Due on Monday.
HW: Find an article in which people oppose their government or the ruling authority. Write a one page reaction on what the article is about and any connections you can make to what we are learning now. Be sure to reference the name of the article along with where you found it. See below...
Bosnia
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/world/europe/27bosnia.html?_r=1&ref=world
Russia
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/world/europe/28ingushetia.html?ref=world
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
February 25
Create your own declaration! State what you’re declaring and EXPLAIN why it’s so important. Why should people support you? Why should they sign it? Follow Jefferson’s example of possible.
Example: When in the course of human events...it becomes necessary to remain as healthy as possible. We can reach this goal by practicing proper hygiene in order to keep germs and bacteria at bay. We can also reach this goal by refraining from sticking gum on tabletop surfaces and eating with our mouths closed….
Example: When in the course of human events...it becomes necessary to remain as healthy as possible. We can reach this goal by practicing proper hygiene in order to keep germs and bacteria at bay. We can also reach this goal by refraining from sticking gum on tabletop surfaces and eating with our mouths closed….
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
February 24
Think of something that you'd like to declare, like how the colonists declared independence. What is important to you? (no uniform policy, end homelessness, etc) Bring in your idea tomorrow.
Monday, February 23, 2009
February 23
Make corrections for your test Attach these ON a separate sheet
of paper. Bring in test signed by TOMORROW!
of paper. Bring in test signed by TOMORROW!
Friday, February 13, 2009
February 13
For HW, read an article on any MAJOR EVENT OR STORY that relates to the environment, government, city, etc...... (See below for ideas)
Write a one page reaction on what you read. This would include a brief summary, questions that you might have about the article, connections you can make to what you learned in class, and how you feel about the event.
Be sure to write down the name of the article and where you got it from (Newsweek, NYTimes.com, etc...) Write your responses in your sourcebook.
example of how to start a reaction:
The article that I read was called "U.N. Reports That Taliban Is Stockpiling Opium" from the nytimes.com websit ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/world/middleeast/28opium.html?ref=world). Based on Kirk Kraeutler's findings, Afghanistan has produced an incredible amount of poppy which is what the drug opium is made from. The Taliban, an insurgent group which still control parts of that country, are hoarding raw opium in order to finance their military. Many world organizations have been trying to stamp out international drug trade. However, many poor farmers in Afghanistan depend on growing poppy in order to make a living.
I have several questions about this article. Shouldn't the UN be condemning the international growth and trade of opium. In this case, the money used would be given to support the Taliban, a group that the U.S. has been fighting since 2001 along with Al Qaeda. How worried should our nation be? Though largely illegal, the international drug trade has been very profitable for certain nations and groups that take part. How closely should we monitor the Taliban to ensure they will not be using newly purchased weapons against the U.S.? As for the farmers, is there another crop that they can grow? One that will better sustain their families economically? The content of this article makes me wonder a great deal about whether or not there are tough enough regulations on trading illegal drugs.....
Write a one page reaction on what you read. This would include a brief summary, questions that you might have about the article, connections you can make to what you learned in class, and how you feel about the event.
Be sure to write down the name of the article and where you got it from (Newsweek, NYTimes.com, etc...) Write your responses in your sourcebook.
example of how to start a reaction:
The article that I read was called "U.N. Reports That Taliban Is Stockpiling Opium" from the nytimes.com websit ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/world/middleeast/28opium.html?ref=world). Based on Kirk Kraeutler's findings, Afghanistan has produced an incredible amount of poppy which is what the drug opium is made from. The Taliban, an insurgent group which still control parts of that country, are hoarding raw opium in order to finance their military. Many world organizations have been trying to stamp out international drug trade. However, many poor farmers in Afghanistan depend on growing poppy in order to make a living.
I have several questions about this article. Shouldn't the UN be condemning the international growth and trade of opium. In this case, the money used would be given to support the Taliban, a group that the U.S. has been fighting since 2001 along with Al Qaeda. How worried should our nation be? Though largely illegal, the international drug trade has been very profitable for certain nations and groups that take part. How closely should we monitor the Taliban to ensure they will not be using newly purchased weapons against the U.S.? As for the farmers, is there another crop that they can grow? One that will better sustain their families economically? The content of this article makes me wonder a great deal about whether or not there are tough enough regulations on trading illegal drugs.....
