Hi Seniors!
I would like to meet with you this week to give you details about our trip.
Please come to room 027 during Advisory on Wednesday or Friday of this week.
I will have a letter for you and I'll answer questions you might have. Please tell others about this as well.
Ms. Grady
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Summer Reading List for incoming 11th graders
Please choose 3 of the following to read and be prepared to take a test on them. They can be found at your neighborhood branch of the Boston Public Library. Go to amazon.com for reviews, page #'s, author information, etc. to help you make your choices.
The House of the Spirits - Allende
The Farming of Bones- Danticat
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
The Hound of the Baskervilles -Doyle
An optional program that will help you improve your reading skills over the summer is Scholastic's Summer Reading Buzz at www.scholastic.com/buzz. This is a place to connect with other readers, answer questions and a sweepstakes with prizes like a trip to Walt Disney World.
The House of the Spirits - Allende
The Farming of Bones- Danticat
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
The Hound of the Baskervilles -Doyle
An optional program that will help you improve your reading skills over the summer is Scholastic's Summer Reading Buzz at www.scholastic.com/buzz. This is a place to connect with other readers, answer questions and a sweepstakes with prizes like a trip to Walt Disney World.
Immigration during the 19th century: One Nation chapter 32
Immigrants in the United States during the 19th century
Identify the following terms:
Immigrant
Tenement
Assimilate
Chinese exclusion acts
Stereotype
True/False explain
Most of the new immigrants to the US after 1885 came from England.
Many Jews fled to the US in the 1880’s as a result of pogroms.
Most of the immigrants on the West Coast came from China and Korea.
Most of the Chinese immigrants in the second half of the 1800’s worked as laborers and factory workers.
Most Latino immigrants planned to remain in the US permanently.
Describe life in a European immigrant neighborhood in a big US city (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, etc.).
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Local News
Please read one of the news articles about the Pirate radio station or the rate of STD's among young women in Boston and answer the questions that follow. Then post a comment with your opinion.
http://www.dotnews.com/radiorebels.html
Pirate radio:
1. Why was there no music playing at 6:05 am on the Tuesday mentioned in the article?
2. Why is the station called "the voice of Black Boston"?
3. What was the Man Up Gang-Truce Rally?
4. How many people listen to the station online, on average, each day?
5. What is a "pirate" station?
6. How might the Prometheus Radio Project help TOUCH FM?
STD epidemic questions
1. What are the rates of STD's for general population of teen girls in the US? What are the rates of STD's for African American teen girls in the US?
2. What do doctors and nurses say about this epidemic?
3. What are possible reasons for the racial disparities?
4. How does shame affect young women's access to health care?
5. Why is an STD vaccination not mandatory?
6. What is your opinion of what should be done to solve this problem? Explain your answer.
http://www.dotnews.com/radiorebels.html
Pirate radio:
1. Why was there no music playing at 6:05 am on the Tuesday mentioned in the article?
2. Why is the station called "the voice of Black Boston"?
3. What was the Man Up Gang-Truce Rally?
4. How many people listen to the station online, on average, each day?
5. What is a "pirate" station?
6. How might the Prometheus Radio Project help TOUCH FM?
STD epidemic questions
1. What are the rates of STD's for general population of teen girls in the US? What are the rates of STD's for African American teen girls in the US?
2. What do doctors and nurses say about this epidemic?
3. What are possible reasons for the racial disparities?
4. How does shame affect young women's access to health care?
5. Why is an STD vaccination not mandatory?
6. What is your opinion of what should be done to solve this problem? Explain your answer.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
US-Mexico War
Please go to this site for today's lesson http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/educators/gold_rush_miners_tax.html
For credit, you must write in the comments section your responses to today's readings. Please have an adult check your comments before you post!
Or write about the 14th Amendment using this website:
Or compare Athens to Sparta:
Monday, May 19, 2008
The 3rd World Writing Contest
Please see me if you are interested in submitting an essay to this contest. The instructions can be found at this site:
Good luck!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Civil War
Please research the Union's strategy at the beginning of the Civil War and answer the questions.
