Study Guid for Tomorrow's Quiz (7th Grade)

The Aim/s and objectives being tested with this quiz are as follows:

   Where is Jamestown and what happened there? 
    What was life like in the New England Colonies?

PART A: Short answer

Directions: Answer the three questions below on your own paper. Your response must be at least one paragraph long for each question. You can use all of your notes. 30 points! (10 pts each)

The following criteria will be used to assess your short answer response:
    A.  Selects and includes appropriate information and arguments
 Highlight every term used in your responses.

1 – The settlers of Jamestown, the second English settlement, were struck by hunger and disease. Why did this happen? How did Jamestown prosper afterwards?

Terms to use: English settlers, Chesapeake Bay, 1607, gold, swamp, starvation, tobacco, private ownership, competition (compete).

2 – What are the reasons people might have left Europe to settle in America? Describe the two English groups that left Europe for the New World and their reasons for leaving their homeland.

Terms to use: Religious persecution, Anglican Church, Puritan, Pilgrims, Plymouth, 1619.

3 – Why were the Mayflower Compact and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut so significant in the English Colonies?

Terms to use: Mayflower Compact, representative government

8th Grade Homework 11/13/13

Homework due on Thursday, November 14, 2013

Students will write a letter to the editor of a British or American newspaper that begins:

“Dear _________________, I am writing to express my opinion about the events that occurred March 5, 1770 in Boston. I feel the blame rests solely on…..(student must then make an argument either way on who is to blame using information that they learned during the lesson).

8th grade homework due on Thursday, October 31, 2013.

1. JOURNALS 11-19 2. DBQ QUESTIONS 1-5 3. A REVIEW TEST 4. AMERICAN REVOLUTION CROSSWORD PUZZLE

8th Grade Journals 11-20

Journal 11 - How did Quakers and people like Mary Dyer and Anne Hutchinson create trouble in the colonies? Do you think they were doing the right or wrong thing?

Journal 12 - Why is John Peter Zenger's case so important today? Explain how Freedom of the Press benefits society today.

Journal 13 - Who controlled trade and who supplied raw materials under Mercantilism in the British Empire?

 Journal 14 - Describe a plantation. What is a good life to you?

Journal 15 - Who fought in the French & Indian War? Why did they fight? Who won? How did that change North America?

Journal 16 - How did control of land change during the French & Indian War?

Journal 17 - Use the following terms to answer the aim in one paragraph. Aim: Who fought in the French & Indian War and what were the effects? Words: alliance, control, North America, France, Great Britain, Treaty of Paris of 1763, Proclamation Line of 1763, speculator. Highlight the terms in the paragraph.

Journal 18 - Use the following terms to explain why the Colonists became angry with the British: writs of assistance, Sugar Act, Proclamation Line of 1763, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Tea Act, Quartering Acts.

Journal 19 - Describe an event that showed anger on behalf of the colonists towards the British.

Journal 20 - TBA

7th Grade: Journals 11-20

Journal 11 - What is history and why is it important? Describe the two different types of sources historians use to learn about history?

Journal 12 - How do you think the first Americans arrived here?

Journal 13 - What is history and why is it important to learn it?

Journal 14 - Now that you have read V1.3, explain how the Native Americans arrived in North America.

Journal 15 - Choose one Native American civilization mentioned in class and describe it in your journal.

Journal 16 - Choose another Native American civilization mentioned in class and describe it.

Journal 17 - How do you think Native Americans kept warm during the winter?

Journal 18 - Why did Columbus call the Native Americans 'Indians'?

Journal 19 - Draw a map of the world as the Europeans saw it before they discovered America?

Journal 20 - How do we know the Vikings were here before Columbus? (Use V1.13-14)

8th Grade Journals 1-10

Journal 1 - Describe one event that you learned about American History last year.

Journal 2 - Hunter-gatherer societies are nomadic. what does that mean?

Journal 3 - How was Spain able to conquer large parts of the New World? In you response include the following terms: Indians, weapons, conquistador, Aztec, Inca, diseae, enslave, 1521, 1532.

Journal 4 - Describe how the four middle colonies were formed? (NY, NJ, PA, DE)

Journal 5 - Read "What's In a Word?" and list the different types of governments and their characteristics.

Journal 6 - What type of government may be prone to take the rights of citizens away?

Journal 7 - Why is Bacon's Rebellion so significant in Colonial history?

Journal 8 - Describe how or why your designated colony was established.

Journal 9 - Describe a royal, charter, proprietary colony. Which one may have granted its citizens more freedom?

Journal 10 - How is the relationship between church and state today different than how it was in Colonial times?

7th Grade Journals 1-10

Journal 1 - Draw a map of your neighborhood. Include the 5 parts of a map.

Journal 2 - What is the difference between a political and physical map? What is the difference between a globe and map projection?

Journal 3 - Draw a map of the world that shows all 7 continents and 4 oceans.

Journal 4 - Look at your homework and explain why we need lines of latitude and longitude on a map.

Journal 5 - Choose any 3 landforms and describe them in your own words.

Journal 6 - Choose any 3 bodies of water and describe them in your own words.

Journal 7 - Describe all the landforms and bodies of water you have seen in person.

Journal 8 - List as many states as you can without looking at a map.

Journal 9 - Describe the physical features of the U.S. using yesterday's notes. Use your own words.

Journal 10 - Describe the physical features of the U.S. from west to east using your U.S. Physical Regions map.