Link to survey

Please take this survey:
Thank you!

Final Project, Continued.

Ok,everyone!

I have created the skeleton site for our classroom website. (That basically means that it has all the pages created, but it doesn't have any of the information yet. You're going to take care of that!)

Please check out the site and let me know what you think. It's pretty simple.

Cascades 8 Social Studies Website

Now. On to the rest of the schedule.

Here is a brief schedule of what we will be doing in social studies for the rest of your middle school career:

(Click to enlarge)
Please use this schedule as a guide to social studies class for the rest of the year.

Resources for Final Project

Make sure you use the sources provided here and you note where you got your information. Remember: You only need to CITE the sources you actually use!

If you are having trouble finding enough information, make sure you let Mrs. Patterson know over the weekend so I can find you some more! Just leave a comment on this post, or email me at:

mrs.meri.patterson (at) gmail (dot) com
(I can't type it all the way out or it won't show up)

The PLAN for today/this weekend

Today in class, and over the weekend, please work on creating a map. Your map will illustrate your topic in some way. I want you to be creative, and you may use either Paint or paper/colors. I would prefer that you use paper (I can scan them in when it's time to put your websites online) but you have that choice.

Please contact me if you need ideas about what to put on your map. Your map must include:

1. Color-coding of some sort
2. A key
3. A compass rose
4. Labeling of important landmarks (states, rivers, etc)

I will collect your maps at the beginning of class on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend!

Morse code/Telegraph

Unidentified soldiers

Surgery/Amputation

Strategies

Soldiers/Preparing for battle

Slavery

Prisons

Nursing/Red Cross/Clara Barton

Minie Ball/Weapons

Gettysburg

Disease

Communication

Cemeteries

HW due May 25

Today (Tuesday) we will watch the Civil War section of America: The Story of Us.

For homework please write the following for me:

Write a two-paragraph response to today's video. Talk about the things you learned and things you'd like to learn more about.

A Nation at War

Please work alone or with a partner to answer these questions in Chapter 21. If you work with a partner, you EACH must turn in your own work and write in your OWN words.

Ch. 21. 3
What did the north like about the Missouri Compromise? What about the south?

Ch. 21.4
Why were southerners fearful of abolitionists? How did Mississippi try to keep abolitionists out of the state?

Define FUGITIVE:

Use the word FUGITIVE in a sentence to describe the Underground Railroad.

What was the argument between north and south about accepting California as a state?

Ch. 21.5
Create a T Chart to explain the "Compromise" between north and south in 1850.

Ch. 21.6
Describe two components of the Fugitive Slave Law.

What facts prove that the north did not support Fugitive Slave Laws?

In your own words, describe the “Dred Scott” case:


(As a sidenote, Dred Scott lived and is buried in St. Louis, Missouri where I am from. I visited his gravesite for a project in high school.)

Ch. 21.7
What two “bombshell” facts prevented Dred Scott the right to sue for his freedom.


Ch. 21.8
Analyze the 1860 Presidential results to answer the next two questions.

How many votes did Abraham Lincoln receive from ALL southern states?

Explain how the 1860 election results confirm split between the north & south?

Ch. 21.9
Define SECESSION.

How did the election of Lincoln force South Carolina and the rest of the south to secede?

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Browse this website. The articles were created by 8th grade students. I love how they are written in the students' voices. Even though there are some mis-spellings, you can tell they were written by the students. You will be working on a similar project where you will become an expert on a topic in the next few weeks.

Summarizing Documents

This week while some of your classmates are finishing up testing, we will learn a little more about how to summarize a document. Going over your papers, I realize that we need to work on strategies for putting information in your own words. Here is a link to a document we will be summarizing together in class Tuesday May 17.

Abraham Lincoln Biography

After we work on this together, we will work through a variety of other documents with a partner.

Your papers (final drafts) will be due this week. I want to give you one more day in the classroom to finish your final drafts. The papers will be due AT THE END OF CLASS ON THIS THURSDAY. Please plan accordingly. The testing should be over by then, and this will give you time to finish typing in class on Thursday. We might have some time to work on editing on Wednesday of this week, so make sure you are carrying around your rough draft with you (once I give it back!) so you can work on it at any available opportunity.

Thanks!

