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Welcome back!

St. Ignatius Loyola Academy students and friends, welcome back!

I am very excited for this year coming up and I look forward to getting it started.

Just a heads up, the first homework assignment - the pillar activity will be due on Friday!

We will be having our first quiz next week! Date TBA

See me if you have any questions!

-Mr. O

5th Quarter

5th Quarter is going really well! I am so proud of the research and maturity I have seen with the new 8th graders. I am impressed with the topics that have been chosen and I look forward to seeing the finished products.

I hope you are all having a great day!

-Mr. O

8th Grade Field Trip to PA

I hope all of the 8th graders out there enjoyed the trip to PA today! I personally enjoyed the lunch St. Joe's Prep provided for us, the Freedom Rising show and the various hands on activities they offered.

I would like to take this trip next year but it is imperative we are on our best behavior when leaving the school. I am so excited we have these opportunities and I would like for them to continue.

I have read your thank you letters and I would like to say I am very impressed with a lot of them! Thank you for your thoughtful responses.

7th grade- thanks for being understanding with the classes you have had recently when I haven't been there. I count on you guys to help out when called upon and it seems like you are all coming through!

I look forward to tomorrow. I am at school right now getting the classroom ready for you guys...how does it get so messy???

Best Regards,

Mr. O

The Final Stretch

8th Graders,

This is it gentleman, please make sure you are reading chapter 11 and completing the guide to reading questions. Make sure to also be reading up on the civil war outside of class to build even better background knowledge.

Question for comments...what do you think the biggest contributor to the start of the Civil War? Why?

Post what you think!

The Weekend

Reminder 8th grade - You have a vocabulary quiz on Monday (those who did not take it today)

7th grade - Great job DJ and D. Turner with helping to teach the class!

Make sure to read the news and read your books over the weekend...

Get outside and enjoy the weather!

-Mr. O

Class today

I just wanted to thank the 7th and 8th grade classes I had today for the stellar achievements and accomplishments. It was fun being a teacher today!

3rd Quarter

RETURN THE GRADE REPORTS SIGNED A.S.A.P!!

It is essential that your parent or guardian knows what your grade is like before you get your report card!

-Mr. O

Civil Rights 1964-1967

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Civil Rights 1964-1967

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THANK YOU!

I want to say a big THANK YOU to 7-1...the way you guys taught class today was IMPRESSIVE!

Keep up with the reading and reviewing, I am confident all of you will close out the quarter strong!

-Mr. O

Teacher

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7th Grade

1. Create a blog!

www.blogspot.com

2. Add your ten best facts about Shiites and Sunni's!

3. We'll work on it more in the upcoming week...

-Mr. O

8th Grade Project

1. Note cards are due Febuary 27th.
**You must have at least 15 note cards.
2. Extra credit for projects handed in Febuary 27th.

3. You may create a powerpoint to upload to your blog.

4. Project must be 2 pages (min) 12 point font, double spaced on microsoft word.

7th Grade

Thank you for those who were with Mr. Brune today.

I look forward to catching up with all of you.

Please read the pages assigned for homework thoroughly.

-Mr. O

8th Grade Quest

Quest tomorrow and Friday - Just a reminder...

Field Trip

8th grade,

I hope you enjoyed the field trip today. It was pretty cool to meet the Delegates and other powerful people.

I want everyone to write a thank you letter to Mr. Joe and Mr. Pete for setting everything up. You can type it or write it...have it to me by next week.

Thanks and have a great night,

Mr. O

World History

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7th grade -

This is a summary of what we are covering in class 2/12 and 2/13

After the death of Muhammad

*Died suddenly in 632

*Didn't name a successor

*Abu Bakr - one of Muhammad's advisers became the first caliph...what is the definition of a caliph?

*Died after only two years

*Umar was appointed

*There was tolerance as long as they were "people of the book"

*In Islam, the People of the Book are non-Muslim peoples who, according to the Qur'an, received scriptures which were revealed to them by God before the time of Muhammad, most notably Christians and Jews.

