LIFE IN THE COLONIES

ALWAYS KEEP THIS OPEN!
GO TO THESE WEBSITES IN A SEPERATE WINDOW AND THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW, ON YOUR HANDOUT.

SLAVERY
Go to (copy and paste this link in a new window): http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/african/aaintro.cfm
1. Where did slavery exist?
2. What did slaves do?

FOOD-YUMMY!
Go to (copy and paste this link in a new window): http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/food/index.cfm
3. Which recipes sound the most delicious to you? Why?
4. Where did they get the ingredients to make the food? (If the link above doesn't really help you answer the question, try this one: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13coloniesfood.htm)


FAMILY
Go to (copy and paste this link in a new window): http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/background.cfm
5. What were families like in the beginning of colonization?
6. How did families change over time and why?

JOBS
Go to: http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm
7. Pick two colonial jobs and explain why you think they were important to colonial life (how did they help colonial society?)

CLOTHING/SOCIAL CLASS
Go to: http://www.history.org/History/teaching/dayInTheLife/webactivities/dress/dress.cfm
A. Dress the people according to how rich or wealthy they were.
B. Then, on your handout, draw a sketch of the two drawings you made.
C. Label their clothes on your drawing.
D. Which social class is each drawing representing?
E. Explain why their clothing makes them look like they are from that social class?

EDUCATION

Go to: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13coloniesfood.htm
9. There 13 colonies are split into three section: Northern Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies.
A. Explain how schools were different in each section.
B. Why do you think they were so different?

6/7 Civil Rights Notes

Please go to the link below to finish taking down notes form the power point.

http://www.slideshare.net/ralucaalbu/civil-rightspowerpoint2?from=share_email

8th Grade Religious Conflict Research Project

In Class Religious Conflict Research Project

“Religions don’t cause wars. People cause wars.”
Agree or Disagree?
Prove it!

With your neighbors, where you are sitting, either in pairs or groups of three, you will research a current or recent world conflict that has religious elements to it. Then you will create a poster presentation that will instruct the rest of the class about the issue you researched. We are going to investigate the quote above. Is global conflict really based on religion? Here is what the poster should contain:

A. Go to this website to look at a list of current world conflicts that involve religion somehow. You can decide as a group which one you are most interested in researching:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/curr_war.htm

B. Make it visually appealing. You will all have to read each other’s posters, so make sure yours looks interesting, has easy to read information, helps people learn.
C. Your poster will have to answer these questions:
1. What are the religions that are clashing?
2. Why are they clashing?/What are they clashing over?
3. When did this start?
4. What is the background of this conflict? Did this group clash before? What were the previous tensions and issues that they were bringing to this issue?
5. What do the texts/main ideas of these religions say about war, peace, etc?
6. What other factors are involved in this conflict? (Besides religion, if any)
7. In a paragraph, discuss whether this example you researched agrees or disagrees with the quotation above.

After a week of research and poster making, you will individually produce a 5-paragraph essay that reviews the answer to this question, using THREE examples. 1 will be your group example, and the other two examples you will learn about when you read your classmate’s posters.

You can use the back of this sheet to write down the notes that you will eventually transfer to the poster. I will also paste these directions to my blog in case you lose this.

8th grade Hinduism/Buddhism Stations

Extra activity:


Yoga Questions (you can also answer in your HJ)

Go to: http://www.holisticonline.com/yoga/hol_yoga_intr.htm
1. How is Yoga similar to meditation?
2. How is Yoga different from meditation?
3. Although most modern day Yoga activities do not mention religious references, what connections can you see between Yoga and Hinduism?

Go to http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/finder/browse_categories/forward_bends
4. Pick 5 poses. Which 5 did you pick and why?
5. What are at least three things that each of these poses has in common? It might not be an actual movement but it might be something you notice in the description.
6. Would you ever want to try yoga? Why/why not? Or: Have you ever tried it? Did you enjoy it? Why/why not?

6/7 Poem

Hi 6/7! Don't post your poem on the blog - hand write it (and maybe decorate it a bit) so we can post it up in the classroom. Thanks!

Ms Albu

6/7 Convention Questions Due Friday

IN HJ :-)
1. What was the hardest part of creating laws?
2. How accurate do you think the convention was from what actually happened?
3. Write a summary of what happened.
4. Do you think it was over all successful? Why/Why not?