The strategy is at this website: http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/lesson_grand_strategy.html
• More than three million men fought in the war.• Two percent of the population—more than 620,000—died in it.• In two days at Shiloh on the banks of the Tennessee River, more Americans fell than in all previous American wars combined.• During the Battle of Antietam, 12,401 Union men were killed, missing or wounded; double the casualties of D-Day, 82 years later. With a total of 23,000 casualties on both sides, it was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.• At Cold Harbor, Va., 7,000 Americans fell in 20 minutes.• Senator John J. Crittendon of Kentucky had two sons who became major generals during the Civil War: one for the North, one for the South.• Ulysses S. Grant was not fond of ceremonies or military music. He said he could only recognize two tunes. "One was Yankee Doodle," he grumbled. "The other one wasn’t."• Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege of Vicksburg: 17 to the Confederacy and 22 to the Union.• During the Battle of Antietam, Clara Barton tended the wounded so close to the fighting that a bullet went through her sleeve and killed a man she was treating.• At the start of the war, the value of all manufactured goods produced in all the Confederate states added up to less than one-fourth of those produced in New York State alone.• In March 1862, European powers watched in worried fascination as the Monitor and Merrimack battled off Hampton Roads, Va. From then on, after these ironclads opened fire, every other navy on earth was obsolete.• In 1862, the U.S. Congress authorized the first paper currency, called "greenbacks."• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future chief Justice, was wounded three times during the Civil War: in the chest at Ball’s Bluff, in the back at Antietam and in the heel at Chancellorsville.• Confederate Private Henry Stanley fought for the Sixth Arkansas, and was captured at Shiloh, but survived to go to Africa to find Dr. Livingston.• George Pickett’s doomed infantry charge at Gettysburg was the first time he took his division into combat.• On July 4, 1863, after 48 days of siege, Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendered the city of Vicksburg to the Union’s General, Ulysses S. Grant. The Fourth of July was not be celebrated in Vicksburg for another 81 years.• Disease was the chief killer during the war, taking two men for every one who died of battle wounds.• North and South, potential recruits were offered awards, or "bounties," for enlisting, as much as $677 in New York. Bounty jumping soon became a profession, as men signed up, then deserted, to enlist again elsewhere. One man repeated the process 32 times before being caught.• African Americans constituted less than one percent of the northern population, yet by the war’s end made up ten percent of the Union Army. A total of 180,000 black men, more than 85% of those eligible, enlisted.• In November 1863, President Lincoln was invited to offer a "few appropriate remarks" at the opening of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg. The main speaker, a celebrated orator from Massachusetts, spoke for nearly two hours. Lincoln offered just 269 words in his Gettysburg Address.• Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest had 30 horses shot from under him and personally killed 31 men in hand-to-hand combat. "I was a horse ahead at the end," he said.• The words "In God We Trust" first appeared on a U.S. coin in 1864.• In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to Lieutenant General, a rank previously held by General George Washington, and led the 533,000 men of the Union Army, the largest in the world. Three years later, he was made President of the United States.• Andersonville Prison in southwest Georgia held 33,000 prisoners in 1864. It was the fifth largest city in the Confederacy.•By the end of the war, Unionists from every state except South Carolina had sent regiments to fight for the North.• On November 9, 1863, President Lincoln attended a theater in Washington, D.C., to see "The Marble Heart." An accomplished actor, John Wilkes Booth, was in the cast.• On March 4, 1865, Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term. Yards away in the crowd was John Wilkes Booth with a pistol in his pocket. His vantage point on the balcony, he said later, offered him "an excellent chance to kill the President, if I had wished."• On May 13, 1865, a month after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Private John J. Williams of the 34th Indiana became the last man killed in the Civil War, in a battle at Palmito Ranch, Texas. The final skirmish was a Confederate victory.• Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first black man ever elected to the U.S. Senate. He filled the seat last held by Jefferson Davis.
