Eleanor Roosevelt II

1. How were Eleanor and Franklin different?

2. What did Eleanor find out about that made her question Franklin?

3. What did Franklin and Eleanor decide to do?

4. How did Eleanor start to lead her life?

5. What happened to Franklin that changed his life?

6. What did Eleanor fight for in 1922?

7. How did she voice her opinion?

8. What did Franklin buy for Eleanor?

9. How did this change her life?

Eleanor Roosevelt

Describe Eleanor's childhood. What was it like? Was she rich or poor? What happened to her parents? What did her mom think of her? Who raised her? Why did she fall in love with FDR? What did she do in her spare time that was different than most people who had a high status in society?

Furnishing an Apartment

What type of furniture would you need in an apartment?

Imagine you are moving into an apartment for the first time.....list ALL of the furniture you would need to live in an apartment with a kitchen, bathroom, family room and bedroom.

List all of the places you could go to buy the furniture.

World War II Comments

1. How do you feel about World War II so far?
2. What event did you like learning about the most?
3. Which event was the most upsetting?
4. Why do you feel this way?
5. Do you think America was right to enter WW II? Why or why not?
6. What do you want to learn about now in reference to WWII?

Topics we have covered so far:

• Pearl Harbor


• Doolittle's Raid


• Battle Midway


• D-Day


• Holocaust


• Great Depression


• Adolf Hitler


• Anne Frank

Introduce Yourself to Each Other

I know you all know each other, but let's practice...after you have created yourself within the blog, introduce yourself to each other. Write a paragraph telling us the following things: your name, age, birthday, favorite things to do when you are not in school, favorite type of music, favorite thing about being at South......

Welcome to ILS at South

I am hoping to create a blog where the students and parents can post comments, questions and such to each other and our ILS community at South. My goal is to also use this in the classroom with the kids, in addition to making use of this blog spot at home.