Friday, January 23, 2015

Classroom Update 1/23/2015

Social Studies:
Today we started with  a few notes on the end of WWI.  Mr. Grove collected the Writing Sample Quarter 2: Life in the Trenches writing prompt. We then completed a short peer edit activity on writing samples. Then we had a short quiz on WWI.

 Eric's Notes:
Lt:How were debate and negotiation used by nations as they sought an end to WWI?

Turning points of WWI-
1917-Russian Revolution[Russia becomes a communist]
-Result: Germany increases its attacks on the western front against the allies

1918-American Expeditionary Force arrive in France to help the Allies stop the German assault on the Western front

1919-Armistice ends the War

The Big Three [Britain, France, and the U.S]will decide what the peace treaty will be

Treaty of Versailles[1919]
Germany is punished by the treaty

Germany forced to accept war-guilt clause, disarm its military, pay reparations to France and Britain.


League of Nations is created 

Science: 
Ocean Currents Part 2:
LT: I will explain how currents circulate nutrients and organisms throughout the ocean
Open text to page 162
We read together page 162 to 166 in our science book
Then we made a scatter plot about the buoys of the Atlantic Ocean. We made a correlation between temperature and water density. 

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