{"id":1342,"date":"2020-04-27T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2020-04-27T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:26:40","slug":"classwork-for-the-week-of-04-27-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/2020\/04\/27\/classwork-for-the-week-of-04-27-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Classwork for the Week of 04-27-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well and staying caught up with school work. This week brings about one more change due to the issues with Google Meet meetings (see <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/superintendent.dearbornschools.org\/2020\/04\/24\/students1stdbnschs-message-to-the-students-parents-and-community-regarding-online-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Maleyko&#8217;s message<\/a>). Instead of Google Meet we will be using iLearn for our meetings. There is a feature called Big Blue Button (BBB) that we will use to conduct our meetings. The times for each class have not changed, but our platform will.<br><br><strong>Updates:<\/strong><br>&#8211; Chromebook distribution is today (Monday) and Tuesday from 12pm-3pm at Fordson High School near the food distribution area off of Horger. <br>&#8211; Food distribution continues Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. During Ramadan the times have changed to 12pm noon to 2 p.m. at Fordson High School, Woodworth Middle School, Salina Intermediate and McCollough Elementary. The other buildings continue with the 10am-12pm noon times.<br><br><strong>I will post the directions for Big Blue Button on iLearn tomorrow (Tuesday) before we meet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#0002a3\"><strong>Chapter 20: New Frontier &amp; Great Society <br>Articles &amp; Reflection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Directions: Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">each of the four articles<\/span> below about topics from Chapter 20. Choose one article and answer the questions on the Weekly Reflection Activity template below. Please share your Google Doc with <a href=\"mailto:connore@dearbornschools.org\">connore@dearbornschools.org<\/a> by 11:59pm on Sunday, May 3rd, 2020. You may share it earlier if you complete it sooner. We will discuss these articles during our online class meetings on Google Meet. Please try to read them before our meeting.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2794\/2020\/04\/Article-Reflection-Activity-Student-Copy.docx\"><strong>Weekly Reflection Activity Template<\/strong><\/a> (Save on your Google Drive!)<br><br>Article 1: Cuban Missile Crisis by History.com Editors<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/.amp\/topics\/cold-war\/cuban-missile-crisis\">https:\/\/www.history.com\/.amp\/topics\/cold-war\/cuban-missile-crisis<\/a><br><br>Article 2: The Cold War Logic of the Peace Corps from The Atlantic<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/08\/the-cold-war-logic-of-the-peace-corps\/309483\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/08\/the-cold-war-logic-of-the-peace-corps\/309483\/<\/a><br><br>Article 3: The Warren Commission Report by Time Magazine from 1964 (about President Kennedy&#8217;s Assassination)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3422341\/the-warren-commission-report\/\">https:\/\/time.com\/3422341\/the-warren-commission-report\/<\/a><br><br>Article 4: Evaluating the Success of the Great Society by The Washington Post<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/special\/national\/great-society-at-50\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/special\/national\/great-society-at-50\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#0f0d79\"><strong>Chapter 20 Vocabulary<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Berlin Wall: <\/strong>a concrete wall topped with barbed wire that divided the city of Berlin into a Soviet controlled half to the East and Allied controlled half to the West<\/li><li><strong>Economic Opportunity Act:<\/strong> a government program approved nearly $1 billion dollars for youth programs, antipoverty measures, small business loans and job training<\/li><li><strong>Great Society:<\/strong> a program designed by Lyndon B. Johnson that would end poverty and racial injustices in America<\/li><li><strong>hot line:<\/strong> a communication line established between the White House and the Soviet Kremlin in 1963<\/li><li><strong>Limited Test Ban Treaty:<\/strong> an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union that barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere<\/li><li><strong>Medicade:<\/strong> an extended form of health insurance offered to welfare recipients<\/li><li><strong>Medicare:<\/strong> hospital and low cost health insurance offered to Americans age 65 and older<\/li><li><strong>New Frontier:<\/strong> JFK\u2019s broad vision of transforming America through progressive science and space programs<\/li><li><strong>Peace Corps:<\/strong> a\u00a0program created where volunteers offered assistance in such developing nations as Asia, Africa and Latin America<\/li><li><strong>Warren Commission:<\/strong> this committee investigated the death of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the loan shooter<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well and staying caught up with school work. This week brings about one more change due to the issues with Google Meet meetings (see Dr. Maleyko&#8217;s message). Instead of Google Meet we will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/2020\/04\/27\/classwork-for-the-week-of-04-27-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/connors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}