January+3

=World Cultures Daily Round Up for 3 January 2007=

Scribed by: Kirste,tevin, Alyssa, Shea, Alex,nick

Activities for today > > > Concepts covered in class with brief summary
 * Describe acitivies for class
 * Watched Duck and Cover
 * Take Notes
 * picture of the day
 * watch the fat boy go off on nagasaki
 * We watch a computer animated version of the bomb drop on Nagaski.
 * We took notes on Japan and World War II.
 * POTD: Mouse Pad Couch.
 * watched a movie if a atomic bomb came then notes and the picture of the day
 * watched a 50s educational video on how to prepare for nuclear explosions with Burt the turtle
 * A couch of mouse pads which was like 1400 pads
 * watched short clip of animated bomb drop in Nagaski
 * reasons for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan
 * we already spent the money, so we might as well use the bomb
 * less lives would be lost if we used the bomb than if we continued the war.
 * anti-Japanese feeling among Americans
 * to show superiorty to the USSR


 * Describe important concepts covered in class
 * US Bombed Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagaski (August 9, 1945)
 * "Fat Man" dropped on Nagaski. It killed 36,000 and injured 40,000.
 * Pres. Truman is the one who called for the bomb drop.
 * Reasons for the bomb drop.
 * Why we dropped the bombs how they effected the people and how many where killed

Assignments for tomorrow or later
 * Describe assignments made in class today
 * what you know about china answers
 * Reading assignment for Friday, Ch. 28 sce. 1 and 2.
 * Read and a quiz
 * quiz friday

Additional resources and interesting items related to class today
 * Here is where you put facts, websites or other information that relates to concepts discussed in class
 * http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/569382/2/istockphoto_569382_first_nuclear_bombs_isolated.jpg
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man
 * [[image:http://www.menziesera.com/years/videos/1951_duck_and_cover.jpg]][[image:http://www.thehistoricalarchive.com/adpictures/DuckandC1951_00053000.jpg]]