Columbian Exchange Essay 7th Grade Due Friday October 28, 2011

In which ways would your life and diet be different if we did not have the Columbian Exchange? Which goods did you benefit most from? Explain your answer in a well written explanatory essay, be sure to use information learned from the Great Exchange.

Chapter 2 Sections 2 and 3 Homework Due Thursday October 27, 2011 (8th Grade Assignment)

Read pages 39- 42, Copy and Answer Questions 1-3 on page 42.
Read pages 44-47, Copy and Answer Questions 1-4 on page 47.

Vocabulary Quiz #2 Chapter 2 Thursday October 27, 2011

All classes will be quizzed on terms from Chapter 2. All terms are up at http://www.quizlet.com/. My username is mets2011. Good luck be sure to study.

7th Grade Homework Due: Monday October 17, 2011

1. Read Pgs. 43-45, Copy and Answer 1-3 on pg. 45

2. Read   Pgs. 46-51, Copy and Answer 1-3 on pg. 51  

3. Read  Pgs. 52-57, Copy and Answer 1-4 on pg. 57 

8th Grade Homework Due Thursday October 13, 2011

Read pages 34-38 in your textbooks. Copy and Answer Questions 1-4 on page 38. Due Thursday October 13, 2011.

Test #1 All Classes

Test #1 will be administered on Thursday October 20, 2011 for Classes 801 and 822.
Test #1 will be administered on Friday October 21, 2011 for Classes 804, 831 and 722.
Test #1 will consist of 20 multiple choice questions worth 80 points and one constructed response essay worth 20 points.
Test #1 will cover The Transcontinental railroad, Westward Expansion, Life on the Plains and The Second industrial Revolution (Chapters 1 and Chapter 2 Section !.) Grade 8.
Test #1 will cover The Great Migration, Early civilizations in the Americas, Native American Cultural Areas and European Exploration. (Chapters 1 and 2.) Grade 7.   

DBQ Essays- Final Draft Due-Monday, October 3, 2011 All CLASSES

You must hand in your packets, rough draft and final draft of all essays.

Vocabulary Quiz #1

All classes will be quized on vocabulary terms from chapter 1.

Thursday September 22, 2011 (801,822)
Friday September 23, 2011 (722,804,831)

Chapter 1 Homework Due Thursday September 22, 2011 (822,801) Due Friday September 23, 2011 (722,804,831)

8th Grade- Read pages

1. 6-12, copy and answer 1-4 on page 12.
2. 13-18, copy and answer 1-3 on page 18.
3. 20-25, copy and answer 103 on page 25.

7th Grade- Read pages

1. 6-9, copy and answer 1-3 on page 9.
2. 10-15, copy and answer 1-4 on page 15.
3. 22-27, copy and answer 1-4 on page 27.

Response to 9/11 Debate

Write a one page persuasive response that answers the following:

1. Should 9/11 be a national day of rememberance?
2. Has life changed in the decade since 9/11/01?

7th Grade Vocabulary Terms Unit 1 chs1-4

Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms

Chapter 1

1. Bering Land Bridge
2. Paleo-Indians
3. migration
4. hunter-gatherers
5. environments
6. culture
7. pueblos
8. kivas
9. totems
10. teepees
11. matrilineal
12. Iroquois League
13. Berbers
14. Mansa Musa
15. hajj
16. mosques
17. Askia the Great
18. Socrates
19. Plato
20. Aristotle
21. reason
22. democracy
23. knights
24. Black Death
25. Michelangelo
26. Leonardo da Vinci
27. Johannes Guttenberg
28. joint-stock companies
29. develop
30. classical

Chapter 2

1. Leif Eriksson
2. Henry the Navigator
3. astrolabe
4. caravels
5. Christopher Columbus
6. Line of Demarcation
7. Treaty of Tordesillas
8. Ferdinand Magellan
9. circumnavigate
10. Columbian Exchange
11. conquistadors
12. Hernan Cortes
13. Moctezuma
14. Francisco Pizarro
15. encomienda system
16. plantations
17. Bartolome de Las Casas
18. Protestant Reformation
19. Protestants
20. Spanish Armada
21. Northwest Passage
22. Jaques Cartier
23. charter
24. immune
25. Middle Passage
26. African Diaspora
27. effect
28. structure

