Mexico

Does anyone else feel like they just NEED Mexico!! I want to be able to feel God, that he's always with me, always caring for me, and protecting me! I know he's with me but sometimes I just can't feel him. Anyone else feel this way? Or am I just weird? Hahaa...

MEXICO I MISS YOU!!!
^^Note the Screen Name: Meant4Mexico1515
^^ I know corny... but idc

Sorry Random to you... not to me

Thank you for such wonderful gifts!

Thank you all for such wonderful gifts and such a wonderful day! You brought a number of adults to tears yesterday with the way you honored those who served in WWII. I was so proud of you all at Sunrise. Those men and women won't forget that you cared to hear their stories. Have a great Christmas!!!! Mr. B

MR. BURESH!!

Hey Mr. Buresh can I type my essay at home tonight?? Please!

Shirts

I am sorry for asking so many ?s but for the girls what shirts do we wear? Do we wear our dress shirt we wear on Fridays?

Shoes

what kind of shoes are you people wearing?

Clothes

So we wear our outfits to school even though we have classes or do we bring them?

Uniforms

do we wear our uniforms tomorrow to school?

essay question

Ok.. for the essay question about the leaders... What qualities did "Ike" have that enabled us to win the war????????? PleeZe!!!!!!

1941? Chronological order?

What countries were taken in 1941? I have a guess on the chronological order fo pacific can somone post theirs so i can compare or whatever?

HELP ME

I dont remember learning about wake island, burma, Korea, the invasion ofchina, kamikaze attacks, manchuria, and the shooting of yamamoto, but those are on the Pacific chronological order!!!!!!!! those wont be on the test right??? if they will be on there - WHAT ARE THEY???

Maps?

I'm confused... for the maps we have to label them right? and mr buresh gave us multiple pacific maps that are slightly different and I think that there is a new island on the one he gave us second and I dont know what it is and for the maps since they were copied differently I cant tell what is what so couldsomon tell me the like numbers for that map like 1-blank (i can tell what that is) Thanks!
~CAROLINE

Test

Do we have to know like every single detail?? Like how many ppl died in each battle and how many planes or boats were lost... cause I was just focusing on the fact that if they lost a lot of men or a little... or if we won or not... or how hard it was... I wasn't studying the tiny details... Do we have to know them? Sorry I love dots....

"The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-7)

~Hannah

Pacific Chronological??

What is the right side of the chrnological order sheet thing??????? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!!!!!!
~CAROLINE

August 6 and 9 1945

What happend on Aug 6 and 9 1945

WINTER 1942-43

What happened in winter 1942-43

Dates

Can someone ether post the dates that we have to no or scan and email there paper to me i am not sure of the Key dates?
I AM SO STRESSED OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maps?

do we have to know what year each of the places were taken captive by germany??? please no...

BeNiTo Or AlBeRtO??? bOth??

on the review sheet there is a guy named Alberto Mussolini and Rebecca did her presentation on Benito Mussolini so do we have to know both or WHAT???? im confused

ok! whats the answer to this question:,:=-~

highlight in this general area
why did hitler use the jewish people as scapegoats for germany's problems???
and here, in this general area. (inbetween)

what the blob do we do w/ the rubberdoughrockflaky bird thing?

this test is sssssssssssss-s-s-c-c-c-caaaa-arr-r-rrry

ok, so im CLUELESS in every single map except the pacific islands, and i only know those a little. someone plz haaaaaaaallllllllp

Another question!!!!!!!!!!!

when was the liberation of Poland???

chronological order/DUMB QUESDIONNN...

I have the left side of the chronological order thing filled in, but none of the right side. Can someone help? Just read the numbers from top to bottom on the right. THANK YOU!!! WHAT DO WE HAVE TO KNOW BESIDES WHAT IS ON THE STUDY GUIDE? EVERYONE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT THIS RANDOM STUFF!!!!! HELP ME!!! PLEASE!
CAN SOMEONE WRITE DOWN THE CORRECT NUMBERS FOR THE ISLAND MAP PLEASE? GRATSI!

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PEOPLE!?!?!?!

For the like people that we did our project on and the other ones will there be a word bank???

What are the main contributions of all the leaders???

