SS+8B-Alex



voluntarily joined the United States because they were having some problems with the Republic of Mexico. ||  || Non-Peaceful || **My partner was Eun Su OH**
 * ~ 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 ||
 * 1819 ||  || Southeastern land of the U.S mostly Florida ||   || Florida Treaty: Got the land from the Spanish in exchange of paying damages to the Americans there. ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1803 ||  || A huge amount of land stretching from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Border. ||   || Louisiana Purchase: Bought 828,000,000 square miles of land from the French for the astonishing price of $15 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1845 ||  || Southwestern land of the U.S. including Texas and parts ofNew Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. ||   || Texas Annexation: The Republic of Texas
 * 1867 ||  || Big chunk of land in Northwestern North America ||   || Alaska: The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia for the price of $7.2 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1846 ||  || Oregon country was land that was in the northwestern side of the U.S. between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. ||   || Oregon Country: Both British and American settlers lived in this land, but then they made an agreement to split the land. ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1848 ||  || The Mexican Cession included land that would later become the states of California, Nevada, and Utah, but also portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming ||   || Mexican Cession: The United States bought this land from the Mexicans for $15 million. ||   || Peaceful ||

GEOGRAPHY

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**Geography Map 2: Physical Features**
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**Geography Map 1: Political**
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**__North America__**

**Geography Map 3: Important and Notable Cities**
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GEOGRAPHY MAP 1: Political
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> ====At the start of the unit I thought Columbus was a great hero who discovered America and brought back many good to Europe from the New World. However after learning about him in this unit I thought that he was a horrible person and that he killed many people so my perspective about him changed. Then towards the end of the unit I was put on the defense side of Columbus, so I had to investigate a lot about the good things and that when my thoughts about Columbus completely changed and I thought finally that he was innocent.==== > ====The argument that supports that he is innocent and which truly convinced me, was that Christopher Columbus was nothing but a sailor. His intentions when he sailed away from Spain had nothing to do with killing or torture. He basically connected two completely different cultures.==== > ====I think it is important to learn about the people who we call heroes, so that then we can find out really who these people are. Who knows we could be calling a mass murder a hero if we don't know all of the perspectives of the people who were there with the person. Also if you know many different perspectives then maybe even your own perspective might change about the person and you will see both sides to a story.==== > ====As this year goes on and I go on to high school, I think I will try to use the idea of many different perspectives when learning about history, so that I can really know what happened there and not what one group of people want me to know. This will really help me get a better and more in detail understanding of the topic.==== >
 * 1) ====**Did your views of Columbus change during our study of Columbus? Why or Why not?**====
 * 1) ====**What is the most persuasive argument that supports your current perspective about Columbus?**====
 * 1) ====**Do you think it's important to learn different perspectives about people who we think are heroes? Why or Why not?**====
 * 1) ====**How do you think you will use the idea of perspective as you continue learning history this year and in high school?**====

__**UNIT 2 ASSIGNMENT 2**__

 * 1) ==== ** Explain ** **one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this assignment?** While doing this project what I found most interesting was how all of these different native americans lives were because of the different environments they lived in. Like for example the housing from the desert native americans and the ones from the Alaska ones is completely different.  ====
 * 2) ==== ** Explain ** **one thing you think you did well in this assignment?** In this assignment I think that I did well in the journal entry of the native americans since I put in all of the information’s that I had learned at all the stations into a journal format and tried to make it personal.  ====
 * 3) ==== ** Explain ** **one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another assignment like this?** If I were to do this assignment again then I think I would improve on my time management because I wasn’t able to finish all of the stations with the different Native American tribes. I think this was because I spent too much time in one station and then spent very little time in another one.  ====
 * 4) ==== **Why do you think you did this assignment and how did it help you develop one of the competencies?** I think we did this assignment so that we could go further into detail with each native American tribe and so that we could understand how different tribes developed in different environments. This helped us develop in the competency of problem solving since we had to find out which native American tribe there was in the card by just looking at the pictures.====

=__UNIT 1 ASSIGNMENT 2__=
 * 1) ====**Explain one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this project?** During this project it was really interesting to look over the final projects of my classmates and see how they had made their map. It was great for me to see all the places where they had gone and where they had visited. All of these maps show how AISD is a really an international school.====
 * 2) ====**Explain one thing you think you did well in this project?** One thing that I think I did well in this project was that I made most things colorful such as the letters and the borders so that it would sort of make the project a bit more presentable. Also what I think I did well in this project was that I made the distances from my birthplace very accurate so that it could help the viewer to see exactly where I had lived or visited.====
 * 3) ====**Explain one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another project like this?** If I were to do another project like this then I think I would improve on mostly the timeline. I felt like my timeline was a bit too messy and way too cluttered from all of the events, so if I did it again then maybe I would have made two different timelines one for the personal events and the other for the world events. Also I think I could have added a bit more color to the world map.====
 * 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?** During this project I think that we mostly worked on the competency of Use of Numbers and Data since during the project we had to use the scale to find the distance from our birthplace to where we had lived. Also I think that we used numbers and data since we had to deal a lot with dates and numbers during the timeline portion of this project.====

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