Students, today is the last day that we will work on our TimeToast Timelines. Listed below are you new dates (set five) that need to be added to your timelines: Bombing of Pearl Harbor D-Day Enola Gay Drops the Bomb Keep in mind that this is our fifth and final set and you need to…
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Students in 2nd period tracing their propaganda. Today we continued work on our propaganda projects. Students were asked to use the National Holocaust Museum’s website on Propaganda to recreate a piece of WWII propaganda for our current project. The requirements for this assignment are… Find a piece of propaganda, then trace and color it Write…
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Final study guide With the semester mercifully coming to an end, it’s that time of year again when we start preparing for finals. Embedded above is a copy of the study guide for the world history final next week. Mr. McClung
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As our semester comes to merciful end, we have began talking about our last unit of study before we break for the holiday and that is WWII. As we take a closer look at the war and the Nazi Party, it has become very clear that propaganda played an important role in WWII. The Nazi…
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Students, embedded above is a copy of the notes that you will need for class discussion today. We are going to try a little bit of a different approach towards taking notes in class today. The document above will serve as our primary source document for today’s activities. Mr. McClung
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Students, above are the notes from today’s class discussion over Hitler and the Nazi Party. Mr. McClung
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Continuing our conversations about the industrial revolution, today in class we took some time to draw and cut out animal cartoons…perfect fit, I know. In order to illustrate the difference in production before and after the industrial revolution, I asked my students to replicate pictures of cartoon animals first on their own then together in…
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The Invention of the First Steam Engine The First Electric Battery The Invention of the Cotton Gin The First Steel Plow by John Deere Mr. McClung
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As we continue our studies through the 18th and 19th centuries, on Thursday we will be taking a look at the Industrial Revolution and it’s lasting effects. Mr. McClung
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I have a problem with social studies…it is a subject that is very text and content laden. In the three years that I have taught this subject I have really struggled with what the appropriate way is to disseminate the content to my students in a manner that does not include daily use of PowerPoint presentations. I…
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