Jaydn must describe the three most prominent traits of protagonist Kya Clark.

Even before the United States entered WWII, Franklin Roosevelt met with the Winston Churchill to produce the Atlantic Charter, establishing war aims for the Allies. Roosevelt, Churchill and the leaders of many different Allied nations met at least 20 different times throughout the war to discuss priorities and strategy. Then, as the war drew to a close in 1945, the two most significant conferences took place. At the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt, Churchill and Josef Stalin met to plan the future of Europe. Specifically, they divided Germany into four occupation zones and haggled over the Soviet Union's acceptable sphere of influence, including the annexation of half of Poland. At the Potsdam Conference, they made plans to remake Germany, and issued an ultimatum to Japan. But it was clear from the tone of negotiations that, with the war behind them, the Allies had come to an end. Also....Jaydn has decided she is going to change the person she presents next Friday for Black History month from the first African American female judge Jane Bolin to poet, author, performer and presidential award recipient, Maya Angelou.

I finished working area of trapezoid problems with Jaydn and then started to show her how the circumferences of circles was calculated. I referred to the formula with pi times the diameter and used the approximation for pi of 3.14. There was no assignment.

We continue to practice the vocabulary about travel. We saw a video of some boys who went on a trip to Argentina, "A Donde fuimos?"
(Where did we go?)and we practiced the vocabulary.

Jaydn completed a writing assignment based on the novel "Where the Crawdads Sing". She was required to complete a 3 paragraph essay with a thesis statement followed with details and elaboration to support her writing.

Even before the United States entered WWII, Franklin Roosevelt met with the Winston Churchill to produce the Atlantic Charter, establishing war aims for the Allies. Roosevelt, Churchill and the leaders of many different Allied nations met at least 20 different times throughout the war to discuss priorities and strategy. Then, as the war drew to a close in 1945, the two most significant conferences took place. At the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt, Churchill and Josef Stalin met to plan the future of Europe. Specifically, they divided Germany into four occupation zones and haggled over the Soviet Union's acceptable sphere of influence, including the annexation of half of Poland. At the Potsdam Conference, they made plans to remake Germany, and issued an ultimatum to Japan. But it was clear from the tone of negotiations that, with the war behind them, the Allies had come to an end.

I introduced Jaydn to the formulas for the areas of trapezoids, kites, and rhombi. When introducing the formula for the area of trapezoids, I defined the bases of a trapezoid as the two parallel sides. I showed her an example of how the formula is used. I then introduced the formula for the area of kites and rhombi, which is the same for both geometric figures. We did some examples and problems for all three types. There was no assignment.

The Allies began to turn the tide of WWII in 1942. American troops first saw action in Operation Torch, the liberation of French colonies in North Africa. Next, a joint force invaded Italy. In 1943, Allied troops invade Sicily and slowly move north up the Italian peninsula, engaging in brutal battles with italian and Nazi forces. As progress is made in Italy, Allied leaders began planning the liberation of Europe, code-named Operation Overlord. It involved 2 million men from many different countries, thousands of ships and airplanes. The first wave of invaders landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, D-Day. The Allied assault was bloody but successful, and by August, they had liberated Paris. As they approached the Rhine River in December 1944, they were surprised by a Nazi counter-attack, known as the Battle of the Bulge. By January 1945, the Allies had reclaimed the territory lost; in February, Allied airstrikes, such as the fire-bombing of Dresden, helped to weaken German resistance. In March, Britain and the United States were invading from the west while the Soviets invaded from the east. Hitler committed suicide, and Germany surrendered. VE Day was May 8, 1945. To many, D-Day is revered as the day that saved the world in modern world history.

Today we learned vocabulary about travel. Words like: "El vuelo" the flight, "El aeropuerto" the airport, "El avion" the plane, etc.

The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor led military and U.S. leaders to suspect that Imperial Japan was preparing a full-scale invasion of the US West Coast. Due to Japan's rapid military conquest of a large portion of Asia and the Pacific between 1937 and 1942, some Americans feared Japan's military forces were unstoppable. The largest population of Japanese Americans resided on the West Coast. Many Americans believed that their loyalty to the United States was questionable. After Pearl Harbor, U.S. public opinion turned against Japanese Americans. Executive Order 9066, signed by FDR on February 19, 1942, authorized military commanders to designate "military areas" to force Japanese Americans into "alien enemy" roundups. Within hours, Japanese families were forced to sell their homes and businesses for virtually nothing and sent to camps throughout the western and southern U.S. where they were forced to live under armed guards, in sparse conditions for the entirety of WWII. Close to 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were subject to this mass exclusion program. Internees were housed in "tar paper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind". Many camps were built quickly during the summer of 1942 based on designs for military barracks, making the buildings poorly equipped and cramped family living. In many camps, 25 people were forced to live in space built to contain 4, leaving no room for privacy. Armed guards were posted at the camps, which were all in remote, desolate areas far from population centers. Internees were typically allowed to stay with their families. There are documented instances of guards shooting internees who reportedly attempted to walk outside the fences. There was little relief from the extreme elements of cold and hot weather. The camps lacked running, warm water, decent food, medical care and schooling for small children and teens. One of the ways that male teens could leave the camps was to enlist in segregated U.S. army units. One such unit, the 442nd, helped the U.S. & its allies invade Italy in 1943. The 442nd suffered incredibly high casualty rates. Those who survived received purple hearts and the designation of serving in America's most highly decorated army unit during WWII. Decades later, on 9/27/92, the Civil Liberties Act Amendments, appropriated $400 million to ensure all living internees received $20,000 reparations payments. President George H. W. Bush issued a formal apology from the U.S. government on December 7, 1991, on the 50th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Over 81,800 people qualified by 1998 and $1.6 billion was distributed among them.