Announcements

Monday MARCH 23, 2020

As we shift to online instruction please register for the Google Classroom for your class. You must use your HISD address. Go to classroom.google.com and enter the code to join the class period you are enrolled in. You must be signed into your houstonisd.org account email in google to enter the class code.

If you are having problems go to classroom.google.com sign in with your HISD email, click on organizational account, using the + in the top right corner, click join class and enter the class code.

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Welcome to United States History, 1607-1877.

This is your history whether your family has been here for several centuries or if you only recently moved here. Regardless of where you and your family have lived, you need to picture what those ancestors were doing during these years of 1607 to 1877. Did you know that many Asians fought in the Civil War on both sides? Probably if it had not been for Bernardo de Galvez and the Spanish, Mexicans, and Cubans, we may not have won the Revolutionary War or it would have been much longer. Where did many ideas for our Constitution originate? Many of those ideas came from the American Indians. Could some of these people be your direct ancestor?

Refer to this page for special announcements or to update assignments. You will see the new assignments on Mondays under the Assignments.

April: NEW EXTRA CREDIT

“For the month of April, the Houston Independent School District is celebrating National Arab American Heritage Month to recognize the historical and cultural contributions made by the people of Arabic descent.

The HISD Board of Education during the regular April Board Meeting on Thursday, April 9, will issue a proclamation designating April as a month that celebrates the history of Arab migration to America, geographic understanding of the Arab world, Arab American diversity in faith and language, interesting customs and traditions, and achievements in business, politics, education, and more.

You can also visit the Arab America webpage for daily features highlighting the culture and influences of Arab America.”

Your extra-credit assignment:

You may interview an Arab who is living here. Ask the usual questions for an interview such as what do they do, their educational background, hobbies, family, Arab culture they observe here, how they influence you, and how you know them. You also inquire when their families arrived here, from where, and why did they come. You might mention about the school district designating this as Arab American Heritage Month and their opinion of that.

This must be neatly presented in booklet form preferably which you will then take pictures and send to me or scan it. Your questions and answers must be included. If you can get a picture of the subject, include that.

The interview is not done in person; you may call the subject or interview the person online. The subject can send you a picture if possible. It is not required since this is not possible in person.

The project is due by the last day of April. It can be as much as five extra points added to your final grade of the grading period.

May is Asian Heritage Month and the same type of project may be completed for that month.

September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, February is Black History Month; March is Women's History Month; May is Asian Heritage Month. Here are extra-credit assignments you may do to recognize these special months. The teacher must be one you have had or have now. I am not included. For Women's History Month you may interview a woman teacher, physician, dentist, attorney or other woman working outside of the home asking the similar questions you asked in the other teacher interview. The woman may not be your parent. This is due by the end of March. Follow the format I explained to you for interviewing a teacher. See below.

Interview an African-American, Hispanic, or Asian teacher you had from nursery school to now. Include: Why that individual become a teacher, where did he/she go to school, who influenced that teacher, how did that teacher influence you, try to have a picture taken with that teacher. Put all this into a neat booklet you prepare and submit by the end of that special time period.