Monday, January 6, 2025

January 6, 2025

 

  • 1/6/25- Happy Monday!! 

  •  Word of the day-exoduster-an African American who migrated to the West after the Civil War. 

  • Quote of the day- “Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.”-Edmund Burke

  • 1853– President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin is killed in the crash.

  • 1941–United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.

2021– Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the US Congress.
  • Birthdays:

  • 1937 – Lou Holtz, American football player, coach, and sportscaster

  • 1963 – Norm Charlton, American baseball player and coach

  • 1984– Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian

  • Today in-

  • Periods 3, 9,10-(American I)- Chapter 7 Test.  All answers on answer sheet!!!  When done; come up and hand-in.  Start copying Chapter 8 vocabulary-Due Monday 1/13/25.  Chapter 7 notes-Due Wednesday 1/15/25!!

  • Period 5-6/7-8-(American II)- Chapter 12 section 3 notes. ‘Road to War’-European Crash Course. 

  • ***December Words/Quotes are due Thursday 1/16/25

  • Have a great day!

  • Mr. D