2 New Corporals

Hi Everyone!

We had an exciting class today.

• Most of the class originally had the wrong pages in their student manuals, our correct copies arrived and we updated our manuals with the correct pages.
• General Paige taught today's lecture on Bleeding Kansas and the Elections of 1860.  
• Carson, from the south, gave his presentation on medical care practices and availability during the Civil War and treated us to ginger bread which was something served in the hospitals of the Civil War because it was thought to be healthy for the patients.  It was yummy!  He also achieved the rank of corporal for doing his presentation.
• We had our first debate -- The Lincoln/Douglas Debates.  Both our north students and our south students found some great points on both sides of the debate.
• John, from the north, was our first private to memorize the Gettysburg Address and achieved the rank of corporal.

Assignments:

• Opinion Paper:  "When evil is being done is it right to react with evil?"  due next Thursday.
• We decided to move our discussion of Uncle Tom's Cabin back one week.  Privates and Corporals have until October 9th to finish reading the book and be prepared to discuss it.
• General Lisa jokingly mentioned that one of their assignments this week is to watch Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  Parents, if your student mentions it, you'll know where it came from. :-)
• We also moved our document study of the Dred Scott case to next week.  If you haven't read thru it yet, please do so before Thursday.

Requirement clarifications:  Memorize what your core book has to say about government.

Some ideas from common core books/documents:

• US Constitution:  Amendments 1 - 6 (from the Bill of Rights)
• Bible:  5 - 6 verses.  Needs to be the rough equivalent, in length, as the first 6 amendments of the Constitution.  Will probably need to choose verses from several different books/chapters of the bible.  Here are a few to get you started.    **1 Peter 2:13-16**    **Matthew 22:21**    **1 Timothy 2:1-2**
• Doctrine & Covenants 134:1-5

Hope to see you at the Movie Night -- Friday, September 26th.  

~General Lisa