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Today we went over the states and capitols for the test which is in 2 weeks. We finished up what we were talking about yesterday which was current events. We talked about India. We talked about how girls went to college in India. The men dominate the

We continued with the group presentations.

13 Colonies-1607 In Jamestown, did not do well in the first years, brought diseases to the native Americans. 

We started out class by choosing two more forum leaders. The leaders for this week is Josh and Marie. After they volunteered their-selves, we went over the states and capitals of the United States. We then watched more videos over the recent gunman i

Today we went over the US states and capitals test. After that we picked the next forum leaders for next week then talked about our next project coming up. Then we talked about the 911 call. Another thing we talked about was India and all the rape go

Today we continued to share our "top ten most important events before 1877". We discussed the 13 colonies, Reconstruction, the transcontinental railroad, Louisiana purchase, Mexican-american war, Oregon trail, industrial revolution, Jamestown, gold r

We continued to present our projects

Christopher Columbus:

Positive impact- discovered America

Negative impact- began transcontinental slave trade with Native Americas

Revolutionary War:

Positive impact- gained our freedom from Britain

Negative impact- Articles of Confederation, damage, loss

Today we started to share our top ten events from 8th Grade history.

We started the discussion with Christopher Columbus finding America.

Group 2's number one event on the list was the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War allowed us to get our free

Finished up talking about our projects.

work day

Today we started out by going over the U.S. map then talked about some current events such as the three teens who killed a man just because and the school shooting. 

3 people who killed someone "just because" basically giving themselves up on social media.

Antoinette Tuff calms Georgia school gunman.

We started off with map review, talked about the project, went over the current events, including the important parts of the hostage situation at the school in Georgia, the teens who murdered the baseball player, and then the bell rang

Today we went over the states and capitals. After this, we talked about the grading of the forum posts to the leaders and we picked the new leaders as well. We listened to some highlights on the 911 call in Atlanta from Antoinette Tuff and we watched

We started class going over the 50 States and capitals. We also talked about doing forum post. We picked the new leaders for forum post next week. We watched video of the 3 boys who shot a kids randomly and killed him for no reason. We listened to th

At the beginning of class we went over our states and capitals and finished filling in our maps. After that we talked about how are projects are going to play out. We also talked more about some current events. Next we watched a video on how the 3 te

Today in class we went over the states and capitols map, working on how good we were at it. Then we watched a video about Antonin tough and how she stopped a shooter. The video was really interesting and good the lady reacted so well when the guy cam

Today we went over US states and capitals. We talked a little bit about form leaders and selected new ones for next week. We also talked about our topics for our presentations/projects and they are due sometime next week not Monday. And we watched a

Today in CWI we went over the states and capitals. After we watched videos on the 3 teens that killed somebody "just cause". Then we watched the video of Mrs. Tuff talking down the shooter.

Continuing the projects.

The Civil war ended slavery. During the Civil War, there were problems bringing in new states because things had to be kept balanced. After the war anti-black organizations like the KKK were formed, and blacks were still havin