What are the main contributions of all the leaders???- sorry to ask yet another question

Spring 1940??????

WHAT HAPPENED IN SPRING 1940????????

pacific map qestion

on the map Mr. B gave us on Monday- WHERE IS GUADAL CANAL????????????????????????

UN QUESTION!!!!!

i have a question . . . or maybe a few . . . what are these dates for the battles?

spring 1940-?
?-Operation Barbarossa
?-Battle of STalingrad
?-Liberation of Poland

and what were the turning points for the Allies in Europe?
why did Japan join Germany as an ally in 1941?

thank you SOOOO much guys!!!

Key Dates..

For the key dates what are the ones that arent on the review sheet that mr b said? cause i didnt get them all!! thanks!!!
~CAROLINE

8 MORE DAYS!!!!!

OMG!WOW!SOMEONE MAKE A PRETEST! YAY!

Ornament

ok peeps!!! PREGUNTA!! I am doing a star of David and I thought I was supposed to make it blue and yellow. But my mom said that I was supposed to do blue ane white.... which is it? white or yellow??

Chronological Order

Can someone give me their answers for the chronological ordering of the Alicia events.... I wasn't sure what Buczacz Liquidated was so I didn't have that in there but I got..... 6,14,3,7,4,8,19,16,5,18,9,1,2,13,12,10,15,11,17. That's going straight down.

Essay,... again

Thanks sooo much Mr. B!!!!! Also what about the essays for Wednesday??

Essay

Okayy. I don't get the essay questions. Can someone explain them more?? PLEASE

Shema

The first line plus you shall love the Lord your God with all your . . . . .

Caroline MacLure's Questions

Dear Caroline:

I already told you the Bible section. The Alicia chronology is easy to reproduced by skimming your reading comp questions. Lastly, Alicia survived after the war on money she received from Russian soldiers and by selling clothing and by living with the Sharfs. Once she joined Brecha they helped care for her. In Palestine she survived by joining the Israeli army. She is an amazingly resourceful young woman!!!

Taking the Test if You were Absent Today

Dear Ailing Classmates:

If you can take the unit test tomorrow that is great. If you are still too sick you can take the WWII part Wed during school and take the Alicia part home as a take home Wed afternoon or evening. If you are too sick to take the tests Tuesday and Wednesday I will work with your parents to arrange a time for you to take it at home. I know you don't want to miss our celebrations Thursday and Friday. If you are up to it it will be good to get the tests out of the way. Don't overdo it though! This is meant to reinforce what you have learned and I would rather you took it when you have energy and a clear mind! I am praying for all of you!!! Mr. B

Caroline

I don't know what you are referring to when you say what is the order of Eastern and Pacific, Caroline. Can you be more specific?

Ornaments

You can decorate the ornaments any way you feel appropriate. The key is that you have the name of the veteran you want to honor and that it is done in a way that you would be proud to give it to them if they are alive.

Shema

the entire shema or first line memorized???????????

Shadowing Isaac

Dear Isaac:

Please ask your parents if you can reschedule shadowing at Calvert Hall. I am just now seeing this. This is a really bad day to miss. Thursday is our WWII celebration and Friday we have our class party. There are no days left to make up the test. Otherwise you will have to do it over the Christmas break or arrange to pick it up and take it at home Wednesday night. Let me know what you want to do. Mr. B

just war question

We have to say on the test if WWII was a just war... well a just war on the allies' part or axis'? Because for some things the allies' choices were just and the axis' not and vice versa.

Alicia Review

For Alicia you will have a word bank of the Hebrew vocabulary we studied that you need to match to their definitions. These are the words like Rosh Hashannah and Shiva.

You will have a separate word bank with vocab words that are starred on your vocab list. Some words you will match to definitions and some words you will need to be able to use in a sentence. You will have a list of words to choose from for the sentences.

There is a chronology section in which you will have to put events from the book in the correct chronological order.

There are only 10 reading comp questions that deal with the most important ideas like what was the steps the Nazis took to systematically exterminate the Jews of Europe.

Lastly, you will have two essays to pick from.
1)Describe Alicia's character. Give examples that display her character qualities. How did these qualities enable her to survive the holocaust.
2) Describe the principles necessary for a war to be considered just. Discuss whether the Axis powers were justified in starting WWII. Then discuss whether the Allies were justified in the way they fought in return.

