U.S. History for Thursday & Friday, February 11 & 12

1. Notes:  Final Battles
2. Atomic Bomb:
1. Read play
2. article from Shizuko Yamasaki
3. Would you have dropped the bomb?
4. Excerpt from The War

We also watched the Norah Jones American Anthem video found here.

U.S. History for Tuesday & Wednesday, February 9 & 10

1. Notes:  Tuskegee Airmen, Navajo Code Talkers, & America's Response to the Holocaust.  Copy from a classmate.
2. Watched brief excerpt on the Holocaust from The War.
3. Began work on the final battles of World War II:
1. Battle of the Bulge
2. Iwo Jima
3. Okinawa

One website we visited was a site about the Navajo code used during the war.  You can visit the site here and practice the code for yourself!