SS+8B-Abigail

**Welcome to my Wiki page Mr.T! - Abby**
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South America Map Quiz: http://www.quizgeo.com/quiz/623/south-america-quiz

**My partners were Caroline and Abigail.**
 * ~ Year ||~  ||~ Which area? Size? (be specific) ||~   ||~ Name & how was the territory gained. ||~   ||~ Peaceful or Non-Peaceful ||
 * 1853 ||  || Small strip of land in southern Arizona ||   || Gadsden Purchase: Purchased from Mexico for $10 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1803 ||  || From the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains ||   || The Luisiana purchase: The French minister sold America for the price of $15 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1818 ||  || The Red River Basin ||   || The Red River Basin, just signed a treaty to clarify borders ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1819 ||  || Florida ||   || A treaty was signed between Spain and the U.S. forces to pay $5 million. ||   || They fought but it ended peacefully ||
 * 1845 ||  || Texas Annexation ||   || Fighting broke out between the Mexican army and American colonists. It was forfeited ||   || Non-peaceful ||
 * 1867 ||  || Alaska ||   || It was gained after a long compromise with Russian diplomats to sell Alaska for 7.2 million and became the 49th state ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1898 ||  || Hawaii ||   || After defeating and disposing of royalty, the U.S considered to annex the islands, but took another presidency to finally annex the islands. ||   || Peaceful ||

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They deffinentley changed. The information that we learned was very disturbing, making me relize the real truth about columbus. There was a lot I didn't know, that I was never taught. I think this very unfair. When were small shouldn't we have learned part of the truth? I am really happy that I learned the real truth.
 * 1) Did your views of Columbus change during our study of Columbus? Why or Why not?

2. What is the most persuasive argument that supports your current perspective about Columbus? The most persuasive argument that supports my current perspective would be the " 1492 " movie. Although it might have dramatized some parts of it, it really showed me the information straight on. The next one would be the news story 1. This was all real research and it wasn't a movie that embellished, it was telling it straight on.

3. Do you think it's important to learn different perspectives about people who we think are heroes? Why or Why not? I think it is a very vital part of our education to learn different perspectives. Because if we are only taught one thing then we side with one thing. This way we can have opionions of our own, and not know what else is out there.

4. How do you think you will use the idea of perspective as you continue learning history this year and in high school? I think, ecspecially in high school, that we must use perspective. How else would we create oppions to lead us to college where our oppions really matter the most? We might even be using perspective out of history like language. Perspectives are very vital to every subject.

= = = = = __Assignment 3__ = Now that you are finished with your artifact investigation, I would like you to reflect on this assignment. Please answer the following questions clearly **on your wiki page**.
 * 1) **Explain** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this assignment?
 * 2) **Explain** one thing you think you did well in this assignment?
 * 3) **Explain** one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another assignment like this?
 * 4) Why do you think you did this assignment and how did it help you develop one of the competencies?

1. The most thing I found interesting on this project was when we got to learn about the fashion back then. I liked learning about the grass skirts and the dear skin shirts, I found it cool how much fashion has evolved since then. 2. I think I did well with the maps because I was born in the states and I know the land. So I think I had an advantage with knowing the geography and the climate. 3. I think I needed to be more pateint with the activity, I got really fustrated when I didn't get the right answer and I had to go back to square one. 4. I think we did this activity so that we could work on our problem solving and communicating. We also sort of worked with numbers and data, with the maps and guessing where everything would be placed.

Asighnment two 1. I found the timeline most interesting while I was working on my project. When I sat down with my parents and talked about the past 13 years, I found out about a lot of things that I don't remember or had forgotten. I also liked learning about the world events that happened the year I was born. For example President Clinton was impeached when I was born, I would have never known that if I hadn't had worked on this project. 2. I know I did really well on on the map part. I colored it to make it presentable, and I made sure to spell all the continent and oceans correctley. All the touched, lived, and visted parts were labled and put on the poster. The map part, I think, is the best part of my project. 3. I think I would need to improve my timeline, just a bit. I needed to make it more colorfull and clear. It looked really good on my poster, but I feel I could do a tiny bit better. 4. I think I worked on numbers and data the most on this project. Like when we were doing the timeline, I had to figure out the years that things happened and put them into a timeline that people could understand. I also had to figure out the distances from my birthplace to places I had lived, with the scale. Using the charts for the touched, visited, and lived symbols, were also part of using data.
 * 1) **Explain** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this project?
 * 2) **Explain** one thing you think you did well in this project?
 * 3) **Explain** one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another project like this?
 * 4) Which one of the competencies (Teamwork, Use of Technology, Communication, Problem Solving, Use of Numbers and Data) do you think you worked on during this project? Why do you think so?