Friday, September 28, 2012

September 28

You wrote a current events quiz at the start of class. We started watching Episode 2 of Ken Burns' The Civil War today. Please make sure that you're reading your textbook The United States and Its People on the Civil War. Please go to the IB 30 wiki this weekend, and go to the United States Civil War section. Please find the handout "What was the Civil War about?", print it off and complete it for homework for Monday. We'll talk about the different perspectives of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Frederick Douglass in class, so make sure that this is completed.
You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in class, which took all of the period. Next week, we'll be doing a class debate on the following topic: "Be it resolved that globalization is harmful to the world's cultures". I will be sending you some documents and links to help you prepare for this debate, and I will also be splitting you into two teams as well by e-mail. Please make sure that you check your e-mail messages! Don't forget that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, October 3rd. Please see the study guide here.
You wrote a current events quiz today. I delivered a little more of the PowerPoint presentation "The American Revolution" today. We also started watching "America: The Story of Us" for a bit too. In your textbook "History of the Americas" you must read pages 22-26 and pages 30-34. Please complete the Historiography activity on pages 22-23 in that textbook (Thomas Paine's Common Sense)and the Activity on page 32 on the Declaration of Independence.

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