August 27th

Today we finished watching the final scene from Saving Private Ryan. In it Tom Hanks tells Ryan as he is dying to, "earn it." Basically make good use of the life they are dying to save. It was a nice reflection on how many have come before us to provide safety and freedom for us as citizens and how much we should appreciate it. The first quickwrite can be found below. We also began the setup of our notebooks. They should have a title page with Unit 1, your name and period, and the title of the unit Nation's Founding. After that space should be saved for quickwrites, after that comes notes, and lastly all work from class. We finished class by looking at the term sourcing and how we do this when looking at several documents.

Quickwrite 1 from Saving Private Ryan
Sourcing Document