Your next assignment --

Will be to write a 1-2 page paper. It should be at least 3 paragraphs long. You will choose one of the topics from the list below and write an essay on the question you choose. Everyone will be writing the same length essay, but you will be writing on different topics. I will provide a packet of sources for each topic. Here are your topics:

1. Did Lincoln put an end to slavery? What did he do?

http://www.scribd.com/full/55016202?access_key=key-1dj8eok30mxrs018fpuy



2. How did conditions during the Civil War effect everyday people?

http://www.scribd.com/full/55016196?access_key=key-5hutk5hsoitjwnapdwr


3. Why did abolitionists want to put an end to slavery?

http://www.scribd.com/full/55016199?access_key=key-2ofmb702n76kegtat53h


4. Read one of the books I have to choose from. How does that book portray slavery or war? (If you are interested in reading a book and choosing this essay option, see me for book availability.)
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Each essay must have a "works cited" page, just like the other research paper we wrote. Remember, you can get to the "citation machine" from the "assignments" folder in Mr. Rideout's folder.
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All of these documents can also be found in Mr. Rideout's folder/Period_00/assignments/Mrs.Patterson/Essay
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Due Dates and Expectations

Monday May 9 -- Pick your topic, begin research/note-taking

Tuesday May 10 -- Continue note-taking/start outline

Wednesday May 11 -- Turn in outline at beginning of class. Begin working on rough draft

Thursday May 12 -- Peer editing. By the end of today's class make sure you have edited a classmate's paper

Friday May 13 -- Take your classmate's notes and suggestions into account while you begin your final draft. Turn in your rough drafts with classmate comments to Mr. Rideout by the end of the class period (I will not be in class this day)

Monday May 16 -- Last class day to work on final drafts

Tuesday May 17 -- Final papers due at beginning of class

I will be giving you grades for the following:

- Outline turned in on time (5/11)
- Rough draft turned in on time (5/13)
- Peer edits done on a classmate's paper (5/12)
- Final paper turned in on time (5/17)

**If you seem to be falling behind this schedule, please make sure you take your work home and talk to me about your concerns!**

**If you are ahead of schedule, please work ahead on the timeline. I would rather have you work hard at the beginning and get done with your research early so you have more time edit your final draft!**

Quilt assignment and THE PLAN for the next few days

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to say that I thought the "quilts" that you all did turned out so great! I am so proud of all of you for creating such great pieces of art, and for some of you for really designing something that was meaningful to you.





We will be spending one more class day talking about slavery during the 1850's. Did you know that slavery still exists in today's world?? Next week in 3rd and 5th periods, we will have guest speakers talking about modern-day slavery right here in American and around the world. I am going to ask you answer some questions for me at the end of class tomorrow on an anonymous exit card, as well as ask any questions you have on modern-day slavery that I will forward to Mrs. Bridges and Officer Herring before they come speak.

Since we don't have class on Friday, on Thursday we will have time to work on bringing your quilt pieces to life with fabric generously donated by Ms. Smith. Also, we may even have a snack! You know you love social studies.

See you tomorrow,
Mrs. Patterson

Chapter 20 - Poster assignment

Students will work in groups of two or three to create and present a speech and a poster over a section of Chapter 20 (African Americans at Mid-Century). Here are the steps necessary to complete this project:

1) Pick your section and partner. Tell me who you are working with and which section you are doing.

2) Read the section.

3) Take notes on the main ideas of the section.

4) Create a visual aid (poster) to show while you are giving your speech on your section.

5) Write your speech.

6) Practice!

I will be grading based on the following things:

1 point – Poster is clear, neat and accurate.
1 point – Speech is well thought out, accurate and practiced.
1 point – Creativity and completion. Steps to completion exist (you can show me your notes, your rough draft of your speech, etc)
.5 point – Participation. Each student helped with the project and presented.
.5 point - Presentation/Poster go above and beyond what is required.

Memory Quilt Assignment

Pick a topic or event where you felt discriminated against, sad, OR a happy event in your life. You will be creating a quilt block out of your event.

Step 1 -- Graphic organizer (in your green journal)
Step 2 -- Rough draft of explanation/sketch of quilt (in your green journal)
Step 3 -- Construction quilt piece/Final draft of explanation

This project (the web organizer, the drafts and the construction paper quilt piece) will be due Thursday, April 21 by the end of class.

Harriet Tubman

First, we will watch these videos:

http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=74EF0798-BEA3-41E6-951D-1D7A1B0D4273&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

http://www.watchknow.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=26104

http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=7e3b3549-61b4-4a7d-aa75-19cb730f458a

We will be getting into groups of two or three to work on a worksheet about Harriet Tubman. You will read the short story aloud in your group. Information from the movies and from the written story will help you find your answers.

