Review for test on Lessons 7-3 and 7-4.

Examine the Starbucks Corporation and research the company's history, evolution, and current status.

Remote, asynchronous lesson. Progress was not made on assignment for Wed., 1/4. Work sent on "WWI: America's Entry & Russia's Exit" to Cameron for today via school email and Microsoft Teams.

Today we continued studying the verb to be. He completed the Spanish.com activities where he reviewed the differences between ser and estar.

Read theory (2 passages); Monster vocabulary (1 round); Hawaii comprehension questions and readings about local customs and native traditions (10 questions)

Persuasive Essay Outline on Monster in Eng I Week of Jan. 4 file (due Jan 10)

Today we reviewed the reasons for America's entry into WWI. The progress of WWI was significantly affected by Russia's withdrawal and the U.S. entry in the war. Initially, the US was strongly in favor of neutrality. President Wilson campaigned for reelection in 1916 on the slogan ''he kept us out of war.'' Yet, Germany's sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915 was a significant moment contributing to the US entry into WWI because one hundred U.S. civilians died in the event, leading to backlash against Germany. Another event turning the US public opinion against Germany was the January 1917 Zimmerman telegram, in which Germany promised Mexico territorial gains from the US if it joined the war on the side of Germany. The US joined the war in April 1917 after Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, targeting neutral American ships. Russia fought WWI in alliance with France and Britain, yet it was losing against the German forces. The Russian economy and society was unprepared for a long war. In February 1917, the monarchy was overthrown, but the provisional republican government continued the war effort. Russian Communists (Bolsheviks), supported primarily by low-income factory workers, gained popularity, arguing for immediate peace with Germany. In November 1917, Bolsheviks took power in a military coup and, in March 1918, signed the Treaty with Germany, officially ending Russian participation in WWI.

For today's class, an assignment was uploaded to Teams for Cameron to complete. It included a guided reading passage with a series of follow up questions related to the passage. The topic of the assignment was evolution.

World War I (1914-1918) was the first major international conflict of the 20th century. It was an armed conflict between the Triple Entente: Great Britain, France, Serbia, and Imperial Russia (later joined by Italy, Greece, Portugal, Romania, and the United States) against the Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary (later joined by Ottoman Turkey and Bulgaria). It was caused by many factors such as imperialism, the growing militarism of Germany, the formation of alliances between countries with similar goals, and the nationalism in regions of the Balkans. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 triggered the start of the war. This historical conflict had 3 stages. The first of rapid offensives in the Eastern and Western fronts until the hostilities stalled in a Trench War. Mechanized warfare was also a feature of this conflict, with the introduction of tanks, armored vehicles, planes, and submarines in the combats. The Russian revolution caused the exit of Russia from the conflict and the US entered the war stage, which changed the conditions in the table and started a second rapid offensive stage where the Triple Entente achieved the German surrender.

7-4 Factoring Polynomials – We learned to use the structure of a polynomial to rewrite it in factored form. Next we factored polynomials that represented real-world problems.
Assignment: Complete the assigned problems for homework.