Assignments

Week 4

February 5 and 6

• Warm Up #1: What could the risks be of having a wide gap in wealth? I.e. that the rich are very, very rich and the poor are very, very poor with few people in between?
• Unit 5 Notebook Check
• Gold Chains
• Primary Sources: Factories v. Plantations

February 7

• Warm Up: #2 When have you been very passionate about a belief? What did you do in response?
• Notes: Cotton Gin and Life in the South
• Primary Sources: Nat Turner

Week 5

February 10

• Warm Up #2: When have you been very passionate about a belief? What did you do in response?
• Notes: Cotton Gin and Life in the South
• Primary Sources: Nat Turner

February 11 and 12

• Warm Up #3: How can songs give us encouragement?
• Primary Sources: Slavery

February 13

• Warm Up #4: Have you ever had to follow a rule you did not like? When?
• Spirituals
• Story time with Mrs. Chaddick
• Underground Railroad
• Notes: Fugitive Slave Law

February 14 - No School

Week 6

February 17 - No School

February 18

• Warm Up #4: Have you ever had to follow a rule you did not like? When?
• Story time with Mrs. Chaddick
• Underground Railroad
• Notes: Fugitive Slave Law

February 19 and 20

• Warm Up #5: What is an issue you feel passionately about? What can you do about that issue?
• Notes: Free Blacks in the South
• Abolitionists
• Study

February 21

• Unit 6 Test - February 21 (Review Sheet)
• Early Explorer Bio-cubes

Unit 6 Notebook Check - February 25 and 26 (Notebook Check Sheet)