Vocab QuizPrep + Cold War Begins + Online US History Textook on Cold War + Evaluation of Truman's Cold War Policies

Today the 8th Graders:

• Discussed the words for Monday's Quiz over Vocabulary - Brief Summary of the Cold War
• Began focusing on the first of a series of key Cold War topics
• Focused today on The Cold War Begins (the first 5 years of the CW): Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO, Point Four, & Korean War
• After reading and discussing a chronological descriptions of the events, students read the following pages from the Online US History Textbook: (clicky clicky)

1. The Cold War Erupts
2. The United Nations
3. Containment and the Marshall Plan
4. The Berlin Airlift and NATO
5. The Korean War

• Wrote an evaluation of President Harry S Truman's handling of the first five years of the Cold War

Assignments

For Monday 

1. Turn in the evaluation of Truman's handling of the Cold War beginnings
2. Quiz over Vocabulary - Brief Summary of the Cold War

Cold War Quiz Celebration + Chronology of the Cold War + Where Historians Disagree About the Cold War

Today the 8th Graders:

• Got back their graded Quiz: A Brief Summary of the Cold War
• Worked on the Chronology of the Cold War assignment they were supposed to have done before they arrived to class today.
• Built on a Quiz question assessing who was more responsible for the Cold War by reading and discussing an essay in the Where Historians Disagree series called Origins of the Cold War

Assignments

For Friday - Finish reading Origins of the Cold War, writing notes in the margin on various historians' arguments as to who was more responsible for the Cold War.

For Monday - Quiz over Vocabulary - Brief Summary of the Cold War

Heroism During World War I + Wilson's 14 Points + Spelling Vocabulary

Today the Gr8s:

Discussed the questions of what makes someone a hero and which was more a hero: Will Bergfeld (in Will's War) or Sgt. Alvin C. York
Began an analysis of President Wilson's 14 Points

Assignments For Friday
1. Finish the Analysis of Wilson's 14 Points.

• Do at least 7 of the 14 Points.
• You may collaborate.

2. Spelling/Vocab Quiz (See Monday's post for the list of words. Be able to:

• Spell the words correctly.
• Write the definitions from memory.
• Use each word correctly in a sentence.
• Look at a picture and tell which vocabulary word the picture illustrates.