Today we are doing blog discussions. Mr. Bruns talked us through some technical difficulties.You can choose to research any topic that falls under one of the following main topics:1. Exploration and Colonization2. Revolutionary War3. Westward Expansi
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Cnn News and continueing blog disscusions.1.Update on the candidates running for President in 2012/Iowa Straw Poll2. South Sudan-Civil wars for almost 50 years and South Sudan breaks away from Sudan, by a vote for independence.Most is the oil is in t
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Today we contined the assigned blog disscusions. There is supposed to be 10,000 troopscoming back soon, and at least 20,000 troops supposed to be home by summertime. We are supposed to have all our troops home by 2014. In 2010 we pulled out of Afgani
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Today in class we looked at pictures from the aftermaps of hurricane Irene and all the damage it caused. We went over some more blogs. We also talked about the Vietnam war.Topics cover major news events from this summer. Research your topic and add y
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1.Update on the candidates running for President in 2012/Iowa Straw Poll2. South Sudan: maddie had that one and, it had something to do with the civilil war in south sudan they were mainly at war because of Ethnic Arabic- Religion islamic - blck afri
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today we continued blog discussions1.Update on the candidates running for President in 2012/Iowa Straw Poll2. South Sudan-40 out of the last 50 years Sudan has been in civil war. Ended in 2005. July 9 they became the newest country of the world. why
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US gave Libya an ultimative. Surrender by saturday. We also saw things from things from Hurricane Irene. Its so weird seeing some of the photos . It's crazy and so sad. Wednesday is going to be map test. today everyone talked about the assigned blogs
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Today in CWI we are continuing are blog descussions. At the begginging of class we looked at pictures of damage that hurricane Irene is doing. The pictures are sad, there is one where a house is in the middle of the water, there is also many more hav
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We started class by looking at the CNN news.Then we got into blog discussions.New York passed a gay marrige law.theyve tried to pass this law more than one time but this time it did get passed.got put into act on july 24th.iowa is one of the few stat
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Today, in the U.S. history class, we continued the 5 topics about the assigned blog#1. We talked about Westward Expansion, Industrial Revolution of the early 1800's and about Civil War and Reconstruction. The biggest three countrys in colonization we
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Continued with blog disscussions.1. Exploration and ColonizationThere are 5 countries that colonized the new world. Big 3- France, England and Spain, minor 2 portugal and the netherlands. The first people to reach the Americas were the vikings about
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We finish the assinged blog descussion. George Washington was a president and a army general. In the industrial revolution childern had rto work alot in factorys and the machines moved fast and could lose fingers and get sick from the toxins. They st
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Westward Expansion- George Washington was the general and trained 14,000 men for the continental army.industrial Revolution- Childeren went to school in the late 1800's and the teachers lectured because the kids couldn't read or right. The cotton jen
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Continued blog discussionandrew jackson didnt like the indians.George Washingtoncotton gein - it seperates the cotton from the stemscivial war - it started because of the wagesnow we kept on watching the movie america, the story of us episode 4
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Today we did more blog discussions. We started with the Trail of Tears1. Exploration and ColonizationThe British, Spanish, French, Portegeuse, Netherlands were major countries that first settled the new world the vikings were the first to land in the
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Today we are continuing blog discussions. George Washington was named the General by the Second Continintal Congress and he had 14,000 men. Him and his men attacked on Christmas Eve at Trenten.The Industrial Revolution- Eli Whitney made the cotton gi
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Conituing Blog Discussion on these topics. I presented my blog on Eli Wittney4, Industrial Revolution of the early 1800's- Kids learned by listening. Kids work becuase of cheap labor and work long hours.- I did my blog report about the Cotton Gin and
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Did more blog discussions:Industrial Revolution:-Taylor F. did the women and children of the Revolutionary War: there were no public schools at the time, so many families couldn't afford education. The teacher lecture came from how most people couldn
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Today we are still continuing with the disscutions over these 5 topics.1. Exploration and Colonization2. Revolutionary War3. Westward Expansion4, Industrial Revolution of the early 1800's5. Civil War and ReconstructionWe just got done with the Westwa
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On this day, we continued blog discussions. We started with Westward Expansion, with topics like The Trail of Tears, and George Wasington. Next was the Industrial Revolution, with topics like What Life was Like, Eli Whitney and The Cotton Gin. We bac
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