The main focus on this section was the new cultural movement of recreation, leisure activities. in the US and how marketing of products was changing in the late 1800s and early 1900s.Amusement Parks- To meet the recreational need of city residents ma
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Posted by 4Heather on September 28, 2009 at 6:04pm
So, the long-awaited debates in CWI started today. Honestly, a lot of my friends that happened to be on the Democratic side with me, were less than thrilled. Most of them tend to gravitate towards the Republican interest, and were disgusted over defe
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Posted by 4Heather on September 28, 2009 at 5:59pm
Today In CWI I looked over my research again, making sure I had everything in order to debate. I was worried about defining the affirmative action laws that are now in place, because when I did the bulk of my research, It actually confused me. Maybe
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Posted by 4Lindsey on September 28, 2009 at 5:02pm
Continued the debates...i talked a bit more today than yesterday...i think. The topics we got through were affirmative action, immigration, and minimum wage. We also finished up the end of the gun control topic.In affirmative action, the democrats be
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Today in class we continued our Republican and Democrat debate. In class we hit the topics of Environmental Laws, formative laws, immigration, and minimum wage. The republicans views on the environmental laws is that businesses are more important. I
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Posted by 2courtneyb on September 28, 2009 at 4:15pm
Today in CWI we debated again. This week we will have blog disscussion day on Friday. Mr. Bruns also said that this weeks blog topic might be free choice. Conitnuing our debate from Friday we talked about gun control and our thoughts about it. I thin
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Today in history we worked on our powerpoints for our projects.I learned that most of the immigrants came to the U.S. because of famine, political or religious persecution, and land shortages. Most of the immigrants were from Europe, but a large amou
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Today I worked on my project while other people are doing there test. I will have to do it tomorrow. I have the 8.1 section about enginering and the new technolgies that they came up with.
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Today, i finished my test on the JFK assasination. and started out on my powerpoint over chapter 7 section 2 in the history book, which is overall about how massive amounts of more people moving in to the vitys from later eighteen hundreds to the ear
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Posted by 5Lauren on September 28, 2009 at 11:56am
Today in CWI, we continued our debate. Mr. Bruns told us about the schedule for this week. It is giong to be crazy. He thinks the blog discussion day on Friday. He is also leaning towards changing the assigned blog to one free choice blog. I think th
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Today in class we started are debate. Bruns will be missing class on Wednesday for a special meeting. Over the weekend Iran tested rockets and said they have a underground nuclear plant.. We started with Gun Control for the beginning of the debate. N
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We debated again today. The first topic was gun control. My opinion is that the any American citizen should be able to own a gun only after a background check. Lauren told us that Australia made guns illegal. That is kind of crazy. The laws are reall
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Today In C-Dub, I started off class by rapping.Ohmoud Ahmijenedad, Ohmoud Ahmijendad. My back is out of wack..That's the beginning, Anywho.We went straight to the debate, that rhymed!Democrats think that few people should have guns, and their should
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We continued with our debate, we talked over gun control for a while. I personally think that you should have a permit to have a gun, becasue who knows what your going to do with it, for all some people know you could go out and shoot someone with it
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Posted by 5Fitz (: on September 28, 2009 at 11:05am
I took my test today, missed 8 pretty good i'd say. IT should put my grade up to D+ or something :D We also have a work day today and shelbie and I are messing with the ZOHO making a slideshow.
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Posted by 5Fitz (: on September 28, 2009 at 10:48am
Started testing today, and it was a work day, i read over my chapter 8 lesson 4 and found an interesting thing. That coca cola was made back in 1886 by a pharmacist whom wanted to cure headaches.
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Posted by 5Joseph on September 28, 2009 at 10:40am
Today we did oral tests again. I also learned what to do for my assigned blog this week. I have to research another section in my section and do a blog about it.
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Posted by 5Shelbie on September 27, 2009 at 11:35pm
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American who had a small impact on history during the times of discrimination and segregation. He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on Feb. 23, 1868. When he was born he was one of the 25 blac
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