Understanding the information better

After we shook hands with Mr. Armstrong, we were divided into groups first. Then we took the second pop quiz , which also allowed us to see our notebooks to see if we got enough information about the key terms. The questions were defining the Mayflower compact, puritans, William Bradford and Samoset & Squanto. After that, each group got to talk about the New England Colonies; about the Mayflower, puritans, pilgrim, William Bradford, Mayflower Compact, Samoset & Squanto, General Court, John Winthrop and apprentice. It was more like a waterfountain-talk like we did previously; group by group. The waterfountain talk allowed us to obtain informations that we needed. For the rest of the class period, Mr. Armstrong defined us more accurately about the difference between puritans and pilgrim. He used pictures, also known as armstrong-art, to understand about the information better, which did allow us to comprehend it better.

What we did today... Kaila Kim 8C

Yesterday, as we entered Mr. Armstrong’s room, we sat at the seat which our name cards were on. Of course, he checked the attendance, and the class began. First, we watched a video which we supposed to watch but didn’t work. Mr. Armstrong said it was because anyone cannot download that video and upload it in another site. Anyways, we watched the video called ‘Slave ship’ and it was about slaves being locked in the ship for a week, months, or years. After watching that video, Mr. Armstrong showed us 8th Grade US History Blog, what countries are using this site. After, he handed out the lab top, and we could immerse ourselves into the information in Unit 1, chapter 3. We took notes by reading the site and watched video that Mr. Armstrong put it in wikispaces. He turned on the music and opera songs came out. It made us focus better. For the video, we had to put earphones. Mr. Armstrong went around and answered questions that we asked him. As the bell rang, the class ended.

History is Fun, But Hard-Joshua K. 8D

Today in History class, everything started with Mr. Armstrong's loud, deep voice like he did usually. We wrote the homeworks in our agenda after the attendence. The homework was only writing 2 comments in different people's discussion, and taking notes for the seminar which will be on Monday. Mr. Armstrong went over the homework, which was writing notes about the Middle Passage, by using Jay Lee to demonstrate the real situation that happened long time ago. Jay Lee was the captain of the ship and he went to Terry Kim for Africa and took Terry Kim to Nick Yun colony, which was the Americas. For getting the slave, Jay Lee got sugar, tobacco and other things to England. By Jay Lee showing the triangular trade route, it was better to understand. After knowing the basics, Mr. Armstrong showed us a video which was related to the slaves on the way to Americas. The slaves were very desperate in the video, can see that they didn't get treated well. We turned on the computer that was on our desk at the beginning after we watched the slaves going throught Middle Passage. We took notes for like about 20 minutes and the bell rang.

Group Review of Unit 1- Micky Kim

Yesterday, we had lots of fun reviewing what we learned for the past few week. We had used different graphic organizers that were given to us by Mr. Armstrong. We were assigned into groups and wrote into our organizers. After that, we discussed the answers as a class, but what came next was the something amazing, that only our grade had seen: Armstrong Art! Using the suggestions and the information that every student gave, Mr. Armstrong drew pictures of the southern colonies and how things came to be. We drew ours on a A4 paper that the teacher gave us. The next part of our class was talking about the Triangular Trade System and about how the slave population would get higher and higher. After the discussion, Mr. Armstrong handed out a sheet with info on the topic. For our homework, we have to take notes and watch a video online.

Working together - Stella Kim

Today we worked on understanding the things we reviewed.
First of all we worked in groups. In the groups we had a chart where we filled out what colony came first, date, importance and all those kind of information. This helped us understand better.
Also for the people who "forgot" remembered easily. It was fun out of all the other classes, no offense and all, but we got to learn more. Other time it was free research so some of us weren't that sure. Armstrong art helped us learn more too. It gave us a visual sight on what we learned. Today we achieved on working together, cooperating, and reviewing what we learned.