Mika, Jesse, Danielle looking at a primary source document
from the Truman Library web page<More Classroom photos>
Our research project highlights events in the Truman administration from
November 30, 1948 -December 7, 1948. We attend George Caleb Bingham 7th
Grade Center and are located in Independence, Missouri, the home town of
President Harry S. Truman. We are members of the first class at Bingham
that opened this fall. Our teacher is Ruth Anne Eubanks. In our class we
do a lot of things. We are rather talkative so we like to discuss things
with each other in small groups and with Mrs. Eubanks. We like to do
projects like this one. Mrs. Eubanks gives us help when we need to find
things, most of the time we find stuff on our own. Each day the first
thing we do is our D.O.G. which is Daily Oral Geography. After we check it
each day we begin our assignments. We have done two Truman projects this
year and we have also studied early man and the ancient river civilizations
of Mesopotamia.
Our first research project was to see find out what happened on Truman's
1948 Whistle Stop Campaign which crossed the United States. We visited the
Whistle Stop internet site and research what Truman did to win in 1948. We
learned that Truman traveled around on a train so he could get around
faster and make more speeches. He stood on the back of his train to make
speeches. People came to the train stations to hear President Truman share
his ideas. The people liked Truman because he was a President who spoke to
the working people and was honest. President Truman said, "The Buck Stops
Here!" He said that to let the people know that he was responsible for
anything that happened while he was in the White House as President.
Some people in our class live only a block away from Truman's White House
on Delaware Street near the center of our town Independence, Missouri. We
hope you enjoy reading the facts we have found as we research what happened
during November 30- December 7, 1948.
If you would like to ask us questions or just let us know what you think
about our research email us at
reubanks@indep.k12.mo.us
Thank you for visiting with us on the internet.
Richard, Cassie, Ryan, Brittany, and Ashley
