First Marking Period:
My social study teacher is scary ... at first. In social studies we're gonna focus on social changes. Social changes in the LES or Lower East Side. We are gonna study this because our teacher believes that our surrounding and community is important and we should learn about the history that had happened around. He also believe that learning how things had changed from the past to present and how/who influenced that made these changes is important. So for the first marking period our class went on walking tour and traveled around our school community and neighborhood. I have to admit that I never realize that there was many places that were in the neighborhood. /the First marking period for S.S was laid back and relax but ... we have to write a 8 - 10 pages report about social change (we can chose the topic ourselves) due by the end of the year. I hope I can do it well. (Wish me the best of luck!)
Second Marking Period:
We learned about the immigration and acts that was made and the reason why its made/passed and what it does. We then did a project on an immigrant about their experience as an immigrant to the United State. I did a classmate's sister. I'm pretty proud of it because I took time to do interviews and select photos and make a power point. I also present it on her birthday.I think it also made me closer to my classmate (the one who introduce her sister to me so I can interview) because we grew closer and help each other and I think it's nice to things about those around you. We learned about War World 1 like the Great Depression and the Stock Market Crash and what weapons were use in the war and the enemies and alliances. We also learned what stopped the war and who won.
Third Marking Period:
We learned about War World 2. How it started and how the united Stated got involved in it. We learned about Hitler and what happens to the Jews. We learn about the Japanese too. We learned important battles and people who's involve in the war. We had just recently learned how the war ended. We learned the tuning point in the war (where the allies started to overpowered the axis).
We also watched documentary (it was funny because it was comedy and it was to make us thinking harder about the message within the documentary). We talked about it and talk about the atomic bomb that was uses during the war and had a talked about it.