5.5.16 U.S. HISTORY ON THIS DAY: 1494 - Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica on his second trip to the Western Hemisphere. 1814 - The British attacked the American forces at Ft. Ontario, Oswego, NY. 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S. 1925 - John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. 1945 - A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain inOregon. A pregnant woman and five children were killed. 1955 - The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) became a sovereign state. 1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight. BELL WORK: PICK-UP THE WORKSHEET FOR THE ERNEST GREEN STORY. COMPLETE THE PRE-MOVIE QUESTIONS. #1 p. 99 #2 p. 701 -702 AGENDA: BEGIN THE MOVIE THE ERNEST GREEN STORY & WORKSHEET. HOMEWORK: WORK ON NOTES & VOCABULARY
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