Hello!
I hope you've had a good weekend! This week, our history and literature are so intertwined, I thought I would give you a summary for both on the same blog post. The picture above is of Carpenter Hall in Philadelphia, PA where the first meeting of the Continental Congress took place!
YOU SHOULD COME TO CLASS tomorrow with all of your essays on Johnny Tremain ready to turn in!
In History, you have until Thursday, April 7 to turn in your layered timeline books on The Causes of the Revolutionary War.
And in literature, you should have begun the reading schedule that YOU made on Friday so that you finish your biography of your colonial leader by this Friday, April 8. You have your research packet on that project (given to you on Friday last week), so I won't write it all here. But you should be reading and taking notes in an organized way. On Monday, during computer lab, you will be finding primary source documents about your colonial leader to use in the PowerPoint that you will eventually make. The PPt is due on Friday, April 15--you will make your presentations on April 18 and 19 the next week.
SPELLING WORDS for test on Friday, April 8
It would behoove you to Study! Study! Study! I don't want to see grades as low as I saw on last week's test, please! You must be able to match the word with its definition.
1. Loyalist--a colonist who remained loyal to the British cause
2. militia--a citizen army
3. ragamuffin--someone dressed in rags
4. redoubt--an earthen hilltop fort
5. seditious--an activity that is against lawful authority
6. treason--the offense of trying to overthrow a legitimate government
7. defection--the abandonment of one's allegiance
8. allegiance--loyalty
9. inventory--a list of goods or supplies
10. reconciliation--the restoration of friendship or peaceful relationships
11. martial--of the military
12. provincial--from the provinces, or "country-fied"
