Homework and Classwork for the week of
April 11, 2011

Classwork

We will explore Pearl Harbor and the horror of that day and our involvement in the Pacific. Japanese Americans and internment camps will be discussed, and we will decided for ourselves if dropping the Atomic Bomb was a good thing or not. We will also have small group work that will focus on the heroic life of Hannah Szenes and her fight to help save the Jews of Hungary. We will use our supplemental book, War, Peace and All That Jazz, and see some news reels of Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Homework

5 paragraph compare/contrast essay due 4/11

Current event due 4/12
Atomic Bomb-Pro/Con due 4/13* Changed to 4/14
Chapter note-taking packet due 4/13
Geography-Airline distance- due4/15

QUIZ # 4 IS WEDNESDAY, 4/13 PACKET DUE AT END OF QUIZ

Trivia

What was a "Dandy horse"? Two, full paragraphs. Due 4/15