Mr. Smith's Class - Room 102

Current Events for Class Discussion

    November 2010 - June 2011

• Kiwanis Park Incinerator, Blight or Historic Site? http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/05/08/kiwanis-park-incinerator-blight-or-historical-site

• Document for May 4th: Campus scene, Kent State University: http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=504

• Farmers now required to have a license for 'bird bangers' BY ROSS COURTNEY  YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC  (May 1st, 2011:) http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/04/30/farmers-now-required-to-have-a-license-for-bird-bangers

• Levels of still rising Mississippi, Ohio rivers at all-time highs (May 1, 2011:)

  http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/01/missouri.levee.breach/?hpt=T1

• CNN Interactive Map on Libya: March 24, 2011

• Vandals hit historic cemetery in Vancouver: http://www.nwcn.com/news/oregon?fId=117581474&fPath=/home&fDomain=10202

  • Vancouver, Old City Cemetery: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waclacem/OldCity/oldcity.htm

• National History Day in the news

• Last World War I Soldier Dies 2/28/2011

• Current Events Political Cartoon - Unrest in Egypt

• Complete preliminary results show 99% vote to split in Southern Sudan

• Mourners Remember Auschwitz Liberation

• Lincoln Pardon (Fake)

• Arizona, Moves to End Automatic Citizenship

• Nullification: Seattle Times New Story:

  • http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013991637_apushealthcarenullification.htm

  • Idaho GOP gets ready to nullify health care reform.

  • Editorial against nulificaiton (Opinion)

• Celilo Falls Story: Tri-cities Herald

  •  http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/11/15/1253255/celilo-falls-latest-maya-lin-site.html

• Election Results (Local)

  • http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/11/02/1235312/election-voters-say-keep-benton.html