Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Questions for your Journal


10. What type of government will you have?
    1. Democracy or other-explain
11. Check the reasons why you came to America explain-more information will result in more people coming (Could be any below or something else)
  1. Better living environment
    1. Religious Freedom
    2. Say in the government
    3. Land ownership
12. Militia (people protect the town) or Army
  1. If you have an army, who is paying for it?
13. Landownership(age, gender and other rules)
14. Voting (age, gender and other rules)
15. How will you communicate with the King (letters, person sailing to England, you are not)?
16. What is the Latitude and Longitude of your town?
17 How close are you to fresh water and a port?
18 What is the purpose of the colony (How will you make money)? Explain.
  1. Hunt
  2. Mine
  3. Farm
  4. Port
19. What will the work week be like
  1. Is there a day for worship?
  2. What is the currency that will be used?
20. Slavery?
  1. Is it allowed?
  2. How will you get them?
  3. How do you pay the workers?
21. What types of religion are you allowing (you cannot put all)
22. What are you doing for fun?
23. Marriage
24. Age
25. What customs will be celebrated?
26. School
  1. Subjects
  2. Attendance
  3. Discipline
  4. Teachers
27. What type of transportation will you use?

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

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Laws to Consider

Below are laws your town might want to consider having for the safety of the people:


Abuse
Assault
Clothing
Discrimination
Drinking
Drugs
Language
Murder
Personal Property
Rape
Religion
Schooling
Slavery
Smoking
Stealing
Taxes
Trade
Trespassing
Vandalism
Weapons
Work Hours (Amount per day/week)

Work to Complete

In order, here are the things that should be done today in class:

Finish-up Colony Laws (Group)
Purchase Building for your town (Group)
     Put on both the ledger and in your Journal (Journal Entry 8)
Map out your town (Individual)
Mines (Group)
State of the Union EC (Individual)

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

EC State of the Union

Students can either watch or read about tonight's State of the Union Address and write an extra credit paragraph on the speech.  It should include 1 introduction sentence, 3 things President Obama talked about and what he is going to do (6 sentences total) and 1 concluding sentence.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Thirteen Colonies

New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

Colony Spreadsheet

Below is the link to the spreadsheet to use to add and subtract your purchases.

https://docs.google.com/a/pulaskischools.org/spreadsheets/d/15gPrZuM3eEgf7Rhi65uKd4RpgId_7J4NvTKgM3rTEGs/edit?usp=sharing