Timeline

Students will be creating a timeline of events leading up to The American Revolutionary War.  The students have the rest of the week in class to work on it.  Attached below is the rubric.

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/spreadsheets/d/1oSI_Xb5Rn_pwNl7f3FXbRurGYJDriK3D0YJJMjfR1Sc/edit?usp=sharing

Acts and Events of The Revolutionary War Flow Chart

Flow Chart Link:

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/drawings/d/1lYko8e3VpabnVP8_u_dGkX6Z1gjEg5mqxp_pVxyxL_4/edit?usp=sharing

Quizlet

Quizlet for the test on Monday.

http://quizlet.com/_115io8

There will be a quiz on Monday, Dec 15 on the events leading up to The American Revolutionary War.  Below are the terms that will be quizzed.

Boston Massacre					Parliament
Boston Tea Party					Proclamation of 1763
Coercive Act/Intolerable Acts					Quartering Act
Committees of Correspondence					Quebec Act
Currency Act
Daughters of Liberty					Sons of Liberty
Declaratory Act					Stamp Act
First Continental Congress					Sugar Act
French and Indian War					Tea Act
Iron Act					Townshend Act
King Phillip's War					Treaty of Paris 1763
Molasses Act					Woolen Act
Navigation Acts

Students are working on the understanding the causes of The American Revolution.  Starting tomorrow, the students will be working on a project where they will create an iTrailer to get people to want to fight in a war for independence.  Below is a link to the notes in case a student needs them.

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/document/d/1npgdP5cpevEOc7CpbkssihYlVB09dwk1T_42EpfQG-Q/edit?usp=sharing

Work for the Week of Nov 24-25

Students will need to complete the following work:

1. Students need to write a paragraph on 3 ways that modern weapons would have changed war in the 1700's. Due Date Dec 1

2. In the Scholastic Current Events Magazines, students will answer the questions on both sides of the sheet.  Due Date Dec 12

3. Extra Credit Current Event from an article in the magazine.  Due Date Dec 12

Triangle Trade

Due for Monday:
Want/Need T-Chart
Trading sheet from Triangle Trade
Paragraph-What are the 2 easiest and 2 hardest parts about The Triangle Trade Economy?

Veteran's Day Assignment

FOR FRIDAY!!! PLEASE TALK TO RELATIVES AND FIND OUT WHO FOUGHT IN OUR ARMED SERVICES (ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, MARINES, COAST GUARD, NATIONAL GUARD)

1. NAME OF PERSON

2. RELATIONSHIP TO YOU

3. BRANCH OF MILITARY

4. YEARS OF SERVICE (WAR THEY MAY HAVE FOUGHT IN)

5. OTHER INTERESTING INFO.

Veteran's Day Unit

This is a reminder to turn-in The Veteran's Day permission slip form by tomorrow if your child(ren) want to participate in watching the movies that shaped our history.  If you have not gotten the form, one is attached below.

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/document/d/1_Dd_RqePpXchgWRJfdqjuvgv2y7Fj8LQgneJ2O4Cef0/edit?usp=sharing

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

Research Paper

This is a reminder that your paper needs to be shared with me by midnight tonight and I need the rubric turned into the basket.  Make sure that you paper says FINAL DRAFT in the title so that I know I can grade it.

Research Paper-5 W's/H

Here are the questions that should be answered for each of the 3 topics of the research paper:

Who

Event

Who is involved in this event?

Person

Who is this person-background on them?

Document

Who wrote/spoke this document?

What

Event

What is this event/describe what took place.

Person

What did this person do to make them famous?

Document

What did/does this document do?

When

Event

What date/dates that this event took place?

Person

When did this person live and when did they do something important?

Document

The date was this document written/spoken?

Where

Event

Where did this event take place?

Person

Where did this person live/do what they did to make them famous?

Document

Where was this document written/spoke?

Why

Event

Why did America participate in this event/why did it take place?

Person

Why is this person so memorable?

Document

Why was this written?

How

Event

How does this event affect American History?

Person

How does this person affect American History?

Document

How does this document affect American History?

Research Paper

Today, students will complete the research on their 3 topics so that they can start writing/typing tomorrow. The rough draft of their 3 body paragraphs is due on Monday, Sept 22.

Research Paper

Today, students picked out their topics for the research paper that will be done in Comm Arts/Social Studies.  The students do not have to research outside of school, but if they do, they will have more work time in class to type.  

Goal Setting

Today and Monday, the students will be working on setting their yearly goals.  When they are not meeting with me, they will be working on finding topics for their research paper.

9/11

Today, students took the Continents and Oceans Quiz.  After the completion of the test, we had a discussion and watched the news reports from 9/11.  No homework was given out.

