African Americans began to play an important role in Reconstruction politics as voters & elected officials. Between 1869-1880, 16 African Americans served in the House, 2 in Senate: One was Rev. Hiram Revels & Blanche K. Bruce, both of MS. Southerners accused "scalawags" & "carpetbaggers" of corruption. Most Southerners didn't support expanding African Americans' rights & violence against them remained commonplace. The Ku Klux Klan formed in 1866. Reconstruction brought some improvements to the South in education, but most schools were segregated. Most freed Blacks did not gain there own land and they were stuck as sharecroppers. By the mid-1870s, Northerners were disinterested in Reconstruction & Southern Democrats were regaining control in the South and gradually Congress, too. The Amnesty Act of 1872 pardoned most Confederates. We discussed the disputed presidential election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877. Who were "Redeemers" in the "New South?" Industry came to the South, but not to the extent it existed in the North. Agriculture with cash crops, tenant farming and share cropping still dominated the Southern economy. Reconstruction ended in 1877. With that came voting restrictions such as the poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clauses, segregation (1896 Plessy v. Ferguson), Jim Crow Laws, violence against African Americans.

Bella began the session writing to support a position on the effects of isolation on a person. She included text support from the novel being read and references to the protagonist Kya. She then reviewed SAT vocabulary being studied. She then read and analyzed one chapter from Where the Crawdads Sing.

Bella was delivered a lesson dealing with the subtle differences between saber and conocer and also pedir and preguntar.

She then worked through a series of problems requiring her to navigate those nuances.

She was then taught about telling time in Spanish including the conjugation of ser to match the hour, common vocabulary, and phrases dealing with morning, afternoon, and night.

3-1 Relations and Functions – We learned that a relation is an association between sets of ordered pairs where the domain consists of the set of x-values and the range consists of the set of y-values.
Assignment: For homework complete assigned problems.

We did lab 4 on the properties of ionic and covalent solids.

In April, 1865 VP Andrew Johnson became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He is not popular, nor was he a good president. He was actually the first president to be impeached in American history. A former democratic senator from TN, Johnson had no desire to help African Americans. He preferred to call Reconstruction, "Restoration." We discussed the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments known as the "Civil War" amendments. We discussed the Black Codes and the opposing Civil Rights Act of 1866 which for the time being, overturned the Black Codes. Pres. Johnson attempted to veto both the Freedmen's Bureau & Civil Rights Act; he also railed against the 14th amendment & tried to intervene in the mid-term elections against republicans in Congress. Newly re-elected Radical Republicans in Congress quickly took charge of Reconstruction. Congress passed the Reconstruction Act in 1867 calling for the creation of new govts., in 10 Southern states that hadn't ratified the 14th amendment, guaranteed African American men the right to vote in state elections, and prevented former Confederate leaders from holding office. A Second Reconstruction Act required military leaders to begin registering voters & prepare for new state constitutional conventions. By 1867, Congress voted to impeach Pres. Johnson (the first president to be impeached) due to his lack of cooperation with Reconstruction. He was not convicted and remained in office through 1869 as former Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had won the presidential election of 1868.

We started the class with Bella copying some definitions in her notebook. Then I explained the differences between range and domain, and how to identify them. Finally, Bella worked on solving the practice questions on a worksheet.

Bella was taught a lesson on using direct object pronouns in conjunction with indirect object pronouns.

She did an excellent job of applying her newly acquired knowledge to problems with which she was presented.

When Bella seemed to be at her grammar intake capacity, we would switch momentarily to a more fun activity and then dive back into the work.

She accomplished a lot today and can be proud of her increased efforts.

We discussed dipole dipole interactions and london dispersion forces. We then started reviewing for her exam on Friday.

Bella was taught a lesson on indirect objects in English. We then used that short lesson and applied it to Spanish.

She was taught the different indirect object pronouns in Spanish. She was taught about the word order of a sentence containing indirect object pronouns when the sentence is in the affirmative and when it is in the negative.

Bella was asked to complete a series of questions.