Welcome students and parents to 9th grade Social Studies.
I will be updating this blog regularly to let teachers and students know about what assignments we are doing in class or are due as homework.
Our first week back, January 29 through February 2nd has been a very interesting lesson on the Titanic Disaster and its relation to world history.
Students will be taking a a quiz and then write an essay in class using primary documents. They will be focusing on five topics: Class structure, women and children first, pride, speed, and the event itself. The will watch a brief excerpt from the movie, Titanic.
This topic is very interesting an foreshadows the events of the coming World War. Students have learned that nations supported the idea of these huge, fast ocean liners being built. After all, if war breaks out, they can be used to transport troops, which is what many ships did in World War I, World War II, and even in the Falklands War.
Here's to a great semester!
Mrs. O
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
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