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__Monday 4-25__


 * Warm Up: page 497 Analyzing Primary Sources
 * Finished Chapter 17 notes
 * c That little "c" is a link to Chapter 17 Notes.

__Tuesday 4-26__ If your last name falls before Calvin Merritt's in the alphabet, wear a blue shirt on Friday. If it falls after his in the alphabet, wear a red shirt on Friday. To get the extra credit, you also have to bring a deck of cards; not Old Maid cards or Uno cards or Go Fish cards, but a regular 52-pack playing deck. (:
 * Extra Credit opportunity:**


 * Warm Up: Page 501, Picture Question
 * Paired up and re-wrote either the Gettysburg address or the Emancipation Proclamation using allusion (referring to something else) and figurative language (metaphors, similes, personification, etc.) as when Abe called slavery a cancer.

__Wednesday 4-27__ Bring Civil War book to class to read!
 * Warm Up: Page 503, questions 1 & 2
 * Read re-written speeches and nominated 99 as the Golden, Glittery Microphone winner! Go 99!
 * Read Civil war novels for the rest of class
 * For Tomorrow:**

__Thursday 4-28__ //Extra Credit tomorrow!//
 * Warm Up: Page 507, questions 2 & 3
 * Read Civil War novels

__Friday 4-29__


 * played 'War' (the card game)
 * Answered two questions:
 * Which side won today? Union or Confederacy?
 * Union
 * What is the purpose of 'War'? How does it relate to the Civil War?
 * The point of War is to make the other player run out of cards. In the Civil War the Union was trying to make the South run out of supplies by taking control of the Mississippi River and creating a blockade and the South tried to make the North run out of soldier by not exchanging POW