Homework - Civil War Photo Slideshow

Best Civil War Photos

More social studies videos on American Civil War at NeoK12.com  

There aren't a huge amount of photos that exist from the time of the Civil War. Photographs of the day were glass plates, and often the glass needed to be reused -- and the photos disappeared forever. These photos illustrate the brutality of war, homes and buildings, and of course, mustaches galore.

**For your homework this week** Please pick one photo that you feel especially interested in or affected by. In your Civil War Journal, first write down the time the photo comes through the slideshow (so I can find it). Then please write me 2-3 paragraphs. The first paragraph will describe what you see in the picture. The other two paragraphs should be your personal opinion on the photo; tell me why it is meaningful to you, why you believe it is important, how what you see affects you. This will be due to me on Wednesday at the beginning of class**

Civil War Journal - Second Post

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a famous book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was written before the Civil War in 1852. It tells the story of Uncle Tom and other slaves who were bought and sold. It is an anti-slavery novel and became one of the top-selling novels of the 1800's.

This novel excited and encouraged abolitionists, and angered those who were pro-slavery.

We will be reading different reviews of this novel and deciding whether they were written by Northerners or Southerners. How can we tell? And what if you had only read one side of the story, what would you think about this novel?

On the second page of your journal please write:

-The number of your passage
-Was this written by a Northerner or a Southerner?
-How can you tell?

Civil War Journal - First Post

On your first page, please think back on what we have learned about primary sources. Imagine you have been gone for 100 years. There is only one primary source -- a piece of your life -- left. What is that thing? What does it tell others about you?

Examples might be:
Your facebook page
Your binder
One email you have written
One photograph of you

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Homework due 4/13

For homework this week, please write a two-paragraph "diary entry" pretending you are a person who either lives in the North or in the South in 1860. You can decide whether you want to be:

1. A Southern slave-owner
2. A Southern slave
3. A Northerner

Please describe yourself in the first paragraph and describe your daily life in the second paragraph. This doesn't have to be incredibly detailed, but it does need to be accurate. Please reference Chapter 19 for information about the North and South.

I will check this homework at the beginning of class on Wednesday.

Progressive Era

Expectations for the Chapter 18 "protest":

.5 Points -- Posters. Neat and concise. Accurate and well-explained.

1 Point -- Speech. Acccurate and well-explained. Well-written and planned.

1 Point -- Presentation. Clear and well-explained. Well organized.

1 Point -- Participation. Student has participated in presenting. Student has participated in creation.

.5 Points -- Presentation is above and beyond what is expected.

Total -- 4 Points

History Games

Dress an 18th century paper doll:
http://www.history.org/kids/games/dollGame.cfm

Learn how to make bricks:
http://www.history.org/kids/games/brickmaker.cfm

Guess the history scene:
http://pbskids.org/historydetectives/games/hsi/

Guess the year:
http://pbskids.org/historydetectives/games/capsule_index.html

Chapter 18 -- Powerpoint assignment

Powerpoint Outline – Chapter 18 The Progressive Era


Slide 1
Section Title and names of your groupies


Slide 2
Summarize first paragraph:

• On your powerpoint: two bullets of information and two pictures.
• Summarize verbally for the class (use notecards to help you remember the information)


Slide 3
Heading of second section

• Three main points (if you don’t think there are three, please see Mrs. Patterson)

Slide 4
Heading of third section

• Three main points (if you don’t think there are three, please see Mrs. Patterson)


Slide 5
“The end” slide of your choice

(Don’t get too crazy)

Your next assignment -- Following the blog!

Having Trouble Becoming a Blog Follower?
Yes, I did steal this from Mrs. Terpening :)

Note: You need an email account to follow the blog. If you do not already have one, consider making one for free at any of the web based servers, i.e. hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc.

1.Click on the follow button at the bottom of the page.

2. If you have a gmail account click on Google. If you have a Yahoo account, click on Yahoo. If you have a Twitter account click on that. If you have none of those, or an email address from a different provider, click on the link at the bottom that says to create a new Google account. You are not signing up for a new email...you are simply just creating a log-in you can use in many places on the internet.

3. In high school, following a blog and perhaps even creating one of your own will be an expectation. If you are checking in regularly and posting when assigned as an 8th grader, you will be very well prepared as a 9th grader.

Homework for 3/16

This week's homework will be to show Mrs. Patterson your index cards/scratch paper notes that you will use for your Powerpoint presentation. Your index cards will be due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, and I will expect you to refer to them when presenting your Powerpoint that day!

