Hero  Starts January 2015!

The Books that you will need are:

·         Flag of our Fathers Adapted for young people by Ron Powers  week - 2

·         The Hiding Place by Corrie Tenboom. week 5

·         Hiroshima by John Hersey week - 8

·         A Biography of choice about someone from the WWll era.   Scholar will give a presentation at the end of the semester about this person.

The approx. week that the book will be discussed is noted after each book.  

Movies:

1. Tora! Tora! Tora!
2. Ike – Countdown to D-Day with Tom Sellek   or   The Longest Day with John Wayne
3. Life is Beautiful or Schindler's List

One movie from each numbered line.

There are a few movies that would also be great to watch for above and beyond ask Sister Cummings!

Hero Project Binder buy from Lemi.

Many of you have the books for those who don't here are the books. 

So much to learn during this time period.  Start researching!

The War is over! The Country needs to rebuild.  

The Thirteenth Amendment 1864-1865


The Fourteenth Amendment passed June 13, 1866
















The Civil Rights Bill Passes 1866

The First Colored Senator and Representatives 1872

The Mississippi Ku-Klux in Disguises in which they were captured 1872

Take a look and see how the country went about rebuilding! http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/civilwar/html/section3.html


The History Channel http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction

The Civil War ended the country really rebuild itself?  The Civil war was fought in the 1860's, Civil rights were fought in the 1960's.  Does History repeat itself?  Tell us what you think!