Essay Test Questions

Test questions for Nov. 3, 2014.  Students will get 2, but they will not know which ones until class starts.

1.      The American Colonies were started for 2 main reasons-money and/or religion.  Choosing 1 of the 2, give 3 reasons why money or religion were so important and describe why.

2.      Farming was essential to the survival of the colonies.   Give 3 reasons why farming was so important and explain each example.

3.      The 3 regions (New England, Middle and South) were similar in many ways.  Pick 3 ways and describe each.

4.      The 3 regions (New England, Middle and South) were different in many ways.  Pick 3 ways and describe each.

Final Test

The final test for The US Colonies is now on Monday, November 3.  The essays questions will be posted tomorrow-students will need to do 2 of 4 in class, but they will not know which ones.

Southern Colonies Notes

Today we will be studying The Southern Colonies, the notes are below.
Tomorrow students will take the WKCE Test in Science and Social Studies, so they will not have class.
Wednesday, we will have a mini-quiz and then finish up the Southern Colonies.
Thursday will be the review for the final test on the colonies.
Friday will be the test.  Questions will be posted on the blog by Thursday.


https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/document/d/1GKScmDu9PlPMK-eeIMVRhGrbHnwsbj75LzCCWJVfVoY/edit?usp=sharing

For next week

Reminder that the Final Test for The Colonies Unit is next week Friday as well as the rough draft of The Colony Map and The Current Event.

Journal Questions 21-25

21.   What customs will be celebrated?

22.        School 

a. Subjects

b. Attendance

c. Discipline

d. Teachers

23.        What type of transportation will you use?

24.        What is the communication between colonies going to be?

25.        How close are you to fresh water and a port?

Student Survey

A link to the survey Block A and any other student who wants to can take.

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/forms/d/1GVBpfK8EzHGSLvze9bR7QACv8HMTBpWIUF2T2jOrCjA/viewform

Conferences tonight

I will be working the PHS Boy's Soccer Regional tonight, so I will only be able to conference with you from 3:30-6:10.  If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at tcsarosiek@pulaskischools.org

Middle Colony Notes

Below is the link for The Middle Colony Notes (the first link).  A reminder that the grid for The Middle Colonies is found in the middle of The England Grid notes and also in the second link below.

Colony Life

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/document/d/1YX1JmsPUCpsKOtEDOZBzYWzH9YEIyCeNrwmcIg0OFpc/edit?usp=sharing

Grid

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/document/d/1-mBZGylBkeUzotVjm-AODFcl8imbLS06LV3Z5LioZ7U/edit?usp=sharing

New England Colonies

Today is the last day of The New England Colonies.  The students will have a paragraph for homework on 3 ways that The New England Colonies were similar or different (choosing only 1 side) to England.  There is also going to be a mini-quiz(pop quiz) tomorrow for most classes.

Journal Questions 10-10

17.   Slavery?

a. Is it allowed?

b. How will you get them?

c. How do you pay the workers?

Society

18.        What types of religion are you allowing (you cannot put all)

19.        What are you doing for fun?

20.        Marriage

a. Age

Colonies Mini Quiz

For the next few weeks, students will have mini quizzes on the colonization of North America.  They do not know what days these will be (it will change in every class), so they should be reviewing every night the notes posted on the blog for the different settlements.

New journal questions

13.   What is the Latitude and Longitude of your town?

Economy

14.        What is the purpose of the colony (How will you make money)? Explain.

a. Hunt

b. Mine

c. Farm

d. Port

15.        What will the work week be like

a. Is there a day for worship?

16.        What is the currency that will be used?

New England Notes

Grid

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/document/d/1-mBZGylBkeUzotVjm-AODFcl8imbLS06LV3Z5LioZ7U/edit?usp=sharing

Notes

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/document/d/1JCixzh3674RqBHtjeLqkMbKCnF_yEjtwekhrD5cLJ4M/edit?usp=sharing

Journal Entries for Journey to America First Check-Off

Ride Over

Create a list of 25 goods from the 2000’s to bring on a journey

a.  Circle the items found in 1600’s-add other items to make 25

Fill a chest with 25 items

Start-up

1.   What colony are you going to?

2.   What is the ship name?

3.   What is in the 10 barrels you are bringing?

4.   What are the jobs of your group?

5.   What happened on the ship ride over?

Set-up

Set-up

6.   What are your colony laws?

7.   What type of government will you have?

a. Democracy or other-explain

8. Check the reasons why you came to America explain-more information will result in more people coming (Could be any below or something else)

a. Better living environment

a. Religious Freedom

b. Say in the government

c. Land ownership

9.   Militia (people protect the town) or Army

a.  If you have an army, who is paying for it?

10.        Landownership(age, gender and other rules)

11.        Voting (age, gender and other rules)

12.        How will you communicate with the King (letters, person sailing to England, you are not)?

Colony Mines

Below is the money you will receive for finding mines:

Mines
Platinum	5000
Gold	2500
Diamond	1000
Opal	500
Emerald	500
Ruby	500
Iron	250
Marble	250
Silver	250
Amethyst	250
Coal	250
Copper	250
Garnet	250
Nickel	250
Sapphire	250
Topaz	250
Bronze	250
Granite	250
Beryl	250
Quartz	250
Tin	250
Titanium	250
Feldspar	250
Manganese	250
Zinc	250
Other	100

Ship ride

This week we started the ship ride to America.  The students created a list of items to take to the new world, packed barrels full of supplies and found out about the perils of voyages across the ocean.  For Monday, the students need to create a journal entry on things that happened to people on the voyage.  Below is a list of things that happened to people.

Bitten by a rat on the ship.
death
sea-sickness
waves
vomiting
scurvy
dysentery- severe diarrhea associated with blood in the feces
Storms
Cold weather
boils- inflammation of hair follicles, thus resulting in the localized accumulation of pus
Pirates have attacked and taken your supplies
Fever
Childbirth
Lost a member who was in the Crow's Nest
Lack of wind
cancer Come from old and sharply salted food and meat
Water-sea water
constipation
Cracked main beam
You break a bone and need an amputation with no medicine
fumes
whole biscuit there the size of a dollar full of red worms and spiders' nests.
Belongings were drenched with sea water and ruined
2 feet width and 6 feet length in the bedstead-heat
headache
Lice
stench
Water (lack of) often very black, thick and full of worms
scurvy A day's activities might be as follows: 1.Wake up, put away the bedding 2.Prayers 3.Breakfast 4.In good weather, activities like reading, games, exercise on deck 5.Cooking by the women in good weather 6.Dinner (noon meal) 7.Activities similar to the morning 8.Supper 9.Prayers 10.    Sleep