SS+8F-Dario

Geo Quiz
http://www.quizgeo.com/quiz/615/south-america-quiz

How did the USA expand from the original 13 colonies?

 * ~ 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 ||  || Stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. (828,000,000 square miles) ||   || Louisiana Purchase: Purchased from France for $15 million ( 4 cents an acre). ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1818 ||  || Red River Basin, which is now part of Minnesota and North Dakota. ||   || Red River Basin, part of the Oregon territory, area was purchased. ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1819 ||  || Florida ||   || Florida, attained through the Adam-onis treaty, and was purchased for $5million. ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1845 ||  || Texas Annexation ||   || Was by war, which made exas an independent state.Later on Texas asked to be part of the USA. ||   || Peaceful & Non-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. ||   || Both countries negotiated, and in the end they came to an agreement that they would split the territory. ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1848 ||  || Mexican Cession, 20million acres. ||   || America and Mexico fought together, America eventually won. ||   || Non-Peaceful ||
 * My partner was Hyuk Chan **

Battles of the American Revolution (Dario & Emrys)
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Note: Physical Features such as deserts were labeled using notes.

**1.** Did your views of Columbus change during our study of Columbus? Why or Why not?
My views of Columbus definitely changed during this topic. Before we started the topic I thought that Columbus was a great explorer that was known throughout the world for the risks he took to find America. The first thing I learnt was that he did not discover America. Soon I learnt that Columbus was actually a very wicked man in therms of what he did to the Native Americans and the Africans. He should still be honored for discovering America, but he did a lot more bad things than good.

**2.** What is the most persuasive argument that supports your current perspective about Columbus?
My current perspective is that Columbus was a Villain more than he was a hero. Eventhough he might have done a few good things, they were selfish, all he cared about was Europe and Spain. The most persuasive argument is that he ruined two cultures, the native Americans because he wiped them out with the help of diseases and of course the Africans, which were transported as slaves to America because of him.

**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 important to start learning about people that we think are heroes from a very young age. This is because we look up to 'heroes' especially when we are young. If we look up to someone for a long time, and suddenly we find out that the person wasn't good, it can lead to a great amount of confusion. It could also potentionally devestate a small child.

**4.** How do you think you will use the idea of perspective as you continue learning history this year and in high school?
Perspective is a giant part of History and appears everywhere. Everybody has different opinions about historical events. Some, for example, might still regard Hitler as a great leader, while others think of him as a devil for what he did to the jews. I think that I will be able to use the idea of perspective in every topic that we will cover 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?

‍‍‍‍‍‍One of the things that I found surprising while doing this assignment was finding out how developed the native americans were. I'd have expected them to have rocks as hunting material, or at the most, sharpend sticks. For harvesting the crops I didn't think that they had any tools and that they did it all by hand. I was surprised to find out that they had bow and arrows of quite some complexity and that they actually had tools to hervest the crops just by pulling or pushing them.


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

I think I looked at the maps that we were given really well to find out from which part of the country the artifacts came from. I also think that I communicated well with my group and we definately worked as a team to solve the origin of the artifacts.


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

I think that one thing that I should improve on if there is another assignment like this I think that I should think about the artifacts a bit more thoroughly, eventhough our group had our questions right, I think that there was a bit of luck involved.


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

I think I developed in more than one competency. The one that I developed more in is Problem Solving. I usually don't use that skill too often, but this task certainly made me use it a lot. The other one that I developed in is communication. Since we were put into groups (or pairs), we needed to communicate with each other in order to reach a conclusion about which tribe the artifacts came from. ‍‍‍‍‍‍ = = =__Unit 1, Assignment 2__=


 * 1. Explain** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this project?

One thing that I found surprising during this project was the fact that I noticed to how many places I had been. It was a lot more than I had expected. On the first day, while we were doing the project in class I wrote down a few countries on my lived, visited, touched list. When I was finishing off my map at home, my mom took a quick look at it and started counting up many countries which I had been to which I couldn't remember or never even knew.


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

One thing that went well during this project was the map part. I especially enjoyed marking the places that I had lived visited or touched. This project definitely expanded my knowledge of places around the world by having to look for the countries that I had lived in on a world map. The timeline part also went quite well but not as good as I'd have hoped.


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

If I were to do a project like this again involving a timeline I would try to add some pictures or drawings, any kind of visual image. The timeline that I did this time was a bit boring because I didn't include images.


 * 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?

In this project I definitely used technology to do a lot of research. I used a lot of technology when looking for the world events for the 2nd half of the timeline. I think I also needed to do some problem solving when it came to the timeline. I needed to carefully plan how I was going to space out the different events and how the finished timeline should look.