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We reviewed for test day

Took 8th grade test

Today we took the 8th grade history test.

In the beginning of class we talked some more about Syria and what is going on over there, then Mr. Bruns gave us an assignment to film our answer on what we think the U.S. should do with Syria. Then we went over the U.S. states and capitals again. A

Today we started off with the map. Then researched the rest of class.

We have a thing called flip grid that we are going to make a video about what we think U.S. should do about all of this commotion. Then the rest of the time we are working on our project.

First, we talked about Syria. Economic sanctions: when a country is shut off from money from anywhere else. They don't work very well because the leaders will just hoard everything and the people will be the ones being punished.

We got the rest of the

Talked a little about Syria and how they will do something if we attack. Went over the states and capitals, nobody has taken it still. We had a work day today on our projects, our topic is gun control.

Talked a little more on Syria, and got an assignment in which we answer the question What should the US do with Syria? through a quick video response. Also went over the US states and capitols map again. For the remainder of the class we continued to

Today we talked about Syria briefly. Then we looked at our assignment. Next we reviewed our map again. we started on the south east states. Finally we worked on our projects.

We talked about Syria some more at the beginning of class. Now we are going to go over US states and capitals. We now are going to work on our social issues project.

In class we discussed the sniper fire in Syria, and how we're going to record ourselves with our opinion on what the US should be doing about it. After that, we went into our groups and started working on our project. Our topic is Abortion.

Today Mr. Bruns talked about the Civil War and the reconstruction of the civil war for most of the class. Then we studied for a bit and at the end played the song game.

Today we went over the map again to keep reviewing for our test. Then we talked about how we have to record ourselves about what we think the US should do about Syria. We also talked about the Security Council. Then we worked on our group project and

We started the day by going over the new forum posts. Then we finished discussing Mr. Bruns top ten events before 1877. 

1. Native Americans coming and going

2. Columbus and exploration

3. Jamestown and colonization

4. Revolutionary War

5. US Constitution

today we talked about our driving ideas 

civil war- war between north and south fraught over slavery. 1861 is when it all started. positive- country came back together and slavery was abolished. negative- war broke out south was devastated.  

reconstru

We started by going over the new forum topics. Afterwords, Bruns finished his top ten events.

Native Americans 10,000-15,000

Columbus 1492-1606

Colonization - 1607-Revolutionary War

Constitution -  1789

Revolutionary War - 1775-1783

West word expansion - A

We talked about the forum post leader's topics, and mr bruns also talked about some of the most important events in history

Civil war- Southern states succeed from the union, northern states win, positive-nation back together, slavery abolished. negat

We have a test tomorrow. 

Civil War-1861-1865...over slavery, South Seceded, Union wanted them to be part of country again. War started. 

Reconstruction-period of time (1865-1867) after war when South was rebuilt. 13th 14th 15th amendments. 

Bruns Top 1

We talked about the forum posts for this week. We then finished our blog discussion. 

Civil War- North had most of the advantages in the Civil War. They ended up winning the war. Positives-country came together and slavery was abolished. Blacks became