Christopher Columbus- Italian who sailed for Spain in 1492 and discovered America for the Europeans, but didn't know it. He was trying to find a faster way to Asia. Negatives are Europeans bringing diseases to the Native Americans. Positive is he br
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HUMP DAY
today we are talking about the assign blog. we talked about Columbus and how he founded America for the English man and not the Native Americans. There is also bad things about him founding America because there was a genocide due to disease.
today we started by have 10 or 15 mins to work on are 8th grade history project and then we are going to present.
To begin class we started by working on the map for the states and capitols. Then Mr. Bruns talked some more about out projects and what we need to do for them. We then discussed current events including the shooting in a school in Georgia where a 20
There was a school shooting in Georgia. The shooter was 20-year-old Michael Hill. The police do not yet know why Hill would shoot at an Elementary school building.
We got a U.S. map and had time to work on it.
Got a US map, and worked on filling that out. Watched a video about a school shooting in Georgia.
Today we finished up our introductions in class, and began to practice a map of the continents and oceans for our first test. Near the end of class, a few students were able to already take the test by pointing on a map that was shot from Mr. Bruns's
Today in Mr. Bruns class we talked about how to present a blog topic to the class the proper way. After that, we chose our group topics. My group, consisting of Scott, Abby, and Emily, chose abortion as our topic.
Today in Mr. Brun's class, we talked about our group projects. I am in a group with Scott, Maddie and Abby. For our group project, we decided to have the topic of abortion.
Today in Mr. Bruns' class some people took the ocean test. After that we talked about our forum leaders topics and talked about some more world issues. We also talked about how to do blogs. Like how to get a good grade, walk, and present.
Today we picked the topics we have for our groups and went over our forums.
Today we continued work on our projects. We will present in class tomorrow.
Today Mr. Bruns gave us more instructions on are projects. Then we got into our groups worked on our project the whole class period.
Today we worked in groups on the top 10 events of 8th grade History. Tomorrow we will present our top 10 events to the class.
We worked in our groups on our assignment.
Today some more people took the map test and we went over the leaders topics, and went over some news. Then we went over how do presentations and how to do them (rules). After that we got our topics and are ready to research them.
Today we continued our group projects. We will present our top 10 events, our first assigned blog, tomorrow.
Work day on 8th grade review project
Worked on our projects
Worked on the Top 10 events project