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.