*644 Umar named a council...what is the definition of a council?

*Uthman expanded the empire/murdered in Egypt

*Conflict between Ali and Muawiya

Ali
*cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, and fourth of the “rightly guided” caliphs, as the first four successors of Muhammad are called. Reigning from 656 to 661, he was the first imam (leader) of Shīʿism in all its forms. The question of his right to the caliphate (the political-religious structure comprising the community of Muslims and its territories that emerged after the death of Muhammad) resulted in the only major split in Islam, into the Sunni and Shīʿite branches.

Muawiya
*early Islāmic leader and founder of the great Umayyad dynasty of caliphs. He fought against the fourth caliph, ʿAlī (Muḥammad’s son-in-law), seized Egypt, and assumed the caliphate after ʿAlī’s assassination in 661. He restored unity to the Muslim empire and made Damascus its capital. He reigned from 661 to 680.

*661 Muawiya became caliph

For the differences between Shiites and Sunnis, make sure you make a neat Venn Diagram!

-Mr. O

8th grade - What is to come in the next two weeks.

Gentleman,

We will be doing some time traveling. We are going to go from the 1500's to the late 1900's-2000's.

We are doing so because I have noticed that chapter 24 has peaked your interest.

We will be going BACK in time after we finish this section.

In chapter 24 we will cover familiar topics such as economy, education, health, culture, music, religion and race.

You will each be doing individual research and presenting a paper on individuals and topics mentioned in the chapter such as:

Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton's secretary of commerce Ronald Brown, Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Henry Louis Gates, Michael Jordan, Oliver Harrington & Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, HIV/AIDS, Rap, Bob and Ziggy Marley, NWA, John M, Murgess, Louis Farrakhan, Million Man March, Black Feminism, Rights for Gays and Lesbians.

FEEL FREE TO READ AHEAD FOR CHAPTER 24!

Quest Review Questions

Chapter QUEST 2

Multiple Choice: Circle best answer.

1. The middle passage was:

a. the voluntary emigration of Africans to America.

b. the transporting of captives from Africa to England.

c. the voyage of African captives from Africa to the Americas.

d. the voyage that took rebellious Africans back to Africa.

2. Portugal was the leading European country that paved the way for the enslavement of Africans and transporting them to the Americas.

a. True

b. False

3. The profits from the Atlantic slave trade helped to finance the:

a. gold rush in California.

b. westward expansion of the United States.

c. Industrial Revolution in England.

d. construction of the reservations for the Indians.

4. The enslaved Africans:

a. accepted their plight passively.

b. couldn’t rebel because the slave crew had guns.

c. rebelled while boarding the ships and in the open seas.

d. waited until the ships landed and tried running away.

5. The humiliation of enslaved Africans continued once they were ashore, where they were:

a. allowed to rest from the long Atlantic trip before being sold.

b. washed down, greased up, and place on the auction block.

c. kept with their tribe and sold as a group.

d. trained how to be a good slave before being sold.

6. Africans born in the Americas were preferred by the planters over those Africans who were new arrivals because:

a. the Africans born in the Americas made good house servants.

b. the recent arrivals took too long to learn English.

c. the new arrivals had bad attitudes and had to be broken in.

d. they were cheaper to purchase; the buyer didn’t have to pay to

transportation fees.

7. A ship’s size determined is capacity. Most captains:

a. followed the formula of two slavers per ton.

b. kept human cargo light.

c. were “tight packers” and squeezed people tightly into the ship.

d. were concerned about the health of their cargo.

8. England became the leading nation in the Atlantic slave trade in the 1700s; however, by the early 1800s:

a. they wanted to end the slave trade because they felt slavery was

morally wrong.

b. they could no longer compete with the U.S. ships that were

faster and could hold more Africans.

c. the Industrial Revolution made it unnecessary for their economy to

depend on the slave trade.

d. they were trying to appease the growing abolitionist movement.

