New Website

There is a new place for you to go to get all the assignments that you need. Try this:

http://mr-driver.yolasite.com/


Get yourself caught up if you are behind. This is also where the assignments will be posted from now on.

Gas Attack

Read the Document "Gas Attack" to learn about what it was like in the trenches in World War I. As you go along, fill out the answers to the questions of "Online Assignment 3" and email the answers back to me at mr.driver.eais@gmail.com. Let's have this done by next Tuesday, along with the other two assignments.

The Reading:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQCG8xObMVdtZGNqOGtmam1fMjJwcTVtaHBoZA&hl=en

The Assignment:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQCG8xObMVdtZGNqOGtmam1fMjg2cXM2NWZkNA&hl=en

If you are having issues with the assignments, give me some time, and i will have them posted in another version soon. Or you could go and get Windows 2007 and make my life easier.

11.1 The Road to War

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQCG8xObMVdtZGNqOGtmam1fMWZrZmRuMmZ3&hl=en

follow the link above, and go to page 324 in your book. Read the section and fill out the guided reading.

11.1 - Guided Reading.docx

Please go to page 324 in your History book. Read the section and fill out the blanks. Follow the link to the worksheet.

Panama

It is absolutely impossible for me to teach a lesson about the Panama Canal without this awesome song going through my head. The band is Van Halen, the song "Panama."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NshzYK9y0

Key things to remember about Panama:

1. it was once part of Columbia
2. the United States supported a takeover of the local government so they could get a favorable deal to dig the Panama Canal
3. the digging of the canal cost 30,000 lives and $600 million
4. the canal was dug through the Isthmus of Panama and connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
   

Pashtuns vs. Imperialism

Learn more about the Pashtun people and their honor code, Pashtunwali. "ZAN, ZAR, ZAMEEN!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtun_people

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtunwali

"Pashtunwali is believed to have originated millennia ago during pagan times and has, in many ways, fused with (blended with) Islamic tradition"

This is how I get to work in the morning

http://www.flyingmachines.org/

Here is a website about flying machine attempts before the Wright Brothers came along. I'm having trouble finding any movies right now...

Here is a Youtube video of the Wright Brothers. The title says "first flight" but it is not. This is Flyer II or Flyer III. Look how high it gets, and look at the mechanism they created to help the plane take off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-CvkEUSAO4