Research Project + Pre-Reading for Galveston's Summer of the Storm + Galveston Hurricane of 1900 + Crash Course Vid on Progressive Era

Students today:

• Worked on their Research Project on a 20th/21st-Century topic of their choice
• Wrote ideas and stories about storms and hurricanes in anticipation of reading Julie Lake's Galveston's Summer of the Storm; click here to see the GooDoc of what we came up with
• Read a HOTO article on the Galveston Hurricane of 1900
• Viewed most of a Crash Course video on The Progressive Era

Assignments

For Friday

1. Read Chapter 1 of Galveston's Summer of the Storm; come prepared to discuss it and apply what we learned from HOTO about the 1900 hurricane
2. Finish Steps 1-4 on the Step-by-Step Research Procedure for your 20th-Century Research Project.
3. Read and write your 1-Pager from Fehrenbach's Lone Star and post it at your blog.

For Tuesday: Quiz over Ch. 20 & 21 Chapter Summaries