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Welcome to **Noel Oracheski's** 8th Grade Social Studies Wiki Page

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 * ~ 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 ||  || Louisiana land from the Mississippi River

to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Border ||  || Louisiana Purchase: Purchased from France for $15 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1818 ||  || Current Minnesota and North Dakota ||   || Red River Basin: Taken as a part of the Treaty of Ghent ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1819 ||  || Florida between Spain and North America. ||   || Florida: Taken by signing a treaty called Adam Onis Treaty ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1845 ||  || Republic of Texas between Mexico and America ||   || Texas annexation: it was gained through war. but both countries shared ||   || non- peaceful ||
 * 1846 ||  || Oregon between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains ||   || oregon country: It was roughly divided into 49 parallel one side to the americans and 1 to the british. ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1848 ||  || Mexican boundries ||   || Mexican cession; Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ||   || peaceful ||
 * My partner is Bryan**

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__** Assignment 10 **__ **1. Did your views of Columbus change during our study of Columbus? Why or Why not?** I didn't really know much about Columbus and what he did before this quarter so my views of him changed a lot. For example I had no idea what he did to the Native Americans just to get some gold. I also think it is terrible that he claimed he was helping spread Christianity but wouldn't baptize most Native Americans because then they couldn't work for him as slaves.

**2. What is the most persuasive argument that supports your current perspective about Columbus?** The most persuasive argument that supports my views of Columbus would probably be that he wouldn't baptize most of the Native Americans so that they could be slaves but still claims to be helping the spread of Christianity. I think this strongly supports my views because that shows that he knew he shouldn't be claiming that he was spreading Christianity and knows it was the wrong thing to do.

**3. Do you think it's important to learn different perspectives about people who we think are heroes? Why or Why not?** I definitely now know that it is really important to learn about someone from many different perspectives before labeling him as a hero or villain because there are always many sides to a story. Because before this unit all I knew about Columbus was that he "discovered" America and now I know he wasn't really the one to discover America and he did many more bad things.

**4. How do you think you will use the idea of perspective as you continue learning history this year and in high school?** I will now make sure I have lots of information from lots of different perspectives on an event or person so that I can make a more accurate view about it.

__** Assignment 2 **__

** 1. **** Explain **** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this assignment? ** I found it interesting and fun the way we got to use the three facts we could see from the picture and find them on the three maps then see where all those areas overlapped.

** 2. **** Explain **** one thing you think you did well in this assignment? ** I think I did a good job at using my time well and not getting distracted by my friends. For example, at the beginning I was sitting with a couple of my friends and wasn’t getting much work done. Once I realized this, I moved and went to work alone so I could get more work done.

** 3.Explain one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another assignment like this? ** If I had to do another project like this, I would probably double check if I had the right placard to go with the right region. I think I should do this because during this assignment I didn’t check one of them with him-and it was wrong-and then that messed up a couple of my other ones too, and I had to redo them. If I had double-checked the region it would have saved me a lot of time and I could have worked on more regions.

** 4. Why do you think you did this assignment and how did it help you develop one of the competencies? ** This assignment helped me work on my problem solving skills. I think this because I eventually worked out which placards went with each region by using the maps.

__** Assignment 2 **__

1. **Explain one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this project?** I really enjoyed the conversation that I had with my parents while I was asking them which countries I had visited and touched. For example, when they where thinking about places I may have touched, London got brought up. And I learned that when my mom was pregnant with me, my brothers and her had to be evacuated from Kuwait and they went to London, until it was safe to go back. Although it did not count for a place that I have touched, I found out that they were evacuated from Kuwait.

2. **Explain** **one thing you think you did well in this project?** I think the area I did the best at on this project was probably the appearance of the map. I really liked the way that I had all of the continents in one colour and all of the oceans written in another. I also think the dots representing all the places I have been were very neat.

3. **Explain** **one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another project like this?** If I could redo this project and improve one thing, I would probably get more interesting or newsworthy personal and world events for the timeline. For example, I couldn’t find enough world events so I had to add in things like ‘ the last Harry Potter book was released ‘ and I think that if I looked a bit harder I could have found something else. I also could have had more of a balance since I had a couple years with 2 or three events and then some didn’t even have any.

4. **Which one of the competencies do you think you worked on during this project? Why do you think so?** If I had to put this project under any of the five competencies, I would probably put it under Problem Solving. I would put it there because I made a plan for the timeline and had a really clear idea of what I was going to do and I followed through with that plan-having to make a couple changes on the way-and in the end I ended up with a pretty good result.

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