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.
