12th Grade - Vote!

For a great video on the importance of voting, check out this website.

8th Grade - Leave it To Beaver

Leave it to Beaver was a sitcom in the 1950s that illustrates the principle of the "nuclear family," a mom and a dad and their children living at home, Watch the clip below and note the differences between the Cleaver family and the types of family you see on TV today.

12th Grade - Political Ideology and Parties

Don't forget to go to http://www.politicalcompass.org/test and take the political ideology test.  A print out of your results will be due this Friday.

Also, if you're still not quite sure what the answer to "What's a Democrat?" is, check out this video:

12th Grade - Constitution USA

To view the rest of the Constitution USA episode you watched with the substitute, or to view other episodes in the series, click here.

8th Grade - World War II Disney Propaganda

Walt Disney created some fantastic World War II propaganda.  Check out these videos:

8th Grade - World War II Timeline Song

Here are the lyrics to our World War II timeline song.  I've also embedded the music video for OneRepublic's "Counting Stars" so you can hear how the song goes if you can't remember the tune.

Chorus:

In Sep-tember 1939 

Germany invaded Poland in a short time. 

Ju-ly ‘40 Battle of Britain. 

Pearl Harbor attacked 12/07/41. 

Star-ting Au-gust 1942

Battle of Stalingrad

(a bloody battle, true).

D-Day - June 6, 1944 

Germany gives up 

May 19-19-45. 

Chant:

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Bombed in August of ’45.

Japan surrendered a month later. 

And that ended World War II.