Tuesday, October 9

Good morning!

Today we will finish working on the 13 colonies and similarities/differences of the New England, Middle (Breadbasket) and Southern colonies

Current Events
Hurricane Michael takes aim at Florida peninsula - CNN

NR's Francis Vargas LoHud's Scholar-Athlete of Week - LoHud

Gov. Cuomo - "Limo that crashed shouldn't have been on road" - THR

Interpol demands answers from China about its' missing president - NYT

Today in History

1635

Religious dissident and Rhode Island founder, Roger Williams, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• 1888

  For the first time the public was admitted to the Washington Monument.

• 1930

  Aviator Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a solo transcontinental flight across the United States.

• 1967

  Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia.

• 1975

  Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end the nuclear arms race.