Adventureous Expedition! (March 29th, 20130

Here's the like to my diary being a part of the Corps of Discovery. Adventure!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bntx4diO0cEYca536j35gzQNZyqqTHx8u5SPifLk0f4/edit?usp=sharing

This is what we did in class today, so that was history!

My Book!

Finally! Look what we have here... A finished book!!
 

March 27th, 2013

Yesterday we finished discussing the Black Panther's plan in a very heated argument. And that was all we really did. Today we worked on our story of the Civil Rights Movement project in class. It was highly frustrating because I couldn't connect to the internet with my laptop, but hopefully it will work better tomorrow! And that was a very short and sweet retelling of out history class the past couple days!

March 25th, 2013

Lets see here... History class on Monday the 25th. We talked about the Black Panthers and their Ten Point Program and filled out a worksheet. To be exact, we did the worksheet and then discussed what we wrote about. And I already covered what we did before the weekend, so I guess that was history!

March 20th, 2013

Well, I haven't blogged for so long that I need to play a bit of catch up! I don't really remember what we were doing in class, and going through my notes there wasn't anything on the 20th! What a dilemma! I will just go ahead and talk about what we did the next few days after the 20th, it'll be a bit like time travel. So cool. Anyways, we talked and discussed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We also took a teeny bit of notes on what happened in Selma Alabama in March of 1965. What might this be you may ask, and the answer is this: a protest march asking for voting rights and they were assaulted by whites and law enforcement officials. So that was, or will be, history!

March 18th, 2013

Well since I already posted my documentary I don't have too much to talk about. Today we mostly listened to Mr. Boyle talk and finish worksheets that we did in class on Friday about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. So that was history!

Mary McLeod Bethune

Here's my desktop documentary! Yay!

March 14th, 2013

Happy Pi Day! And from then on that is the happiest this blog post is going to get. For the past few days in history we've been learning about the Freedom Riders. It is horrible how they were treated so cruelly for their nonviolent acts. During class we took notes on this and also watched a small video. We also got our final assessment for this unit, which is an ebook. Which will be an interesting project. So, that was history!

March 11th, 2013

Well, history was an interesting start to the new week. We started out by reading this blurb about segregation of schools and then had a mini discussion about segregation in schools. As a class we said there really wasn't, but then Mr. Boyle had to prove us wrong with this paper about a school whose white kids had hung nooses in trees and then a group of black kids beating up a white kid and how different their punishments were. That then sparked a huge discussion, although it felt like more of a debate, about if Triton was segregated. It went on for basically all of the rest of the class and a few minutes before we left Mr. Boyle handed us a few other papers on segregation of schools. And that was history!

March 7th, 2013

Well, it seems to me that we killed a fair amount of trees today in history. Yesterday we got a worksheet and watched a video on Emmett Till and his horrific murder. During the movie we filled out the worksheet with questions like how his murder sparked the Civil Rights movement. Today we continued on with the Civil Rights movement and did a worksheet on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. We got 6 other papers, which helped us fill out the sheet and learn how the boycott was successful. Which it was through many various things, mostly of how the boycott really financially disabled the bus company since most of their riders were African-American and that they wouldn't give up on the boycott, not caring how many times they got arrested. So, that was history!

March 5th, 2013

Wow, it's March already! We are just flying through the year learning all this good history stuff! So the past couple days we've been doing lots of worksheets and such things on the fight to end segregation and bring equality to everyone. There are a fair amount of ideas of what the African-Americans should be doing, like demanding equality now, just waiting for it to figure itself out, or leave. Today we did worksheets about a court case, well 5 cases smushed into one, about segregation of schools. It was pretty interesting how the points of the case were pretty well balanced with neither side really having a large advantage of points. So, that was history!