Hope everyone had an awesome weekend filled with fun activities!
Today we had our usual daily announcements. Don't forget to bring your SWEN articles for the contest!
Also, at 1:04 we had a quiz on Chapter 6, Section 1. We went over the answers and learned about Rockefeller, an oil baron who still owns large shares of oil companies today. Or, I should say, his family does. Rockefeller is long dead. Even so, he was "the richest person who owned the oil industry" (Minji Seong) because he used manipulative methods to get around in the business world, tricking people into giving him larger and larger shares until he basically had control of their companies. Eventually the people got tired of him, so he split his companies but kept a foot in each one. His family is still doing so today, and making a hefty profit I'm sure.
At 1:19 we learned about the Trans-Atlantic cable which was a "cable through ocean [used] to communicate." (Ivan Dextre)
At 1:20, we learned the "assembly line [is used to] mak[e] the same product." (Moira Camacho)
The rest of the day was spent working on our Industrial Revolution Group projects. Presentations start tomorrow! Get it done guys!
-I
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