Thursday 25, 2008

1- Turn in letter
2- Essential Question(Debate # 2)

• Was the Confederate states of America doomed to fail in the civil war?
• 6 people signed up to write a passage for the debate
• Poll will be held on the web site
  

3- Hershey invades Gettysburg

• Mr. T made a Movie maker of the pictures he took on our Trip.

4- Civil War comparison

• we received a paper comparing the Union and the Confederacy and the advantages they had.
  
• some variables:
• population,presidential leadership, rail mileage, farm acreage ,iron and steel factories, finances, size of navy, officers and soldiers, familiarity with land.
• we discussed how important each of these variables are
• some of the most important variables
  
• finances
  
• population
  
• familiarity w/ land
• factories
  
• size of navy
  

• 3-strong advantage, 2-advantage, 1-weakness, 0-strong weakness
• the top three that you chose multiply by 3(only do that to one side)

• some scores- Union/ Confederacy
  

34 18
35 19
36 17
28 22

• We passed around replica weapon pieces from the war and described some of them.
  
• "if you survived the charge you would be coated in blood from the other bodies."
• Harrisburg was a very important place for rail roads.