Greetings 8th Grade Families!

This week students will finish up their mini unit on the life of a t-shirt by learning about shipping and the role shipping containers have played in global trade. Finally students will analyze the costs of the Planet Money t-shirt including monetary, human and environmental costs. Finally students will decide if globalization helps lift people up out of poverty or takes advantage of people already living in poverty. 

By the end of the week students will begin digging into the causes of the Civil War as they analyze the secession documents of the southern states that seceded. By doing this students can understand what those states were thinking and why they wanted to leave the United States and form their own country. 

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Sincerely, 

Mr. Rowan