Weeks of September 15th through the 28th.

1.  Students are continuing the read the novel Finn Reardon about a newspaper boy in New York City in 1899.

2.  Students are almost done working on their packet, except for the Finn Reardon questions.  We will finish the novel next week and turn in the packet then.

3.  Students have learned about how governments evolved, and have done a questionnaire about where they may be on the political spectrum:  Left, Moderate, Right.

4.  Students also learned about how two countries in Europe unified during the Industrial Era: Italy and Germany.   They even learned that Garibaldi on the Oregon Coast is named after the leader of Italian unification.

5.  They will be looking at some documents in a gallery walk that refer to our lecture on how governments evolved.

6.  Students have looked at some primary documents about child labor and written a one sentence response to what they are reading.

Week of September 9-13

This week students finished their notes on the Industrial Revolution.

We also watched the movie Lyddie, about a girl who worked in the cotton mills during the Industrial Revolution.

Students also began the book Finn Reardon.   We will be reading this book into October.  It is about a boy who lives with his family in New York in the year 1900.   He delivers newspapers and will even participate in the Newspaper strike.

We will continue to work through our packets.

Students will have a quiz on Monday on their first sheet---Images from the Industrial Revolution.   Students need to just read through their notes on this.  It will be a multiple choice quiz, and not too hard.

Students also need to interview someone about September 11th, 2001.  They just need to find where the person was, how they found out about the attacks, and what their general feelings were.   This is a primary document they will gather.