January 31st, 2013

Yesterday was a pretty fun class, who doesn't enjoy color coding maps with interestingly named crayons? I will back up a few steps though so you can understand how this map coloring came to be. We were handed these worksheets with the plans of Reconstruction, onto which we filled in information from our handy dandy textbooks of the three different plans. One of these plans was of the Radical Republicans, who would divide up the South and put it under various military rule. This military ruling was what we got to color code on the map on the back of the page. It was pretty fun! Today was less of a colorful adventure through history. We were handed a packet of the obituary of Andrew Jackson, which was jam packed full of information. This we read for most of the class than had a bit of a discussion afterwards after we were all finished reading. And that was history!

January 29th, 2013

Well we've had a couple pretty interesting days in history. Yesterday we went to the computer lab and did some worksheets and such things as you would expect with Mr. Boyle's class. They were all about the Black Laws and the South during the reconstruction. Today, we stayed put and worked in class, starting with another worksheet. After we did a few questions on this worksheet about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Then we watched a short little video, answered a question, and then made a neat little, or rather pretty large, magazine cover about the amendments. It was a pretty fun class, so yup!  That was today and yesterday's super fun class of history with Mr. Boyle! 

January 25th, 2013

I completely forgot to blog on Friday with my busy schedule so I'm bringing you what happened today! Yippie you get two for one! So, last week we talked about John Wilkes Booth and how he assassinated President Lincoln. Also about his "graceful" escape from the theater where he killed Lincoln. He did a great job of breaking his ankle that unfortunately led to his demise. We also took a lot of powerpoint notes and listened to some music that was inspired by Lincoln himself. And that was history!

January 22nd, 2013

To start off our new unit we get to have some fun blogging about Winnie the Pooh! After reading this website we were told to read I would think that I'm like Tigger since I'm always happy and bouncy and love my friends, but the website says otherwise. It says..., You are Winnie the Pooh. Oh, bother. You are sweet, simple, and popular for your honesty and goodwill. Though you may be the biggest personality in the woods, you sometimes need the help of others in the brains department!
Which is nice that I'm sweet, but I would  have to say that it's a bit offensive since it is basically saying that I'm not the brightest bulb in the box which I would say that I'm pretty bright at least. But oh well! I'm pretty happy with it overall.

January 15th, 2013

So the past couple days in history haven't been too too eventful. All we've been doing is studying for the midterm that we have on Friday and asking questions about the test and such things. And that is all I can really say about history class, so voila! That was history!

January 10th, 2013

The past two days I can't really say much about. We had a test yesterday on the Civil war and I thought that it was a good, fair test. Then, today, Mr. Boyle handed out our study guides for the midterm that we will be having next week. And that was it really. After being handed the study guides we all went in our own ways doing whatever we did while we should have been making the study guide, but if you made the other study guides than you already did. So, that means I just have to highlight the terms on the sheet and voila! midterm study guide.

January 8th, 2013

Well, I forgot to blog completely since I was so caught up in studying for the history test that we had, or would it be have, on the 9th. So, I am quickly blogging now about what we did the other days. So, from  what I recall we learned about the nearing end and end of the Civil war. We took notes on power points about the Anaconda plan and the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House. Also we got our study guides for this test that would be on the Civil war. They were a couple interesting days with the test coming so close and only learning about the end of the war the day before the test.

January 4th, 2013

Well, I was actually supposed to blog tonight but I blogged last night too. Oops! You just get to read about history twice as much! Yippie! So, today we started off by filling out a worksheet on a statue in Boston. We then took notes that related to the statue and the fact that black people could now join the military. That was about it, so that was history class today!

January 3rd, 2013

Starting off the new year with a nice and simple blog, all about Mr. Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation. Unfortunately we dropped yesterday so I couldn't tell you what we did, so it's off to today's class. We started off class with a nice little introduction by Mr. Boyle and then some worksheets to read and fill out. After doing so we talked a bit about the real importance and significance of the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a pretty important document in the rallying of the Union army against the South, but did very little of actually freeing slaves. It only freed the slaves in the rebelling states, none in the Northern or border states. Although it did free only some of the slaves it enabled the Union to be able to have a stronger military and eventually beat the South. So, it was pretty important but I wouldn't be one of the people standing in line to see the document on New Years day since it didn't do as much as people really believe. And that was history today!