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 * ~ Year ||~  ||~ Which area? Size? (be specific) ||~   ||~ Name & how was the territory gained. ||~   ||~ Peaceful or Non-Peaceful ||
 * 1853 ||  || Southwestern chunk of Arizona ||   || Gadsden Purchase: Purchased from Mexico for $10 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1803 ||  || Large territory of Louisiana, a lot of the great plains area ||   || Louisiana was Purchased from the French ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1818 ||  || Red River Basin which is nowapart of the states of Minnesota and North Dakota. ||   || Treaty of Ghent which ended the war between Great Britain and U.S. ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1819 ||  || size of Current day Florida ||   || Adam-Onís Treaty due to the fact that neither side wanted war. ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1845 ||  || Present-day state of Texas as well as portions of New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. ||   || In 1845, the Republic of Texas voluntarily asked to become a part of the United States ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1846 ||  || Oregon Country was a portion of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains in the northwest portion of the present-day United States. ||   || In 1818, the United States and Britain agreed to a "joint occupation" of Oregon ||   || Peaceful. ||
 * 1848 ||  || The Mexican Cession included land that would later become California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. ||   || 1848 a treaty was signed ending the war between the U.S and Mexico for the territory of Texas. Since Mexico lost they gave up the land around california. ||   || non peaceful ||

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 * My partner was......... NUSHABA! :)**

Poopinpant's trail across Africa
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Map 3
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European Map 1
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 * notes posted on: Spain, France and Russia

Slave perspective project scrapbook submitted.
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* notes posted on New Orleans, Toronto and Seattle
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 * Directions:** Whether you think Christopher Columbus is a hero or villain, or guilty or not guilty of crimes against humanity, what is known is that when he landed in the New World in 1492, the world changed forever. Please answer the following reflection questions __**on your wiki page**__ clearly and with details.
 * 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?
 * 3) Do you think it's important to learn different perspectives about people who we think are heroes? Why or Why not?
 * 4) How do you think you will use the idea of perspective as you continue learning history this year and in high school?

1. Yes, my views of Columbus changed during this unit. I used to blindly believe that Columbus was a brilliant hero and a proud part of the world history but this unit had a large impact on my perspective of him and changed my views, and now I believe that he was in fact not the great man I believed he was. This unit immensely impacted my views on Columbus because during this unit we researched and I gained background knowledge about the victims ( the native americans) and additional facts about columbus, negative and positive. Personally this was a little change as I had never before been exposed to that many negative facts about Columbus ever before.

2. I believe that the most persuasive argument that supports my current perspective (which is that he was a leader built upon negative acts) is the news story 1 from assignment 5. This article really encapsulated my emotional view on the whole scenario which is why I turned in favor of the article's argument and now just like the article I believe that Columbus did many cruel things and should not be celebrated...

3. I think its very important to learn different perspectives about many things including the people we think are heroes. I think this because in order to personally evaluate weather or not I believe that the hero is truly heroic or not I need to be able to see any possible negativites that may change my point of view therefore I need to be able to learn different perspectives.

4. I believe I will continue using the idea of perspective in various things including history for this year, high school and further years to come. This is because theres records of history and if I know how to use perspective I can use the facts from history records and make my own personal opinion of historical events.

=Tasnim Mostafa= Social Studies 8F 29th of August 2011 =__Assignment 2__= Now that you are finished with your Native American 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. One thing I found most interesting during this assignment was that all the clues that we considered from looking at each of the artifacts did in fact lead us to the correct tribe which they belonged to. I wasn't exactly surprised at any of my findings although lots of the new things I learned due to investigating the artifacts were interesting such as the kinds of tools different tribes used and the clothing they wore.

2. I believe I did well carefully paying attention to details of each artifact and then matching my findings with the maps we were able to relay on. This helped me make accurate educated guesses as to which tribe the artifacts each belonged to. I was thrilled that almost every single time my guess was correct. So I did well on guessing which tribes artifacts belong to.

3. If I were to do another assignment like this I would probably aim to improve my journal entry skills. Although I believe I wrote nice, creative entries, I know I could have made them better by putting more information about the artifacts.

4. I think we did this assignment to understand and get more comfortable with the characteristics of different tribes and also to practice our problem solving skills. I know that this assignment helped me develop my problem solving skills as I really had to think deep and understand each artifact then match it with different tribe possibilities then chose one which fit best < I problem solved because my problem was that I did not know for sure which tribe the artifacts belong to and I problem solved by figuring it out. = = = = = = = = =Tasnim Mostafa= Social Studies 8F 17th Of August 2011 =__Assignment 2__= Now that you are finished with your poster, I would like you to reflect on this project. Please answer the following questions clearly **on your wiki page**.
 * 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?

1. I found it very interesting to find out what important events had took place around the world when there were important things happening in my life.

2. I believe I did well thinking about detailed events that happened in my life.

3. I think I could have improved my neatness. I should have taken more time on writing out all my information neater and clearer.

4. I think I worked on Use of Technology, because I used technology to find out the events that happened in various years over time. If I didn't have the option to use the technology I used, I would have found this project much more difficult then it was. So I think use of technology was very well incorporated in this project.