Change in Tutoring Schedule - This Week Only!

Students, This week tutoring will be held on Monday from 2:45 to 3:30 and on Friday from 2:30 to 3:30. There will be no tutoring in my classroom on Wednesday.

Keynote Presentation Assignment

As a reminder, here are the requirements for the seventh grade presentations

• presentations are done individually, not in groups
• topics are related to class topics (or topics from other classes) and approved by Mr. Eddy
• minimum of ten slides
• must use transitions and builds (not necessary on every slide)
• must be academic/professional in style
• spoken presentation must last between two and five minutes
• due on October 1st, with possibility of extra credit if ready to present on September 28th

Here is the slideshow we watched on avoiding bad presentation:

Death by PowerPoint from Alexei Kapterev

End of War

Here are the questions on the end of the Revolutionary War. If you did not finish these in class, please finish them at home.

• Winning what battle ensured the Americans would win the Revolutionary War? (hint: it is the last major battle of the war)
• What treaty ended the war?
• How did the American Revolution inspire other revolutions?

Revolutionary War Questions

Read 150-157

Choose four of the following six questions and answer them (like a scholar? of course)

“How did Bunker Hill change British expectations about the war?”

“Who was Thomas Paine and what did he do?”

“What does the preamble to the Declaration of Independence state?”

“Why was the Battle of Saratoga a turning point?”

“What was guerrilla warfare and why was it effective?”

“What might have happened if the French had not allied with the colonists in the Revolutionary War?”

I will check for this work tomorrow.

Jeans Day Tomorrow!

WOOOOO-HOOOO!

Binder Due This Friday

Here is the inventory for your American History Binder due this Friday:

Notes

Homework/Classwork

History, Why Bother?

Questions on European Influence on Founding

2.1 “Steps Towards...”

13 Colonies Questions

Sinners in the Hands...

Proclamation of 1763

Stamp Act Responses

Gaspee Affair Questions

Questions 138-141

Tests/Quizzes

Tally of Online Quiz Scores (with date of quiz, score, and grade)

Quiz One

Pop Quiz

Projects/Presentations

Current Events 8/24

Current Events 9/7

Map/Miscellaneous

Colonial Map (extra credit only -- see blog)

Extra Credit Map Assignment for American History

Download and print out this Colonial Map 1776 here. (I will have limited quantities available in my room.)

You need to find and accurately label the following places on the map:

• Virginia
• Massachusetts 
• New Hampshire
• Connecticut
• Rhode Island
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Maryland
• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey 
• New York
• Delaware
• Georgia

You also need to color-code the colonies (either with shading or outlining) by region; the four New England colonies together, the four Middle colonies together, and the five Southern colonies together.

Also label:

• Boston
• New York City
• Philadelphia
• Mississippi River
• and three other colonial-era places of your choice (cities, ranges, bodies of water, etc)

Place this in the Maps/Miscellaneous section of your binder and turn in on Friday

This Week in American History Class...

REMEMBER!

Your timeline project is DUE TOMORROW.

The last day your missing work will be accepted for credit is THIS WEDNESDAY (by 4:00)

You have a Current Events Presentation (election-related) THIS FRIDAY.

Your complete binders are due THIS FRIDAY.

History Quiz

Technology Quiz

Piper Plagiarism Incident

Here are the questions you need to answer. Here is the article.

What happened at Piper?

Why did the original punishment get changed?

Why were teachers and some parents upset about the change?

Do you think the punishment should have been changed? Why or why not?

What do you think should have been done with the students who plagiarized?

Do you think the students had enough warning before it happened about what plagiarism is and the consequences?

In-Class Plagiarism Work Due

In case you forgot, dear technology students, please remember to send me your completed worksheet/charts on the plagiarism-connected articles that you discussed in your groups the past few days.

Steps to Revolution Timeline Project

Here are the criteria for your timeline project:

• must be on unlined paper (do not try and complete it on a single sheet of regular paper, it will not work) or a Keynote or a slideshow (if you have an idea for an alternate way of presenting the information, please get it approved by me)
• you need all seventeen events (see below) on your timeline in chronological order by month and year
• you need at least fifteen appropriate illustrations (do not use watermarked or pixellated pictures)
• you need a description of each event (one to three sentences); do not plagiarize your descriptions or you will get a zero on the entire project
• a title for your timeline; do not use the title, 'Timeline'
• be creative and accurate

List of Events:

• Proclamation of 1763
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Stamp Act Congress
• Stamp Act Repeal
• Declaratory Act
• Townshend Acts
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Committee of Correspondence
• Gaspee Affair
• Tea Act
• Boston Tea Party
• Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
• HMS Peggy Stewart Affair
• First Continental Congress
• Second Continental Congress
• Battles of Lexington and Concord

YOUR PROJECT IS DUE ON SEPTEMBER 18TH

Stamp Act Responses

Today in class we reviewed the Proclamation of 1763 and then discussed both the Sugar Act and Stamp Act and how colonists responded.

Using this page and our class discussion, write a thorough response to this question:

What were the different ways that colonists responded to the Stamp Act?

This is due and will be collected tomorrow.

Tutoring is Cancelled This Week

I'm sorry for the late notice, but I need to cancel tutoring this week as I am ill. I may have a second tutoring day next week to make up.

Thank you.

Current Events Due

This Friday, you have your second Current Events Presentation. This week, it must be a news article related to the 2012 Elections (local, state, or nationwide).

Remember to use the Presentation Guide to help you get the best grade possible.

French and Indian War

We are now walking rapidly on the Road to the Revolutionary War. Our stop today was on the French and Indian War and the subsequent Proclamation of 1763. We took a small amount of notes in class and then read the first four pages of Chapter Two, Section Three. In class we answered this question:

What was the Proclamation of 1763? What were its effects? Why did the British pass it? How did the Americans respond and why?

If you were not able to finish that in class, then you need to finish it at home. I will check it tomorrow for points.

Pages Honor Assignment Due this Wednesday

The Honor assignment started last week is due this Wednesday. If you are able to print it out, please do so.

Remember, here are the criteria:

You must use Pages to create a flyer or poster (using any template at all!) to represent honor.

You must have:

• one quote (or more)
• one picture (or more)
• characteristics of honor
• your approved person of honor

Be creative!

You will present your finished product in class starting on Thursday.