Monday, March 10, 2014

1G Book Reviews

First graders have been working on creating book reviews! The students wrote the reviews, took pictures of each other, cropped the pictures, and recorded their voice reading their reviews. Adults did not help with editing the audio recordings. 

These are the reviews from Mrs. Grant's class. View them all by playing the video below, or click on individual students' names below.



Mia

Morgan

1B Book Reviews

First graders have been working on creating book reviews! The students wrote the reviews, took pictures of each other, cropped the pictures, and recorded their voice reading their reviews. Adults did not help with editing the audio recordings. 

These are the reviews from Ms. Barofsky's class. View them all by playing the video below, or click on individual students' names below.


Monday, March 3, 2014

1M Book Reviews

First graders have been working on creating book reviews! The students wrote the reviews, took pictures of each other, cropped the pictures, and recorded their voice reading their reviews. Adults did not help with editing the audio recordings. 

These are the reviews from Mrs. Monat's Class. View them all by playing the video below, or click on individual students' names below.





Akash

Allison

Andrew

Braden

Charles

David

Daivik 

Everett

Grace

Joyce

Martin

Matt

Maya

Molly

Morgan

Owen

Peter

Rowan

Ruby

Sophie

Teagan







Monday, February 3, 2014

Primary Sources Group 7

Group 7:
1)     Title: Grant: Loving Husband and Father
Author/Creator: Ulysses S. Grant
Date: June 7, 1864

2)     Title: “Those who struck at the nation’s life, and those who struck to save it”
Author/Creator: Frederick Douglass
Date: May 30, 1871

3)     Title: Unidentified young soldier in 5th New Hampshire Infantry uniform
Creator: unknown
Date: 1861-1865

4)     Title: [Dividing the] National [Map]
Author/Creator: unknown
Date: 1860

5)     Title: Campaign for Vicksburg 
Author/Creator: Encyclopædia Britannica

Date: 2013

Primary Sources Group 6

Group 6:
1)     Title: Frederick Douglass *
Author/Creator: Charles White
Date: 1951

2)     Title: Part of Charleston Harbor, Embracing Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, and Castle Pinckney, also Sullivan, James & Morris Islands
Author/Creator: George T. Perry
Date: 1861

3)     Title: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg
Date: 19 Nov. 1863

4)     Title: Storming Fort Wagner *
Date: 1890
Creator: Kurz & Allison Art Publishers

5)     Title: Ulysses S. Grant to Abraham Lincoln
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mal&fileName=mal1/257/2579900/malpage.db&recNum=0
Author/Creator: Ulysses S. Grant
Date: Sunday, August 23, 1863

Primary Sources Group 5

Group 5:
1)     Title: Lincoln’s Place in History 
Author: John Coleman Adams. Published in The Century; a popular quarterly
Date: February, 1894

2)     Title: Bull Run 
Author: Paul Fleischman
Date: 1993

3)     Title: The Battle of Gettysburg
URL: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.22556/?co=drwg
Author/Creator: Edwin Forbes
Date: 1863 July 3

4)     Title: I must bid you farewell should I be killed
Author/creator: Lewis Henry Douglass
Date: July 20, 1863

5)     Title: Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers
Author/Creator: unknown, names on poster: Lieut J.M. Clough, Sergt. W.B. Rowe

Date: 1861

Primary Sources Group 4

Group 4:
1)     Title: Slavery Sanctioned By the Bible
Author: John Richter Jones
Date: 1861

2)     Title: The Civil War: Overview *
URL: http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/overview.htm
Author/Creator: James McPherson
Date: 2011

3)     Title: Lincoln's last hour  *
Author/Creator: unknown
Date: 1865

4)     Title: “Keeping track of soldiers”
URL: http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/civil-war-in-america/december-1862-october-1863/ExhibitObjects/Keeping-Track-of-Soldiers.aspx
Author/Creator: Clara Barton
Date: 1863


5)     Title: City Point, Virginia. Negro soldier guarding 12-pdr. Napoleon. (Model 1857?)
URL: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003004911/PP/
Author/Creator: unknown
Date: 1865