Chapter 3

1. Jamestown
2. John Smith
3. Pocahaontas
4. indentured servants
5. Bacon’s Rebellion
6. Toleration Act of 1649
7. Olaudah Eqiano
8. slave codes
9. Puritans
10. Pilgrims
11. immigrants
12. Mayflower Compact
13. Squanto
14. John Winthrop
15. Anne Hutchinson
16. Peter Stuyvesant
17. Quakers
18. William Penn
19. staple crops
20. town meeting
21. English Bill of Rights
22. triangular trade
23. Great Awakening
24. Jonathan Edwards
25. Enlightening
26. John Locke
27. Pontiac
28. Samuel Adams
29. Committees of Correspondence
30. Stamp Act of 1765
31. Boston Massacre
32. Tea Act
33. Boston Tea Party
34. Intolerable Acts
35. Quartering Act
36. authority
37. factors

Chapter 4

1.      First Continental Congress

2.      Patriots

3.      minutemen

4.      Redcoats

5.      Second Continental Congress

6.      George Washington

7.      Battle of Bunker Hill

8.      Commom Sense

9.      Thomas Paine

10.  Declaration of Independence

11.  Thomas Jefferson

12.  Loyalists

13.  mercenaries

14.  Battle of Trenton

15.  Battle of Saratoga

16.  Marquis de Lafayette

17.  Treaty of Paris of 1783

18.  reaction

19.  strategy

9/11 DEBATE HOMEWORK ( ALL CLASSES) DUE MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

FOCUS QUESTION:

SHOULD SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 BE A NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBERANCE?

YOUR TASK IS TO RESEARCH ABOUT THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, AS WELL AS ITS AFTERMATH. SPECIFICALLY LOOK AT POSSIBLE CAUSES AS WELL AS RESPONSES TO THE ATTACKS. HOW HAS LIFE CHANGED AS A RESULT OF THOSE ATTACKS?

YOU MUST BRING IN NOTES SO THAT YOU CAN BACK UP YOUR BELIEFS.

** YOU MAY INTERVIEW PEOPLE AS WELL. YOU MUST HAVE A TRANSCRIPT OF QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS!

Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms Grade 8 (Chapters 1-3)

UNIT 1 VOCABULARY

CHAPTER 1

1. Frontier
2. Comstock Lode
3. boomtowns
4. Cattle Kingdom
5. cattle drive
6. Chisholm Trail
7. Pony Express
8. transcontinental railroad
9. Treaty of Fort Laramie
10. reservations
11. Crazy Horse
12. Treaty of Medicine Lodge
13. buffalo soldiers
14. George Armstrong Custer
15. Sitting Bull
16. Battle at the Little Bighorn
17. Massacre at Wounded Knee
18. Long Walk
19. Geronimo
20. Ghost Dance
21. Sarah Winnemucca
22. Dawes General Allotment Act
23. Homestead Act
24. Morrill act
25. Exodusters
26. sodbusters
27. dry farming
28. Annie Bidwell
29. National Grange
30. deflation
31. William Jennings Bryan
32. Populist Party
33. establish
34. facilitate

CHAPTER 2

1. Second Industrial Revolution
2. Bessemer Process
3. Thomas Edison
4. patents
5. Alexander Graham Bell
6. Henry Ford
7. Wilbur Wright
8. Orville Wright
9. corporations
10. Andrew Carnegie
11. vertical integration
12. John D. Rockefeller
13. horizontal integration
14. trust
15. Leland Stanford
16. social Darwinism
17. monopoly
18. Sherman Antitrust Act
19. Frederick W. Taylor
20. Knights of Labor
21. Terence V. Powderly
22. American Federation of Labor
23. Samuel Gompers
24. collective bargaining
25. Mary Harris Jones
26. Haymarket Riot
27. Homestead strike
28. Pullman strike
29. implement
30. acquire

CHAPTER 3

1. old immigrants
2. new immigrants
3. steerage
4. benevolent societies
5. tenements
6. sweatshops
7. Chinese Exclusion Act
8. mass transit
9. suburbs
10. mass culture
11. Joseph Pulitzer
12. William Randolph Hearst
13. department stores
14. Frederick Law Olmsted
15. Jacob Riis
16. settlement houses
17. Jane Addams
18. Hull House
19. Florence Kelley
20. advocate
21. factor