Harbor. The students have a guide to fill in while they watch. This will continue tomorrow.

Thursday, February 11
We continued to discuss the pre-WWII timelines today.

Wednesday, February 10
We discussed the pre-WWII timelines today.

Monday, February 8
Today we discussed the events from the timelines.

Friday, February 5
Pre-World War II timeline quiz to start the hour - we also corrected them. We watched a short video showing Hitler speak at a youth rally.

Thursday, February 4
Today the students had the entire class to work on an assignment. It is called the "Pre-WWII Timeline" and should have all the events from chapter 16, sections 1&2 and chapter 16, section 4 up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor (p. 538-541 and 550-554). They will be able to use the timeline to take a quiz tomorrow in class.

Wednesday, February 3
We finished up a couple of items from yesterday to begin class. Then the students took a "quiz" on some major topics from World War II in preparation for our study of that unit.

Tuesday, February 2
We spent today discussing various aspects of the 1930's using the picture assignments the students had done for today.

Monday, February 1
Today we went to the MRC and worked on finding pictures about the Great Depression that coincided with topics from the textbook. The assignment is to find 10 pictures, write the page number from the text that the picture references and tell what the picture is about. This is all done in a word-processing document. They are due tomorrow.

Friday, January 29
The students took a quiz over the 12 important dates to begin the hour. We then discussed the First Word assignment over World War I.