Let's Be Prepared for Mars! - Jee Min H. (8D)

Yesterday in class, the first thing we did was to share the notes we took with our groups. The notes were about key terms and people on week 2 immersion- The Southern Colonies. After everyone got a chance to look at each other’s notes, the class discussed their thoughts about the notes that our others took, good or bad, whether it was too detailed or too brief. After that was done, each group got a big piece of paper and wrote the factors of success and failure of Jamestown on the half of the paper. When we were finished, we walked around the classroom and looked at what other groups have come up with different ideas. When we rotated around the class, we came back to our table and used the other half of the large paper to write about Mars. By looking at the success and failure of Jamestown, we had to write the preparations we need and the things that we have to get in order to be successful when we go to Mars, so basically, Mr. Armstrong wanted us to learn from the mistakes that Jamestown made. After, we rotated around the class like we did before, and looked at other group’s ideas. When Mr. Armstrong collected the paper from each group, we got our laptops out and we made our new account for Quia, in http://www.quia.com/web. Then, we went to our Google Readers and deleted KIS blogs, and instead, added www.armstronghistroy.edublogs.org.