Quiz on Church and Society

Quiz on Jacksonian Democracy

State of the Union Assignment

Eighth graders:

You need to read the President's recent State of the Union speech. On a piece of paper, write down the paragraphs in which he discusses or mentions responsibility. There are six or seven. Finally, please write a few paragraphs in which you evaluate or reflect on his discussion of responsibility. You don't have to agree with him politically, but continue the conversation.

PS If you were at Math Counts, you have an extra day.

Extra Credit Opportunity for Eighth Grade History

For extra credit (possibly), answer the following question on a piece of paper and hand it to me:

"Why is it ironic that Andrew Jackson is on the Twenty Dollar Bill?"

Eighth Grade 10-1 Questions

* What was the 'corrupt bargain'?

* What is the 'spoils system'?

* What was the 'Tariff of Abominations', and how did the South respond to it?

* What was the Nullification Crisis and how was it resolved?

Seventh Grade Work

Continuing in our chapter on The Middle Ages, you should finish Chapter Six, Section Three (all Reading Checks, and Section Review Questions One through Six)

Eighth Grade Work

Continuing in Chapter Nine on the South, you should finish the Reading Checks and Section Review Questions One, Two, Four, and Five.

Eighth Grade Work Due Tomorrow

Please finish and turn in Chapter Nine, Section One: all Reading Checks and Section Review, One through Six.

We will have another short presentation assignment coming soon!

Seventh Grade Work Due Tomorrow

Please finish Chapter Six, Section Three: all Reading Checks and One through Six from Section Review.

Soon we will be starting a castle project. Stay tuned!

Writing Assignment on Responsibility

The question on the board was: "In light of King's 'I Have A Dream Speech' and the Dr. Stanley Milgram quote, what is our responsibility in making or country a better place?"

Here is the King speech:


Here is the Milgram quote:
"It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action."

Here is more information on the Milgram experiments.

Early Middle Ages

1800s to 1850s Quiz

Seventh Grade Work

We are continuing with Section Two of Chapter Six: define the Content Vocabulary, answer the Reading Checks, and answer Section Review Two through Six.

Eighth Grade Work

Today in class we continued with Section Two: all Reading Checks, Section Review One, Two, and Four through Six. You have to do number five, but if you put it on a separate page and illustrate it, there is a possibility of extra credit.

Seventh Grade Work

Chapter Six, Section One work (all Reading Checks, Section Review One through Six, and the Then and Now on p 329) will be collected this Friday.

We will have time in class to work on it tomorrow.

Eighth Grade Work This Week

Remember that your presentation on your assigned person is due this Friday. You should cover the basic facts of their life, but focus much more on what your person accomplished, tried to accomplish, and what legacy they left.

The work from Section One of Chapter Eight (all Reading Checks, Section Review One through Five, and the UGS questions from page 386) will be collected on Friday. We will probably have time to work on it in class tomorrow.

Questions for Seventh Grade Assignment

Seventh Graders,

You are to read the following statements about the Middle Ages (roughly 500 to 1400) to two different adults and ask them whether they are true or false. Yes, they can guess! Each of these statements is often believed, used in movies and tv, written in books, used in documentaries, but not all of them are actually true!

+ Thousands of women were burned for being witches in the Middle Ages
+ Bibles were locked up in church so nobody but the priests could read them
+ The poor were always nearly starving in the Middle Ages
+ Peasants’ houses had thatched roofs with animals living in them
+ People took baths once or twice a year
+ Middle Ages Marriages were commonly in the month of June because it was close to the regular bathing time, so people smelled good then
+ Even educated people believed the earth was the center of the universe
+ Even educated people believed the earth was flat

Bring their answers (along with the name or relation of who you asked) in tomorrow on a paper you can turn in. If you did it on your computer, you must either print it out or rewrite it on a paper.

Due tomorrow, Wednesday, January 4th