Lindsay Lohan Arrest Warrant Issued Actor Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan Arrest Warrant Issued Actor Lindsay Lohan could be sent back to jail if judge rules she violated terms of probation A warrant for the arrest of Lindsay Lohan was issued today after the actor admitted failing a drug test. The Mean Girls star faces a hearing on Friday that will determine whether she has violated her probation and, if so, whether she will be sent back to jail.

Barack Obama Becomes the 44 th President of the United States Barack Obama, a 47 -year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States. A crowd of nearly a quarter-million jammed Grant Park and the surrounding area in Chicago, where Obama addressed the nation for the first time as its president-elect at midnight ET. Hundreds of thousands more — Mayor Richard Daley said he would not be surprised if a million Chicagoans jammed the streets — watched on a large television screen outside the park.

Do Now: Which one of these events is more likely to be in a history textbook 100 years from now? Why?

History Is:

Aim: Why do we study history?

Primary Sources Written or recorded by a person who was actually at an event Can be a letter, journal, or any other document that comes from that time It can be a letter, or even a drawing that comes from a wall of a cave Needs to come from someone WHO WAS THERE

Secondary Sources Has information about a historical event, written by someone who was NOT there at the time Could be history textbook, a book written by someone who was not there at the event Could be someone who recorded the memories of someone who was at the event

Primary or Secondary? #1 – A letter from Queen Victoria to her husband Albert

Primary or Secondary? #2 – A textbook called “A Brief History of Early Europe”

Primary or Secondary? #3 – Ancient cave drawings made by humans thousands of years ago

Primary or Secondary? #4 – The original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation (a famous law) written by Abraham Lincoln

Primary or Secondary? #5 – An original map of Ancient Greece

Primary or Secondary? #6 – A drawing of a Viking ship made by a Viking expert