2/10-2/19

2/10-Quickwrite 3-As an American citizen what is more important, your freedoms or your safety? If America had word that a 18 year old white Californian male was planning a terrorist attack on a California college(that is all we know). Would it be acceptable to round up every 18 year old white male until they can figure out who it is? When should we prioritize safety over your “freedoms” as Americans. Another similar question would be, balancing hate speech with American freedoms. 
We began to look at the Japanese interment. What took place and why the Japanese were put into prisons. We looked as well at the government stance on why it was required.  

2/11-We finished looking at the Interment and students read through several documents from the time and answered questions.
2/12-Attendance was low this day but students took the common assessment SAQ
2/13-Documents to be used on the Home front questions if needed. We also looked at the invasion of Europe and D-day
2/18-Students worked on the short assignment on the end of the war in Europe. The second 1/2 of class we talked about the Heartland Project. A code name for the Manhattan Project and the development of the nuclear bomb.
2/19-Quickwrite 4-Look up the Iwo Jima Flag raising, then :

This is the only photo which got the pulitzer prize(basically top photo prize) the year it was published.  It also is now a memorial to Marines in DC. What do you think makes it powerful? What do you think is even going on? Why of all the photos in a gigantic war would it be the central photo of it all?

We had brief notes on the lead up to the nuclear bomb. How the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa made America realize the Japanese had no intentions of surrendering. We also watched a brief cartoon of the Japanese perspective of the nuclear bomb from a kids viewpoint.