1/29-2/6 recap

1/29-We began the Unit WWII and it's aftermath. This is the climax of the American story that has been building for the past 150 years. America will rise to being the most powerful nation on the planet, and as much of the world will fall to ruthless nations, America will be looked to, to help save much of the world. We had quickwrite # 1 which was •Why do you think many Americans were very hesitant when we recently had a few incidents with iran? People were basically begging to make sure we didn’t end up going to war? Iran killed Americans, then they shot countless missiles at an American military base, inuring soldiers. Why do you think people do not want anything to escalate further? 
At the end of class we began to look at the video a rising threat from the world wars and what led to WWII
1/30-We began to look at America's steps toward war with the US isolation in the 1930's.
America went from neutrality acts in 1935, to allowing cash and carry with no weapons, to cash and carry with weapons, to lending and leasing anything our allies wanted. This progression brought us closer to war each time.
1/31-We finished part of the packet from yesterday and finished our video on the Rising Threat.
2/3-Sub Work on entering WWII Students had a small assignment with the sub. They were looking at the America First Committee, Roosevelt's 4 freedoms state of the union speech, Dr Suess cartoons and how he wanted America to intervene, and what upset the Japanese in their relationship to America.
2/4-We reviewed each of the documents from yesterday, toward the end of class, we had a quickwrite. We also had some notes as well. They can be found on tomorrow's post.
2/5-We finished the notes from yesterday. We talked about the brutality of the Japanese in the Phillipines and how American POW's were treated. Then we looked at the battle of midway and how it changed the entire war. Japan lost all of its aircraft carriers in the battle and wouldn't recover. at the end of class we began to look at the home front on the link below.

Here are the notes and quickwrite from yesterday and today. Power Point

Join the Home Front

2/6-We continued looking at the link from yesterday, The questions that connect to it are below. (one change is to do all 4 people not 3 as it requests)
Questions for Join the Home front