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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