Okay so hello again everyone! I hope everyone had a good long weekend and remembered those who have fought for this country yesterday. 

In history class we have been working on this thing with Smithsonian Quests in order to try and earn a badge. I am working on getting my Correspondant badge and in order for me to get this badge I need to work on one of these quests that requires me to write a journal entry in blog form about a historical event that I have witnessed so here we go...


When I was in sixth grade I rememeber the day when President Obama was inaugurated. I was in my homeroom class and my history teacher had the inaugration playing on the TVs in all four of the classrooms. We had spent weeks and weeks going over what was going to happen and what the future president was going to say as he was becoming the president of the United States of America. We talked about past inaugrations of other presidents. My teachers seemed excited and happy that we got to witness this important moment in history. I will never forget what my class was like as we watch the president become the President. We were all tired seeing as we were so young but the teachers were excited and they seemed to know that histotry was being made as we were watching the television. My sixth grade class was not so awear that history was being made but I'm sure they still rememeber what happened and when they are older I am sure that they will tell there grand children that they witnessed a very important moment in history.


Okay so that was the diary entry and also the other day in history we started to review what we have learned on the flipped classroom and I felt that that went pretty well and today we worked on our badges.

News Paper Artical

So for history we have to answer one of these questions that we were given in this packet and write an artical for it so here it goes...

"How have the Haitians responded to the presence of U.S. Marines in their country?"

Yesterday's news today!!

  Hello and thank you for reading yesterday's news today, as most Americans know we have an increasing amount of troops down in Haiti as of right now. One of our jobs here at the newstaation is to ask the hard questions, so we asked the question, how do the Haitians feel about the U.S. presence in their country. We know the American's view of this whole thing but what are the reactions of the other country. According to a letter sent from Charlemagne Peralte there are many who don't like it at all. In this letter he is criticizing  the help that the U.S. is trying to give them.
  In his letter he talks about how on December 17th, 1914 the U.S marines went to Haiti and moved the gold that was in the gold reserves. Then A few months later they came again claiming that they wanted to protect foreign lives and property. They put Port au Prince under another law and began to make a Haitian militia. In his letter he even called President Wilson as a "hypocrite"! These people just don't see that our nation is trying to help them. 

Today in class we talked about the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary  We got into groups of five or six and we took out key words and summarized the paragraph that we got of the Roosevelt Corollary.   We then put this into our own words and then got together as a class and took notes on each section that each group had. Yesterday in class we looked at political cartoons about the Panama Canals and we summarized Roosevelt's speech he made about the Panama Canal.   

The last two days in class we have talked about "yellow journalism". This was and still is a type of writing style. When newspapers were actually read they would have titles to a story  that would make you want to read the article. An example would be that a bride went missing. One  newspaper's title was BRIDE GONE MISSING!! Another would be BRIDE MISSING: GROOM'S FAMILY REPORTS SHE HAS A HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS. Which one would you rather read? The first on is strait to the point. The other has a little bit of extra information in it. The only problem about the second title is that it is only reporting one side of the story the groom's family's side. In class we created our own titles to articles that we read and taped them all around the room. Today we walked around the classroom and read all of the classes and we decided on which one we thought were the best in groups of three. 

Oops!!! I forgot to blog Friday!!! Anyways, on Thursday we read about two very important Native American Chiefs. We talked about Red Cloud and Sitting Bull. We read about the important battles that they  lead against America. We also talked about the battle of Little Big Horn. I can't really remember what else we talked about because it was on Friday but we talked about some other stuff that they were involved in that was important. 

Hello there everyone!!!! I haven't blogged in a very long time mostly because I keep forgetting to which is really bad I know because you all want to read about what happens in my history class right? Hahaha any ways today we went to the computer lab and we worked on our 16%  projects which is just when we work on these projects and it is with the Smithsonian it was interesting to say the least. Anyways yesterday we worked on this other activity in which we were all in groups and then one person from each group was put into the middle of the room which was called "the fishbowl" and they had this discussion about weather or not this certain Native American tribe should have been forced to leave their homes. We came to the conclusion that no, it was not fair for them to be moved. We also talked about how the president, Andrew Jackson, should have been impeached because what he was doing was unconstitutional but he still went ahead knowing full well that what he was doing was unconstitutional. The reason that he was not impeached was because he had the support of the legislative branch and they were all on his side, because of this they never impeached him due to the fact that he was agreeing with what they wanted.    

Oregon Trail Game

     
Just a heads up this game is very simple. Also its easy to cheat so don't!!!!!! So It's not the best game just so everyone knows....