SS+8F-Andrea

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 * Sunday April 29, 2012 **

__Session 5- South America__
__URL__

http://www.quizgeo.com/quiz/677/how-well-do-you-know-the-continent-of-south-america

**Thursday, April 12th 2012 ** = **Unit 4** =
 * Assignment 2 **

Minnesota and North Dakota ||  || Red River Basin: Acquired in the Treaty of Ghent ||   || Peaceful || the southeastern part of the United States. ||  || Florida: Neither the Spanish or the Americans wanted war, so the two countries signed the Adam-Onís Treaty that gave Florida to the US. The United States payed $5 million in return. ||  || Peaceful || side of New Mexico, southern Kansas, southern Colorado, and a very small part of Wyoming. ||  || Texas Annexation: Texas voluntarily asked to become part of the US, but almost immediately war broke out between Mexico and the United States. ||  || Non-Peaceful || including all of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. ||  || Oregon Country: Britain and the US reached an agreement todivide the country at the 49th parallel ||   || Peaceful || southern part of New Mexico. ||  || Mexican Cession: After the 1846 war between Mexico and the US congress, a treaty was signed saying Texas belonged to the United States. ||  || Non-Peaceful || **I worked with Marta Fiorillo**
 * ~ 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 ||  || All of Louisiana (28,000,000 square miles) ||   || Louisiana Purchase: Purchased from France for $15 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1818 ||  || A small portion of land from both
 * 1819 ||  || The entire state of Florida in
 * 1845 ||  || All of Texas as well the eastern
 * 1846 ||  || The northwest portion of the US
 * 1849 ||  || Southern Arizona, and a small

__Battle Map:__
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European Geographical Maps:
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European Physical Feature Map: media type="custom" key="12166794" European Notable Cities Map: media type="custom" key="12166934"

North American Geographical Maps:
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 * __ Assignment 10 Unit 2 __**
 * Step 2 **

**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? __Answers: __
 * 5) Yes of course they did. Before this unit I knew little information about Columbus. I new he had discovered America but I did not know of all the terrible that happened from it. I guess while I was living in America they thought we were too young to tell us the detailed truth of Columbus. I was pretty surprised to hear what had actually happened once he discovered America and I guess I don’t see him as much of a hero anymore.
 * 6) In the trial I was on the defense but right now I think that he is guilty and not a hero. I think the biggest argument would be that once Columbus landed in America all that happened was that he and his people drove to the extinction of the natives living there and started an example that lead to slave trade and the triangular trade. From a native’s perspective there was nothing good about Columbus. The only place that profited from his discovery was Europe.
 * 7) I think it’s really important to learn the different perspectives about people we think are heroes. How can we tell if the person is a hero if we don’t know the multiple perspectives that encountered him/her? Take Columbus’s story for example. If you were the queen than of course he was a hero, and that wouldn’t be a false statement. He was doing all he could to prove to her that he would find gold and he succeeded. He came back with gold for her and she didn’t care how he got it. But if you were an innocent native going on with your business when strange ships and white men come and you open your homes to them while they take advantage of your people and start enslaving them for no apparent reason. If you witnessed a white man come and rip apart your family right before your eyes the reason he did it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that they were taking your life away from you. For those people I think it would be safe to say that he was quite the villain. Some people don’t really care about the different perspectives so they go with their own opinions. Once you’ve seen all the perspectives is easier to tell what you would think about him instead of going on with someone else’s opinions. That’s why there isn’t one true statement that Columbus was evil or innocent. There many opinions about him, some good some bad, but all that I know is if he was alive today he would surely not be for very long.
 * 8) As we get older and move to higher grades we will learn a lot more about historical events, whether it’s a war or not, there is always going to be at least two sides to the story. We have to keep an open mind about how to think about each subject before we jump to conclusions about something. That will give us a bigger understanding of the topic and we could then relate to it with other events.


 * __ Assignment 2 Unit2 __**

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?


 * While doing this assignment the most interesting thing to me was that while the tribes were so different including where they were located and what kind of houses they lived in, but that there could still be some similarities like what they ate or what they wore for clothing that would make us make mistakes in placing them instead of it being really clear. **

2. ** Explain ** one thing you think you did well in this assignment?

I think I did well in going through the step by step in the three maps to narrow down our options to find out where the tribe was from. I went through it, and I asked a lot of questions to be sure that my answers were right.

3. ** Explain ** one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another assignment like this?

I think I should have improved on how I used my time. I sometimes spent a long time on one tribe when I didn’t need to and I should have used the time more efficiently.

4. Why do you think you did this assignment and how did it help you develop one of the competencies?

I think this assignment would go under Problem Solving. We went through multiple steps to try to find an answer while we made educational guesses of what with think they are with supporting evidence and then we checked our answer with the teacher and the textbook.

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 **.
 * __ Assignment 2 Unit 1 __**

During the research project portion of the project I was really surprised of all the events that happened in the world while I was alive. It was interesting to see the events in the world happen at the same time as some of my events.
 * 1. Explain ** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this project?

I think I did a good job on the timeline. I spent a good amount of time on it to make it neat and clear, and I also used pictures to represent so of the events.
 * 2. Explain ** one thing you think you did well in this project?

I think I should have spent a little more time on my map so I could have done it more neatly and make fewer mistakes.
 * 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? I think this would be Use of Numbers and Data because in the map we had to use numbers to find the distances between the cities and we used the data from the note cards to show that data on the map. Andrea MeyerSocial Studies 8f August 28, 201Now 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**. **While doing this assignment the most interesting thing to me was that while the tribes were so different including where they were located and what kind of houses they lived in, but that there could still be some similarities like what they ate or what they wore for clothing that would make us make mistakes in placing them instead of it being really clear.**I think I did well in going through the step by step in the three maps to narrow down our options to find out where the tribe was from. I went through it, and I asked a lot of questions to be sure that my answers were right.I think I should have improved on how I used my time. I sometimes spent a long time on one tribe when I didn’t need to and I should have used the time more efficiently.I think this assignment would go under Problem Solving. We went through multiple steps to try to find an answer while we made educational guesses of what with think they are with supporting evidence and then we checked our answer with the teacher and the textbook.