(11 - 12) SS8 - This week's homework

Due Tuesday, 10/01/13:
Read the Native American selection passed out to your group in class

Written - on a separate sheet of paper to turn in:
1. Summarize in list form about six key points with examples from the text if necessary.

2. Question 2 - Comparison:
a. Make a T table.
b. On the left column label it "What I know about NA culture" and make a list of three things that you know.
c. In the right column, label it "What this piece of writing tells me about NA culture.

3. Performance ideas:
a. make a list of six essential scenes or parts needed to perform the piece.

Bring your reading selection. Prepare to put a performance together with your group due 10/02 or 10/03 in Block.

10/1
1. Map - Part One complete

10/2 or 10/3 - Block
1. NA Reading performance
2. North American physical features test.

10/4 - North American Physical Features map.

If you had Mr. Rodgers last year, and after Sept. 26 you are still receiving

posts from the LASS7 blog, I hopefully have figured out how to delete your email from the follower list.  If you still get a post from the LASS7 blog, then please email me.

Likewise, former students from last year should try to follow this years SS8 blog for the current class.
Let me know if there are any problems following this years blog.

Physical Features Map technique and color suggestions

Here are a few suggestions for improving your map over the minimum requirements.

Drawing Suggestions:
1. Find the best direction to hold your pen or pencil when drawing. As you draw, maintain that position and turn the page instead of your hand position.

Color Suggestions:
1. Use all caps and red ink for Plateaus, Deserts, and Plains labels
2. Use a blue extra fine sharp felt pen or blue rollerball pen to trace your rivers

3. Use blue ball point to label rivers.
4. Use black ball point to label states and smaller mountain ranges.

5. Use a tan or orange colored pencil to color mountains
6. Use baby blue to color the Great lakes

Label Suggestions:
7. Label at least Lake Erie and Lake Ontario outside of those lakes
8. Label all of the states north of Virginia along the East Coast in the Atlantic Ocean and draw a line next to each state. Maine can be labeled inside of the state.
9. Use the abbreviations W (West), R (River), L (Lake)

ADDED requirement - label Canada and Mexico.

US States review web games for the Friday States Quiz

Try these review/quiz games:

USA States - Level One - Online Learning

I like to learn - United States Map Quiz

Purposegames.com - The States of the USA

If you find another site that offers a different format, please send me a link. I will add that link to this page.

Guiding questions this week and next

1. Why is the Iroquois Confederacy so pivotal in the history of early Indian - colonial contact?
2. How do we develop a vocabulary of place in order to discuss American history?

Homework this week including the map assignment and quizzes for next

We will continue our discussions, readings, and films in class about Native Americans while we work on our first map this year. This first map will help us speak about places that will be referred to all year in the course.

9/24 - Potato reading - reader response will be collected on 9/25 or 9/26 (due to the late posting on 9/23).

Here is the physical map and states schedule for the next two weeks:

Handout with directions

Map copy

Due - Detail
9/27 - US States quiz - know all 50 states to identify 20 during the quiz - 10 points max (1/2 pt each)

10/1 - map step part one - see handout

10/2 or 10/3 - Block - Physical map quiz - see handout list 10 points max

10/4 - map complete - see handout

Reading and written response due Tuesday - The potato

Here is the handout reading for tonight's homework:

Columbian Exchange between America and Europe...

pdf version here

Write out the answers to the questions on a separate piece of paper.