Seventh Grade Websites

Here is the site on the Empire of Ghana that we worked with yesterday.

Here is the site on the Anansi stories that you will be working with this week.

Seventh Grade Map of Africa Assignment

Here are the requirements for the Map of Africa assignment we have been working on last week and this week. It is due Friday.

Your map must be in color, must be neat, and ready to display. It needs to have:

• the equator
• North, South, East, and West
• five cities
• three rivers
• the Sahara Desert
• and two of the following:
• trade routes
• migrations of the Bantu
• five empires
• religious diversity of Africa today
• nations of Africa today
• or... (come up with something else and get it approved by me)

I look forward to seeing them!

Questions for Chapter Three, Section Two

• What was Shay's Rebellion, and how did it encourage some to support the Constitutional Convention?
• What were the various proposals for how states would be represented? What was the eventual compromise?
• How was slavery an issue?

You should be able to answer the questions based on your in-class reading and our discussions. I will collect these on Wednesday.

Update for Seventh Grade

Tomorrow the assignment we have been working on in class all week is due (by the end of class); as a reminder, this assignment is from Chapter Three, Section One, and consists of:

• the Reading Checks
• questions Four, Five, and Six from the Section Review
• Map questions from page 211
• Map questions from page 213

We also discussed the map assignment today in class. I will post the details on that soon. The map will not be due until next Friday.

There will NOT be a quiz tomorrow.

History Questions on Articles of Confederation

The first two questions are three and four from the Section Review, the next two were written on the board:

• Draw a diagram to summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the Confederation government.
• Imagine you are on a committee to write a new state constitution. List three freedoms you want attached to your state's constitution. Explain why you believe it is important to guarantee those rights.
• What problems -- internally and externally -- did the states face?
• How did the United States handle expansion into the West?

I am looking for detail and specificity in your answers. I will collect them on Friday.

This Week in Seventh Grade History (October 11th-15)

This week we are finishing our unit on Islam with Tuesday's test and beginning our next unit on the great trading empires of Medieval Africa.

We will likely have some bookwork, take some notes, and have a small quiz on Friday.

Remember that this Friday is a half-day for the SRA Gala. Hope to see you there!

This Week in Eighth Grade History (October 11th-15th)

This week we are looking at the attempts of the newly independent United States of America to form new governments.

We will be doing some bookwork, taking some notes, and having a quiz on Friday.

Remember that this Friday is a half-day for the SRA Gala. Hope to see you there!

Assembly on Friday

Tomorrow is our monthly Awards Assembly. Students, please wear either formal wear or -- for this assembly only -- you may wear western or cowboy attire.

See you there!

This Week in Seventh Grade History (October 3rd-7th)

This week we are finishing up our unit on Islam. This means there will be a test on Friday. We also have our keynote due this Tuesday and another assignment due on Friday. We'll also take some notes and do some review before the test on Friday.

Make sure you are using your time wisely in class and getting things done on time.

The keynote is due tomorrow. The assignment due this Friday is the Chapter Two Assessment, questions One through Eighteen. Students can do number twenty-two or twenty-six for extra credit.

This Week in Eighth Grade History (October 3rd-7th)

This week we are finishing up our unit on the American Revolution. This means there will be a test on Friday! We also have two assignments due this Friday and notes to take this week.

Make sure you are using your time wisely in class and getting things done on time.

The assignments due on Friday are the questions from the Thomas Paine excerpt (passed out in class) and the following questions from the article on James Chalmers' Plain Truth (found here -- only the first page is necessary to answer the questions)

• What was the "wrong thing" that Chalmers did in his reply to Paine?
• With which argument was Chalmers "on firm ground"?
• In what way did the colonial leader John Adams agree with the loyalist Chalmers?

Also due is the Chapter Two assessment on pages 162 and 163, numbers six through sixteen. For extra credit, students may answer number twenty-six in a three-paragraph essay.

Do You Know About The Gala?

The Santa Rosa Academy Gala is soon approaching!

Find information here.

How can you help? Come join us at the Gala! Tickets are available at the above link.

How else can you help? Donate something for our class basket! Find information here.

Class Basket for SRA Gala

Our class is putting together a basket for the Santa Rosa Academy Gala. Every class makes a themed basket which is then auctioned off at the gala to raise funds. This year our theme is the Joy of Ukulele.

What can you do to help?

I would like our basket to include a ukulele, a tuner, a ukulele case, a compact disc or two, perhaps an instructional dvd. Anything ukulele or music-related will be great! If you can donate any of the items or money towards one of those items, it would be fantastic!

Thanks in advance!