I really love U.S. History.

As a a lot of people have already said, I'll continue to be bland and un-original by saying that the short clips and such a quite helpful. Visual learning is key to my way of learning and I suppose it is the same with others. I enjoyed watching the reenactments of the battles instead of just reading them and trying to visualize my own version in my head.

-Brandon AkA Yumyumcult

September 15th, 2011

We went over the Lexington battle, and we were shown a video of Sarah Palin getting history facts wrong. It was pretty funny, and Mrs. Ilie told us that we needed to learn history so that that wouldn't happen to us if we were in that situation. We talked about what led up to the colonies fighting against the British, and we watched a video on it. The video we watched was really interesting, because it gave us a visual of how the battle went down. It was also intriguing and thought-provoking. Something that could be improved is more partner activities or class activities, and maybe some class discussions. I think it would be helpful to the understanding of the theories behind the wars.

Tuesday, September 13

On Tuesday, September. 13, we started the class up by getting back our graded homework. Now since some of the homework not exactly what was expected, we spent a long time going over the homework, and making sure that everyone understands what happened (in the book). Also after we were done we watched a clip from the movie "Last of the Mohicans" and answered some questions about it. I really enjoyed watching the movie in class, and the only thing i have to suggest is that we do more things like it (watching videos). I think visual learning is just a great way to understand the subject.

Sept 9, 2011

On Friday, September 9th we started off class looking at some facts about 9/11. Then, we took notes on the colonies, mostly the northern colonies. After that we watched a movie about what life would be like in a northern colony. The 9/11 information was all interesting to me. I really like learning about that historical event in our history. The only thing I thought that could have improved class is if we watched a movie on 9/11 or something of that magnitude.


-Jonathan Gauger

Friday September 2, 2011: Early English Settlements

During class on Friday September 2, we learned further about the colonies of early America. Continued from the previous class on August 31, we received more information about Jamestown, New England and the middle colonies which consist of New Netherlands and Pennsylvania. Though these colonies may be alike, they also had many differences. I found it interesting to hear how each colony had to learn how to survive though many unfortunately learned the hard way. For example, Jamestown was a colony that lost many of their people due to famine and diseases that were brought over from Europe. Due the harsh conditions and starvation it lead to a population of 150 to be reduced to 38 people. After learning more about the early English settlements, there were very few aspects that I didn't enjoy during the class time. I think one area of improvement could be the way that notes are spread. I know that I had a problem as well as other classmates with how to give the information that we read into a short summary without using many words. Besides that little problem, I enjoyed the class lesson and would like to learn as much as I can about these settlements.