Thursday, February 12, 2009
February 12
See below for another great website on the American Revolution. (Easy to understand and very engaging).
http://www.libertyskids.com/
http://www.libertyskids.com/
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
February 11
Study!! See link for old state tests. Questions WILL be taken from these exams.
http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/scostei/socstudies8.html
Check out this cool PBS site on the American Revolution.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle.html
http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/scostei/socstudies8.html
Check out this cool PBS site on the American Revolution.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle.html
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
February 10
Test: The French and Indian War/American Revolution Part 1 Jan 13, 15 MC questions, 5 ID’s, and 1 DBQ part
Topics covered will be: The French and Indian War, Albany Plan of Union, colonial government and what may have influenced it, Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, British actions after the French and Indian War (Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, etc.) Patriots, Loyalists, taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, Redcoats, Boston Tea Party, monopoly, Intolerable Acts, Continental Congress, Paul Revere, minutemen, Lexington and Concord, propaganda, Thomas Paine – Common Sense
1) One reason the French felt threatened by the British was because
a) Britain returned New England to France
b) the British were skilled fur traders
c) the British wanted land in the Ohio River Valley
d) the French built forts close to the British colonies
2) Which term is used to describe refusal to buy a certain good
a) boycott b) smuggle c) steal d) effigy
3) Why did Benjamin Franklin’s Plan of Union fail?
a) The colonies were unwilling to give up some power to form a union
b) The Iroquois decided to break their confederation up.
c) The French withdrew from the French and Indian War and there was no longer a need for a union.
d) The Iroquois agreed to fight against the French.
4)Why did the British march to Lexington and Concord?
a) to have a meeting with Sam Adams and Paul Revere
b) to announce new tax laws
c) to seize and destroy weapons and seize military leaders
d) to practice marching in formation
5) In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that
a) the colonists should have paid taxes to Britain
b) the war was a struggle for freedom that would affect all mankind
c) it was silly to argue over taxation
d) only when the colonists defeated the British would they be truly free
6) American colonists who supported Britain were called
a) Patriots
b) minutemen
c) Loyalists
d)Separatists
Base your answers to 7 and 8 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies
“The tea was conveyed to her daughter's own door,
All down by the Oceanside.
But the bouncing girl poured out every pound
On the dark and the boiling tide,
On the dark and the boiling tide, on the dark and the boiling tide.
And then she called out to the island queen
"Oh mother, dear mother," called she.
"Your tea you may have when 'tis steeped enough.
But NEVER a tax from me,But NEVER a tax from me, but NEVER a tax from me”
7) What events are described in the passage?
a) Revolutionary War
b) French and Indian War
c) Boston Tea Party
d) War of 1812
8) Who is the Island Queen
a) colonists
b) queen of France
c) Native Americans
d) queen of England
IDENTIFICATIONS
Identify what each term is and explain its historical significance during or after the American Revolution. Answer using COMPLETE sentences.
Boston Tea Party
Proclamation of 1763
French and Indian War
Boston Massacre
Answer the following questions based on the image below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Link to image
http://apus2scott.wikispaces.com/file/view/american_horse_history.jpg
1) What symbol in the cartoon represents the America in this 1779 political cartoon?
2) Who might the rider on the horse represent?
Topics covered will be: The French and Indian War, Albany Plan of Union, colonial government and what may have influenced it, Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, British actions after the French and Indian War (Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, etc.) Patriots, Loyalists, taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, Redcoats, Boston Tea Party, monopoly, Intolerable Acts, Continental Congress, Paul Revere, minutemen, Lexington and Concord, propaganda, Thomas Paine – Common Sense
1) One reason the French felt threatened by the British was because
a) Britain returned New England to France
b) the British were skilled fur traders
c) the British wanted land in the Ohio River Valley
d) the French built forts close to the British colonies
2) Which term is used to describe refusal to buy a certain good
a) boycott b) smuggle c) steal d) effigy
3) Why did Benjamin Franklin’s Plan of Union fail?
a) The colonies were unwilling to give up some power to form a union
b) The Iroquois decided to break their confederation up.
c) The French withdrew from the French and Indian War and there was no longer a need for a union.
d) The Iroquois agreed to fight against the French.
