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Hey 8th graders,

Sorry about the crippling laziness on MrGreiner.com. Yesterday, you were asked to read chapter 29 of book 9, “War, Peace, and all that Jazz.” The questions were:

(Level One writing assignment…does not need to be complete sentences)
1. What was the “Blitzkrieg” and why was it so effective?
2. What happened at Dunkirk?
3. In what way was Pearl Harbor a disaster? In what way did it unite the country?
4. What do you think the Japanese military hoped to accomplish at Pearl Harbor? Did they succeed?

AND HERE ARE THE MAP TERMS YOU NEED FOR TUESDAY:

USA
Japan
Canada
Great Britain
India
China
Korea
Hawaii
Germany
Poland
Russia
France
Italy
Ethiopia
Australia
New Zealand
Greenland
Greece

Best of luck!

WRITE YOUR REP LETTER DUE ON MONDAY!

THIS FAILED!

My website will not upload the document. Therefore, you are no longer responsible for doing it for homework. It will become class work.

Sorry for any confusion.

I have been bad at this MrGreiner.com thing. I promise to get better next week. For now, there is no homework unless you somehow DIDNT TURN IN YOUR ESSAY!

Also, if you haven’t finished your powerpoints, those need to be done on Monday.

For parents:

We’ve been studyign the Great Depression. Your kids did very well on the quiz they took on the causes, so feel free to pick their brains about it. Right now, they are making powerpoint projects on the New Deal legislation. We’re trying to figure out how the role of government changed under FDR.

I have been so neglectful of this website as of recently…sorry!

Here are some stuff you might need:

Blank Map–thanks eduplace.com!
San Patricios Worksheet

Sorry, again. Let me know if there is anything else you might need.

So, my computer crashed…again. Therefore, I do not have the PDF’s to post any documents. Conveniently, though, there is no homework for either class except to leave your Write Your Rep post on the comments sectoin of the WYRP posts. G’Luck!

What’s more fun than the Great Depression? Arguing about whether or not the government holds responsibility to help the poor, that’s what! Hence, why we did this Do Now today:

Whose responsibility is it to help:
1. Victims of a natural disaster who lost everything?
2. Someone who gets heart disease from smoking too much and does not have health insurance.
3. An elderly person who worked their whole likfe but is still poor in retirement?
4. Someone without a high school education who lost their job?

The point is to drive at the idea of the “deserving poor,” a hotly contested definition since, well, ever. As you do your homework tonight, try to decide whether or not the songwriter would consider the people he is describing as deserving or undeserving poor. By the way, the Henry Ford quote was that the Depression was happening because “the average man won’t really do a day’s work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.” This from the man who fired 75,000 people.

Here are the handouts you might need:
Great Depression Syllabus
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Also, for that notebook check, be sure to have these three do now’s:
The Palmer Raids/Race Riots
What should be taught in school?
Schenck v. US quote

Hi 7th Grade,

Today, we began our Westward Expansion unit. The point of today was to get some overall background information, much like a text book would provide. If you want to watch that movie (hey, it can’t hurt!), go to www.animatedatlas.com and click on the “Free History Movie” link.

While I gave you some notes in class, I will not provide them here. That would be a degree of laziness that I couldn’t handle.

No homework tonight, as you can see on the Westward Expansion Syllabus. Will there be homework tomorrow? Only time will tell.

Hey gang,

The goal for the past two or three days is to get a flavor of the 1920’s and to provide the background to understanding how this decade of fun helped to spur on the Great Depression.

Yesterday, students did the Twenties Module in class, and turned it in today. As for homework, there is none. We’ll get some homework next week, no need to worry.