Friday, February 27, 2009
THANK YOU!
Keep up with the reading and reviewing, I am confident all of you will close out the quarter strong!
-Mr. O
Monday, February 23, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
7th Grade
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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
**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.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
7th Grade
I look forward to catching up with all of you.
Please read the pages assigned for homework thoroughly.
-Mr. O
Field Trip
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
Friday, February 13, 2009
7th grade -
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
Thursday, February 12, 2009
8th grade - What is to come in the next two weeks.
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
b. the transporting of captives from Africa to
c. the voyage of African captives from Africa to the
d. the voyage that took rebellious Africans back to
2.
a. True
b. False
3. The profits from the Atlantic slave trade helped to finance the:
a. gold rush in
b. westward expansion of the
c. Industrial Revolution in
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
a. the Africans born in the
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.
a. they wanted to end the slave trade because they felt slavery was
morally wrong.
b. they could no longer compete with the
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
eighteenth century were called ____________________.
10. What products did the Europeans desire that led to their need for forced labor?
- sugar, tobacco, rice, and indigo
- ivory tusks, corn, rice, and indigo
- sugar, apples, rice, and watermelon
- 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:
- two-thirds of the Africans died between their capture and “seasoning.”
- the rate of death among slaver crews was proportionally higher than the enslaved.
- A and B are true.
- 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:
- allow them to exercise and clean themselves up.
- have a doctor inspect them for ailments and disease.
- dye their hair to conceal their age and oil their bodies to hide the blemishes.
- 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:
- so the old Africans could teach them the language and how to be “good slaves” and the plantation way of life.
- because they were easier to train than the older African arrivals.
- because they were strong and made better workers.
- because it was easier to take them from their families and sold.
15. “Seasoning” is the term used to describe:
- the acclimation process of brutalizing and humiliating enslaved Africans to their new life as slaves in the
- the process developed by enslaved Africans to preserve their food.
- the process by which planters used to separate house servants from field workers.
- 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
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?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Long Weekend
Wednesday's entry
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!)
