2/5-We finished up the isolation lesson and looked at how the America First Committee tried to keep us out of the war, while interventionists like FDR and Dr Seuss wanted us in. We looked at 5 cartoons of Dr Seuss and how he thought America needed to get involved.
2/6-Mr Whitman finished up the isolation discussion as well as reading Roosevelt's 4 freedoms speech. Roosevelt was giving America a standard that all people all over the world deserved the same rights and freedoms that us Americans do. After that students began to look at causes for Japan desiring to attack America at Pearl Harbor
2/7-Mr Whitman finished the lesson on Pearl Harbor by looking at the attack and the reaction by America. He compared FDR's reaction to George Bush after 9/11. There are many similarities between the events that left America confused and sad.
2/8- I briefly went over Pearl Harbor and how America enters the war. As well as looking at the war in the pacific. The loss in the Philippines was one of America's worst in History. Things turned around at the battle of midway though. We finished class by looking at a little of what was taking place in America.There is a handout to go with the link On the Home front link