US Map

Today, students will label a US Map that will be used throughout the year.  They also have an opportunity to earn some extra credit by working on a US Capitals latitude and longitude sheet.  Tomorrow is also the continents and oceans quiz.  The word bank is on Monday's blog post.

Lat/Long

Today, students worked on latitude and longitude.  Students have a work sheet to complete for class tomorrow.

No homework today, the students presented their America Mean's Poster to the class.  We also started the read aloud Nothing But The Truth by Avi.  On Thursday, Sept 11, students will have a quiz on the continents, oceans and major lines of latitude and longitude.  The word list is below:

Africa                                               

Antarctica

Asia              

Australia

Arctic Ocean                     

Antarctic Ocean              

Atlantic Ocean

Europe

North America

South America

Pacific Ocean

Indian Ocean

Equator  

International Date Line  

Prime Meridian   

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic Of Capricorn

America Means

Today, students will start creating their "America Means" poster and it will be presented to the class on Monday, September 8.  The rubric for the poster is below.

AMERICA MEANS POSTER

You will be creating a poster that displays IN PICTURES of what America means to you.  You are able to use any materials necessary (Limit of 5 computer generated graphics – you must have cite where you found your pictures) to include on the poster.  You WILL have time in class to work on the poster.

REQUIREMENTS:

1)                  YOU MUST CREATE A LIST OF WORDS, PHRASES AND IDEAS THAT COME TO YOUR MIND WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD AMERICA.

2)                MUST HAVE A MINIMUM OF 15 SYMBOLS TO REPRESENT WHAT YOU THINK AMERICA MEANS.  MORE IS OK.  YOU ALSO NEED WORDS TO EXPLAIN EACH SYMBOL.

3)                MUST BE COLORFUL/APPEALING TO LOOK AT.

4)               MUST HAVE THE WORDS “AMERICA MEANS…” READABLE/NOTICEABLE ON THE POSTER.

5)                MUST HAVE A FULL HEADING ON THE BACK.

6)               MUST PUT FORTH GREAT EFFORT… YOUR ARTISTIC ABILITIES WILL NOT BE JUDGED NOR GRADED. YOU WILL BE GRADED ON a) following the requirements and b) effort.

Rubric for America Means…

Content and Quality

·       Poster shows at least 15 different “meanings”     15 points          _____

·       Poster has title “America Means…”                                3 points _____

·       Poster has proper heading on the back                         2 points        _____

·       Poster is done neatly and shows good use of color       5 points         _____

·       Words are used and spelled correctly                             5 points _____

                                                                     Final Grade         _____ / 30

  

Welcome to the 2014-15 school year.  This blog will be used to update you on homework, tests and classroom activities. For tomorrow, students need to have the expectations and technology sheets signed, as well as the 2 paragraph assignment completed. The first paragraph is on 3 likes of previous social studies classes, the other on 3 dislikes of previous social studies classes.

Vocabulary List for the test on Monday, June 2.

Abolitionist

Adams-Onis Treaty

Alamo

Battle of New Orleans

California

Compromise of 1850

Dred Scott

Embargo Act

Florida

Fredrick Douglass

Fugitive Slave Act

Gadsen Purchase

Harriet Tubman

Hartford Convention

Indian Removal Act

John Brown

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Manifest Destiny

Mexican War

Missouri Compromise

Monroe Doctrine

Nat Turner

Nationalism

Nullification Act

Oregon

Popular Sovereignty

Republican

Sectionalism

Seneca Falls

Tariff

Temperance Movement

Texas

Trail of Tears

Treaty of Ghent

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Uncle Tom's Cabin

War of 1812

Washington DC

Flash cards to help you study for the Era Quizzes.

Era 1

http://quizlet.com/_cwpdz

Era 2

http://quizlet.com/_pss1p

Era 3

http://quizlet.com/_pstus

Era 4

http://quizlet.com/_ptzhz

Era 5

http://quizlet.com/_pu0j7

Era 6

http://quizlet.com/_pu4w6

Extra Credit Current Event-Due Friday, May 30th by 3:00 P.M.

Students need to find a current event not talked about in class and answer the following questions in a complete sentence(s).  Please do this in a Google Doc and share with me when it is completed.

Who is involved in the current event?

What was the current event talking about?

When did this event take place?

Where did this event take place?

Why is this event important?

How does this effect you?

Please put the hyperlink to the story on the Google Doc.

What to do to finish and turn in your paper:

1. When you are done with the first draft:
1. Make a copy of your Google Doc and call it Revision
2. Get classmates to proofread the paper.
1. Each classmate should put their revisions in a different color
2. Have 3 proofreaders.

     iii. When all this is done

      1. Make the changes to the first draft

                                  2. Turn it into turnitin.com
I. The paper should be turned in under the Pre-Civil War Assignment