I taught Bella how to manipulate and combine the many synth controls to create diverse sounds and melodies, encouraging her to imagine how she would utilize them in an imagined horror/sci-fi movie, and we annotated many settings to revisit them.
Bella led us through a review of the future tense. I communicated with her primarily (90%) in Spanish during this time.
She was able to form sentences using the future tense. She needed a little assistence with the irregular verbs. She reviewed the content with a high degree of accuracy.
She then continued to work on her paragraph in the future. She was able to complete it.
The Pacific Ocean Theater of WWII: Japan vs. The Allies
Lesson Outline
Instead of reviewing Bella's HW, we had to work on completing it together as it was a test prep assignment. After, we focused on the war in the Pacific and the U.S. policy of "island hopping." We looked at the battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf as well Iwo Jima and Okinawa. What did the Japanese kamikaze pilots do to U.S. targets? While Germany surrenders in April, 1945 - the fighting continues in the Pacific. Desperate to end the war. President Truman makes a bold decision. With the prospect of a million US casualties should they decide to invade Japan, Harry Truman decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima after a last effort to convince the Japanese to surrender in the Potsdam Declaration went unheeded. An added motivator for dropping the bomb was that it would send a clear message to the Soviet Union. Days after dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, the Americans dropped another nuclear bomb on Nagasaki. Combined, the bombs brought about the immediate deaths of 120,000 people with tens of thousands of more to follow. Debate still exists as to whether the US should have dropped the bombs. As a result of the bombs, VJ Day was declared, ending the war with Japan, but citizens continued to die because of radiation illnesses, and citizens of the two cities had a higher risk of cancer for the rest of their lives.
Assignment
Study for Test Tomorrow!
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Bella said she forgot to do her HW this weekend. The World Wars have been difficult for Bella this year. This is because she has never taken a H.S. Modern World History class - usually taught in 10th grade. American History is taught in the 11th grade. H.S. juniors have a much better understanding of the units re: the U.S. involvement in WWI & WWII because they learned about them the year before in Modern World History. Bella has explained to me that her 9th grade history class focused on ancient world history and this is the case for much of 9th grade curricula throughout the U.S. Bella needs to take a Modern World History class. They usually begin with the Enlightenment and move through to present day. Something to think about for her next year?
Bella and I reviewed the conditional tense. She had a great memory of the content that we had already covered. We then went on to the future tense.
She used the material that she learned to discuss her plans for the future. She wrote about studying psychology at the University of Miami (just as a hypothetical), living with her cat, and making friends there.
