October 11

IB 20

We started our constitutional convention today. We'll continue this tomorrow.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class. I delivered a PowerPoint lecture called "Historical Globalization and Imperialism". I have sent this presentation to you already.

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below (it may be slightly different on newer versions of Microsoft Word):

IB 30/35

We talked a little bit about historiography of the Reconstruction period, and major legislation passed during Reconstruction. These documents are already on the IB 30/35 wiki under the United States Civil War section. We started our next unit which is The Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs. I delivered a PowerPoint presentation on this topic, which introduced you to several concepts related to American expansionism (manifest destiny, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Spanish-American War). Tomorrow you have Part 1 of your Civil War Test (matching and multiple choice), the full study guide is on wiki.