U.S. Reconstruction 1865-1877

Today we move forward and tackle the problems facing the United States after the end of the Civil War. It's 1865 and the South is in shambles. Cities, railroads, factories and farms are destroyed. People are left homeless, loved ones are killed or wounded, and people are angry, depressed and unemployed. Can President lead the nation after the war? He was a strong courageous leader during the Civil War Hopefully his leader ship can continue after as well.

Start of U.S. Reconstruction

Today in class we are taking a step back into the Civil War before we start learning about the Reconstruction period that follows. We are reviewing; Causes of the Civil War, Stratagies to Win, Big Battles, and How the War Came to an End.

September 11th... Ten Years Later

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Today we are reviewing the events of September 11th 2001. It really is hard to believe that that much time has gone by. My current students were only 3 and 4 years old back in 2001 and I have found many don't know most of what happened.Through the use of pictures, video, articles and political cartoons we are revisiting the events as they unfolded 10 years ago.

Text Tour: The Online Textbook

Today's lesson will feature our class becoming accustomed to using the online textbook in Social Studies 8. There are some great advantages and shortcuts availible using the online book. This worksheet you are going to complete will show you many of the easier solutions to using an online text instead of a hard copy textbook.

WWII Continued

Before break we looked at and examined events in Europe from the early 1930's up into 1941. This included Hitler's Rise to Power, and world wide acts of aggression from Germany, Japan and Italy. The U.S entered WWII on December 7th 1941 when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.

Great Depression and Unit Test

This week we will be finishing up the unit on the Great Depression and having an exam this Friday. All materials for the exam are on the right hand side of this blog under the category called assignments. These materials need to be reviewed extensively for the Friday Exam

The Great Depression... The Beginnings

This week we've started the Great Depression period 1929-1939. What started this period was a combination of several events that built up in the late 1920's Overproduction of Goods, Banking Failures and the Stock Market Crash of 1929 are most notable.

For the rest of this week we will be discussing how the President at the time, Herbert Hoover, tried desperately to fix all of these problems....