TOday in class was a great day! We finished our free choice blog disscusion. Then we got assigned our projects. Our groups got assigned one topic, except for a few. We had a disscusion about Michael Jackson again! Then at the end of class, Bruns let
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In CWI we went over more summer blogs, and finally finished talking about them. We went over the states and capitals, because we have a test over them in two weeks. Mr.Bruns assigned governments to the groups. Our group got democracy. Simple? Maybe.
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Today we got into our groups and started our group project. Each group got assigned a different politatical economical system and our group got the topic capitalism. We were told to make a power point on our topic. The first slide we were told that i
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August 9, 2009 a girl commits murder cause she didn't get her milk. The man she killed, Robert Moon, had refused to give her the last amount of milk in the fridge. He said she could have whats left after he poured a glass for the baby. She then throu
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We've all heard the theory that what we fear the most, we eventually cause. It's a well known phenomenon that all humans seem to, at some point, succumb to. We create that which frightens us the most, then stand back and cry out a pitiful, "why?".It'
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Wednesday we listened to people discuss their eighth grade topics. We got to Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution, and Washington Presidency. The first ten Articles of Confederation were called the Bill of Rights. With the Articles of Con
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Today in CWI we went over the states and capitals again. I'm getting a little better at it. After that we finished up our blog discussion. The stories were pretty much things we've already talked about. After that we broke up into our groups and star
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In CWI today, we went over the states and capitals to review for the quiz in two weeks. After that, we finished discussing our summer event blogs. We had many discussions about each of those. Our groups got assigned what government type we will be re
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The U.S. government, good or bad? In this situation, I think bad. An illegal immagrant mother of 3 migrated from Oaxaca to escape the destitution in her village. Cirila Baltazar Cruz speaks only Chatino, which isnt so good when your an illegal immagr
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The seventh day of school brought with it realizations of just how amazingly hilariously cool the strip of carpet really is. It also brought worries about musical auditions, serious stress, and being scared into cleaning the weight room.They general
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Well today in CWI we finished the summer stories. We also reviewed the Western and midwest states. It was getting easlier.We also got our first group assignment. Allisha, Alex, and me got the Monarchy(absolute and constitutional). I totally forgot wh
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Today in class we went over our 8th grade blogs again. I learned that the Mexican American war was fought by us, Mexico, and what is now Texas. America won this war, and received the southwestern part of the United States. The war was started because
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Today in U.S. History we shared what we learned about from our blogs again. The things I learned from other people's blogs were that Thomas Jefferson was president from 1801 til 1809. He was the author of the Declaration of Independence. Louisiana Pu
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We finished talking about our blogs from last week then reviewd the western and midwest states and stuff.then we got into our groups for the next project i was put in the theory of communism.
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Today in CWI, we first reviewed the western states and capitals. We have an oral test coming up that we have to name all 50, or 100, however you look at it. As soon as we review the eastern states, I think the test will be fairly easy.After we were d
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Today in CWI, we finished talking about the blogs from last week. We reviewed the western and midwestern states a bit. After that Mr. Bruns talked about how we need to personalize our sites because that gets us points.We then got into our groups and
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Micheal Jackson died because of "lethal levels" of an anesthetic called propofol. Conrad Murray was Jackson's personal doctor. He told the detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department that he had been treating Jackson for insomnia for around six
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Today I learned that a lot of people in our school aren't all from Harlan. Most people weren't even born in Harlan. Even my best friend didn't live here all her life. She moved here when she was 3. And i think it's very funny that Heather is afraid o
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FINALLY finished talking about our summer news stories. Then we went over the states and capitals again, and I must admit, I'm getting better at them. Tomorrow we will go over the eastern states.We got into our groups and Mr. Bruns assigned our gover
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Today I can't say I learned much of anything. We didn't talk about much and Heather did all the research stuff. I remember most of the capitals for states. That Athens had a Democracy. There are two kinds of democracy. So yeah.
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