FEATURED CLASS FOR NOVEMBER 2--NOVEMBER 16:

Students enrolled in American History 101 in Jan Rush's class earn three hours of college credit through the University of Missouri at Kansas City while attending Blue Springs South High School, Blue Springs, Missouri.

In this active classroom students have assumed the role of a Revolutionary War-era leader and explained their "shinning moment" as well as reflecting on errors in judgment. Students in 101 will soon participate in a re-creation of an earlier exciting election campaign as one of the candidates or as a campaign staff member in the 1824 Election between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Students will write campaign speeches, sing their own campaign songs, make campaign ads and create buttons and posters touting their candidate in an effort to gain votes by "treating" their classmates with food - just the way early candidates tried to win the support of their constituents.

Students in American history 101 have an advantage this year conducting research and making presentations. Two computers, hooked up to the internet, have been added to the classroom. Students are able to conduct research, create projects and organize materials as well make power point presentations on computers provided by Project WhistleStop. Students used the classroom computers and the internet to research material for their first Project WhistleStop activity: providing a snapshot of American life Fifty Years Ago to be posted on this website.

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The top songs of the year were:  Twelfth Street Rag  - Pee Wee Hunt,
Manana  - Peggy Lee,     Now is the Hour - Bing Crosby,     Buttons and
Bows - Dinah Shore,       Nature Boy - Nat King Cole,     It's Magic -
Doris Day,       Woody Woodpecker - Kaye Kyser, and     You Call Everybody
Darling - Al Trace.

And here are the prices of some common items in 1948:
       House:                  $13,500.00
       Car:                    $  1,550.00
       Milk:                   $            .86
       Gas:                    $            .20
       Bread:          $         .14
       Postage Stamp:            .03
       Average Income: $  2,854.00

And of course, we all know the president was Harry S. Truman