Our starter today was - What makes people change their minds once they have made a decision?
We read an Encyclopedia Brown mystery and then finished looking at the Civil War overview. I gave time to get into the Civil War assignments - hopefully you are to the battle summary page.
We then looked at the change Lincoln went through in regards to slavery. We have discussed that he was always opposed to slavery and thought that it was a moral wrong. Today, we discussed how he decided that he had the authority to free the slaves and how he went about converting the Civil War from a war to re-unite the country into a war to re-unite the country and end slavery.
We began looking at the battle of Gettysburg. This will be the only battle that we will look at in depth.
