Holiday Traditions

What's your favorite holiday tradition?  How did it start?  Take some time to find the origins of your favorite holiday tradition.  Write about it as a comment to this post.  Then read about other traditions. Reply to others' posts if you have a thought you'd like to share.

Your comment should look like this:
Tradition:  Sending Christmas Cards
How it started:  The tradition started in London, England in 1843.  It had become a lot cheaper to send things in the post office at that time, and Sir Henry Cole hired and illustrator to make cards to send to his friends and family.  He also sold them.  Things have changed a bit since then, but that's where the tradition started.

World War 2 Research Project

Week of December 6th

This week, we're going to be doing a little bit of research about World War Two.  We have several book club options that were written about different aspects of World War Two.  In this assignment, we'll be working on a few skills:
- Learning enough about a topic to decide if you want to read more about it.
- Following directions
- Choose an area to focus your research on - choose subtopics
- Write a summary of your research using Step Up to Writing


Topics:

African Americans in WW2
Japanese Internment Camps
Heroes of the Holocaust
Creating the Atomic Bomb
Finding Nazis after WW2
Franklin Roosevelt

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