Daily Entries
Expect to have Entry Questions most days. Record these into your notebooks and include the Entry Number and Date!!
I collect entries before every quiz. these are our daily grade and by the end of a quarter or semester account for a lot of points!!
Assignments will also be posted on these pages under the dates they are assigned.
Entry 1 9/3/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 1 sec 1
What did the folsom discovery prove?
Where did the earliest Americans most likely come from?
How do we know how old the bones and other objects are?
How did life change about 10,000 years ago for early humans living in America?
Entry 2 - 9/5/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Sec 1 & 2 - Pg 15
Who were the Hohokam people?
What do scientists believe cause the Anasazi civilization to collapse?
Choose 3 tribes from the map on page 22 and research 5 facts about each?
Entry 3 - 9/9/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Pg 36
What 4 new technologies allowed the Europeans to explore the world in the 1400s?
Which nation was the first to find a sea route to Asia?
Who was Leif Erickson?
Who was Claudius Ptolemy?
Entry 4 - 9/10/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Pg 39-40
What was the goal of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage?
What did Columbus bring back across the Atlantic on his second voyage?
Why was the Treaty of Tordesillas created?
How did the Columbian Exchange affect both continents?
Entry 5 - 9/12/2024 - Ol Blue CH 2 Pg 50
Who was Hernan Cortes?
What drove the Spanish to travel further inland throughout North America?
Describe the Encomienda System?
What type of trade brought encouraged the French to settle in North America?
Assignment
Friday 9/13/2024 - Friday the 13th!!
Early English Colonization WebQuest
Click on this link - which opens up a pdf doc. the answers to those questions will be found on the link listed on the doc. or click on the link below
https://www.americanyawp.com/text/02-colliding-cultures/
Entry 6 - 9/16/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 2 Pg 61
What are privateers?
What were the results of the first attempts to colonize North America by the English?
What was the first successful English colony?
Entry 7 - 9/17/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 2 Pg 62
How did Virginia Company “entice” settlers to move to America in 1609?
How did John Rolfe help change Jamestown?
What was the headright system?
Who were the Separatists? - sec 2
Entry 8 - 9/18/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 2 Pg 68
How was the Massachusetts Bay colony governed?
What is a Heretic?
Why was Anne Hutchinson banished?
13 Colonies Project
Entry 9 - 9/19/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 2 Pg 71
WHY DID THE KING PHILIP’S WAR BREAK OUT?
WHY WAS THE COLONY OF GEORGIA CREATED? - 76
Early political cartoon
By Benjamin Franklin
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. . . .
I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great-Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.
From Chapter 4 in Ol Blue, look through the Declaration of Independence and answer the following questions - Pg 134
Historians have agreed that the Declaration of Independence is divided into four main sections. Skim the document and determine the general content of each of the four sections;
What is the purpose of the introductory paragraph
What are unalienable rights?
According to Thomas Jefferson, who has the right to create a government?
Complete the following sentence from the Declaration. "Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to...”
What does that sentence above mean?
According to Jefferson, what is the purpose of a government?
In the final part, list the four things that, according to Jefferson, "Free and Independent States" should have the power to do.