4)Why did the British march to Lexington and Concord?
a) to have a meeting with Sam Adams and Paul Revere
b) to announce new tax laws
c) to seize and destroy weapons and seize military leaders
d) to practice marching in formation
5) In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that
a) the colonists should have paid taxes to Britain
b) the war was a struggle for freedom that would affect all mankind
c) it was silly to argue over taxation
d) only when the colonists defeated the British would they be truly free
6) American colonists who supported Britain were called
a) Patriots
b) minutemen
c) Loyalists
d)Separatists
Base your answers to 7 and 8 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies
“The tea was conveyed to her daughter's own door,
All down by the Oceanside.
But the bouncing girl poured out every pound
On the dark and the boiling tide,
On the dark and the boiling tide, on the dark and the boiling tide.
And then she called out to the island queen
"Oh mother, dear mother," called she.
"Your tea you may have when 'tis steeped enough.
But NEVER a tax from me,But NEVER a tax from me, but NEVER a tax from me”
7) What events are described in the passage?
a) Revolutionary War
b) French and Indian War
c) Boston Tea Party
d) War of 1812
8) Who is the Island Queen
a) colonists
b) queen of France
c) Native Americans
d) queen of England
IDENTIFICATIONS
Identify what each term is and explain its historical significance during or after the American Revolution. Answer using COMPLETE sentences.
Boston Tea Party
Proclamation of 1763
French and Indian War
Boston Massacre
Answer the following questions based on the image below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Link to image
http://apus2scott.wikispaces.com/file/view/american_horse_history.jpg
1) What symbol in the cartoon represents the America in this 1779 political cartoon?
2) Who might the rider on the horse represent?
Monday, February 9, 2009
February 9
1) TEST THIS FRIDAY!!!!
Topics covered will be: The French and Indian War, colonial government and what may have influenced it, Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, British actions after the French and Indian War (Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, etc.) Patriots, Loyalists, taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, Redcoats, Boston Tea Party, monopoly, Intolerable Acts, Continental Congress, Paul Revere, minutemen, Lexington and Concord, propaganda, Thomas Paine – Common Sense
2) Finish assignment from class on Midnight Ride if not already done. See task below along with excerpt from the poem. Here is the link to the map shown in class. http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/virtual.shtml
Task: Think about the poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” If you were to pay homage to his two companions William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott instead, how would you do it? Change the poem to suit what YOU THINK best represents the Midnight Ride.
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1861
LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower, as a signal light,
--One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm."
NOTES FROM CLASS
Intolerable Acts
To punish the Bostonians for tossing British tea into Boston Harbor
1)Parliament closed Boston’s ports
2)The city of Boston had to pay for the tea
3)More troops were sent into Boston
With each passing day, colonists get ready for an armed conflict.
a)The Continental Congress meet and they send a list of complaints to Parliament (they want to repeal 13 Acts and to boycott all British goods_
b) Minutemen were colonial soldiers trained to get ready at a minute’s notice.
Patrick Henry: “Give me Liberty or give me Death!”
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
One if by land, Two if by sea…..
Paul Revere instructed a church employee to hang 2 lanterns in the Old North Church to warn Charlestown, the town across the Charles River that that more British were coming into the city by sea
He then rode into Lexington to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock that they were to be arrested by the British for being leaders of the Sons of Liberty and that all weapons would be seized in the neighboring town of Concord.
Topics covered will be: The French and Indian War, colonial government and what may have influenced it, Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, British actions after the French and Indian War (Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, etc.) Patriots, Loyalists, taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, Redcoats, Boston Tea Party, monopoly, Intolerable Acts, Continental Congress, Paul Revere, minutemen, Lexington and Concord, propaganda, Thomas Paine – Common Sense
2) Finish assignment from class on Midnight Ride if not already done. See task below along with excerpt from the poem. Here is the link to the map shown in class. http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/virtual.shtml
Task: Think about the poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” If you were to pay homage to his two companions William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott instead, how would you do it? Change the poem to suit what YOU THINK best represents the Midnight Ride.
