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April 17-We looked at the end of the Vietnam War and how
April 18-Mr Whitman looked at the Watergate scandal under Nixon and how he was pardoned for his crimes
April 19-It was Spark Rally day-students did a Google Classroom Assignment though on the End of the Cold War
April 22-Students finished the Google Classroom Assignment, then most classes began to look at the start of the Civil Rights Movement during WWII
April 23-We
April 24-We finished looking at Brown vs Board of Education. Students saw the experiment given to help show seperate but equal was unequal. Students then watched a clip on Claudette Colvin and did a quickwrite on what made her story different than Rosa Parks. At the end we just looked at the beginning of Rosa Parks and the busses in Montgomery Alabama.

April 25-We went over Rosa Parks experience the day she stayed seated on the bus. This led to the Montgomery Improvement Association calling for a boycott. Leading to a boycott led by MLK. Students looked at newspaper clips from the boycott and how it worked out. We also watched a short clip of Emmitt Till and what happened in between Claudette Colvin and Parks.

April 26-Mr Whitman discussed the integration of central high school in little rock, the sit in movement that started in NC, and the Freedom Rides of 61. There was a quickwrite on the first day of school.

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April 8-11-State Math testing was done in class
April 12-Students had a sub. They looked at documents on the anti vietnam war viewpoint. They had questions to answer that went with it.
April 15 & 16-In class it was block schedule Mr Whitman and me had different periods but we went over the anti vietnam packet. We also did a silent symposium where students had to give their opinion on the Vietnam war and had it countered by other students. We then looked at the beginning of the counter culuture movement and how music and drugs fueled it. We finished class by listening to some of the music of the era.

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Here is an update of what has been going on since the last update
March 15-We watched some of the video clips from the Cuban Missile Crisis and how the leaders of the countries were trying to keep us out of a nuclear war
March 18-We finished the Cuban Missile Crisis then began to look at the documents for the District DBQ due friday
March 19-We finished the documents, worked on our King High Remember Papers due tomorrow, and on notebooks
March 20-Students turned in their papers and finished preparing for their DBQ. They also could review for test tomorrow.
March 21-Students finished unit 6 by turning in their notebook and taking their test
March 22-Students took the district DBQ
April 1-Mr Whitman talked about JFK's assassination, and then started with LBJ's Great Society Program
April 2-Students finished their great society poster and then presented what it helped
April 3-We finished looking at the Great Society with a quickwrite and began the Vietnam War. We looked at how the Tonkin Resolution began the war
April 4-Mr Whitman talked about how the Vietnam war became a little more controversial. He discussed the difficulty of the enemy and how they would disappear. The most part of the time was spent looking at the draft though. Students had to decide who they would deffer from the draft.
April 5-I finished talking about the beginning of the war and the Tet offensive. Also the Mai Lai massacre. We watched a clip of Inside the Vietnam war and looked at the Tet offensive.