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Can Bill Gates stop hurricanes?

Posted by 3Breann on August 29, 2009 at 9:44pm

Bill Gates came up with an idea on how to stop hurricanes. Hurricanes are fueled by warm water therefore slowed by cooler water. So in order to stop or slow hurricanes we need cooler water in front of the hurricane. Gates' idea is to place barges in

John F. Kennedy's Presidency

Posted by 4Tara on August 29, 2009 at 8:31pm

In 1960, 43 year old, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, beat Richard Nixon for the title of President of the United States, becoming the first Roman-Catholic President. During his Inaugural Address, Kenndy spoke his know famous line, "Ask not what your countr

8/28/09 Summarization Blog for Friday

Posted by 3Madison on August 29, 2009 at 8:15pm

To start things off we went over the countries and capitals of the United States again. Then we continued to work on our political/economic project. Our group had communism, and I now know why this political system has never worked before in any coun

Friday, August 28th

Posted by 5whitneyyy on August 29, 2009 at 5:37pm

Today we took a pre-test of what we're going to learn throughout the year. I think I did pretty bad, but that's okay. After that we chose our topics for the JFK project.

Healthcare Blog

Posted by 4Lindsey on August 29, 2009 at 5:30pm

The basic insurance company profits from getting more money in premiums than money they have to pay out for people who get sick/hurt. Health insurance works by you paying them money in advance, or premiums, in case you get hurt. If you don't get sick

Friday 8/28/09

Posted by 3Breann on August 29, 2009 at 5:27pm

Today in class we talked about the JFK project. We split up into different groups also. I've excited to start the JFK project. I've never really known anything about it, but I’ve wanted to. I'm pretty excited for this whole class because the way that

Thursday 8/27/09

Posted by 3Breann on August 29, 2009 at 5:21pm

Mexican American War- Mexico vs. United States, U.S. won, we got the south west part of the country. Mexico was mad because they lost half of their country. Manifest Destiny was what we wanted; we needed to expand our borders. The war wasn't really j

Thursday, August 28th

Posted by 5whitneyyy on August 29, 2009 at 5:15pm

Today we talked about the Mexican American War. It was a war between Mexico and The United States. The U.S. won and got Texas and California as a result. It was called the Mexican Seccion. Mexico lost 50% of their land to the U.S.President James Pope

Friday, August 28th

Posted by 4Brianna on August 29, 2009 at 3:34pm

In CWI today, we reviewed western states and capitals again. It was good practice. Some people went up to the board and did pretty well with what we have learned so far.We then broke up into our groups and started doing research. My group is doing th

August 28, 2009

Posted by 4erin on August 29, 2009 at 3:00pm

Friday in history we took a semester test pretest. After we took that we went over what we need to do for our free choice blog and our JFK blog for this week. Then we chose with our groups a topic to do on the JFK Assasination Project. After a "Guess

CWI Friday

Posted by 4Tony on August 29, 2009 at 2:13pm

Today, we did some more research on Anarchy and Socialism. We got some pics saved and should be done by Tuesday. We went over the U.S. map again today and I think with a lot more practice, i could be capable of getting an 85%. Today was really hectic

Friday, August 28

Posted by 3Michyla on August 29, 2009 at 2:05pm

Today in class we took a pre-semester test. I really don't think I did too good on it, but that just means I have a lot to learn. We finished our 8th grade review blogs and now we are going to start working on our John F. Kennedy projects. It was a p

John F. Kennedy

Posted by 4Nick on August 29, 2009 at 12:30am

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy lived from May 29, 1917- November 22, 1963. A lot of people referred to him by his initial JFK. He was the 35th president of the united stats. serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.Kennedy was born at 83 Bea

Friday 8-28-09

Posted by 4Nathan on August 28, 2009 at 11:54pm

Today for about the first ten minutes we took a pre-test over what would be on our semester test. I only really knew how to answer one of the seven questions. I look forward to learning this questions and being able to work on my final blog throughou

8-28-09

Posted by 4Nick on August 28, 2009 at 11:41pm

Today we talked about the group project more. we were going to assign the topics but there was enough groups so now he is going to make another topic so every group will have to do.The group projects are going to be over JFK's life leading up to his

8/28/09

Posted by 4Megan on August 28, 2009 at 11:24pm

Today in CWI we practiced our states and capitals today and a girl in our class actually took the test. I learned that a girl that was kidnapped eighteen years ago was found and the guy who kidnapped her turned himself in. Also there was this thing a

Friday, August 28

Posted by 5Lauren on August 28, 2009 at 11:10pm

Today in CWI we reviewed the states again to prepare for our test. We went over current events, like Bill Gates trying to stop hurricanes, the recently found kindnapped girl, and the abortion clinic in Bellvue. We went into our groups and started wor

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Posted by 0Drake on August 28, 2009 at 9:00pm

Today in CWI, we went over the map again. Someone also took the whole test and only missed a couple. We talked about the girl who got kidnapped 18 years ago and how she was found just recently. While looking at that story, we saw another about Bill G

8/24, 25, 26, 27, 28

Posted by 5Cheyna on August 28, 2009 at 9:00pm

8/24- On Monday we talked about ourselves and learned that we would have the states test in about two weeks. We also learned more about ourselves.8/25- We talked about our free choice blog. We only got through two people. But we learned more about M.

Austin's Summary for 8/28/09

Posted by 3AustinE on August 28, 2009 at 8:14pm

Today we discussed what our big blogs for this week were to be about. One is free choice and one is something to do with John F. Kennedy. Then we took a pretest to see if we knew anything about US History. I learned that I really didn't at all. After

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