Homework due March 2

For homework this week you will write a diary entry pretending you are a person moving west in 1850.

Your diary entry will be 2 paragraphs long. The first paragraph will explain at least two reasons that you are moving west.

The second paragraph will tell what territory you are heading for and why.

Please see Mrs. Patterson with any questions. This homework will be due Wednesday, March 2.

Resources for Manifest Destiny Project

These are internet sources that I hope you will use if you decide to do internet research. Please do NOT turn in an assignment with "google" or "bing", etc. as a "source". I want to make sure you are finding accurate information.


History of Florida

http://www.flheritage.com/facts/history/summary/
http://www.floridamemory.com/FloridaHighlights/



Seminole Indians

http://www.semtribe.com/History/
http://www.flheritage.com/facts/history/seminole/
http://www.seminolenation-indianterritory.org/



Louisiana Purchase:

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/5040/preview/
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Louisiana.html
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/purchase/history.html#outline4
http://www.umsl.edu/~loupurch/history.html



History of Texas:
http://www.texasalmanac.com/topics/history
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/#history
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/



Sam Houston portraits:
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth30051/
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth31187/



Oregon Pioneers:

http://www.marionhistory.org/
http://www.marionhistory.org/index.php?n=Biographies.Biographies



Historic Photos of early Salem
(also check out the "timeline search":

http://www.salemhistory.net



World Book Online

http://www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/home?gr=Welcome+Salem-Keizer+Ps+Warehouse%2FRcvg

Manifest Destiny -- Projects

Manifest Destiny Activities – DUE FEBRUARY 25, 2011

“C” Activity


In order to get at least a “C,” you must complete the following activity:


1. Create a map of the United States that shows the regions we will study in Chapter fifteen. Your map must include:

All regions that were acquired by the United States in Chapter 15 (Texas, Florida, Oregon Territory, the Louisiana Purchase and the California/New Mexico Territory) – clearly labeled.

All states that existed (on the east coast) in 1803, labeled.

At least five landforms (ocean, rivers, mountains, lakes) within the United States, clearly marked.

Resources of each region, labeled with a key.

(SEE pages 498-499 for a physical map of America; Page 36 for a map of NATURAL RESOURCES)



“B” Activities

In order to get at least a “B,” you must complete the “C” activity and ONE of the following activities:

1. Create a Powerpoint that describes one of the territories described in Chapter 15 (Texas, California/New Mexico, Oregon, Louisiana Purchase, Florida). Your Powerpoint MUST include the following:

Reasons why this territory should become part of the United States.

Reasons why this territory should NOT become part of the United States.

Resources the territory has to offer the United States.

At least THREE sources, cited properly.

A title slide, a citation slide, at least FIVE slides of information, and at least two relevant pictures/maps.


2. Write an essay on why the Louisiana Purchase could be considered the “greatest land deal in history.” (Described on page 199 of the text book.) Your essay must:

Be two pages, double-spaced.

Include at least THREE quotes from TWO different sources, AND a “works cited” page.


3. Create a new, completely different flag for the state of Texas (first, see their original flag on page 203 in the text book.) Your flag must incorporate at least THREE colors, at least FIVE symbols, and show (either with words or pictures) at least TWO of the following:

Representation of Sam Houston or Moses Austin.

How Texas won its independence.

Something appealing to the United States.


4. Create a diary entry on “Oregon Fever,” pretending as though you are considering moving to the Oregon Territory (described on pages 204-205 in the text book). Your entry will describe why Oregon was so appealing to settlers. Your essay must:

Be two pages, double-spaced.

Include at least TWO quotes from TWO different sources, AND a “works cited” page.



“A” Activities

In order to get at least an “A,” you must complete ONE of the “C” activities, ONE of the “B” activities, and ONE of the following activities:

1. Write an essay comparing and contrasting the ways Louisiana and Florida were acquired by the United States. Your essay must:

Be at least THREE pages long, double spaced.

Contain at least FIVE quotes from your sources.

Use at least THREE sources.

Have a “works cited” page.


2. Create a presentation on the Seminole Indians. Describe their communities – how they lived in the 1700 – 1800’s. Some ideas to consider are: What did they farm? Who were their leaders? Were there any notable members of the Seminole Tribe? Describe them. What was their language? How were escaped slaves involved in the tribe? Your presentation can be either a Powerpoint, or see Mrs. Patterson if you have another idea. You must:

Present at least FIVE ideas you discover.