What's on the Test Tomorrow

Bible:

In addition to your study guide be able to describe the crowd Jesus spoke to (had been sick, demon possessed, etc) but he healed them. They were poor and desperate people from all over Israel and Palestine. Know what blessed and righteous mean and be able to summarize the beatitudes.

Logic:

Know the difference between deductive and inductive logic and Mr. Donohue's 3 arguments for the existence of God, the three questions people ask when they suffer, and the 3 answers Jesus gives for suffering. Also, how can these three statements all be true: God is good, God is in control, and bad things happen.

Martha, the crowd was still poor after Jesus healed them. But the key to their blessing was that they sought out Jesus and wanted the kingdom he offered. The point is not whether you are rich or poor, sick or healthy but whether or not you have the kingdom of Heaven which is Jesus Himself.

You guys also need to know the Shema in English!!! Also that Jews worshipped at the Tabernacle with Moses then the Temple with Solomon and when that was destroyed in synagogues like the one we visited.

Alicia Summary Chapters 20-25 and Epilogue

Chapter 20 (May 1945):

Alicia heads to Lvov with Rivka by train. While in Lvov they miss their train getting tea and then head to Bielsko on a Russian truck with no possessions. There they are taken in by the Sharfs because they are also Jewish. Alicia meets two orphans from the concentration camp and decides to set up an orphanage and takes in 24 orphans aged 10-15. She is only 15 herself but 5'6" and very mature for her age.

Chapter 21 (June 1945):

Alicia is taken to Lodz to meet Tzivia who runs the Brecha, an organization which smuggles Jewish refuggees out of Europe to Palestine (Eretz Israel). Life is still dangerous for Jews in Europe as some Poles and other ethnic groups commit pogroms against Jews to eliminate the evidence of their cooperating with the Germans.

Chapter 22 (Summer 1945):

Alicia agrees to join Brecha when they promise to take care of her orphans. She leads four "transports" of Jews out of Eastern Europe. On the 4th transport she gives up her $8,000 to get to America and suffers terrible pain from where the SS officer kicked her.

Chapter 23 (Sept 1945):

Alicia is sent to a United Nations Displaced Person's Camp in the Austrian Alps to recover.

Chapter 24 (Summer 1946-Spring 1947):

Alicia is sent to school in Belgium. She has the opportunity to go to America but now thinks of Eretz Israel as her home.

Chapter 25 (March 1947)

Alicia gets on a ship to Palestine which is controlled by the British. She is stopped by the British and taken to a prisoner camp on the island of Cyprus. The British do not want more Jews coming to Palestine stirring up trouble with the Arab Palestinians.

Epilogue Alicia spends 8 months on Cyprus. In 1948 the United Nations voted to divide Palestine into two countries: Israel for the Jews and Palestine for the Arabs. Alicia goes to Israel and joins the Israeli freedom fighters. She meets her husband and goes by the name Ada to forget her painful past. In 1950 they get married and in 1952 they move to America. Her first son is a miracle and is born in 1959.

Unit Test Review for our Absent Classmates!!!

Dear Andrew, Anabel, Caleb, Rebecca, and Nikki:

We missed you today! Personally I am glad there were 5 less water balloons headed my direction but am sorry you missed the wrap up to WWII and our review.

Here is what you missed:

FDR's death shaking the nation in April 1945
Eisenhower choosing to let Stalin take Berlin
Germany's surrender May 8th
The bloody battle to take Okinawa in which 92,000 Japanese soldiers and 100,000 Jap civilians died fighting to the death. The US lost 16,000 men. This convinced the US that the Japanese would defend their home islands to the death. They had an army of 6.5 million plus they armed their civilians to resist an Allied invasion. US planners estimated that 500,000 Americans and 6 million Japanese would die if the US invaded Japan.
As a result President Truman chose to drop two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing 500,000 Japanese over a 5 year period due to the radiation. Emperor Hirohito finally agreed to surrender after the 2nd bomb thinking we may have more (which we didn't) and the treaty was signed on Sept 2nd, 1945.

