Looking at the schedule for the week,
Physical Science should get themselves prepared for a test on Friday.
Physics and
Honors Physics should prepare themselves for a fast run through Chapter 2. There is not a great number of new concepts in that chapter that require in-depth analysis and we will move at a good clip. I'm actually looking towards Monday, Sept 22 as the date for the exam for Honors Physics. The Physics exam will follow a few days later. We will get to use a new sensor with this unit - the photogate - as we examine acceleration due to gravity.
Finished re-reading a great book,
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam. Korea seems to get the short shrift by the military history writers and The Coldest Winter really helps fill that gap. And don't say "well, the Korean War had M*A*S*H" because that is wrong. The movie (and, really, the series) depicted the VIETNAM war.
When the movie was made, the makers didn't feel that putting such a film about a currently-running war would be a smart thing to do. So, they made the on-screen war set in Korea. But this film came out in 1970. No one was fooled about which war was the target of the satire...BTW: Halberstam also wrote one of the best books about how the US got embroiled in the Vietnam conflict -
The Best and the Brightest. Most folks don't realize that our involvement in Vietnam goes back decades before the "war" actually started. If you want to learn more about the events and mind-sets that precede a conflict and that propel a conflict along, these are two good books to read.
Finished re-reading a great book, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam. Korea seems to get the short shrift by the military history writers and The Coldest Winter really helps fill that gap. And don't say "well, the Korean War had M*A*S*H" because that is wrong. The movie (and, really, the series) depicted the VIETNAM war. 
When the movie was made, the makers didn't feel that putting such a film about a currently-running war would be a smart thing to do. So, they made the on-screen war set in Korea. But this film came out in 1970. No one was fooled about which war was the target of the satire...BTW: Halberstam also wrote one of the best books about how the US got embroiled in the Vietnam conflict - The Best and the Brightest. Most folks don't realize that our involvement in Vietnam goes back decades before the "war" actually started. If you want to learn more about the events and mind-sets that precede a conflict and that propel a conflict along, these are two good books to read.
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