Use at least THREE sources.

Have a “works cited” page.

Feb 16 Homework Assignment

Homework: Manifest Destiny

The United States has not accepted a new state since 1960, the year Mr. Rideout was born. Imagine you represent the people of a territory that wants to become the next state of the United States of America.

Write up an explanation of why your territory (area) wants to become the next state (first paragraph), as well as where your territory is and what you have to offer your new country (second paragraph).

Andrew Jackson websites

Here are some really good online resources for your project. Please go to these websites rather than randomly Googling information. One of the most important things to remember about online research is -- IT IS VERY HARD TO TELL WHAT IS ACCURATE! It is very important to get your information from reliable sources.


http://www.pbs.org/kcet/andrewjackson/

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/andrewjackson

http://millercenter.org/president/jackson

How to cite sources

Here is an example of how to cite your history book as a source:

Hart, Diane. History Alive! The United States through Industrialism. Palo Alto, CA: Teachers’ Curriculum Instutite, 2005.


You will probably be using your textbook as a source for most of your classroom projects. Books, magazines, and the internet are all listed different ways. The way you list your sources in a project like this is called "citing your sources." When a teacher asks you to "cite your sources", they are asking you to make a list of everywhere you got your information. Below is some information that can help you list other types of sources.


Your "works cited page" (list of sources) might look something like this:
http://secondary.oslis.org/orig-steps/resources/cm/mlacitationss?plone_skin=OSLIS+Secondary+Theme

Works Cited:

Boritt, Gabor S. "Civil War." World Book Online. 10 September 1999.
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Eiselen, Malcolm R. "Franklin, Benjamin." The World Book Encyclopedia. 1999.

Hart, Diane. History Alive! The United States through Industrialism. Palo Alto, CA: Teachers’ Curriculum Instutite, 2005.


You can find more information about how to create a works cited page in the Assignments folder.

Here is a link that can help you cite your sources correctly:

http://secondary.oslis.org/orig-steps/resources/cm/mlacitationss?plone_skin=OSLIS+Secondary+Theme

Chapter 14: Andrew Jackson

We will be learning about President Andrew Jackson and what made him both a great President and a ruthless individual.

You have the choice to either work with a partner or alone to do one of the following projects:

1. A Powerpoint (presented to the class) on why you think Andrew Jackson was either a national hero or a historical embarrassment.

-- Your powerpoint must include:
-- A title slide
-- A slide at the end showing your sources
-- At least five other slides showing facts from at least three different sources

Here is the Powerpoint rubric:




2. A debate with another team. Your argument will either endorse (support) Andrew Jackson or argue against his actions as President.
-- Your debate must include:
-- At least three supporting points
-- Must be ready for rebuttals

Here is the debate rubric:





3. Either a Wanted Poster OR a press release (newspaper article) for Andrew Jackson's Hero of the Century Award. (Total possible points for this choice: 3/4 = B) Your poster needs to have at least five facts. You can work with a partner to do research, but you need to create your own poster/press release.

Here is the rubric for the Wanted Poser/Press Release:




Each project must use a minimum of three different sources and they must be documented. See the next blog post for information on citing sources.

History games

Andrew Jackson Jeopardy:
http://jeopardylabs.com/play/the-age-of-andrew-jackson

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/games/game3/

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/games/game2/game2.html

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/games/game1/game1.html

T-Shirt activity and grading rubric

You will be creating a T-shirt that you believe would appeal to many people in America.



(You can click on the rubric to make it bigger)

1. Must have LEGIBLE words and/or recognizable American symbols (USA, America, US Flag.)

2. Represent a large portion of US population (either for or against? American values, policies, feelings, etc.)

3. Uses color/creativity/images to express an opinion.

4. Use a rough draft, final copy quality product.

You can double click this picture here:


Then print. Or find the T-shirt in Mr. Rideout's assignments folder.

Directions for the collage project

What does living in America mean to you?

Please use:

-At least three phrases AND
-At least three individual words AND
-At least ten images

to create your collage. We will have class time on Wednesday and Thursday to work on this project.

You can use magazine scraps, drawings, words, or a combination, as long as you include all sections.

If you have questions, please see Mr. Rideout or Mrs. Patterson's examples. Everyone's collages will look different! This project is about showing us what living in America means to YOU. Not everyone will feel the same way.

"Patriotic Posters" -- What do you think?

Star Spangled Banner - Comparison

What are some similarities between these two versions of the Star Spangled Banner?

What are some differences?

What does each one say about America to you?