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!