February 2020 Apprentice - the 1980's

OUR SHAKESPEARE PLAY PRACTICE STARTS THIS WEEK DURING MASTER CLASS TIME.  PLEASE CHECK THE SHAKESPEARE BLOG FOR MORE INFORMATION.  YOU CAN LINK IT HERE OR CLICK IT FROM THE MAIN VG BLOG.  

Study/Learn

Complete all of the following:

1. Read A History of US, volume 10, chapters 38-42 OR Watch "The Remarkable 20th Century: episode 9" on Amazon Prime.  Pause it and take notes in your commonplace book.  Write a paragraph or two for each of the chapter, summarizing what you read, for your History binder on the events OF THE 1980'S. Be creative and artistic. Include any applicable pictures and maps.

2. Study a map of the Persian Gulf area and print for your notebook page.

3. Study the note cards for this month from the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

4. Print the time line (from here) and put it in your history binder, add 5 additional events from world, national or your family history

CONTEST: See if you can find important events for your time line in other areas like science, entertainment, sports, etc. We will vote on the best or most unique one found! There will be a prize :)


Save room in your commonplace book for short bios on people from reports in class.

Know/Understand

Choose an event to give us a 2-3 minute report on in class. 

Please include 3 bullet points about why we need to know about this event and the impact it made on this time period.  Also look for whether or not our principle for the month, "Think Win/Win" was lived.   How did this affect those involved?

PUT YOUR CHOICE ON THE GOOGLE DOC (found here)

Become/Serve

Ronald Reagan served two terms as President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. He was also the oldest person ever elected President. Known as "the Great Communicator," Reagan is often remembered for his quick wit and storytelling. Below you will find some of his funnier and more famous quotes.

Choose one of these quotes (or find another one you like) and journal for 5 minutes on why you like it so much and what it means to you.  Set a goal to live it better.

Write the quote on a paper and dress it up.   Bring it to class to show us.


My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table. 

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.​ 

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.