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    • Unit 2 - Colonization
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    • Unit 4 - Revolutions
    • Unit 5 - Industrial Revolution
    • Unit 6 - World War I
    • Unit 7 - World War II
    • Unit 8 - Cold War
    • Unit 9 - Globalization
    • Unit 10 - The World Today
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Unit 1 Project - Explorer Trading Cards

  1. Choose an explorer from the list below.
    1. Sir Francis Drake
    2. Henry Hudson
    3. Christopher Columbus
    4. Ferdinand Magellan
    5. Hernan Cortez
    6. John Cabot
    7. Hernando de Soto
    8. Jacques Cartier

2. Once you selected an explorer, you will click the link above to learn more about them. Use the info from these links to complete the research sheet.
3. Once you have completed the research sheet YOU MUST SHOW IT TO MR.VIENS.
4. You will use the information you have collected to create a trading card about your explorer (I will provide the paper, glue, markers, color pencils, etc...).
5. Use the template on your sheet to create your trading card.
6. Once we are done, you will trade your cards to other people in the class to complete your chart on page 18 of your packet.

Unit 4 - American Revolution Gallery Walk Assignment

Make sure you are filling out your Project Planning Guide.
Additionally, each person is responsible for keeping their Journal as well. For each day of the project, you need to write a sentence about the following:
  • What did I learn about the American Revolution.
  • What did we do well today as a group.
  • What do we still need to work on.

Below is the information you can use to complete your poster.

1. French and Indian War: Source #1 || Source #2
2. Stamp Act: Source #1
3. Sons of Liberty: Source #1
4. Boston Tea Party: Source #1 || Source #2
5. Boston Massacre: Source #1 || Source #2
6. Intolerable Acts: Source #1 || Source #2
7. Declaration of Independence: Source #1 || Source #2

Decolonization Lesson Project

Timeline:
  • Step 1: Read the Text 
  • Step 2: Answer the Questions
  • Step 3: Create your Presentation
  • Step 4: Share Presentation with teacher (via Google)
  • (You must complete Steps 1-4 and show them to your teacher before you can continue)
  • Step 5: Plan your assignment for your students
  • Step 6: Print Assignment for students

Indian Subcontinent

Directions Page

​Reading

Southeast Asia

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Directions Page

​Reading
​Africa

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Directions Page

​Reading
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Middle East

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Directions Page

​Reading

World War I Project

​Trenches

Document 1

Document 2

Stuff to Help you
Trench Diagram

Trench Diagram 2
Technology

Document 1

Document 2
Propaganda

Document 1

What is Propaganda

Unit 3 - Portfolio
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On a blank sheet of paper, complete the assignment below. Be sure that the description of your government matches the type of government you have chosen. 
For the Diary Entry, please write a diary entry as if that person lived in your country. Their entry should reflect the type of government you have in your nation.
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Unit 1 - Portfolio Assignments

Please choose three of the five assignments below:
Entry 1:
"How did competition for Asian goods fuel exploration?"

​Create a comic strip explaining your answer.


Click here to go to the website
Entry 2:
Support the following statement in a well-developed paragraph using supporting details from your Social Studies notebook:


The discovery of goods in the America's contributed to the exploration and eventual colonization of the "New World."


Questions to consider:
1. What specific goods are being referenced?
2. What location was called the “New World?”
3. Who explored and colonized the “New World?”
4. What was the motivation to explore and colonized?


Be sure to use correct grammar, capitalization and punctuation.
Entry 3:
New technology allowed Europeans to explore parts of the world they were unable to previously.

Create a mini-poster (on a half-sheet of paper) advertising one of the following technological advances from the Age of Exploration:
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Astrolabe
Compass
Map-Making
Caravel

(Click on each to get basic information about each)


Entry 4:

"What were some of the barriers and problems which led to European exploration?"


Create a map showing the following information:
1. The Silk Road
2. China and India
4. School of Navigation
5. Route of Vasco de Gama
6. Route of Christopher Columbus

For each item above, write a sentence explaining why they are important for our understanding of the Age of Exploration.


Entry 5:

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Unit 2 - Portfolio Assignments

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