Once we finished the war we finished Alicia. The summary of the last 6 chapters will be my next post.

The Unit Test Part A on Tuesday will be on the Bible, Logic, Ethics, and Alicia. Part B on Wednesday will cover WWII. Mr. B

Bible question

ok, mr B. said that The people that JESUS WAS preaching to on the sermon on the mt. were sick, eplectic and ect. and then he healed them..... so wouldnt they not be blessed anymore because the are all good now and healed?

Pre-Test

As usual I made a Pre-Test (just for Alicia) cause it helps me study. But if anyone wants me to email it to them I can. It's not as hard and probably not as detailed as the real test but it's a practice... just leave ur email address... GOOD LUCK STUDYING!! (Warning: B-ball 8:15-9:15)

Mr. B HELP!!!!

I know we did not have enough time to go over this but what is the order of Eastern and Pacifc???? we got a paper but we did not do that. if it is easier to send me the page you can. my email is icebirdsk8r@gmail.com

TEST!!

Can we like add an essay question??? You said that the essay question was something like Describe her character..... Can we like add one about Providence? Like examples when providence helped her? PLEASE! And what are the 3 questions people ask when they suffer?
~Why me?
~Where's God
~And ????

HALP!

Ok, I got some stuff from Zoe, but I am still very confused on what exactly will be on the test. What for Alicia? What for bible? Will I have to take the test tomorrow? Please, say anything that might possibly help me. Even random stuff. Please. Think of the children.

Test!?!?!?!!!!

1) For the Chronological order of Alicia what is it? Like what are the #'s in order like from top to bottom or whatever???? will it be on the test???? but even if it isnt then please still tell me!.!.!.!.!
2) And for the Bible questions what were they???
3) What did Alicia do after the war to survive???
Thats all for now!!!
Thanks!!!!!
~Caroline

WWII VOCAB!!!!!

Will WWII vocab be on tomorrow's test?
Thanks!
~Caroline

ummmm

Do we have to know Matthew 5:1-16 or 5:1-12?

Dove....

I dont know what to do!!!! I was showing my mom the ornament on Friday or Thursday and I guess she thought that is was a cookie and THREW IT AWAY!!!! the worst part is that trash guy came so there is NO WAY I CAN GET IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!! ugh.... what should I do??? and mr. buresh please dont be mad it just looked so delisious and sorta like a cookie... maybe ill be able to make a new one....... I DONT KNOW PLEEEAASSSEEEE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~Caroline

UUUUGGHH! why were tests created??

does anybody have notes on Guadal canal or Midway??? I dont seem to have those.... were those the ones Mr. B. took? Oh and I have the same question as hannah- (look down) and did anybody else not do plot outlines like the last 10 chapters of Alicia??? idk............ i forget what else i was going to write.

Dove

For our dove ornament, what do we have to have on the actual ornament? just the person's name or other stuff? Thank you!

vocab pages

Mr. Buresh,
I never recieved vocab pages for Chapters, 20,21, 24, and 25. Thus, I am screwed....
AND i am shadowing on Wednesday at Calvert Hall, so should i take the remainder of the unit test Thursday or what?

QUESTION

ok... I was looking at my dates... and it says that on July 10, 1940 the Battle of Britain began... and that was when like Germany bombed them day after day after day after day after day after day sry... but then it says that on September of 1940 (2 months later) that Germany begins all out Blitz on Britain... CONFUSED!!! Can anyone explain that?? Or does anyone understand that??

Unit Test Prep

What a great set of presentations! We are looking forward to Eleanor Roosevelt's appearance on Monday! Zoe and Anabel we hope you are feeling better!

Don't go overboard on revising your papers this weekend. Remember to prioritize time to go over the Unit Study Guide. Let me know if you have any questions. I will come prepared to get soaked on Friday thanks to your mastery of the WWII material!

Let me know if you have any questions and have a great weekend. Christmas break will be here before you know it! Mr. B

Oral Presentations

I hope all our shadowers had good days today. We had a great relaxed day at Cambridge catching up on unfinished work.

For those of you who weren't with us remember the goal in your presentations is to give us a good sense of why your character was significant to WWII. Any background you can give us is great but remember the presentation should only be 4-5 minutes so you have to pick what you share about yourself carefully.

