Please copy and paste the following web addresses into your browser bar; then explore and enjoy!
7th grade:
American Experience, The 1930s http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/collections/1930s/
Holocaust Museum http://www.ushmm.org/
Anne Frank House Museum http://www.annefrank.org/
PBS Children of the Camps Internment History http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html
Library of Congress WW2 resources http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/WW2/WW2bib.html
Newseum http://www.newseum.org/
Smithsonian National Museum of American History http://americanhistory.si.edu/
8th grade:
Gulag Many Days, Many Lives http://gulaghistory.org/
The Cold War Museum http://www.coldwar.org/
Library of Congress Cold War Archives http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0010/coldwar.html
JFK Presidential Library & Museum http://www.jfklibrary.org/
Truman Library Korean War http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/koreanwar/index.php
PBS Battlefield:Vietnam http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
Library of Congress Voices of the Civil Rights http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/
Newseum http://www.newseum.org/
Smithsonian National Museum of American History http://americanhistory.si.edu/
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Trip to Science Museum to see King Tut
Hello everyone!
I’d like to let you know about the next outing I’m planning for the Minnesota Historical Society Club.
I will be at the Science Museum of Minnesota to see the King Tut exhibit and Omnimax movie, Mummies, at 2:00 PM, on Sunday, May 1st, 2011.
(Technically this isn’t a part of the Minnesota Historical Society, but it’s historic, and I want to go :) )
I will plan to arrive at the Science Museum in downtown St. Paul at about 1:30 on Sunday, May 1st, in order to view the movie at the 2:00 show time prior to going through the exhibit.
This one is a bit pricier than the other tours I have arranged this year, but so it goes.
You can view some information about this exhibit and movie at the websites below:
http://www.smm.org/tut/
http://www.smm.org/mummies/
https://www.smm.org/tickets/buy/
If you would like to join me at the Science Museum on Sunday, May 1st, please reply to this email and please include the number of people you will be bringing with you. Depending on the number of people committee to coming, I may or may not be able to arrange some group rates and seating in the theater. You are also more than welcome to make your own Omnitheater ticket reservations online (see above).
As always, please remember that this is not required, that all students must be accompanied by an adult other than myself, and that you are responsible for the cost and your own transportation. (If you’re interested in car-pooling, I can try to put you in touch with others who would like to carpool; I live in Minneapolis, so I will just meet everyone there.)
Hope Q4 is starting out well for you!
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Hope to see you there!
Thanks,
Leah Hood
I’d like to let you know about the next outing I’m planning for the Minnesota Historical Society Club.
I will be at the Science Museum of Minnesota to see the King Tut exhibit and Omnimax movie, Mummies, at 2:00 PM, on Sunday, May 1st, 2011.
(Technically this isn’t a part of the Minnesota Historical Society, but it’s historic, and I want to go :) )
I will plan to arrive at the Science Museum in downtown St. Paul at about 1:30 on Sunday, May 1st, in order to view the movie at the 2:00 show time prior to going through the exhibit.
This one is a bit pricier than the other tours I have arranged this year, but so it goes.
You can view some information about this exhibit and movie at the websites below:
http://www.smm.org/tut/
http://www.smm.org/mummies/
https://www.smm.org/tickets/buy/
If you would like to join me at the Science Museum on Sunday, May 1st, please reply to this email and please include the number of people you will be bringing with you. Depending on the number of people committee to coming, I may or may not be able to arrange some group rates and seating in the theater. You are also more than welcome to make your own Omnitheater ticket reservations online (see above).
As always, please remember that this is not required, that all students must be accompanied by an adult other than myself, and that you are responsible for the cost and your own transportation. (If you’re interested in car-pooling, I can try to put you in touch with others who would like to carpool; I live in Minneapolis, so I will just meet everyone there.)
Hope Q4 is starting out well for you!
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Hope to see you there!
Thanks,
Leah Hood
Monday, April 11, 2011
Welcome to Q4!
Hello everyone!
I hope you all enjoyed your Spring Break! I certainly did. I didn't do too much this time, which was perfect. Visited family in Iowa, read a lot, and did some spring cleaning.
This quarter in Social Studies we will be studying lots of different units! We will also be finishing our This I Believe projects, and the Legislative Draft project.
In 7th grade we will begin this quarter by finishing up with the Dust Bowl, Great Depression, and New Deal; then we will end the school year by studying WW2. Today we already began reading a memoir entitled, On Hitler's Mountain, by Irmgard Hunt. It is her account of growing up in war-ridden Nazi Germany; I think this work of non-fiction is an important piece to teach about empathy and perspective. The author has some profound insights as to how we can avoid repeating the horrendous mistakes of that era. I highly recommend that parents and guardians read this book along with us! After we finish reading the memoir, we will read the novel, When My Name Was Keoko, about the Japanese occupation in Korea during WW2.
In 8th grade we will continue our study of the Cold War, focusing on McCarthyism in the U.S.; we also began reading the Forward and Introduction to the Nobel Prize winning work of historic fiction, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (Families, please recall that there is some swearing in this book; however, we will not be reading the swear words aloud here at school. It's perfectly easy to just skip over them when we read aloud as a group. An informational email went out about this last quarter.) Later in the quarter we will study the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, at least up until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. We will also read A Raisin in the Sun as a readers' theater piece, and Iqbal; I am hoping to listen to sections of Nothing to Envy and Three Cups of Tea, but I'm not sure we'll have time for all of that!
Map quizzes will continue as usual throughout the rest of this year.
If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thanks and take care,
Leah Hood
P.S. Don't forget about due dates and assignments on Twitter! MsHoodsHoodlums@twitter.com
I hope you all enjoyed your Spring Break! I certainly did. I didn't do too much this time, which was perfect. Visited family in Iowa, read a lot, and did some spring cleaning.
This quarter in Social Studies we will be studying lots of different units! We will also be finishing our This I Believe projects, and the Legislative Draft project.
In 7th grade we will begin this quarter by finishing up with the Dust Bowl, Great Depression, and New Deal; then we will end the school year by studying WW2. Today we already began reading a memoir entitled, On Hitler's Mountain, by Irmgard Hunt. It is her account of growing up in war-ridden Nazi Germany; I think this work of non-fiction is an important piece to teach about empathy and perspective. The author has some profound insights as to how we can avoid repeating the horrendous mistakes of that era. I highly recommend that parents and guardians read this book along with us! After we finish reading the memoir, we will read the novel, When My Name Was Keoko, about the Japanese occupation in Korea during WW2.
In 8th grade we will continue our study of the Cold War, focusing on McCarthyism in the U.S.; we also began reading the Forward and Introduction to the Nobel Prize winning work of historic fiction, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (Families, please recall that there is some swearing in this book; however, we will not be reading the swear words aloud here at school. It's perfectly easy to just skip over them when we read aloud as a group. An informational email went out about this last quarter.) Later in the quarter we will study the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, at least up until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. We will also read A Raisin in the Sun as a readers' theater piece, and Iqbal; I am hoping to listen to sections of Nothing to Envy and Three Cups of Tea, but I'm not sure we'll have time for all of that!
Map quizzes will continue as usual throughout the rest of this year.
If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thanks and take care,
Leah Hood
P.S. Don't forget about due dates and assignments on Twitter! MsHoodsHoodlums@twitter.com
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