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.