Several of you want to do power points. If you do remember that you are being graded on the rubric I gave you for oral presentations. The power point should support a strong oral presentation on your part which includes how you speak, how you stand, and what you do with your own body and voice to make the presentation interesting. Do not rely on your powerpoint to be the presentation. It is a tool just like a story board to support what you present. We are interested in you the WWII figure!

I can't wait for your presentations tomorrow! Mr. B

projects

Should I be "the Rosie" - who didn't exist or Rose Hickey- some thought she was Rosie or a random worker??

Mr. B

Mr. Buresh,

If you had to do a presation on Corrie would you do a power point?

presentaions

Can our oral presentations say the same things as our paper, except shorter?

Bibliography

Mr. Buresh (or class),
I used different websites for my biography and I can't find the author of the articles on the websites. What am I supposed to do?

Biography

I've been trying to google pictures of the Island Hopping Plan or even just the Islands where they island hopped.... but I can't get any good pictures..... What do you guys sugesst googling?

Costume

Ok for the presentation, is it required that we have to dress up? Because I have NOTHING that Mussolini would wear... we dont own any costumes!!! If we do have to does anyone have anything I could wear?

Resources

Ok guys.... what are some good internet resources? Actually let me change the question, What are some bad/not trustable websites for our biography? I know Wikipedia isn't good. Any others? Like Ask.com maybe?? Thanks!

~Hannah

Schedule Reminder

Thanks for a great day today! I am so proud of how you are processing some very challenging material both on the war fronts and with Mr. Donohue. You are an amazing group of students with huge hearts!

Remember to bring whatever you need to work on unfinished assignments with you tomorrow. You can work on Alicia, your biography project, your Scripture translations and beatitudes, or your study guide for the unit test. Let me know if there is anything you would like me to have copies of for you.

I can't wait to see you all in character beginning Thursday! We have a wonderful week and a half ahead of us and then it's Christmas!!!!

Your grateful and proud teacher, Mr. B

science project and quotes

does anybody have a fax machine and can fax the science grading sheet to me? (animal cell)
I will love you forever!!!!!!!!

and for our biographies, how do we cite quotes?
Like this; “There isn’t an American or British fighting man who isn’t dependent on the company for some part of the food, clothing, shelter, and equipment that sustains him through the struggle.”(The War video)

Or this: “There isn’t an American or British fighting man who isn’t dependent on the company for some part of the food, clothing, shelter, and equipment that sustains him through the struggle.”1 - and then at bottom say 1= Pbs the War video
HELP!!!!!!!!!!

prayer

hey guys could you please pray for jacob, he's still pretty sick. This morning he threw up on our drive way and hes thrown up alot.

Unit Update

Dear Class:

I hope you are enjoying your homework free day courtesy of Ms. Beeson, Head of School!

Tomorrow is D-Day! The time has come for the greatest invasion in history! Brace yourselves!

Also come prepared with any questions you have through chapter 19 in Alicia.

Friday it is off to DC. Please be praying that God will prepare your hearts and enfold your hearts with His love, hope and faith for what we will see there.

I am enjoying your rough drafts! See you tomorrow! Mr. B

Biography!!

Ok for the biography is it supposed to be in first person!!????

Memory Verse!!!

Mr. B
The handout you gave me today and the NAS version that you gave us don't quite match up like there is a little bit of different wording. And I was wondering which wording you will be looking for. Also I know that you were considering giving us the same handout that you gave us today tomorrow to lessen the time and what not. Have you made a decision? And how accurate does out grammar and spelling have to be? Also for the comprehension questions you mentioned will they be on the quiz? And if so, what is the general topic and have we gone over the answer? If the question was about the verses you mentioned with verses 3 and 10 I am not sure I understood your meaning. Because the direction that I'm pretty sure that you were heading in is not the same theme that I had in mind. And when you said the whole drawing a picture thing was that a joke? If not, then does it have to be about the meaning that you think or is it about our meaning? Also how well would you expect the drawing (assuming there is one although I thought that you were joking.... or at least I hoped!). I think I asked most of my questions for now!
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!
~CAROLINE MACLURE