9. The European ships that brought Africans across the Atlantic Ocean in the

eighteenth century were called ____________________.

10. What products did the Europeans desire that led to their need for forced labor?

1. sugar, tobacco, rice, and indigo
2. ivory tusks, corn, rice, and indigo
3. sugar, apples, rice, and watermelon
4. tomatoes, tobacco, rice, and indigo

11. The mortality rate on the slave ships was high because of crowded, unsanitary conditions and seaboard epidemics, and it is said that:

1. two-thirds of the Africans died between their capture and “seasoning.”
2. the rate of death among slaver crews was proportionally higher than the enslaved.
3. A and B are true.
4. Only A is true.

12. European crew members brutalized the Africans aboard the ships because:

a. they regarded slavery as a suitable condition for non-Christians.

b. they were preparing them for life on the plantation.

c. they felt it was the only way to keep them from rebelling.

d. the more Africans brought to shore, the more the profit.

13. Oftentimes enslaved Africans had to be “prepared” before being sold, so the ship’s crew would:

1. allow them to exercise and clean themselves up.
2. have a doctor inspect them for ailments and disease.
3. dye their hair to conceal their age and oil their bodies to hide the blemishes.
4. fatten up the frail and the skinny to get a better price for them.

14. Planters looked for cargos carrying young African boys and girls from ages 10 to 13:

1. so the old Africans could teach them the language and how to be “good slaves” and the plantation way of life.
2. because they were easier to train than the older African arrivals.
3. because they were strong and made better workers.
4. because it was easier to take them from their families and sold.

15. “Seasoning” is the term used to describe:

1. the acclimation process of brutalizing and humiliating enslaved Africans to their new life as slaves in the Americas.
2. the process developed by enslaved Africans to preserve their food.
3. the process by which planters used to separate house servants from field workers.
4. the leniency bestowed upon older enslaved Africans by the some of the planters for their years of hard work.

Essay

In a well developed essay answer this…

Some Historians say that slavery fueled the Industrial Revolution? Do you agree? Why or why not? (Your answer MUST be supported with facts)

2/16 - 2/ 20

7th Grade plan

1. Finish up ch. 3

2. Finish 5 pillars project

3. Start ch. 4

Themes/Questions for Ch. 4

• How did the Umayyads manage to unite the people of the Muslim Empire?

• What lead to their downfall?

• Who was Al Malik?

• What was different under Abbasid rule?

• How did they come to power?

• What cultural achievements took place during the Golden Age?

• Spain was greatly influenced by Muslim culture. Explain how/why?

• How did the Umayyads unify Spain? How did they protect it? Were there obstacles?

• Who did Cordoba fall to and how?

Long Weekend

Gentleman,

With no school on Monday, please make sure to finish all your homework so when you come back on Tuesday there are no issues. 

If you have any questions about an assignment I can not promise to get back to you right away but please feel free to e-mail me at sub1430@gmail.com

Please tell your parent or guardian they can reach me at brendan.okane@saintignatius.org

Enjoy your weekend and make sure to stay up to date with the work!

Mr. O

Wednesday's entry

2/9

8-1

The essay assigned is due for our next class.

Make sure everything is spelled correctly and is formatted properly.

Your essay may be typed.

8-2

Your essay which will be assigned on 2/10 will be due on Tuesday 2/17.

Both sections- we will be having a Quest on the 18th and 19th.



7-1 & 7-2

For the Lesson 3 worksheet, you must complete it front and back neatly and completely.

Your QUEST will be on Tuesday 2/17 and Wednesday 2/18


Make sure you come to class prepared (books, pens, everything) and on time.
(My pencil and pen supply is too low)

The board outside the room is looking bare...if you feel inspired please add facts about Islam to it by using the attached post it notes.

Please stop messing around in the halls so much (Sadler, Woodridge, Chase...get it together!)