Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln

Besides Black History month, February is

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Mr. Eric Strumph
Bloomfield High School
US History Teacher
120 Broad Street
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
(973)-680-8600
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African-Americans. Throughout his

childhood, DuBois grew up in a community
of tolerance and little racism, unlike the rest
of the country. As time passed DuBois
attended Harvard University where he
graduated and became the first AfricanAmerican to earn a doctorate. DuBois would
later become a professor of History,
Sociology, and Economics at Atlanta
University. We thank you Dr. DuBois for all
your success and achievements.

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the American Revolution, the French

Revolution, the Civil War, and
Reconstruction. In the next week or two we
will be discussing the Great Depression and
the Impact it had on the United States. Here
is a little preview The 1920s was an era of
great fun and amazing discoveries in the
United States. As time passed, all this fun
would soon come to an end when the US
stock market crashed on September 4, 1929.
The Great Depression will devastate the
entire United States. We will continue this
discussion in class, however until then think
about how the United States will recover
from this devastating event in history.

During this next semester, our workload

may seem to be a lot, however, as time will
progress you will see that it is not as much
as it really seems. During this semester we
will have two major assignments that will
count as a big part of this semesters grades.
To start out with, this semester we will be
writing a research paper. For this
assignment students will be expected to
choose a topic from a list chosen by me. If
any student has a request for a topic that is
not on the list, they must come to me as
soon as possible. For this assignment I will
not be looking too much for the who and the
how, but for the why or what about the topic.
The other assignment students will be
working on this semester is a video group
project. In this project students will be asked
to make a commercial or infomercial about
a certain time period in American History.
Students will be expected to also write up a
two page report about their project. I will be
grading students on creativity, historical
accuracy, and if the student has convinced
me about wanting to be in the certain time
period they choose. Projects will be viewed
during class. If anyone has any questions,
please feel free to contact me.