DC Bound!!!

By the time you arrive at school on Monday morning...we will be in the air and on our way to Washington DC!

While we are gone...

8th Grade: I found some research topics for you to consider, just in case you are having a hard time thinking of one yourself. These are only suggestions---you do not have to chose one from this list. There are also resources for you to use on the 8th Grade page. Leave me a comment here on the blog telling me your group and the topic you have chosen.

• President Lincoln
• Effects of the Emancipation Proclamation
• Civil War Poetry
• Civil War Music
• Rationing
• Profiting from the War
• Immigrants Serving in Union Armies
• Civil War Soldier Rations
• Civil War in Art
• Effect of the War on the Home Front
• How the Civil War Split Families
• Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation’s Effect on Northern Democrats
• The Election of 1864
• Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
• Civil War Amendments to the Constitution
• The training and superiority of Southern Generalship
• Was the Anaconda Plan Successful?
• How Ironclads changed Naval Warfare
• Strategic Importance of Capturing Vicksburg
• Punishment of Confederate Leaders
• Importance of the Mississippi River
• Defending Washington
• The Importance of Blockade Runners
• The fall of Richmond
• Advances in Military Technologies

7th Grade: You are reviewing for a test this week. There is a powerpoint saved on the desktop of my computer for reviewing in class. You will take your test either Thursday or Friday.

6th Grade: Your Africa acrostic is due today! Leave your completed poem in the box on the wall.

5th Grade: You are reviewing for a test this week. Ms. Marnie will have a review for you in class on Monday.

Have a great week!!!
Happy Easter!!!