We are halfway through our third quarter of the year...hard to believe. Interterms went out this week and there should be no surprises as you monitor your own work with your status of assignment sheet. Please keep in mind that if you have an excused absence, you have 5 days to make up the work. It is to your advantage to take a few minutes and stay after school to go over the missed work or to take a quiz.
And speaking of moving ahead, remember to set your clocks ahead this weekend as daylights savings begins. While we lose an hour of sleep tonight, we gain sunlight in the afternoon so we have extra time to enjoy the outdoors.
Comparative Government/20th Century America
This week you watched a video about FDR, worked on primary source materials on the internment of Americans of Japanese descent, read about contributions from all of society toward the war effort and received your final assessment power point project. A busy week for sure!
The FDR video gave you a great overview of all of the contributions this four term President made from instilling confidence during the Depression to waging a successful war. He changed the role of the federal government forever and set a high standard for future Presidents for his ability to communicate and to inspire during very difficult times. Presidential rating polls always put FDR among the top five presidents.
We used the text and primary source readings to better understand the thinking behind the decision to intern American citizens of Japanese ancestry in camps. War and fear can bring out the best and the worst in people and our country made a decision that many have come to regret. Fearing that Japanese Americans would aid their home country, the federal government decided to place these families in detention camps. They lost their homes, property, businesses and most of all their civil liberties. In the 1980’s Congress convened a special Commission to study the internment and came to the conclusion that the internment was unjust. Over time over $1 billion in reparations were paid to the families that were detained. While the money could never restore what these people lost, it was recognition by the government that taking away these people’s civil liberties was wrong. Let us hope that we learn from history and this does not happen again. Many of you struggled with these readings so we will revisit the assignment next week.
Our text did a very nice job discussing the many contributions made by all during the war effort. You read about women, African Americans, and Native Americans who all contributed to the success of our country in fighting the Germans and Japanese.
We are fortunate that three World War II veterans will be speaking to us on March 19. This is a mandatory in-school field trip and it will be held in room 212 during advisory. We will talk more about this event next week but please put it on your calendar.
Finally, your final assessment for World War II was given to you. You will be working with a partner on a power point presentation based on an open ended critical thinking question that you develop. We will have some time in the computer lab but the bulk of the work will be done for homework. Your projects must be emailed to me to at school (asullivan@mpsri.net) and a hard copy of the slides must be handed in. We will speak more about the project next week. This is a great opportunity for you to decide what you want to study and to use all of your creative know how to present an informative and attractive project.
AP European History
As A.M. mentioned on Friday, we are on track to complete our curriculum. After completing our text study, we will have two weeks to review material before the May 8 exam. Keep your study guides and bold to bold notes organized as they will be especially useful for the review period.
A special thanks to Dr. Maurer for inviting us to the Naval War College for a lecture. We will make final plans for the trip once all the approvals are in place.
Next week we will watch “All Quiet on the Western Front.” This story is a classic and the movie will give you a better sense of what life was like during World War I for so many young men in Germany.
World History
This week we completed our study of Imperialism and began the task. You should be congratulated for being the first class to do a task on the computer with our TieNet program. Eventually, all tasks will be done on the computer so your graduation portfolio will be organized on line. You will have time on Tuesday to complete your essay and to upload it to the portfolio. You will also have to print out one hard copy. You will earn in class credit for the essay and it will be evaluated for your graduation portfolio.
And speaking of moving ahead, remember to set your clocks ahead this weekend as daylights savings begins. While we lose an hour of sleep tonight, we gain sunlight in the afternoon so we have extra time to enjoy the outdoors.
Comparative Government/20th Century America
This week you watched a video about FDR, worked on primary source materials on the internment of Americans of Japanese descent, read about contributions from all of society toward the war effort and received your final assessment power point project. A busy week for sure!
The FDR video gave you a great overview of all of the contributions this four term President made from instilling confidence during the Depression to waging a successful war. He changed the role of the federal government forever and set a high standard for future Presidents for his ability to communicate and to inspire during very difficult times. Presidential rating polls always put FDR among the top five presidents.
We used the text and primary source readings to better understand the thinking behind the decision to intern American citizens of Japanese ancestry in camps. War and fear can bring out the best and the worst in people and our country made a decision that many have come to regret. Fearing that Japanese Americans would aid their home country, the federal government decided to place these families in detention camps. They lost their homes, property, businesses and most of all their civil liberties. In the 1980’s Congress convened a special Commission to study the internment and came to the conclusion that the internment was unjust. Over time over $1 billion in reparations were paid to the families that were detained. While the money could never restore what these people lost, it was recognition by the government that taking away these people’s civil liberties was wrong. Let us hope that we learn from history and this does not happen again. Many of you struggled with these readings so we will revisit the assignment next week.
Our text did a very nice job discussing the many contributions made by all during the war effort. You read about women, African Americans, and Native Americans who all contributed to the success of our country in fighting the Germans and Japanese.
We are fortunate that three World War II veterans will be speaking to us on March 19. This is a mandatory in-school field trip and it will be held in room 212 during advisory. We will talk more about this event next week but please put it on your calendar.
Finally, your final assessment for World War II was given to you. You will be working with a partner on a power point presentation based on an open ended critical thinking question that you develop. We will have some time in the computer lab but the bulk of the work will be done for homework. Your projects must be emailed to me to at school (asullivan@mpsri.net) and a hard copy of the slides must be handed in. We will speak more about the project next week. This is a great opportunity for you to decide what you want to study and to use all of your creative know how to present an informative and attractive project.
AP European History
As A.M. mentioned on Friday, we are on track to complete our curriculum. After completing our text study, we will have two weeks to review material before the May 8 exam. Keep your study guides and bold to bold notes organized as they will be especially useful for the review period.
A special thanks to Dr. Maurer for inviting us to the Naval War College for a lecture. We will make final plans for the trip once all the approvals are in place.
Next week we will watch “All Quiet on the Western Front.” This story is a classic and the movie will give you a better sense of what life was like during World War I for so many young men in Germany.
World History
This week we completed our study of Imperialism and began the task. You should be congratulated for being the first class to do a task on the computer with our TieNet program. Eventually, all tasks will be done on the computer so your graduation portfolio will be organized on line. You will have time on Tuesday to complete your essay and to upload it to the portfolio. You will also have to print out one hard copy. You will earn in class credit for the essay and it will be evaluated for your graduation portfolio.
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