The strategy is at this website: http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/lesson_grand_strategy.html
• More than three million men fought in the war.• Two percent of the population—more than 620,000—died in it.• In two days at Shiloh on the banks of the Tennessee River, more Americans fell than in all previous American wars combined.• During the Battle of Antietam, 12,401 Union men were killed, missing or wounded; double the casualties of D-Day, 82 years later. With a total of 23,000 casualties on both sides, it was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.• At Cold Harbor, Va., 7,000 Americans fell in 20 minutes.• Senator John J. Crittendon of Kentucky had two sons who became major generals during the Civil War: one for the North, one for the South.• Ulysses S. Grant was not fond of ceremonies or military music. He said he could only recognize two tunes. "One was Yankee Doodle," he grumbled. "The other one wasn’t."• Missouri sent 39 regiments to fight in the siege of Vicksburg: 17 to the Confederacy and 22 to the Union.• During the Battle of Antietam, Clara Barton tended the wounded so close to the fighting that a bullet went through her sleeve and killed a man she was treating.• At the start of the war, the value of all manufactured goods produced in all the Confederate states added up to less than one-fourth of those produced in New York State alone.• In March 1862, European powers watched in worried fascination as the Monitor and Merrimack battled off Hampton Roads, Va. From then on, after these ironclads opened fire, every other navy on earth was obsolete.• In 1862, the U.S. Congress authorized the first paper currency, called "greenbacks."• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future chief Justice, was wounded three times during the Civil War: in the chest at Ball’s Bluff, in the back at Antietam and in the heel at Chancellorsville.• Confederate Private Henry Stanley fought for the Sixth Arkansas, and was captured at Shiloh, but survived to go to Africa to find Dr. Livingston.• George Pickett’s doomed infantry charge at Gettysburg was the first time he took his division into combat.• On July 4, 1863, after 48 days of siege, Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendered the city of Vicksburg to the Union’s General, Ulysses S. Grant. The Fourth of July was not be celebrated in Vicksburg for another 81 years.• Disease was the chief killer during the war, taking two men for every one who died of battle wounds.• North and South, potential recruits were offered awards, or "bounties," for enlisting, as much as $677 in New York. Bounty jumping soon became a profession, as men signed up, then deserted, to enlist again elsewhere. One man repeated the process 32 times before being caught.• African Americans constituted less than one percent of the northern population, yet by the war’s end made up ten percent of the Union Army. A total of 180,000 black men, more than 85% of those eligible, enlisted.• In November 1863, President Lincoln was invited to offer a "few appropriate remarks" at the opening of a new Union cemetery at Gettysburg. The main speaker, a celebrated orator from Massachusetts, spoke for nearly two hours. Lincoln offered just 269 words in his Gettysburg Address.• Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest had 30 horses shot from under him and personally killed 31 men in hand-to-hand combat. "I was a horse ahead at the end," he said.• The words "In God We Trust" first appeared on a U.S. coin in 1864.• In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to Lieutenant General, a rank previously held by General George Washington, and led the 533,000 men of the Union Army, the largest in the world. Three years later, he was made President of the United States.• Andersonville Prison in southwest Georgia held 33,000 prisoners in 1864. It was the fifth largest city in the Confederacy.•By the end of the war, Unionists from every state except South Carolina had sent regiments to fight for the North.• On November 9, 1863, President Lincoln attended a theater in Washington, D.C., to see "The Marble Heart." An accomplished actor, John Wilkes Booth, was in the cast.• On March 4, 1865, Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term. Yards away in the crowd was John Wilkes Booth with a pistol in his pocket. His vantage point on the balcony, he said later, offered him "an excellent chance to kill the President, if I had wished."• On May 13, 1865, a month after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Private John J. Williams of the 34th Indiana became the last man killed in the Civil War, in a battle at Palmito Ranch, Texas. The final skirmish was a Confederate victory.• Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first black man ever elected to the U.S. Senate. He filled the seat last held by Jefferson Davis.
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