Eighth Grade Work - The Road to Civil War

In your composition book, you should have the answers to the following questions:

• When did the Mexican-American War end?
• What treaty ended the war? What did the USA gain?
• Who were the three major candidates in the Election of 1848? What were the electoral college and popular vote results?
• What issue did the third party (not the Whigs or the Democrats) run on?
• Who were the candidates in the Election of 1852? What were the electoral college and popular vote results?

Then you were to read Section One of Chapter Twelve and answer questions one, two, four, and five from the Section Review. I'll check for all tomorrow.

This Week's Current Events Assignment

Here are answers to the most common questions about this week's current events assignment.

When is it due?
You are presenting on Friday. Your written portion is also due in your assignment folder before class starts on Friday.

How long does the spoken part need to be?
To get a passing grade, it needs to be between one minute and two minutes long.

What does the topic need to be on?
This time, any appropriate topic from the past month!

Do we have to do a written summary again?
Yes.

Do we need to highlight terms?
Not this time. You're welcome.

What do we need to do?
You need to have a written summary of your article and the bibliographic citation. You also need to copy-paste the article after the summary and citation.

What format does the citation need to be in?

• Website article: Author's last name, first name. "Article Title." Name of online publication. (Date posted). Date accessed. <Complete URL>.

Can you give an example?

• Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. (16 Aug. 2002). 4 May 2006 <http://alistapart.com/articles/writeliving>.

Mexican-American War Site in Temecula!

Here is a short wkpd article on The Temecula Massacre, part of the Mexican-American War.

And here is a longer article, and here an article from the Native perspective.

And here you can find the actual cemetery site (near Temecula Parkway and Apis Road)

Remember that if you go to the cemetery site and take pictures as evidence, I will give you extra credit. This offer expires on February 14th!

Eighth Grade Work on Missouri Compromise

Good work today on reading and interpreting the short documents on Texas Independence. We'll be doing more work of this kind this semester.

Today, you read page 536 in the textbook on Henry Clay's attempt to settle the slavery question and admit Missouri into the Union. Remember that to do this, Maine was admitted as a free state (to preserve the balance) and the line formed by Missouri's southern border became the determining line in the future for which new states would allow slavery and which ones would not. Then in class you downloaded this pdf here You'll find this interactive map useful in answering the questions. When you have completed it, drop it into your student assignment folder.

Chapter Nine, Section Three Questions

Students: Read section three of chapter nine (on slavery) and answer these three questions: 1. What kind of culture did slaves create in America? Give examples. 2. What were the ways African-Americans resisted slavery? 3. How did southern whites try to prevent slave rebellions? Why were they worried? Due tomorrow.

Slideshow on Basics of Hinduism

Eighth Grade Work on Andrew Jackson

Today we discussed the Election of 1824 and the Election of 1828. For homework, students should read Chapter Ten, Section One and answer the following questions:

• What is the spoils system? What is good about it, and what is bad about it?
• How did Jackson expand democracy?
• What is nullification? What is secession?
• Find a modern example (from 2012 to 2013) of an American politician arguing for nullification or secession.

Answers can be written in the composition book, or in a pages/google doc and dropped in the assignment folder.