Co-op in Review: March 6, 2014

This week, our history classes studied the later part of the 1960's.  The Vietnam War is in full swing, we are sending over troops and the evening news is broadcasting images of the fighting and deaths.  Racial tensions are heating up in the cities--especially in the north.  As farms mechanize, many of the black farm workers in the south are crowding into cities, without jobs or money.  Lyndon Johnson's dream of a great society has become a nightmare.  College campuses are teeming with war protests and war protesters.  An entire counter culture is developing--we know them as hippies--protesting for peace, living together and listening to a brand new type of music.  And, on top of it all, the hero of the Civil Rights movement has been assassinated.  Martin Luther King is killed at his hotel in Memphis.  The country couldn't be more tense and seems to be on the brink of falling apart!  The Dialectic class spent their time making a huge craft.  They made Vietnamese dragons.  They really used their creativity!  The Upper Grammar class learned more about the hippies.  They tie dyed bandanas and learned about the most popular musical group of all times--The Beatles. The Lower Grammar class did some tie dying of their own.  They used water color paints and dyed coffee filters. The Five in a Row class read the book, The Salamander Room."  They then made their own salamander room dioramas out of shoe boxes!