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Monday, October 25, 2010

Wednesday, October 27th

SKINNY
Assignment(s) Due:
N/A

In-Class Agenda:
History Fair.
Computer Lab Time - Up Research for Project.

Homework:
Book Project Due October 29th.
History Day Group Projects Due November 1st - Get Poster by THURSDAY!.

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Assignment(s) Due:
5 Paragraph Essay... on the extent to which western expansion affected the lives of Native Americans during the period 1860–90 and evaluate the role of the federal government in those effects.

In-Class Agenda:
Notes Innovation & Industrialization (Gilded Age)
POD Document Analysis: Work Conditions, Factory Worker Health, Poverty & Wealth, Etc.
Discuss Main Topics, Perspectives, Impacts, Legacy, & Modern Connections.
Construct Own Reflection/Documentation of Our Time.

Homework:
Finish Modern Reflection (Looking Backwards on Today)...
Skim Chapters 16, 17, 18, & 20 by November 5th.

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History Quotes

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy