History: The American Empire Many politicians felt that they needed to concern themselves with other countries around the world to grow their market reach to get more money. War wasn’t an option, but happened in the mist of Cuban people revolting against Spain. The Usa’s government was not concerned with the citizens that rose against them, but the people who…
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What I Learned Today 12/30/14
To Kill A Mockingbird: Ch 28-31 Jem and Scout went to the school that night for Scout to be a ham for the school’s pageant. They went and Scout accidentally fell asleep in the middle of the performance. Later that evening, they walked back and heard rustling. They turned, and thought that Cecil was trying to scare them. Once they…
What I Learned Today 12/29/14
Pre-Algebra: Fractions & Mixed Numbers Important: Division by a number distributes over addition: If c is not zero, then (A + b)/c = a/c + b/c Division by a number distributes over subtraction: If c is not zero, then (A – b)/c = a/c – b/c Concept: When performing arithmetic with fractions, it’s often useful to simplify the…
What I Learned Today 12/19/14
History: I had to choose a female historical person I read about in my history book to write an essay on. I chose Sojouner Truth. References: Wikipedia Sojourner Truth was born at Swartekill, New York, in 1797 and died at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1883 when she was 86. When she was born, she was given the name Isabella Bell…
What I Learned Today 12/16 & 12/17/14
History: Revolutions Like the last chapter, people are unhappy. Some angry at taxes, but taxes just come from laws. Some rebels that used to revolt previosly did not join in on these new revolts. All of this started from farmers. When farmers stopped paying money for their land because of taxes, the government found that there was clearly room in…
What I Learned Today 12/12/14
History: In history, slavery was one cruelest human acts. American slavery was worse than the slavery of other countries. For example, slaves were burned, hanged, and mutilated in all sorts of ways. The main reason it happened is that they had a need for labor. In settlements, they couldn’t take Indians because they were more resistant than anyone else in…
What I Learned Today 12/10/14
Please note: A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn seeks to present American history through the eyes of the common people rather than political and economic elites. So, when you see Sage's chapter summaries, the history will be much different than the history…
What I Learned Today 11/24/14
I got to spend the weekend with my great grandma and grandpa. It's fun going up on weekends. Grandma makes me special stuff to eat. She made me really good onion soup this time, and she baked five pies for Thanksgiving!!! I took this really good picture of her: Big History Project Ch 5: 1. I learned that people say…
What I Learned Today 10/01/2014
Nonfiction/Design/Architecture Today in Dornob, multiple architects worked on a hillside home. Having a perfect view from the mountain, they incorporated multiple balconies and made all of it entirely out of soft wood. Even though it was just made of wood, they designed it to be a very modern home. Keyboarding I completed the first few levels of BBC…
What I Learned Today 9/26/2014
Today I continued to work on the rough draft of my 9/11 oral history essay. I got a lot of responses, and so that makes it REALLY long but good. Before I started, I organized my essay by clumping similar responses together. The steps of writing are pre-writing (brainstorming), drafting, editing, and revising. I’m at the drafting step. I had…
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