Today we looked at new site "Storyboard That". I thought this would be a great way for Craig to use his creative talents to do a project about ancient civilizations in the form of a comic strip. I will plan an assignment that will require him to do that in the near future. He and I reviewed vocabulary and concepts. We discussed new ways to remember important ideas. We will spend more time note-taking in our future classes. We llistened to the spoken Gettysburg Address. We also read about the crisis of secession and the start of the Civil War. We looked to lessons on www.civilwar.org and began watching a video "The Civil War". We also looked to the Gilda Lehrman Institute site for more information. We discussed Lincoln's beliefs and learned about Union strategies at the start of the War.