Mr.

Milligans
10 Grade US History Newsletter
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February 10th, 2015

Being Progressive
As the class moves towards past reconstruction and
towards the Gilded Age I have a class project planned.
In order for them to truly understand the ways in
which their predecessors struggled, I plan to give them
the task of creating a newspaper clipping detailing one
of the big wigs of the era.

COME VIEW CLASS

PRESENTATIONS
Beginning the start of next week we will
begin presentations over who the children
selected as their topic for their project.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
In honor of this month being black history
month, we will be going over some
prominent African Americans of this era. We
will also study some of the great African
American inventors of this time as well as
some of the crowning achievements of
African American soldiers during the
Revolution.

Homework as well as class work is equally

important in my class. It is vital that the
children do all of their work to achieve great
grades!

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CLASS

We have just finished the American
Revolution and will soon be diving into the
rebuilding process in the Reconstruction era.
Then, upon completion of Reconstruction,
we will see history take us into western
expansion. The class will see how the use of
railroads wrought about production changes
for the Americas. We will also see how the
American Indian population at this time was
treated and how the United States
government tricked them so that we may
acquire
their lands.