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1861
LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower, as a signal light,
--One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm."
NOTES FROM CLASS
Intolerable Acts
To punish the Bostonians for tossing British tea into Boston Harbor
1)Parliament closed Boston’s ports
2)The city of Boston had to pay for the tea
3)More troops were sent into Boston
With each passing day, colonists get ready for an armed conflict.
a)The Continental Congress meet and they send a list of complaints to Parliament (they want to repeal 13 Acts and to boycott all British goods_
b) Minutemen were colonial soldiers trained to get ready at a minute’s notice.
Patrick Henry: “Give me Liberty or give me Death!”
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
One if by land, Two if by sea…..
Paul Revere instructed a church employee to hang 2 lanterns in the Old North Church to warn Charlestown, the town across the Charles River that that more British were coming into the city by sea
He then rode into Lexington to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock that they were to be arrested by the British for being leaders of the Sons of Liberty and that all weapons would be seized in the neighboring town of Concord.
Paul Revere’s companions on the night of April 18, 1775
-William Dawes
-Dr. Samuel Prescott
The real story: Paul Revere made it as far as Lexington where he, Dawes, and
later on, their co-conspirator Dr. Samuel Prescott were arrested.
Dr. Prescott escaped and rode on to Concord to warn the colonists there that the
British were going to seize their weapons. Soon Dawes and Revere escaped too,
but the Battles at Lexington and Concord had already begun…
Friday, February 6, 2009
February 6
Test next Friday!! 15 multiple choice questions, 5 identifications, and 1 DBQ part.
Topics covered will be: The French and Indian War, colonial government and what may have influenced it, Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, British actions after the French and Indian War (Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, etc.) Patriots, Loyalists, taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, Redcoats, Boston Tea Party, monopoly
Review sheet will be given next week! Make sure you have all your notes and readings.
Topics covered will be: The French and Indian War, colonial government and what may have influenced it, Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, British actions after the French and Indian War (Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, etc.) Patriots, Loyalists, taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, Redcoats, Boston Tea Party, monopoly
Review sheet will be given next week! Make sure you have all your notes and readings.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
February 5
I hope everyone who went on the ski trip enjoyed it.
A NEW TERM HAS STARTED. THIS IS REFLECTED ON TEACHEREASE. The only assignment entered so far is the notebook check. Therefore, if you received a 4, your score will reflect a 100. This will change as more assignments and tests are included.
THIS NEW SCORE DOES NOT REPRESENT THE SCORE YOU WILL RECEIVE ON THE PROGRESS REPORT.
We have a test next Friday on the French and Indian War, colonial governments and how they're influenced and the first part of the American Revolution.
Tomorrow: The Boston Tea Party continued...
A NEW TERM HAS STARTED. THIS IS REFLECTED ON TEACHEREASE. The only assignment entered so far is the notebook check. Therefore, if you received a 4, your score will reflect a 100. This will change as more assignments and tests are included.
THIS NEW SCORE DOES NOT REPRESENT THE SCORE YOU WILL RECEIVE ON THE PROGRESS REPORT.
We have a test next Friday on the French and Indian War, colonial governments and how they're influenced and the first part of the American Revolution.
Tomorrow: The Boston Tea Party continued...
Monday, February 2, 2009
February 2
731: Bring in your notebooks tomorrow. We did not get a chance to do this because of the ELA field test.
On Wednesday.....we will have a British Tea Party.
See below for how to help out:
We need
1) Tableclothes
2) Tea biscuits/cookies
3) napkins
I will provide tea, hot water, milk, sugar, spoons, and cups. The scope and purpose of this activity will be explained tomorrow and on Wednesday.
On Wednesday.....we will have a British Tea Party.
See below for how to help out:
We need
1) Tableclothes
2) Tea biscuits/cookies
3) napkins
I will provide tea, hot water, milk, sugar, spoons, and cups. The scope and purpose of this activity will be explained tomorrow and on Wednesday.
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