Craig and I read a Newsela article taken from Public Radio International today about Star Wars and how the costume designer was inspired by history - Nazi uniforms, medieval knights, Tibetan monks, etc. We also read about the cycle of poverty and sharecropping via a PowerPoint presentation taken from www.civicssites.unc.edu. We looked at primary sources from BrainPop and compared two contracts between newly freed slaves and former plantation owners. Craig answered questions. We also read about John Wilkes Booth. We again discussed the Reconstruction Amendments.